CIM Marketing Leadership Programme
Do you want to become a leader of change?
If you are an experienced marketer working at a strategic or management level and want to take your career to the next level, the new CIM Marketing Leadership Programme could be the right choice for you.
This programme has been developed to respond to both industry and individual needs within the marketing profession. Extensive global, employer-led research has been undertaken across a range of sectors and organisational sizes, to identify the skills and competencies required to fully develop a marketing professional into an advocate for leading change.
It will enable you to become integral in identifying the key influences – both external and internal – that are likely to become future drivers of an organisation. Draw on insight, apply strategic thinking and match them with organisational resources to support and deliver on business goals.
Programme structure
Each module can be achieved as a distinct, self-contained award which can be built up to attain the full qualification. The modules can be approached in any order.
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Mandatory modules
Part 1: Dynamic marketing environment
- Critically analyse the changing dynamics of an organisation’s environment
- Determine key business drivers for organisational success
Part 2: Develop creative thinking
- Evaluate the relevance of emerging marketing challenges to the organisation’s future direction
- Critically assess the contribution of the challenges to the value creation of an organisation
Part 3: CREATE INSIGHT, VISION AND DIRECTION
- Demonstrate a clear understanding of how the organisation can develop a positive response to emerging challenges
- Recommend resource-led innovative approaches to contemporary marketing challenges
Part 1: Building the case for change
- Develop critical understanding of how to harness organisational potential to generate and sustain value for all stakeholders
- Use insight to develop sustainable innovation relevant to the direction and resources of the organisation
Part 2: CREATING A CHANGE CULTURE
- Appraise the role of brand equity and corporate reputation in directing and sustaining change within the organisation
- Demonstrate how a customer-facing organisational structure and culture can support strategies to optimise corporate capability
Part 3: IMPLEMENTING CHANGE
- Recommend the use of contemporary practice in effectively leading, managing and influencing others to deliver organisational change
- Appraise the process and environment required to implement, review and reflect on the effectiveness of organisational change
Elective modules
Part 1: Building and developing client relationships
- Critically assess the components of a sustainable and clearly defined consultancy proposition
- Develop the personal brand
Part 2: Scoping the potential service
- Critically assess the contributing factors to a client’s business issue
- Evaluate how to facilitate change within the client’s organisation, in response to the client’s business issue
Part 3: DELIVERING THE CLIENT OUTCOME
- Critically appraise how to develop and implement the agreed solution
- Design and implement systems, processes and procedures to embed the agreed solution
Part 1: DYNAMICS FOR BUSINESS GROWTH
- Critically appraise the market dynamics and business drivers relevant to the organisation and the industry sector
- Understand the customer dynamics relevant to the organisation and the industry sector
Part 2: DETERMINING DIRECTION
- Recommend how organisational competence can be developed to deliver future objectives
- Critically evaluate how organisational characteristics influence the market positioning of the organisation’s products/services
Part 3: BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS
- Critically assess which connected stakeholders are fundamental to the future success of the organisation
- Demonstrate how to utilise strategic partnerships to leverage organisational success
