STRATEGIC BUSINESS SCHOOL
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS (CSMP™)
- Driving Your Management Practice Excellence
CSMP
Take Your Professional Membership and
Management Practice to the Highest Status
BECOME
Chartered Strategic Management
Practitioner in Your Discipline
INFORMATION BROCHURE
www.csmpsafrica.org
www.sbsng.org
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS
SCHEME
CONTENTS
1. BRIEF PROFILE OF SBS
3
2. CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS SCHEME
4
3. CHARTERED STATUS: ADVANTAGES AND BENEFITS
6
4. CHARTERED AWARDS REQUIREMENTS AND PROCESS
7
5. PRODUCT FAMILIES AND PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS
8
6. CHARTERED STRATEGIC EDUCATION MANAGER (CSEMgr™)
9
7. CHARTERED STRATEGIC EDUCATION MANAGER
AND LEADER (CSEM gr L™)
10
STRATEGIC BUSINESS SCHOOL
BRIEF PROFILE
1. Africa’s foremost innovative authority and best reference in strategic business,
strategic management, strategic leadership and strategic performance
consulting, since 2003, but it was formally incorporated in 2007.
2. It’s researches, development and delivery of Programmes are guided by UK’S
QCF Standards, Quality Assurance, Global Best Practices and ISO 9001 and
internal futurology.
3.
Accredited by Nigerian Council for Management Development as Accredited
Professional Management Trainer
4. Provides flexible, affordable and qualitative pathways to learning, qualifications
and assessments in Strategic Management, Strategic Leadership and Strategic
Performance Management.
5. Has trained and Certified Strategic Management Professionals and Strategic
Managers and Leaders at all levels of the organization since 2007.
6. The creator and owner of the Trademark of Chartered Strategic Management
Practitioners in Nigeria, and collaborates with recognized Chartered
Professional Institutes for assessing their members for the award of Chartered
Strategic Management Practitioners at all levels, as a Special Continuous
Professional Development Programme.
7. Brings your learning, qualification and charter assessment closer to you
through Approved Learning Centres (ALC) and Approved Associate Assessors
(AAA) located across the country as well as Distance Learning and Assessment
Centre, for those whose circumstances and preferences demand Distance
Learning and Assessment,
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS
1. INTRODUCTION
The Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners (CSMP) is developed, branded
and promoted by Strategic Business School (SBS) as a special Continuous
Professional Development Programmes for the benefits of members and
Practitioners of reputable Chartered Professional Institutes.
SBS will collaborate with reputable Chartered Institutes in the field of Management
to customize, co-brand and jointly promote the CSMP Scheme among the institutes
members and management practitioners.
The collaboration will involve the joint assessment of qualified members and
practitioners on four practical criteria:
1. How the members have developed as managers and/or leaders over a minimum
number of years.
2. How they have applied their knowledge and skills to managing resources,
leading teams, managing projects, solving problems, managing changes,
managing people, competition and how these contributed to improvements in
the sustainable performance of their organization, over the past three to five
years.
3. What they learnt from their experiences and achievements as managers and
leaders.
4. How the members plan to continue to develop their professional knowledge,
skills and to achieve more in the future.
 SBS and the Collaborating Institute will constitute a Charter Assessment
Committee (CAC) that will be responsible for determining the assessment
criteria, conducting all the Charter Assessment Submission Exercises (CASE)
and presenting the successful candidates to the Institute for the Awards of
Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners Status.
 The partnering institute on receiving the master list of successfully assessed
candidates then prepares the various Charter Status Certificates to be
presented to the Awardees at a quarterly/half yearly CPD/Charter Award
Lecture/ Dinner.
 The CPD/Charter Award Lecture/Dinner is an exclusive, action learning,
experience sharing sessions, delivered by successful and renowned top scholars
and leaders in that management discipline. Thus this will serve as a special
Mandatory Continuous Professional Development Programme for members of
the institute, and direct conversion and induction programme for practicing
managers in that discipline who intend to become members of the institute (as
authorized by the Council of the institute).
2.
STRATEGIC DIRECTION
VISION STATEMENT
To be Africa’s most prestigious professional designations, highest career status
and the ultimate crown that can be achieved in professional management
development in each professional discipline.
MISSION STATEMENTS
 To develop and position Members and Management Practitioners of
collaborating institutes for Strategic Management, Leadership and
Performance Consulting Capabilities, Performance Excellence and Future
Readiness.
 To reposition the Institutes Members and Practicing Managers and Leaders
for greater global recognition, marketability and competitiveness.
 To differentiate, Protect and elevate Members and Management Practitioners’
for global earning power, job satisfaction and career fulfillment above the
rest.
 To provide a veritable platform for high level networking and synergic
leveraging of the careers of all Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners
allover Africa.
 To provide Practitioners the opportunities to keep abreast with global best
practices, innovations, quality standards and perspectives through
Management Supports and Continuous Professional Development.
3.
SPECIAL GOALS AND VALUES OF CSMP SCHEME
1. Implanting Strategic Management Approach and Skills in the practice of
Management and Leadership at national, organizational and functional
levels
2. Institutionalizations of long- life learning, performance driven management
and continuous Professional Development among practicing managers and
leaders
3. Instilling structured, self monitoring and assessment of career development
and workplace performance.
4. Providing a platform for integrating, linking, aligning, sharing and cross
fertilization of management ideas among management disciplines.
5. Providing automated research and knowledge updating mechanism to
support the training and development department of the different
collaborating institutes.
6. Providing dynamic intelligence platform for interdisciplinary professional
interactions and synergic leveraging of management knowledge, skills and
practices among the institutes, their members and management
professionals.
4.
PHILOSOPHY BEHIND THE CSMP SCHEME
The Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners Scheme is born out of SBS’s
conviction that the main goal of educational and professional learning and
qualifications is not simply to acquire a body of knowledge and skills, but to develop
capabilities for workplace performance excellence, adapt Strategic Approach in
managing, leading and positioning themselves and their organizations for global
competitiveness and future readiness.
For Management Practitioners, these capabilities include the ability to apply their
knowledge and skills and experiences to make managerial judgments, take strategic
initiatives and decisions, manage and lead teams, projects, change, people as well as
make other strategic contributions that influence organizational performance.
The CSMP Scheme will be dedicated to reorienting, inspiring and motivating members
of recognized professional institutes and practitioners of the different management
disciplines towards desiring and planning to carry on learning throughout their life
time, undertaking Continuous Professional Management Development conducted by
their respective institutes and maximizing personal strategic impacts in all
management and leadership roles.
The Scheme offers a spectrum of Continuous Professional Development Experiences
that are radically different from traditional professional development. It is tailored to
meet the requirements of managers and leaders at middle and top level executiveship.
It also gives greater meaning to professional development by placing the candidates at
the centre of the learning and assessment activities.
All these will enable Professional Members and Management Practitioners who submit
themselves to this scheme, to gain personal confidence, performance capability
excellence and real career fulfillment from the Charter Assessment Exercise and
Awards of Chartered Status.
5.
WHO IS A CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONER
Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners are those who:
 Engage themselves in the practice of management, leadership or consulting,
internally as employees or consultants for a salary or any other
remuneration/compensations in both private and public sectors as head of
departments, divisions, projects and organizations.

Engage themselves in the practice of Business, Management, Leadership
and Consulting as independent business owners, employers and
consultants in consideration for fees or charges or profit or any return in all
sectors.
 A professional member of a management institute, who has submitted
him/herself for CAC Charter Assessment Submission Exercises (CASE),
considered suitable and subsequently awarded the Chartered Strategic
Management Practitioners Certificate at appropriate level by the Institute.
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS
CHARTERED STATUS: GENERAL ADVANTAGES
BENEFITS TO MANAGERS AND LEADERS
Chartered Strategic Management Practitioner Status (CSMPS) will be second to none in Africa
i.
Africa’s most prestigious status that can be achieved in professional development in
management, leadership and consulting
ii.
Gives you global recognition, marketability, competitiveness and future readiness
iii.
Shows that you have the hallmark of strategic management, leadership and performance
excellence
iv.
Shows that you have the highest level of professionalism, performance capability, high
earning, job satisfaction and career fulfillment.
v.
Demonstrates that you have the knowledge, skills and capabilities to manage and lead
strategically at senior and top management levels of any organization, in both private and
public sectors.
vi.
Proves that you have used and can use your competences and capabilities to deliver
strategic performance, to make significant contributions to your organizations’ strategic
performance and make visible strategic impact to your profession, industry, economy or
society.
vii.
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SPECIFIC VALUES AND BENEFITS TO MEMBERS
More specifically, receiving the Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners Status at any
level
i.
Gives Institute Members the most prestigious designations after your names: The
ultimate crown Professional Development for all Management Practitioners.
ii.
Are trademarked designations which give your career defining and distinguishing
attributes.
iii.
Is a credible independent endorsement and professional affirmation of your ability to
deliver Superior Strategic Performance and make Strategic Impact.
iv.
It not only differentiates your career, but also elevates your earning power above the rest
v.
It progresses your career to higher levels of competences, confidence and
professionalism, and positions you as high level decision maker and change agent.
vi.
It stimulates your career progression and success through high level networking and
synergic leveraging of other Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners.
vii.
Opportunities to keep abreast of global best practices and innovative solutions to
managerial problems through Webcast, Strategic Management Today and other wealth of
learning, networking and career supports provided by CSMP Platform.
viii.
Opportunities for Continuous Professional Development (CPD) and other career supports
direct from the Institute and SBS.
BENEFITS TO EMPLOYERS
1. Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners are trusted and relied upon to consistently
deliver high standards of performance.
2. It means that your organization will be able to draw on the Institute and SBS experience
of helping you to build and get the best out of managers, leaders and consultants.
3. Helping managers to put theory into practice, drives the employers forward with
continuous performance excellence and positive impact.
4. Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners deliver far more values than their
employer’s investment in them and far above other managers and leaders who have not
submitted to the Charter Assessment Exercise..
5. Chartered Strategic Managers ensure that your company adheres to global standards,
enjoy low cost and save time in Human Capital Development
BENEFITS TO COLLABORATING INSTITUTES
1. Only one institute is selected in a particular field or professional discipline,
which establishes the collaborating institute to be ahead of other competing
institute in that field and inspires members of other competing Institutes to
join the collaborating Institute.
2. The additions of the relevant CSMP designations distinguish your members
as more competent and capable of driving personal and organizational
performance.
3. The adoption of CSMP will inspire and motivate enrolment into the
studentship and membership of the institute with the resultant increase in
revenue generation and growth of the Institute.
4. Provides cost free, yet very valuable platform for co-operating and cross
fertilizing with other reputable professional bodies in management, an
indispensable requirement for sustainable business excellence today.
5. Quality Control and Assurance are ensured through the development and
deployed of standard Operational Guide, Code of Practice and Standardized
Documentations.
6. Fast growth will be facilitated by the appointment of existing training
centres of the Institute and SBS as Approved Associate Assessors to market,
mobilize and assess candidates across the country.
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS
CHARTERED AWARDS: GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
AND PROCESS
The General Procedure for achieving the Chartered Status has three phases:
1. Membership of the Collaborating Institute or Qualified Practitioners
2. Charter Assessment Submission Exercise (CASE)
3. Special CPD /Chartered Award/Lecture/Networking Dinner
1) MEMBERSHIP OF THE INSTITUE
i.Candidates are existing members of collaborating Institute
ii.Candidates must have passed/ been exempted from the Qualifying
Examinations conducted by the Institute or any other qualifying
programme approved by the Council of the Institute.
iii.The qualified candidate has applied for admission and is inducted
into/intends to be inducted into membership of the institute in any of
the categories specified under its institute’s constitution and by-laws.
iv.Candidates are practicing managers in the Institute’s professional discipline
and have been considered qualified for direct admission into the institute
2) STANDARD CHARTER ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION EXERCISE (C.A.S.E)
The Charter Assessment Submission Exercises (CASE) are practically – based
Assessments that evaluate the sufficiency of the candidate’s practical
experience, personal and professional development activities and how they have
applied their abilities in Managing Projects, Leading People, Solving Problems,
Managing Change, and how those Capabilities have Contributed Positively to
Improvement/Transformation of their Organization’s Performance in the last
Three Years.
This process is available to Institute’s Members and Professional Management
Practitioners seeking to gain the Chartered Status, at any of two levels, as part
of Mandatory Continuous Professional Development.
These assessments are done in two levels:
2a) FIRST ASSESSMENT BY AAA
The completion of Charter Assessment Submission Exercise Form (C.A.S.E
FORM) by Approved Associate Assessors (AAA)
1. You collect/download and fully complete the Charter Assessment Submission
Exercise Form, and return to the closest AAA or DLAC with evidence of payment
of the Charter Assessment Fee.
2. Your AAA ensures that you fully understand the requirements for completing
the Submission Exercise Form and that you have supplied sufficient
information for successful Charter Assessment interview.
3.
Associate Members (who do not have less than five years experience) will
submit for Assessment as Chartered Strategic Manager (CSMgr), while Full
Members and Fellows (with not less than ten years experience) will submit for
Assessment for Chartered Strategic Manager and Leader (CSMgr L). These
designations are customized for each institute.
4.
When your submission is reviewed by your AAA, and it does not meet the
Chartered Award Criteria, you will be given feedback to enable you amend and
resubmit, but you have the opportunity to amend and resubmit three times.
5. If after your third submission, the criteria are still not met, your AAA may
refer/defer your application. But if your AAA is satisfied with your submission,
your documents are sent to the appropriate Final Assessor to schedule and
conduct your final Charter Assessment interview.
2b) FINAL ASSESSMENT BY CAC
These are conducted by the individual members of the Charter Assessment
Committee (CAC), through oral face to face, or telephone or Skype
interview/discussion
i.
The Final Assessment is done by scheduled oral face to face or telephone or
Skype interview/discussion by the Final Assessor as Scheduled by agreement
between candidate and his/her allocated Final Assessor.
ii.
You are interviewed based on the issues contained in your Charter Assessment
Submission Form.
iii.
The Final Assessor also wants to ascertain what you have learnt from your
experiences and achievements and how you plan to continue to develop your
professional skills and achieve more.
iv.
If the Final Assessor is satisfied that you have scored 50% or above by the
charter criteria, you will be recommended to be awarded the appropriate
Chartered Status (CSMgr, CSMgt L or CSMPC) and you will be provided a
feedback of your success, immediately.
v.
You will within 14 days receive an on-line notice of Provisional Chartered Award
(PCA) and you will then be required to pay the appropriate CPD and Chartered
Award/Dinner fees within the next two weeks from date of issue of PCA to
designated Institute’s (CSPM) Bank Account through Draft/E-Transfer/Teller
3) CPD/CHARTERED AWARDS LECTURE/ DINNER
i.
The CSMP Scheme of the institute will then prepare the various
Chartered Status Awards ready for issue at the quarterly/half yearly
CPD/ Chartered Award Lecture and Dinner. The Institute shall
award the certificates in its own name and logo to members who have
been presented by CAC as successful at the Charter Assessment
Submission Exercise (CASE) in a ceremony at the Chartered Award
Lecture and Dinner.
ii.
Every quarter/half yearly the Charter Assessment Committee (CAC) will
organize special Lecture/Dinner for the award of Chartered Status
(Certificate/Plaque), Chartered Seal of Practice, Chartered Gazette,
and Chartered Status Insignia, in a selected city in any of geopolitical
regions. Chartered Seal of Practice and Chartered Insignia attract
additional fees, and Special Dinner Table may also be purchased for
family and friends.
iii. At the CPD/Award Lecture and Dinner organized quarterly by CAC, the
institute will present the Chartered Award Certificates to the
Chartered Strategic Management Practitioners, in their different
categories: CSMgr, CSMgr L, as customized.
iv. Four Lecture topics selected from four themes: Strategic Management,
Strategic Leadership and the others from the institute’s core courses,
shall be delivered at each Award Lecture, followed by the Award
ceremony and Networking Dinner in the evening.
v. The Award Lectures will be made of Action Intensive, experience sharing
delivered by successful and renowned top scholars and leaders, so
that it will add real life values to participants and serve as part of
Conversion/ Mandatory Continuous Professional Development
Programme.
vi. To add value to the holders of the certificates The Institute’s Council will
reposition holders of the certificates in the employment market as
having the required knowledge, skills and character to be employed
into middle, senior and top leadership positions, both in private and
public sectors.
vii. The Chartered Status Certificates are renewable every five years, as a
strategy that motivates the awardees to consciously engage in
Continuous Professional Development and strive to make strategic
performance impacts in their workplaces and field.
PATHWAY TO THE CHARTERED STATUS AWARDS


Chartered Strategic
Management Practitioners
Chartered Strategic
Manager and Leader
Chartered Strategic
Manager
Charter Status Awards
3. AWARD OF CHARTERED STATUS AT
CPD/AWARD LECTURE AND DINNER
 CAC Final Assessment
Interview/Discussion
 AAA’s Guided Completions of C.A.S.E
FORMS
2. CHARTER ASSESSMENT SUBMISSION EXERCISE
(C.A.S.E)
APPLY TO
 Fellow
 Management Practitioners/Scholars
 Member
 Associate
1. ADMISSIONS INTO PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP OF
INSTITUTE AND/OR CONVERTED AS PROFESSIONAL
MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS
S/N
PRODUCT FAMILIES AND PROSPECTIVE PARTNERS
MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINES AND
RECOGNIZED
DESIGNATIONS
INSTITUTES
1.
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGEMENT
CSAMgr – Chartered Strategic Manager
CSAMgr L – Chartered Strategic Manager and Leader
2
EDUCATIONAL MANAGEMENT –
CSEMgr
– Chartered Strategic Education Manager
CSEMgr L – Chartered Strategic Education Manager and
Leader.
CIEMA, USA
3
FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
CSFMgr – Chartered Strategic Financial Manager
CSFMgr L – Chartered Strategic Financial Manager and
Leader
ICAN/ANAN/ACCA,
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
CSMgr
– Chartered Strategic Manager
CSMgr L – Chartered Strategic Manager and Leader
NIM (CHARTERED),
5
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
CSHRMgr or CSPMgr – Chartered Strategic Human
Resources Manager
CSHRMgr L –
Chartered Strategic Human Resources
Manager and Leaders
CIPM OR CIPD, UK
6
INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
CSIMgr – Chartered Strategic Information Manager
CSIMgr L –Chartered Strategic Information Manager
and Leader
CAN
7
MANAGEMENT CONSULTING
CSMPC – Chartered Strategic Management and
Performance Consultant
8
MARKETING MANAGEMENT
CSMMgr – Chartered Strategic Marketing Manager
CSMMgr L –
Chartered Strategic Marketing Manager
and Leaders
9
OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT
CSOMgr – Chartered Strategic Operation Manager
CSOMgr L – Chartered Strategic Operation Manager and
Leader
10
PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
CSPMgr – Chartered Strategic Portfolio Manager
CSPMgr L – Chartered Strategic Portfolio Manager and
Leader
4
CIAN
UK
CMI, UK
INCON/NICM, UK
CIMN
ICPM
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS
-DRIVING YOUR MANAGEMENT PRACTICE EXCELLENCE
General
MANAGEMENT DISCIPLINES AND THEIR CUSTOMIZED DESIGNATIONS
ALL DESIGNATIONS ARE TRADEMARKED BY SBS
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGER (CSMgr™)
1) QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
Associate membership of Institute and/or Practicing Operational
and Functional Managers
2) EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Not less than five years practical experience in management or leadership at
functional, head of department, middle executive level or business owner –
manager of an Organization or Government Ministry, Department and Agency.
3) CHARTER ASSESSMENT REQUIRED
Chartered Strategic Manager Assessment Submission and interview to
describe how you have developed as a manager and how you have applied
your knowledge and skills to manage Resources, Projects, People,
Competition and performance that improved the performance of your
organization over the past 36 months as well as what you have learnt from
your experiences and achievements, and how you plan to continue to
develop your professional skills and to achieve more in the future.
4) ASSESSMENT AND CHARTERED AWARD FEES
1. Charter Assessment Fees
Nigeria: ₦30,000
Foreign: $200
(Covers First Assessment by AAA and Final Assessment by CAC)
payable to your AAA’s designated bank account
2. Chartered Strategic Manager (CSMgr™) Award
Nigeria: ₦70,000
Foreign: $400
Institute’s (Chartered Status Scheme) designated bank
(Payable to
account)
(Covers CPD Lectures/Chartered Award Certificates, Networking Dinner
and Gazetting)
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGER AND LEADER
(CSMgr L™)
1) QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:
At Least Full Membership of the institute and/or Management Practitioner
2) EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
Not less than Ten Years Management Experience, with not less than Three Years at Strategic
Level (Strategic Business Unit Manager, Senior Manager, General Manager or Director) in both
Private and Public Sectors.
3) CHARTER ASSESSMENT REQUIRED
Chartered Strategic Manager and Leader Submission and Assessment/Interview to describe and
discuss how you have developed as Manager and Leader, and how you have applied your
Strategic Knowledge and Skills to Solve Strategic Problems, Strategic Human Performance,
Strategic Advantage and Strategic Change that have contributed positively to the organizations
competitiveness, and Sustainable Performance over the last 36 months (3 years).
4) ASSESSMENT AND CHARTERED AWARD FEES
Charter Assessment Fees
Nigeria: ₦30,000
Foreign: $200
(Covers First Assessment by AAA and Final Assessment by CAC) payable to your
AAA’s designated bank account
Chartered Strategic Manager and Leader (CSMgr L™) Award
Nigeria: ₦100,000
Foreign: $600
(Payable to the Institute’s (Chartered Status Scheme) designated bank account)
(Covers CPD Lectures/Chartered Award Certificates Networking, Dinner and
Gazetting)
CHARTERED STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND
PERFORMANCE CONSULTANT (CSMPC™)
1) QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED
At least Full Membership of the Institute and/or Practicing Management
Trainer/Consultant.
2) EXPERIENCE REQUIRED
At least ten years relevant practical experience, with at least three years
in consulting or training practice
3) CHARTER ASSESSMENT REQUIRED
Chartered Strategic Management and Performance Consultant
Submission and Assessment/Interview to describe and discuss how you
have developed as consultant and how you have applied your expertise to
develop and implement training and solutions in your specialist areas
which have contributed positively to repositioning, building advantage
and improving the performance of your organization or client
organization within the past three years.
4) ASSESSMENT AND CHARTERED AWARD FEES
Charter Assessment Fees
Nigeria: ₦30,000
Foreign: $200
(Covers First Assessment by AAA and Final Assessment by CAC) payable to your
AAA’s designated bank account
Chartered Strategic Management and Performance Consultant (CSMPC™) Award
Nigeria: ₦100,000
Foreign: $600
(Payable to the Institute’s (Chartered Status Scheme) designated bank account