One of the certifications I'm looking at presently in addition to the CMC is
the National Speaker Association's Certified Speaking Professional. To earn
the CSP requires:
- 3 years professional membership in NSA (which itself has formal
requirements around number of engagements and revenue levels)
- 32 education credits earned from attending various NSA events including
chapter events and the national seminars and workshops
- Mandatory attendance at Professional Competencies and Professional
Business Ethics sessions.
- Document five years working as a professional speaker, including details
on fee-paid presentations (minimum 20 per year), clients, and speaking
income on a sliding scale (100 clients in 5 years requires income of $250K;
25 clients in 5 years requires $625K in income)
- 20 testimonial letters on client letterhead
- 20 client performance evaluations (different from the testimonials)
In the field of professional speaking I'd say this is as arduous as the CRM
only because you have to get 20 clients to agree that you did good work for
them. In this sense it approaches the requirements Alan outlines for the
CMC, (while not quite being as rigorous as the CMC, in my opinion).
Jesse Wilkins
CDIA+, LIT, ICP, edp, ermm, ecms
IMERGE Consulting
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Member, National Speakers Association (but not a CSP yet :) )
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Subject: Re: Certification and the Profession (Clarification)
Patrick Cunningham writes:
About the Institute of Management Consultants that grants the Certified
Management Consultant [CMC] designation:
> The IMC boasts 10,000+ members, yet I can only think of a couple that I
> have ever met -- both of whom were in our profession. Keep in mind that
> I have worked for consulting firms for the past ten years. That tells
> me that either the folks who have it rarely point to it, or it tends to
> be out of the mainstream.
As one of the two RIM CMCs, some clarifications:
The Institute of Management Consultants (IMC) is one of 42 national
professional associations and certifying bodies for management consultants.
The US Institute has1,700 certified members. Many are solo consultants.
Some major US firms, such as Deloitte, encourage their consultants to
achieve the CMC.
Each country certifies its own resident consultants, but those consultants
who achieve the designation Certified Management Consultant for technical
competence and professional conduct (more than 12,000 worldwide) enjoy
global reciprocity [that is, the ability to conduct management consulting
projects in the 42 countries with all the rights and obligations that are
enjoyed/assumed by consultants from that country] through the designation.
The global standards for the CMC are set by the International Council of
Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI).
> In looking at all of these certifications, certificates, and whatnot, I
> notice that virtually all of them can be attained in one sitting.
Not so for the CMC:
Experience - Three years in practice as a full-time consultant, with major
management responsibility
Education - Degree from a four-year college
References - Five satisfactory references from officers or executives of
client organizations
Engagements - Written summaries of five previous client assignments and
discussion with panel of CMCs.
Application - Written response to an engagement case study and presentation
to a panel of CMCs
Competence - Qualifying written examination and oral review by senior CMCs
to demonstrate your professional competence and currency in areas of
specialization, application of experience, and understanding of the
management consulting process and common body of knowledge
Ethics - Written examination and oral interview on the IMC Code of Ethics
and ethical aspects of consulting.
Much more comparable to the CRM, no?
Al
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