How long does this certification take?

The programme is 12 Weeks and can be completed at your own pace through our self-paced online option, or alongside live virtual sessions.

Is this certification globally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are internationally recognised and carry CPD credits, making them valuable for career advancement worldwide.

What level is this certification?

This is a Advanced Level certification, suitable for professionals with relevant experience or background in the field.

You can enrol by emailing info@certifications.ac, contacting us via WhatsApp at +254 722 223 084, or filling the enrolment form below.

Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist in Madagascar

Q: What is the Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist?

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

Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

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Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist

Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist: 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

Managing Through the Middle

The transition from doing to managing
Managing upward and across
Delegation and appropriate autonomy
Developing your own management practice
Strategic alignment across an organisation
Organisational design as a strategic choice
Power, coalitions and organisational politics
Leading under ambiguity and complexity
Strategic learning and the adaptive organisation
Culture as a strategic asset
Leading strategic change
Developing strategic capability in others
The executive transition: from function to enterprise
Setting and communicating strategic direction
Leading through other leaders

Workflow and Constraints

Operational planning and workflow management
Prioritisation and managing competing demands
Decision making for managers
Managing pressure and difficult conversations
Analytical techniques and bias
Building support networks and mentors
Reflective practice and self-leadership
Sustaining high performance over time
Ethical leadership and integrity
Values-based decision-making
Corporate governance and accountability
Conflicts of interest and fairness
Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
Preparing financial statements

Prioritisation and Capacity

Prioritisation and managing competing demands
Operational planning and workflow management
Managing budgets and resources
Stakeholder mapping and analysis
Building strategic relationships and coalitions
Influencing without authority
Negotiation strategy and tactics
Managing conflict constructively
Board and investor engagement
Public speaking and thought leadership
Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
Reputation and personal brand
Interpreting financial statements
Time management and personal productivity
Prioritisation and focus

Performance and Standards

Managing performance day to day
Building and leading a team
Difficult conversations and managerial courage
Prioritisation and resource allocation
Operational planning and execution discipline
Risk assessment and judgement
Managing trade-offs and dilemmas
Decision rights and governance
Integrated and sustainability reporting
Stakeholder management and relationships
Managing up, down and across
Developing talent and succession
Managing performance through coaching
Reporting quality and governance
Coaching challenging situations

Budgets and Resources

Managing budgets and resources
Decision making for managers
Prioritisation and managing competing demands
Board, governance and C-suite dynamics
Corporate strategy and portfolio choices
Growth strategy: organic, M&A and partnerships
Organisational design and operating models
Management accounts and dashboards
Stakeholder capitalism and ESG
Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
Managing complexity and ambiguity
Strategic leadership at scale
Long-term value creation
Budget vs actual and variance
Growth mindset and continuous learning

Managing Upward and Across

Managing upward and across
Running meetings that produce decisions
Developing your own management practice
Designing a strategic or change intervention
Business case and impact analysis
Implementation and stakeholder plan
Risk management and contingencies
Professional presentation and defence
Rational and intuitive decision-making
Cost and profitability analysis
Data-informed and evidence-based decisions
Measuring coaching impact
Digital leadership and business transformation
Data literacy and analytics for leaders
Leading technology adoption and change

Sustainability

Sustainability, ESG and integrated value
Sustainability and responsible finance
Forecasting and planning
The regulatory and legal environment
Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
Responsible and sustainable governance
ESG principles and frameworks
Sustainability strategy and materiality
Environmental governance and climate risk
Governance of ESG and reporting
Sustainability standards (GRI, ISSB)
Carbon, scope 3 and sustainable logistics
Risk, protective and social factors
Sustainable input management
Data visualisation for finance

Leadership and Management

Performance management systems and KPIs
Innovation management and creative problem-solving
Change leadership models (Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin)
Succession and the leadership pipeline
Executive ethics and the leader’s shadow
Leadership impact and organisational health metrics
360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
Capstone scoping: a real leadership challenge
Dashboards, metrics and management information
Cybersecurity and information governance for leaders
Operational planning and resource management
Cost management and value creation
Team leadership in procurement
Supplier relationship management (SRM)
Inventory management and optimisation

People and Development

Professional standards and continuing development
Team and engagement metrics
Managing distributed and digital teams
Building and running a top team
Organisation development principles and practice
Team leadership within HR
Building a personal HR development plan
Career development and internal mobility
Absence, attendance and capability management
Absence, capability and ill-health management
Workforce planning and the capability gap
Collaboration and teamwork
Scaling delivery capability
Project management plan development
Schedule development and optimisation

Performance Management

Balanced scorecard and KPI frameworks
Performance measurement and scorecards
Managing underperformance and risk
Logistics performance and cost control
Contract performance, remedies and variations
Retail performance metrics: sales densities, conversion and basket
Psychometric and screening tools
Project KPIs and performance metrics
Quality and delivery metrics
Managing schedule and budget performance
Agile metrics and velocity
Appraisal, calibration and managing underperformance
Performance management that changes behaviour
Communicating financial results
Leading and lagging metrics

Operations

Productivity and effectiveness measurement
Operating-model and process re-engineering
Service quality and turnaround metrics
Designing a banking solution or process
Principles of credit and the lending process
Automation, RPA and straight-through processing
Process and control documentation
Quality assurance of audit
Competitive bidding processes
Business process mapping
The HR function: roles, operating models and value creation
Capacity and resource optimisation
Capacity and performance management
Soil chemistry, pH and cation exchange capacity
Yield, productivity and profitability metrics

Financial Management

Financial acumen: budgets, P&L and cash
Technology strategy and investment
Development banking and project finance
SME lending and value-chain finance
Microfinance and group lending
Financial inclusion and agency banking
Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
Impact, blended and concessional finance
Total cost of ownership
Investment principles and objectives
Alternative investments
Funding, cash flow and financing
Financial risk in projects
Cost estimation and budgeting
Time and cost control

Communication

The strategic narrative
Management and board reporting
Safety communication and campaigns
Environmental monitoring and reporting
Communicating risk to the workforce
Incident reporting and record-keeping
Attachment and developmental theory
Toolbox talks and safety communication
Communicating vision and telling stories
Executive communication and presence
Cross-cultural communication
Communication and interpersonal skills
Influencing and presenting insights
Professional and persuasive communication
Transaction monitoring and suspicious reporting

Decision Making

Executive time, attention and decision cadence
Risk assessment and prioritisation
Decision support and insight
Writing advisory reports that drive decisions
Issue and problem management
Backlogs, user stories and prioritisation
Escalation and decision-making
Portfolio management and prioritisation
Decision-making and problem solving
Data-driven decision-making
Professional roles, boundaries and settings
Management reporting and decision support
Capital structure and financing decisions
Evidence-based HR decision-making
Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions

Change

Leading large-scale transformation
Sustaining change and embedding new behaviours
Measuring change and transformation impact
Benchmarking and best-practice adoption
Digital transformation in banking
Foreign exchange and treasury operations
Operational risk and resilience
Technology governance and change control
Foreign exchange and hedging
Change management and adoption
The finance function and digital transformation
Organisational change management
Change and adoption in projects
Agile and digital transformation projects
Measuring change and project impact

Stakeholders and Influence

Transparency and stakeholder trust
Stakeholder rights and fair treatment
Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
Stakeholder identification and analysis
Stakeholder engagement strategy
Managing expectations and influence
Negotiation and conflict management
Building project relationships
Conflict resolution and negotiation
Conflicts of interest and transparency
Commercial negotiation and value capture
Influencing and negotiation with stakeholders
Negotiation strategy and planning
Negotiation tactics and behaviours
Supplier segmentation and relationship strategy

Risk and Governance

Working with a board and governance
Regulatory awareness and compliance
Managing risk and controls
Fraud risk and controls
Assurance engagements and standards
Audit risk and materiality
Emerging assurance areas (ESG)
Corporate governance principles and purpose
Quality assurance and standards
Regulatory compliance and professional duty
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC)
Enterprise risk management in banks
Credit risk measurement and mitigation
Liquidity risk and asset-liability management
Managing boundaries and dual relationships

Strategic Context

Business model and market innovation
Pricing strategy
Digital marketing strategy
Key account management strategy
Building strategic customer relationships
Competitive and market intelligence
Translating insight into strategy
Key global frameworks: FAO, GlobalG.A.P., SDGs and national strategies
Organic, inorganic and biological fertiliser strategies
Scaling technologies and business models
Peer support and consultation
Measuring strategic progress
Turning strategy into results
Digital transformation and IT strategy
Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy

Evidence and Data

Project data, reporting and analytics
AI and predictive project analytics
Data quality and governance
Customer personas and insight
Marketing analytics and attribution
Web and campaign analytics
Customer data platforms and segmentation
Web, campaign and funnel analytics
Sales analytics and forecasting tools
Market research design and methods
Qualitative and quantitative research
Baseline surveys and data collection tools
Duty of care and risk management
Record-keeping and data protection
Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice

Technology

Technology selection and integration
Emerging service technologies
Digital, mobile and internet banking
The banking system, intermediation and financial markets
Digital disruption and the future of banking
Branch-to-digital migration
Digital banking platforms and APIs
Payment technology and switches
Cybersecurity and fraud technology
Digital credit and alternative data
Performance management systems and cycles
Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
Digital procurement and the future of the profession
E-procurement and procure-to-pay systems
AI, blockchain and digital supply chains

Projects and Delivery

Balancing short-term delivery and long-term value
Project and programme oversight
Project governance and assurance
Project governance frameworks
Compliance and regulatory projects
Leading project governance
Innovation and continuous delivery
Building project management maturity
Sustainability and social impact in projects
Health, safety and compliance in delivery
Project management maturity assessment
Projects, programmes and portfolios
Project management standards (PMI, PRINCE2)
The project environment and stakeholders
Project roles and the project manager

People Administration

Employee engagement models and drivers
Future of work and workforce transformation
The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
Reward strategy and total reward frameworks
Employee voice, surveys and action planning
Employee relations, discipline and fair process
Employee engagement and what actually drives it
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
Employee and manager self-service

Culture and Engagement

Organisational culture and behaviour change
Leading across cultures and geographies
Evidence-based improvement
Managing risk and difficult cases
Lessons learned and development
Designing and facilitating groups
Behaviour change and adoption of innovations
Community engagement and equity
Service culture and brand promise
Building a customer-centric culture
Proactive engagement and success
Measuring engagement and impact
Stakeholder mapping and engagement
Learning cultures and the learning organisation
Engagement, motivation and energisers

Customers and Market

Customer retention in the vehicle ownership cycle
Service quality and the passenger experience in transport
Tariffs, regulation and the economics of essential services
Customer loyalty and repeat purchase in retail
Psychoeducation and workshops
Telecom products, tariffs and customer lifecycles
Client feedback and satisfaction
Market analysis and environmental scanning
Go-to-market and channel strategy
The marketing concept and customer orientation
Brand and reputation as strategic assets
Aligning service to brand and business
Sustaining strategic customer focus
Customer and journey analysis
Designing a service or experience improvement

Legal and Policy

Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
Working with organisations on wellbeing
Subcontractor and supplier management
Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
Goal setting and contracting
Designing an intervention or programme
Procurement and contract value
Procurement and contract management
Advocacy and policy engagement
Regulatory compliance and biosafety
Contract law and formation
Contract exit and renewal
Professional case study and presentation
Accounting concepts, principles and the regulatory landscape

Supply and Procurement

Procurement and stock management for health commodities
Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
Vendor selection and management
Supply market analysis
Vendor and faculty management
Supply analysis, gaps and scenario planning
Vendor management and system governance
Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
The procurement cycle and operating models
Public versus private procurement
Supply markets and the enabling environment
Procurement and asset management under donor rules
Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
Evidence-based practice
Leading procurement projects and change

Ethics and Standards

Ethical and reputational risk
Ethical sourcing and modern slavery
Ethics and professional conduct in security
Corporate responsibility and community
Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
Ethical principles and codes of practice
Sustaining ethical, effective practice
Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
Driving effective, ethical outcomes
Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
Ethics of technology in practice
Ethics and fair customer treatment
Professional ethics in customer service
Responsible and ethical service
Ethics and integrity in banking

Learning and Knowledge

Continuous improvement and learning organisations
The learning and development profession
Learning strategy and business alignment
Facilitation skills and presence
Virtual and hybrid facilitation
Blended and hybrid learning design
Motivation and self-directed learning
Learning strategy and roadmaps
Building the learning brand
Aligning learning to performance
Leading the learning function
Training needs analysis and learning strategy
Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
Knowledge management and capability building
Learning technologies and the LMS

Diversity and Global Practice

Risk assessment and safety planning
Financial inclusion strategy
Nomination, succession and diversity
The business case for diversity and inclusion
Cross-cultural and global inclusion
Global and comparative HR contexts
Team diversity and inclusion
Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
International and cross-border tax
Grades, standards and export certification (GlobalG.A.P.)
Financial inclusion and the evolving customer
Diversity and pay-equity analytics
Global sourcing and international trade
Digital accessibility and inclusion
Global sourcing and trade

Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CNRMS certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CNRMS?

This certification is ideal for Managers and Team Leaders, Heads of Department and Directors, Senior Executives and Aspiring Leaders and Business Owners and Entrepreneurs, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CNRMS certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 12 Weeks and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CNRMS internationally recognised?

What is the cost of the CNRMS certification?

The Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CNRMS certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CNRMS?

The Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CNRMS?

The Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CNRMS while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CNRMS?

Graduates progress towards executive, director and C-suite leadership roles. The CNRMS strengthens your expertise in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation and positions you for advancement across corporates, public institutions, NGOs and enterprises.

Certified Natural Resources Management Specialist