Qualifications
CMI Level 3 Build the core management skills needed to lead teams effectively, manage resources, and contribute to organisational success. The essential qualification for first-line and junior managers.
The CMI Level 3 Diploma in Principles of Management and Leadership is the benchmark qualification for practising or aspiring first-line managers. It develops the essential management competencies needed to lead teams, manage resources, communicate effectively, and contribute to organisational performance.
Accredited by the Chartered Management Institute and delivered by Skills Plus with a focus on the GCC business environment, this diploma gives you a strong, nationally recognised foundation in management practice.
Those in their first formal management role who want a recognised qualification to underpin their daily responsibilities.
Experienced team leaders ready to progress into a junior or middle management position.
Professionals who want to formalise their management skills and accelerate progression into leadership roles.
CMI does not specify entry requirements for these qualifications, but Centres are required to ensure that Learners admitted to the programme have sufficient capability at the right level to undertake the learning and assessment.
CMI Centres must ensure Learners are recruited with integrity onto appropriate qualifications that will:
● meet their needs
● enable and facilitate learning and achievement
● enable progression
In order to achieve this, the CMI Centre will need to:
● provide relevant programme information, guidance and advice, to enable informed Learner choice
● publish entry and selection criteria
● demonstrate that Learners are recruited with integrity
● carry out comprehensive
Learner induction that:
1. addresses programme and organisational requirements
2. explains Learner facilities
3. identifies Learners’ development needs
4. develops an Individual Learning Plan
The qualification is offered in the medium of the English Language.
The criteria of the assessment of a CMI qualification will be to meet the assessment criteria detailed within each individual unit.
The primary interface with the Learner is the Assessor whose job it is to assess the evidence presented by the Learner.
The Assessor should provide an audit trail showing how the judgement of the Learner’s overall achievement has been arrived at.
CMI Centres are encouraged to use a range of methods to ensure that all the learning outcomes and assessment criteria are met, and to enhance Learners’ development. Assessment methods can include:
No strict entry requirements. The Level 3 is suited to anyone in a first-line management or supervisory role, or those looking to move into management.
Through assignments and portfolio evidence connected to real workplace situations. No written examinations.
Typically 6 to 12 months on a part-time basis.
Yes. The Level 3 is the foundation for the CMI Level 5 Diploma and from there the Level 7 Strategic qualifications.
QualificationsTalk to a Skills Plus advisor about CMI Level 3 Diploma in Principles of Management and Leadership — eligibility, dates and corporate cohorts.