What is the Certified General Manager in Leadership?

The Certified General Manager in Leadership is a globally recognised professional certification by the Global Leadership Institute (GLI), designed to equip professionals with advanced competencies in Leadership & Management.

How long does this certification take?

The programme takes 11 Weeks and can be completed self-paced or with live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications carry CPD credits and are internationally recognised.

What level is this certification?

This is a Advanced Level certification.

Email info@certifications.ac, WhatsApp +254 722 223 084, or fill in the enrolment form on this page.

What is included in the fee?

All study materials, study guide, examination, digital certificate and badge. Live option adds tutor sessions and priority support.

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Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified General Manager in Leadership

Certified General Manager in Leadership: industry context, trends and professional standards
Theories and models of leadership and management
The manager's roles, responsibilities and mindset
Leadership versus management and when each is needed
Situational and adaptive leadership
Values, purpose and authentic leadership
The organisational context and operating environment
Self-awareness and the leader's identity
Building credibility and executive presence
Ethics and responsible leadership
Personal leadership development planning

Leading Through Leaders

Leading through other leaders
Delegation and appropriate autonomy
Building and running a top team
Public speaking and thought leadership
Analytical techniques and bias
Reputation and personal brand
Preparing financial statements
Time management and personal productivity
Prioritisation and focus
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Growth mindset and continuous learning
Managing pressure and difficult conversations
Reporting quality and governance
Building support networks and mentors
Reflective practice and self-leadership

Direction and Narrative

Setting and communicating strategic direction
Strategic alignment across an organisation
Executive presence and credibility
Professional presentation and defence
Rational and intuitive decision-making
Management accounts and dashboards
Data-informed and evidence-based decisions
Prioritisation and resource allocation
Operational planning and execution discipline
Risk assessment and judgement
Managing trade-offs and dilemmas
Decision rights and governance
Forecasting and planning
Stakeholder management and relationships
Managing up, down and across

Board and Governance

Working with a board and governance
Executive presence and credibility
Power, coalitions and organisational politics
The transition from doing to managing
Prioritisation and managing competing demands
Running meetings that produce decisions
Difficult conversations and managerial courage
Managing performance day to day
Building and leading a team
Operational planning and workflow management
Managing upward and across
Decision making for managers
Managing budgets and resources
Developing your own management practice
Organisational design as a strategic choice

Judgement Under Scrutiny

Leading in crisis and under scrutiny
Executive presence and credibility
Decision making for managers
Conflicts of interest and fairness
Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Transparency and stakeholder trust
Regulatory awareness and compliance
Professional standards and continuing development
Leadership impact and organisational health metrics
Balanced scorecard and KPI frameworks
360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
Benchmarking and best-practice adoption
Continuous improvement and learning organisations

Succession and Depth

Succession and the leadership pipeline
Developing strategic capability in others
Leading through other leaders
Team and engagement metrics
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
Ethical principles and codes of practice
Capstone scoping: a real leadership challenge
Situation analysis and diagnosis
Designing a strategic or change intervention
Business case and impact analysis
Implementation and stakeholder plan
Risk management and contingencies
Developing talent and succession
Managing performance through coaching
Managing boundaries and dual relationships

The Executive Transition

The executive transition: from function to enterprise
Executive time, attention and decision cadence
The transition from doing to managing
Digital leadership and business transformation
Data literacy and analytics for leaders
Leading technology adoption and change
Peer support and consultation
Managing distributed and digital teams
Dashboards, metrics and management information
Cybersecurity and information governance for leaders
Innovation platforms and experimentation
Technology strategy and investment
Operational planning and resource management
Financial acumen: budgets, P&L and cash
Cost management and value creation

People Administration

Communicating risk to the workforce
Workforce and shift management in retail
Workforce management and scheduling
Loyalty programmes and rewards
Workforce planning and scheduling
Employee experience and engagement
Customer and employee satisfaction
Talent, succession and workforce learning
Employee engagement models and drivers
Applicant tracking systems and recruitment analytics
Linking performance to reward and consequence
Future of work and workforce transformation
Customer (employee/manager) satisfaction
Recruitment marketing and candidate attraction
Employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP)

Culture and Engagement

Values-based decision-making
Organisational culture and behaviour change
Sustaining change and embedding new behaviours
Culture as a strategic asset
Leading across cultures and geographies
Board and investor engagement
Regenerative and conservation agriculture practices
Climate-smart agriculture and seasonal risk
Entrepreneurship and start-ups in agriculture
Community engagement and equity
Habits and behaviour design
Managing engagement risk and professional liability
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Duty of care and risk management

Customers and Market

Business model and market innovation
Unified customer view
Emerging service technologies
Customer loyalty and advocacy
Customer lifetime value
Growing value through service
Leading service teams
Performance management in service
Building a service culture
Voice of the customer to the business
Leading service projects and change
Reducing customer effort
Customer effort and sentiment analysis
CRM systems and customer data
Service analytics and dashboards

Legal and Policy

Policy, planning and objectives
Legal and other requirements
Contract types and risk allocation
Contract administration and variation
Contract performance and exit
Contract governance and compliance
Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
Policy administration and customer service in insurance
Insurance regulation and consumer protection
Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
Environmental legal compliance
Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
Contractor and visitor safety
Tariffs, regulation and the economics of essential services

Supply and Procurement

Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
Vendor management and system governance
Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
The procurement cycle and operating models
Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
Public versus private procurement
Supply markets and the enabling environment
Digital procurement and the future of the profession
Sustainable procurement principles and standards
Fair trade and responsible supply
Procurement and asset management under donor rules
Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Procurement and contract value
Procurement and contract management

Ethics and Standards

Executive ethics and the leader’s shadow
Ethical leadership and integrity
Ethics and independence
Ethics in communications
Corporate social responsibility communications
Ethics and professional standards in finance
Responsibility accounting and cost centres
Responsible and sustainable governance
Embedding responsible business
Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
Ethics and duty of care
Professional ethics and duty of care
Legal and regulatory responsibility
Ethical decision-making under pressure

Learning and Knowledge

Strategic learning and the adaptive organisation
Learning transfer and capability building
Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
Designing and facilitating groups
Lessons learned and knowledge management
Facilitation and workshops
Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
Record-keeping and data protection
Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
Complaint data and learning
Training and capability building
Motivation and self-directed learning
Learning strategy and roadmaps
Building the learning brand
Aligning learning to performance

Diversity and Global Practice

The business case for diversity and inclusion
Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
Team diversity and inclusion
Cross-cultural communication
Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
Gender, youth and social inclusion in agricultural development
Key global frameworks: FAO, GlobalG.A.P., SDGs and national strategies
Financial inclusion and agency banking
Financial inclusion strategy
Nomination, succession and diversity
Financial inclusion and the evolving customer
Digital accessibility and inclusion
Global sourcing and trade
The agricultural sector: systems, actors and global food value chains
Transfer pricing and international tax

Sustainability

Stakeholder capitalism and ESG
Continuous environmental improvement
Integration with quality and environment
Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
Sustainability reporting and disclosure
Embedding sustainability in sourcing
Mine water, tailings and environmental management
Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
Integrated and sustainability reporting
The project environment and stakeholders
Environmental management systems (ISO 14001)
Environmental monitoring and reporting
Sustainability and social impact in projects
Market analysis and environmental scanning

Leadership and Management

Innovation management and creative problem-solving
Change leadership models (Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin)
Strategic leadership at scale
Performance management systems and KPIs
Front-office and reception management
Relationship management and retention
Handling escalations as a leader
Teller operations, cash handling and vault management
Operational efficiency and channel management
Team leadership in banking operations
Reconciliation and nostro/vostro management
Enterprise risk management in banks
Liquidity risk and asset-liability management
Business continuity and crisis management
Sanctions screening and PEP management

People and Development

Coaching challenging situations
Measuring coaching impact
Servant leadership and self-organising teams
Virtual and distributed teams
Team leadership and motivation
Leading project teams
Team development and effectiveness
Coaching and developing team members
Building high-performing project teams
Sales enablement and coaching
Team leadership in sales and marketing
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Attachment and developmental theory
Client feedback and satisfaction

Performance Management

Sustaining high performance over time
Quality and delivery metrics
Managing schedule and budget performance
Agile metrics and velocity
Setting objectives and marketing KPIs
Marketing and sales KPIs and dashboards
Funnel, pipeline and conversion metrics
Customer and brand health metrics
Dashboards and performance reporting
Capacity and performance management
Setting objectives, indicators and targets
High-performance team rituals and cadence
Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
Psychometric and screening tools
Project KPIs and performance metrics

Operations

Organisational design and operating models
Productivity and effectiveness measurement
The vehicle sales process from enquiry to delivery
Capacity planning and line balancing
In-process quality control and inspection
Industrial utilities, energy and process safety interfaces
Evidence-based improvement
Service quality and the passenger experience in transport
Mineral processing and beneficiation
Quality management on site: inspections, hold points and defects
Healthcare quality, safety and accreditation
Attrition, engagement and productivity analytics
Process automation and workflow
Cost, quality and cycle-time metrics
Time-to-hire, quality-of-hire and cost metrics

Financial Management

Interpreting financial statements
Budget vs actual and variance
Cost and profitability analysis
Data visualisation for finance
Communicating financial results
Cost-benefit and investment appraisal
Project budgeting and financial control
Funding, cash flow and financing
Financial risk in projects
Cost estimation and budgeting
Time and cost control
Access to finance, grants and investment
Financial and technical feasibility analysis
Managing risk and difficult cases
Enterprise budgeting and gross margins

Communication

The strategic narrative
Management reporting and decision support
Regulatory reporting and disclosure
Board reporting and information flows
Governance of ESG and reporting
Communication strategy in change programmes
Communicating and reporting to leadership
Management and board reporting
Safety communication and campaigns
Incident reporting and record-keeping
Lessons learned and development
Professional case study and presentation
Communicating with families and carers
Professional writing and reports
Psychoeducation and public communication

Decision Making

Problem loans, restructuring and recovery
Evidence, judgement and scepticism
Make-versus-buy decisions
Root-cause analysis and problem solving
Capital structure and financing decisions
Setting strategic priorities and choices
Strategic decision-making under uncertainty
Structured problem-solving and root-cause analysis
Decision support and insight
Diagnosing client problems before prescribing solutions
Issue and problem management
Portfolio management and prioritisation
Decision-making and problem solving
Data-driven decision-making
Driving effective, ethical outcomes

Change

Measuring change and transformation impact
Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
Leading large-scale transformation
Change management and adoption
The finance function and digital transformation
Regulatory change management
Large-scale transformation and agile ways of working
Psychoeducation and workshops
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Resilience, wellbeing and stress management
Digital transformation and IT strategy
Delivering technology change that people adopt
Variations, claims and delay: managing change on site
Change talk and readiness
Habit change and behaviour design

Stakeholders and Influence

Building strategic relationships and coalitions
Influencing without authority
Negotiation strategy and tactics
Managing conflict constructively
Stakeholder mapping and analysis
Negotiation with clients and partners
Designing an intervention or programme
Negotiation with buyers, suppliers and financiers
Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
Stakeholders, agency and accountability
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
Shareholder and stakeholder rights
Conflicts of interest management

Risk and Governance

Corporate governance and accountability
Managing risk and controls
Board, governance and C-suite dynamics
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Governance and organisational value
Public, private and non-profit governance
Governance frameworks and codes
Compliance frameworks and programmes
Compliance monitoring and testing
Environmental governance and climate risk
Risk registers and reporting
Continuous risk monitoring
Programme governance
Tax administration and compliance

Strategic Context

Leading strategic change
Corporate strategy and portfolio choices
Growth strategy: organic, M&A and partnerships
Manufacturing strategies: make-to-stock, make-to-order and batch versus flow
Content strategy across platforms
The consulting mindset and trusted advisor positioning
Business case and strategic alignment
Stakeholder engagement strategy
Strategic alignment of investments
Competitive analysis and differentiation
Product and portfolio strategy
Business model design and innovation
Aligning teams around strategy
Strategy execution and the balanced scorecard
Measuring strategic progress

Evidence and Data

Market research design and methods
Qualitative and quantitative research
Translating insight into strategy
Evidence-based practice
Risk assessment and safety planning
Goal setting and contracting
Baseline surveys and data collection tools
Data quality, analysis and reporting
Treatment planning and review
Managing complexity and comorbidity
Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
Data migration and cleansing
Audit evidence, sampling and professional scepticism
People analytics and HR measurement
Data collection and analytics

Technology

Closed-loop feedback systems
Self-service and digital support
Technology selection and integration
Digital, mobile and internet banking
Digital disruption and the future of banking
Digital transformation in banking
Branch-to-digital migration
Digital banking platforms and APIs
Payment technology and switches
Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
Cybersecurity and fraud technology
Technology governance and change control
Digital credit and alternative data
Professional ethics in technology
Digital transformation roadmaps

Projects and Delivery

Project and programme oversight
Balancing short-term delivery and long-term value
Governance of the CX programme
Voice of the customer programmes
Leading banking projects and change
Development banking and project finance
Risk-based audit planning
Communications strategy and planning
Tender planning and documentation
Continuous improvement of delivery
Voice, communication and delivery
Quality planning and assurance
Building project relationships
Project management software and tools
Scheduling and planning tools

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