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Certified Talent Management Executive

Online Certification  ·  11 Weeks  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CTeM)

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Executive Summary

Certified Talent Management Executive

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Talent Management Executive (CTeM) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness.

This 11 Weeks programme is structured around SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CTeM holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Talent Management Executive
Acronym
CTeM
Category
Human Resources
Level
Advanced
Duration
11 Weeks
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 399
Live Virtual
USD 599
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • HR Managers and Directors
  • HR Business Partners
  • Learning and Development Managers
  • Employee Relations and OD Specialists
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards CHRO and senior people-management roles
Professional Recognition
Credential aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards
Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex human resource management functions
Organisational Impact
Design and implement human resource management systems that drive performance and measurable results
Compliance Readiness
Master the standards, compliance and ethical governance central to human resource management
Global Employability
Qualify for human resource management roles across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

Talent Acquisition, Resourcing and Onboarding
Learning, Development and Talent Management
Performance, Reward and Employee Relations
HR Strategy, Analytics and Workforce Planning
Employment Law, Compliance and HR Governance
Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

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

1
Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Talent Management Executive
  • Certified Talent Management Executive: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • The HR function: roles, operating models and value creation
  • Aligning HR strategy with organisational strategy
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • HR competencies and professional standards (SHRM, CIPD)
  • The business partner and centre-of-excellence model
  • HR's role in culture, values and employer brand
  • Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
  • Employment relationship and the psychological contract
  • Global and comparative HR contexts
  • Building a personal HR development plan
2
Retaining and Exiting Well
  • Selection validity and structured hiring
  • Employer brand and candidate experience
  • Reward architecture and pay equity
  • Flexible and hybrid working design
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Business case, cost and impact analysis
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Managing employment disputes and tribunals
  • Attrition, engagement and productivity analytics
  • Diversity and pay-equity analytics
  • Applicant tracking systems and recruitment analytics
  • Linking performance to reward and consequence
  • Process automation and workflow
3
Talent as a Managed Portfolio
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Workforce planning and the capability gap
  • People analytics and HR measurement
  • Time-to-hire, quality-of-hire and cost metrics
  • Instructional design and blended learning
  • Career development and internal mobility
  • Learning technologies and the LMS
  • Appraisal, calibration and managing underperformance
  • Pay structures, benchmarking and market pricing
  • Benefits design, pensions and flexible benefits
  • Employee voice, surveys and action planning
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • Retention strategy and turnover analysis
  • Ratio and trend analysis
  • Absence, attendance and capability management
4
Performance and Potential Apart
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Performance management that changes behaviour
  • Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
  • Commercial awareness and organisational context
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Employee and manager self-service
  • Data quality, integration and master data
  • Vendor management and system governance
  • Workforce reporting and storytelling with data
  • Cost of workforce and ROI of HR interventions
  • Change management models (Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin)
  • Managing resistance and building coalitions
  • Culture change and behaviour embedding
  • Professional ethics and codes of conduct in HR
  • Whistleblowing and speak-up culture
5
Competency and Skills Architecture
  • Competency frameworks and skills taxonomies
  • Job design and role architecture
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Learning transfer and capability building
  • Employment compliance and the HR risk agenda
  • The HR operating model and business partnering
  • Organisational design principles and structures
  • Discipline, conduct and fair-process management
  • HR metrics, KPIs and the HR scorecard
  • Employment law framework and contracts of employment
  • HR function performance and service levels
  • Digital HR and the employee experience platform
  • Inclusive leadership and allyship
  • Organisational culture assessment and change
  • The HR business partner role and mandate
6
Career Paths and Internal Mobility
  • Career architecture and internal mobility
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Employee engagement and what actually drives it
  • Confidentiality and handling sensitive data
  • Conflicts of interest and integrity
  • Corporate governance and HR’s role
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Diagnosis and evidence gathering
  • Implementation and change plan
  • Data protection and employee privacy
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Belonging, culture and employee resource groups
  • Stakeholder mapping and influencing
  • Coaching leaders and managers
7
Development Through Assignment
  • Learning transfer and capability building
  • Talent review and succession in practice
  • Performance management that changes behaviour
  • Large-scale transformation and agile ways of working
  • Job analysis, job design and role profiling
  • Corporate social responsibility and ESG
  • Professional accreditation and CPD
  • Process improvement and HR operating efficiency
  • Benchmarking HR against best practice
  • KPIs and performance reporting
  • Designing an HR intervention or policy
  • Stakeholder engagement and risk management
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Span of control, delayering and operating models
  • Decision support and insight
8
Financial Awareness
  • Headcount budgeting and establishment control
  • Cost, quality and cycle-time metrics
  • Total cost of ownership versus purchase price
  • Inventory service levels and the cost of stockouts
  • Cost-effectiveness of controls
  • Cost, feasibility and control analysis
  • Security programme design and budgeting
  • NGO financial management and budget-versus-actual discipline
  • Vehicle financing, insurance and total cost of ownership conversations
  • Costing production: standard costs, variances and the true cost of scrap
  • Non-revenue water, metering and cost recovery
  • Payroll, statutory deductions and employment cost
  • Digital finance, mobile money and payment operations
  • The finance function, month-end close and reporting cycle
  • Financial acumen: budgets, P&L and cash
9
Operations and Service
  • People analytics maturity and operating model
  • AI and automation in HR processes
  • Onboarding and time to productivity
  • HR service delivery and case management
  • Employee relations, discipline and fair process
  • Quality assurance and code review
  • IT service management and ITIL
  • Service strategy, design and transition
  • Continual service improvement
  • Approval processes and delegation
  • Reporting automation
  • Queue management and service flow
  • Self-service and digital support
  • Operational efficiency and productivity
  • Design thinking for service
10
Risk and Governance
  • Regulatory compliance and audit
  • NGO governance, boards and registration
  • How insurance works: risk pooling and the value chain
  • Underwriting principles and risk selection
  • Bancassurance and digital insurance models
  • In-process quality control and inspection
  • Ground control and strata management
  • Communicating financial results
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Managing risk and difficult cases
  • Risk registers and reporting
  • Continuous risk monitoring
  • Programme governance
  • Ethical, risk and feasibility considerations
11
Technology and Systems
  • HR technology selection and implementation
  • Digital, mobile and internet banking
  • The banking system, intermediation and financial markets
  • 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 and market transformation
  • Digital advisory, e-extension and mobile services
  • Traceability, recall and quality assurance systems
  • Quality management systems and audits
12
Projects and Delivery
  • Managing HR projects and change
  • Communication strategy in change programmes
  • Leading service projects and change
  • Banking products, services and delivery channels
  • Leading banking projects and change
  • Development banking and project finance
  • Continuous improvement in delivery
  • Risk-based audit planning
  • Communications strategy and planning
  • Tender planning and documentation
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Range planning and category management
  • Mine planning and methods: surface and underground
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
13
Ethics and Professional Standards
  • Ethical use of AI and analytics in HR
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Ethics and fair customer treatment
  • Professional ethics in customer service
  • Responsible and ethical service
  • Ethics and integrity in banking
  • Professional ethics and banking conduct
  • Integrity, confidentiality and conflicts
  • Anti-corruption and financial-crime ethics
  • Data ethics and customer privacy
  • Ethical and reputational risk
  • Ethics and professional conduct in security
  • Ethics and treating customers fairly in insurance
  • Regulation, ethics and misinformation in media and telecoms
14
Health and Wellbeing at Work
  • Absence, capability and ill-health management
  • Health and safety legal duties
  • Confidentiality and health data
  • Driving measurable safety improvement
  • Designing a safety programme or control
  • Job safety analysis (JSA) and task risk
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Predictive safety analytics
  • Automation and safety technology
  • Toolbox talks and safety communication
  • Record-keeping and data protection
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
15
Teams and Collaboration
  • Team leadership within HR
  • Facilitation and difficult conversations
  • Aligning teams around strategy
  • Team formation and effectiveness models (Tuckman, Lencioni)
  • Managing team performance and dynamics
  • Cross-functional and matrix teams
  • Leading remote and hybrid teams
  • Team diversity and inclusion
  • High-performance team rituals and cadence
  • Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools
  • Running meetings that produce decisions
  • Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
  • Team leadership in customer service
  • Team leadership in banking operations
  • Innovation and fintech collaboration
16
Strategic Context
  • Consulting skills and contracting with the business
  • Sustaining strategic customer focus
  • Customer experience strategy
  • Voice of the customer to the business
  • Business case and impact assessment
  • Business continuity and crisis management
  • Automated testing strategies
  • Category management and strategy
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • Business process mapping
  • Strategic analysis: PESTLE, SWOT and Porter’s Five Forces
  • Pricing strategy
  • Digital marketing strategy
  • Key account management strategy
  • Building strategic customer relationships
17
Diversity and Inclusion
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Brand strategy, identity and equity
  • Gender, youth and social inclusion in agricultural development
  • Community engagement and equity
  • Brand equity and positioning
  • Financial inclusion and the evolving customer
  • Digital accessibility and inclusion
  • Financial inclusion and serving underbanked markets
  • Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
  • Assets, liabilities and equity reporting
18
International Practice
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Key global frameworks: FAO, GlobalG.A.P., SDGs and national strategies
  • The agricultural sector: systems, actors and global food value chains
  • Transfer pricing and international tax
  • Global sourcing and international trade
  • International and cross-border tax
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Grades, standards and export certification (GlobalG.A.P.)
  • Global sourcing and trade
  • Evidence-based HR decision-making
19
Standards and Improvement
  • Driving measurable banking improvement
  • Quality assurance of audit
  • Assurance engagements and standards
  • Lessons learned and development
  • Driving effective, ethical outcomes
  • Continuous improvement of delivery
  • Quality assurance and standards
  • Continuous improvement of programmes
  • Ethics and professional standards in finance
  • Standard costing and variance analysis
  • Continuous improvement of finance processes
  • Continuous improvement and retrospectives
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Delivery, quality and stakeholder plan
  • Quality planning and assurance
20
Workforce Practice
  • Customer (employee/manager) satisfaction
  • Recruitment marketing and candidate attraction
  • Employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP)
  • Future of work and workforce transformation
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Customer and employee satisfaction
  • Career and talent development
  • Employee engagement models and drivers
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Succession planning and talent pipelines
  • Reward strategy and total reward frameworks
  • Talent sourcing channels and pipelines
  • High-potential identification and talent reviews
  • Communicating risk to the workforce
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
21
People Development
  • Organisation development principles and practice
  • Measuring coaching and mentoring impact
  • Capability and skills frameworks
  • Leadership and management development
  • Coaching models and frameworks (GROW)
  • Competency framework development
  • Knowledge management and capability building
  • Professional standards and continuing development
  • Personal leadership development planning
  • Creating a coaching culture
  • Managing performance through coaching
  • Measuring coaching impact
  • Managing resistance and capability building
  • Category management and strategy development
  • Supplier development and improvement
22
Performance and Measures
  • Objective setting: KPIs, OKRs and cascading goals
  • 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
  • Psychoeducation and workshops
  • Capacity and performance management
  • Performance and dispute management
  • Performance scorecards and reviews
  • Investment principles and objectives
  • Metrics and reporting
23
Culture and Wellbeing
  • Collective relations and union engagement
  • Embedding values and behaviours
  • Engagement, motivation and energisers
  • Building a coaching culture
  • Climate-smart agriculture: productivity, adaptation, mitigation
  • Cost concepts, classification and behaviour
  • Safety culture and leadership
  • Managing resistance and engagement
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Worker engagement and empowerment
  • Values, purpose and authentic leadership
  • Measuring engagement and impact
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
  • Building a learning culture
24
Legal and Compliance
  • HR policies, handbooks and compliance
  • Guard force and contractor management
  • Tax administration and compliance
  • Tax compliance and returns
  • Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
  • Grant compliance and restricted funding management
  • Policy administration and customer service in insurance
  • Insurance regulation and consumer protection
  • Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
  • Vehicle documentation, compliance and consumer protection
  • Regulation of transport: authorities, conventions and licensing
  • Contract administration and variation
  • Contract performance and exit
  • Contract governance and compliance
  • Contract performance, remedies and variations
25
Evidence and Analytics
  • Benchmarking and external data sources
  • Cybersecurity and data protection in HR
  • Descriptive, diagnostic and predictive analytics
  • People analytics tooling and dashboards
  • Data, analytics and customer insight
  • Data ethics, privacy and protection
  • Data analytics in audit
  • Evidence, judgement and scepticism
  • Data migration and cleansing
  • Audit evidence, sampling and professional scepticism
  • Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
  • Data privacy and consent
  • Influencing and presenting insights
  • Data protection and customer privacy
  • Data collection and analytics
26
Change and Organisation
  • Restructuring, redundancy and organisational change
  • Diagnosing organisational readiness for change
  • Foreign exchange and treasury operations
  • Foreign exchange and hedging
  • Incident, problem and change management
  • Change management and adoption
  • The finance function and digital transformation
  • Governance and organisational value
  • Regulatory change management
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Designing an intervention or programme
  • Change and adoption in projects
  • Agile and digital transformation projects
  • Measuring change and project impact
  • Baseline setting and change control
27
Leadership Practice
  • Offer management, negotiation and pre-boarding
  • Communicating and reporting to leadership
  • Team leadership and motivation
  • Project management software and tools
  • Portfolio and resource management systems
  • Document and configuration management
  • Programme management principles
  • Portfolio management and prioritisation
  • Value management and business value
  • Professional case study and presentation
  • Decision-making and problem solving
  • Escalation and decision-making
  • Revenue management and yield
  • Renewals and churn management
  • Data-driven decision-making
28
Communication and Influence
  • Crisis communications
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Ethics in communications
  • Internal communications
  • Corporate social responsibility communications
  • Presentation and public speaking
  • Professional report and presentation
  • Voice, communication and delivery
  • Management reporting and decision support
  • Regulatory reporting and disclosure
  • Applying reporting standards and accounting judgement
  • Communication planning and management
  • Reporting and dashboards
  • Managing expectations and influence
  • Negotiation and conflict management
29
Stakeholders and Partnering
  • Change, restructuring and consultation
  • Trends: ESG, transparency and stakeholder capitalism
  • Shareholder and stakeholder rights
  • Transparency and stakeholder trust
  • Categories of spend and stakeholders
  • Strategic customer relationships
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Evidence-based practice
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Negotiation with clients and partners
  • Risk assessment and safety planning
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
  • Relationship management and retention
30
Learning and Training
  • Evaluating learning impact (Kirkpatrick, ROI)
  • Training needs analysis and learning strategy
  • Principles of teaching, training and learning
  • Monitoring, evaluation and learning for accountability
  • Designing and facilitating groups
  • Facilitation and workshops
  • Facilitation, training and public presentation skills
  • Goal setting and contracting
  • Group dynamics, facilitation and community mobilisation
  • Complaint data and learning
  • Training and capability building
  • Learning strategy and business alignment
  • Learning in the flow of work
  • Self-directed and continuous learning
  • Sustaining a learning organisation
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Establish a comprehensive understanding of Certified Talent Management Executive principles aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards
  • Apply evidence-based methods to improve human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness
  • Master talent acquisition, resourcing and onboarding and learning, development and talent management
  • Apply performance, reward and employee relations and hr strategy, analytics and workforce planning in real-world settings
  • Lead risk management, quality and compliance relevant to your field
  • Design stakeholder engagement and professional communication strategies
  • Use data-driven decision-making and performance-measurement tools effectively
  • Apply internationally recognised best practice to advance your career in human resource management
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CTeM certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CTeM?

This certification is ideal for HR Managers and Directors, HR Business Partners, Learning and Development Managers and Employee Relations and OD Specialists, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CTeM certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 11 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 CTeM internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with SHRM, CIPD and ILO Labour Standards. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CTeM certification?

The Certified Talent Management Executive is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 399 and Live Virtual at USD 599. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CTeM 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 CTeM?

The Certified Talent Management Executive 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 CTeM?

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

Can I study the CTeM 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 CTeM?

Graduates progress towards CHRO and senior people-management roles. The CTeM strengthens your expertise in human resource management, talent development and organisational effectiveness and positions you for advancement across multinationals, NGOs and international organisations.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

HR Director
Private Sector

GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

People Manager
NGO Sector

I earned my CTeM while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Talent Lead
Government
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