The Council for Administration (CfA) will act as the lead body working closely with the CMI, other leading professional bodies and key partners*.

CMI will be a member of the CfA’s new Strategic Board overseeing its work, and will provide knowledge and expertise to support the future development of management and leadership standards.

The CMI’s Management Standards Centre will continue to promote and support the use of the National Occupational Standards, through its best practice case studies, toolkits and website.

As a leading Awarding Body delivering thousands of management and leadership qualifications each year, CMI will also support the work of CfA’s Awarding Body Forum alongside the Institute of Leadership and Management, Edexcel and others ensure the development of standards supports qualifications that meet employer and individual needs.

Ruth Spellman, Chief Executive of the CMI, comments “We are very pleased to support the work of the Council for Administration in its work on behalf of the UKCES on the future development of the National Occupational Standards.  As the leading authority on management and leadership in the UK and the only Chartered body with this responsibility, CMI looks forward to playing its full role in raising management and leadership standards across the UK”.

NOTES TO EDITORS

* Key partners include: CFE Research and Consulting, the National Centre for Languages (CILT), the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Customer First, Direct Selling Association (DSA), the Institute of Administrative Management (IAM), the Institute of Leadership & Management (ILM), the Institute of Professional Administration (IPA), Small Firms Enterprise Development Initiative (SFEDI), The Performance Group Ltd (TPGL) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

The Chartered Management Institute (CMI) is the only chartered professional body in the UK dedicated to promoting the highest standards of management and leadership excellence.  CMI is the guardian of the National Occupational Standards for Management and Leadership and sets the standards that others follow
As a membership organisation, CMI has been providing forward-thinking advice and support to individuals and businesses, for more than 50 years, and continues to give managers and leaders, and the organisations they work in, the tools they need to improve their performance and make an impact.

As the only organisation to offer qualifications from Level 2 (GCSE) to Level 8 (PhD), CMI is committed to equipping individuals with the skills and knowledge to be exceptional managers and leaders.  Qualifications and accreditations such as Chartered Manager, combined with products such as CMI’s Continuous Professional Development scheme and the online support resource, ManagementDirect, support the development of management and leadership excellence across the UK

Through in-depth research and policy surveys of its 86,000 individual and 450 corporate members, CMI maintains its position as the premier authority on key management and leadership issues