Chartered Manager

The Global Business Environment  
After introducing elementary concepts of the business organisation, this module examines the interaction between the global external environment and business organisations. There is a focus on the political, economic socio-cultural, technical and digital environmental factors at local, national, international, global and industry levels. 

Academic, Personal and Professional Development 
This module gives learners the means of developing their knowledge, skills and behaviours for academic, personal and professional Development.  Apprentices are equipped with an understanding of the value of reflective practice, and how reflection can be used as the basis for meaningful personal and professional development. 

Enterprise and Innovation 
This module aims to introduce learners to the concepts of enterprise and innovation, building a foundation of knowledge and relevant skills, competencies, and behaviours. 

Managing Finance
Financial management skills are essential for all managers. Financial acumen enhances decision making, which in turn supports management of projects, tasks, and functional areas. This module has been designed to enhance the learner’s confidence and credibility in financial management, which will translate into improved management skills. The module enables learners to understand how financial systems within organisations operate. Apprentices evaluate the sources of finance for organisations and understand the principles for setting and managing budgets in line with regulatory and organisational guidelines. 

Leadership and Management in an Organisational Context
Being equipped with the knowledge, skills and behaviours to manage and lead in a variety of organisational settings is essential for individual success. 

This module has been designed to help learners to develop or sharpen their professional edge and enhance their personal effectiveness. 

Apprentices evaluate the impact of an organisation’s structure and governance on management and leadership. They explore theoretical models, as well as management and leadership styles and approaches. 

Live management Enquiry Project 
Without research business can stagnate. This module begins by highlighting a range of contemporary management challenges and mega trends. The aim is for the learner to develop the confidence to conduct a small-scale management enquiry project which could have an impact on organisational practice. Learners focus their project on a topic relevant to their chosen discipline area.  

Business and the Legal System 
This module provides an overview of the English legal system, including sources of law, the structure of the court system in England and Wales, and judicial precedent. Key issues are explored in relation to contract formation, obligations and termination; potential liabilities in tort; commercial law considerations such as agency and consumer protection; rights of employees and employers (including issues around termination of the employment contract); protection of intellectual property; and the different legal structures that business organisations can adopt. 

Marketing Principles 
This module introduces the first principles of marketing and outlines the key tools and tactics that organisations can employ in order to achieve competitive advantage in the marketplace. 

Learners develop a rudimentary marketing plan for a product/service of their choice. 

Accounting and Finance for Decision Makers  
This module builds upon Year 1 content by equipping future business managers from any specialist area with the tools they will need to assist in their ability to make informed management decisions and to communicate effectively with finance specialists. It focuses on techniques for measuring and managing business performance, making effective and informed decisions, and reporting to stakeholders. 

Leadership Within Organisations 

Leadership theories and followership concepts underpin understanding of effective coaching and mentoring. These are important skills for a leader to develop in order to enhance the skills, knowledge, talents, and potential of individuals as part of an organisational learning and development strategy.

On this module leaners consider a range of leadership theories and their application in a range of different contexts. They then explore principles and practices of delivering coaching and mentoring, and the impact these techniques can have in the development of a high-performance culture.

Employability and Entrepreneurship 
In a fast changing and highly competitive world, all organisations need creative, enterprising and entrepreneurial people. This module aims to support learners in enhancing their employability, so they are able to develop within their own organisations and become effective leaders. 

Creating and Delivering Operational Plans 
The ability to translate organisational objectives into operational plans is an essential management skill. This module uses the context of the operations function in businesses to show how understanding the strategic direction of the organisation is the first stage in the operational planning process.

It then focuses on the knowledge and skills required to create and deliver operational plans in an operations function. This includes the need to set key performance indicators, monitor quality and outcomes against the plan, understand the strategic relationship of supply chain management, implement contingency planning and risk assessments, and know how to effectively report on findings. 

Managing Projects to Achieve Results 
The ability to manage practical and research projects is a vital skill for all managers. This module focuses on the knowledge and skills required to manage practical and research projects successfully and overcome risks, problems and challenges. It requires the learner to evaluate the methods and tools for planning tasks and activities, as well as know how to implement and manage project activities, build stakeholder relationships, manage resources and risk, monitor progress and report on outcomes with a view to improving an aspect of future business performance. 

Applied Management Skills 
This module explores the types and purposes of stakeholder relationships and the skills required to manage them effectively. It supports learners in understanding the nature of contemporary people management in its broader context, including product markets, business strategy, labour markets, organisations, occupational structures, industry sectors and national business systems. It offers apprentices the opportunity to develop practical people management skills with a focus on effective negotiation, managing conflict, managing organisational change, effective recruitment and selection, and developing and leading people. 

Live Project Management 
This module explores the fundamental components associated with effective project management, including alternative approaches to planning, execution and operations. Learners research, plan and manage a real work-based project and are challenged to consider how project management success can be judged. The module focuses specifically on the importance of research and planning. 

Digital Marketing Fundamentals  
This module introduces principles and practice within Digital Marketing. It explores the role of digital media in marketing strategy and how new technologies can be embraced for marketing purposes. It also introduces the use and value of digital channels for the generation and distribution of ideas, goods, and services in the business world. It concentrates on the design and evaluation of Digital Marketing campaigns and collateral. 

Management Consultancy 
This module introduces learners to the management consulting profession, and the management consultancy industry. The module provides an opportunity for learners to engage in real or simulated consultancy project and makes extensive use of professionals as guest lecturers. 

Sustainability and Globally Responsible Leadership 
This module aims to develop an understanding of the concept of sustainability and its management and implementation in organisations. Learners are invited to critically assess the role and obligations of organisations and business leaders in a global stakeholder society and the moral implications of operating in global environments. The role of business in relation to the ‘sustainable development agenda’ and the scope for business leaders to ‘act as agents for sustainability’ are amongst some of the themes explored. 

Strategic Business and Management 
The module examines strategic decision-making through an investigation of external and internal environments, strategic options and implementation. It enables learners to develop an understanding of business strategy formulation and implementation in terms of theory, practice and policy. It builds upon prior learning in years one and two, providing a holistic perspective of how organisations determine their strategic direction. 

Strategic Management of People and Change 
The aim of this module is to enable learners to understand the rationale for a strategic approach to people management and change in the workplace. Apprentices are encouraged to reflect critically on the nature and process of people strategy and change in organisations. This module provides an insight into the essential management and leadership skills required, in addition to how employees may be developed to deliver a people strategy and manage change effectively. 

Chartered Manager Applied Project 
Without research businesses can stagnate. The aim of this module is for learners to conduct management research which will have an impact on organisational practice. It is expected that learners will plan and manage a genuine project in their workplace, or an academic enquiry relevant to an identified business need or challenge.

Managing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion 
Equality, diversity and inclusion are important drivers of organisational performance, benefiting staff and stakeholders. This module will enable managers to understand the business case for equality, diversity and inclusion and the role of managers in creating inclusive cultures. It focuses on the skills required for inclusive leadership and how to adapt leadership styles to support others in seeing the benefits of inclusion. It will enable learners to analyse the requirements for managing, planning, implementing, monitoring and reporting on equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives. 

Strategic Marketing 
This module provides opportunities for learners to specify and justify innovative strategic marketing solutions. Issues addressed include: the product market in which the business is to compete; level of investment; functional area strategies to compete in the selected product market; and the strategic assets or competencies that underlie the strategy and provide the sustainable competitive advantage.