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Looking to demonstrate your knowledge and skills
The Associate ChMC accreditation demonstrates your commitment to professional standards in management consulting and signifies that you’re on a pathway towards full Chartered status. Assessed against the Applied level of the ChMC framework as an Associate ChMC you can prove your ability to fully contribute technically and functionally both individually and as part of a management consulting team.
Associate ChMC demonstrates that you consistently deliver to the recognised industry standards for management consulting whilst delivering results for your clients.
Ayrton Dhillon, Consultant, Arcadis, Associate ChMC
Associate Chartered Management Consultant is all about professional recognition within the management consulting profession. CMI offers various routes to achieving Associate Chartered Management Consultant status.
To apply for Associate ChMC status, you must be ‘professionally active’. This means you:
Chartered Management Consultant and Associate Chartered Management Consultant are all about professional recognition. By gaining Associate ChMC, you are on a pathway to achieving the highest status that can be reached in the management consulting profession. CMI offers various routes to achieving Associate Chartered Management Consultant status, depending on an individual’s management consulting experience.
For management consultants registered on their organisation’s accredited ChMC programme.
You will be required to demonstrate a minimum of 2 years’ management consulting experience and evidence all of the Applied Level ChMC Competencies
The Associate ChMC assessment process is the same for all routes and comprises two stages.
You will be assessed against the ChMC competency framework. This consists of the following sections:
The written submission needs to be completed using the template provided within 3 months of application for assessment.
The written submission will be assessed and where it doesn’t meet the required standards the consultant will receive feedback and a request to submit additional supporting evidence within 14 days. Consultants have a maximum ot 2 submission attempts. Where the written submission meets the criteria the consultant will be invited to a professional discussion.
Following a successful stage one submission, a consultant will be invited to a professional discussion with an Assessor. All professional discussions are held remotely. The professional discussion will validate and explore experience. The Assessor will make their judgements based solely on the information in the submission and performance during the professional discussion.
Consultants will be contacted directly by their Assessor to arrange a convenient time for their professional discussion. Professional discussions will be recorded for quality assurance purposes with the consultant’s permission.
Once awarded Associate ChMC status, consultants will be able to use the designation ‘Assoc.ChMC’.
Having achieved the Associate ChMC award, the next milestone for your professional recognition within the management consulting industry is full Chartered status. You should continue to gather evidence of your competencies against the Chartered level standards in preparation.
Full ChMC Status
To demonstrate your commitment to professional standards in management consulting and get on the pathway towards full Chartered status apply now.
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