Why CMC – Certification?

Qualification on a voluntary basis
- including regular quality assessments

1. International recognition:
   • CMC is a unique and worldwide competence standard for individual management consultants
   • CMC ensures that certified management consultants serve their clients with high level competence and professionalism
2. Elitist international community of management consultants:
   • Public Relations and networking platforms provided by the National Institutes of Management Consultants and ICMCI
3. Increase of transparency, security and confidence for clients 
4. Improvement of the profession´s image

CMC – Benefits for Clients
CMC ensures:

• Consulting: performance, experience and ethics
• Consultants: knowledgeable, skilful, competent, trustworthy
  • thus facilitates the selection and evaluation of adequate management consultants
  • Monitoring on a regular basis ensures a mature management consulting performance
  • Permanent education secures fundamental and up-to-date knowledge

CMC – Benefits for consultants

• In-house access to CMC professional qualification
• Title of CMC can be obtained
• Portable internationally recognized professional qualification
• Lasting formal recognition of training, development and experience
• Discipline of continued professional development
• Route for engagement with profession outside practice
• Contributes to attraction of being employed as a professional within practice

CMC – Benefits for accredited practices

• External recognition of excellence of training and development of consultants – measured according to approved international standard
• Enhances stature of practice with clients showing otherwise invisible internal efforts
• Increases recognition of staff achievements
• Provides incentive for staff for continued professional development
• Provides structure for monitoring CPD
• Gives incentive in quality recruitment
• Establishes membership of practice in DMR including networking, influencing policy and strategy