What’s in it for me?
CMI want you to be recognised for your professional approach to leadership and management.
Chartered Manager validates your personal impact and effectiveness, it provides:
- Professional recognition and independent endorsement of your ability to deliver results, translating your experience into something employers understand
- A means of differentiation, setting you apart and enhancing career prospects within and beyond your current role
- An opportunity to understand yourself and the way you work, and increase your confidence in your abilities and personal strengths
- Parity with other Chartered professionals
- Access to networks of like-minded individuals in similar leadership roles.

Chartered Manager – the next logical step for managers seeking
- Formal recognition of capability
- Promotion / new employment
- Ongoing development of management skills / ability
Have you ever reflected on why you are a successful manager, or taken the time to reflect on how you could be more effective / successful? Chartered Manager:
- Gives you the opportunity to reflect, to strengthen your ability and to get the recognition you deserve
- It validates competence and professionalism at both operational and strategic levels
- It goes beyond theory to prove you use management knowledge/skills to deliver results
You can undertake Chartered Manager at any time in your career, independently or along-side a management qualifications. The key point is you will be making an impact through leading people and managing change.Often as part of a degree level qualification, you may have implemented a work-based project that delivered impact for your organisation. This can be used to underpin and evidence a claim for Business Impact.
To understand the value of the award consider the results of a recent survey showing that:
- 86% of existing Chartered Managers agreed Chartered status has or will help them develop in their career
- 97% of existing Chartered Managers agreed Chartered status recognises the excellence & application of their management skills
- 98% of Chartered Managers reported they benefited from reviewing, reflecting and developing their management skills through CMgr







