Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM)
- Innovation & Business Improvement
- Leadership & Management
Participants are required to attend and successfully complete at least 6 programmes (including at least 1 Executive Certificate in Leadership & People Management (LPM) module and achieving minimum 15 training days in total) from the list below within 5 years in order to receive the CPBM.
Singapore Management University
Overview
In a rapidly evolving business world, it is essential for working professionals to ensure that their knowledge and skillsets are in tandem with new trends and developments.
CPBM is awarded to professionals who constantly retool and upskill themselves through continuous learning.
CPBM is a cumulative credential to signify the commitment in continuous learning and attainment of key management skills. CPBM allows learners to accumulate modular certificates from a predetermined list of programs and courses within a stipulated duration. To qualify for CPBM, pre-requisites apply. The section on Topics/Structure cover the requirements/pre-requisites in detail. Please email cps@smu.edu.sg for further clarifications.
Topic/Structure
Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM)
Participants who successfully complete 6 courses/modules with a minimum of 15 training days, from a list of qualifying programmes (terms and conditions apply) within 5 years (of which a maximum of 3 LPM modules can be counted) will receive the Certified Professional Business Manager (CPBM). For example:
Programmes which you can choose from:
- Advanced Communication Strategies – Using Strategic Persuasion To Get What You Want
- Blended Marketing Strategy in the Digital Age: How to have it All
- Building and Leading High Performance Teams
- Certified Analytical Professional (Advanced Level)*
- Certified HR Analytical Professional (Advanced Level)*
- Finance Essentials for Business Success
- HR Analytics Certificate: Using Analytics to Improve People Decisions (Foundation Level)*
- Middle Managers’ Role in Strategy Implementation - The Lynchpin of Success
- Personal Branding - Learning from the Best
- Sales and Marketing Leadership: A Heuristics Approach
- Strategic Implementation Toolkit: An Essential Guide for Middle Managers
- Strategic Thinking and Business Acumen
- Success Factors for Leading Digital Transformation
- The Chief Innovation Officer Programme: Designing and Leading Innovative Organisations
- Train Your Brain: How to Improve Brain Health and Thrive After 45
- Advanced Certificate in Agile Business Practices and Management
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 modules are allowed):
- Module 1: Business Agility Foundations (ICP-BAF)
- Module 2: Agile Project and Delivery Management (ICP-APM)
- Module 3: Leading With Agility (ICP-LEA)
- Module 4: Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
- Module 5: Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT) - Advanced Certificate in Future Workforce Architecture
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 (2-day duration) modules are allowed):
- Module 1: Diagnosing Workforce Gaps in Business Strategy
- Module 2: Re-designing Work For The Future Workplace
- Module 3: Designing Better Workplace For The Future of Work
- Module 4: Workforce Planning for the Future of Work
- Module 5: Digital HR - The Key to Organisational Transformation
- Module 6: A Principle-based Approach To Employment Legislations and Guidelines
- Module 7: Leading A Future-Focused People Strategy - Advanced Certificate in Healthcare Management & Leadership
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 1 module is allowed):
- Module 1: The Healthcare Operating Environment
- Module 2: Healthcare People & Culture
- Module 3: Key Healthcare Operational Competencies
- Module 4: Future of Healthcare and Action Learning - Advanced Certificate in Organisation Development
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 modules are allowed):
- Module 1: Demystifying OD
- Module 2: The OD Consulting Cycle at Work
- Module 3: The OD Practitioner at Work
- Module 4: Approaches to Change
- Module 5: Facilitating OD Interventions
- Module 6: Building Organisational Agility and Resilience - Advanced Certificate in Social Service Analytics
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 1 module is allowed):
- Module 1: Foundation Session 1.0*
- Module 2: Foundation Session 2.0* - Advanced Certificate in Talent Assessment and Performance Development
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 modules are allowed):
- Module 1: Proactive and Learnability Capability
- Module 2: Performance and Adaptability Capability
- Module 3: Transformational Leadership Capability
- Module 4: Coaching and Mentorship Capability
- Module 5: Change Management Capability
- Module 6: Forward Thinking Capability - Advanced Certificate in Venture Capital
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 modules are allowed):
- Module 1: Market Overview and Global Perspectives
- Module 2: Investment Strategies, Framework and Techniques
- Module 3: Common Valuation Techniques and Methodologies
- Module 4: Due Diligence Techniques and Methodologies
- Module 5: Portfolio Management Plan and Framework
- Module 6: Exit Strategies - Executive Certificate in Leadership and People Management (LPM)
(each module is also considered a programme, compulsory to complete at least 1 module; maximum 3 modules are allowed):
- Module 1: Leadership for Strategic Impact
- Module 2: Talent Management for Business Leaders
- Module 3: Becoming a Whole Leader
- Module 4: Facilitating Innovation and Leading Change
- Module 5: Role of Effective Managers - Connecting the Dots!
- Module 6: Driving Performance Excellence - Future of Work Series:
(completing 1 module or both modules will be regarded as 1 programme):
- The Future of Work - Harnessing the Limitless Potential of AI and IOT
- The Future of Work - Protecting Yourself Against Cyber Attacks - Graduate Certificate in Digital Health
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 modules are allowed; Analytics modules will only be recognised once):
- Module 1: Conceptualising Smart Healthcare Solutions
- Module 2: Analytics for Healthcare (Basic & Intermediate Levels)*
- Module 3: Analytics for Healthcare (Advanced Level)* - Elective
- Module 4: Legal Issues & Risk Management
- Module 5: Managing Partnerships in Digital Health - Insurers & Insurance
- Module 6: Healthcare Leadership for a Digital Era - HR Graduate Certification
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 modules are allowed):
- Module 1: Talent Acquisition
- Module 2: Learning & Development
- Module 3: Talent Management & Succession Planning
- Module 4: Rewards (Compensation & Benefits)
- Module 5: Performance Evaluation & Management
- Module 6: Strategic HR
- Module 7: HR Business Partnering Internationalisation Series
(each programme counts to 2 days of training towards CPBM):- Internationalisation Series: Smart Business and Healthcare - Taiwan
- Internationalisation Series: Smart Business and Healthcare - Japan- Personal Leadership and Business Success Series
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 2 modules are allowed):
- Decision Making & Stakeholder Management
- Analytics for Management Decisions*
- Design Thinking for Business
- Create a World-Class Winning Team
- Leadership Communication with Presence, Passion and Purpose
- Personal Wellbeing and Resilience in the Workplace
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 1 module is allowed):
- Module 1: The Foundations
- Module 2: Psychological First Aid Training for Peer Support - Professional Certificate in Business Coaching
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 1 module is allowed):
- Module 1: Coaching Essentials
- Module 2: Knowing Yourself as A Coach
- Module 3: Business and Leadership Coaching Competencies
- Module 4: Registered Corporate Coach - Professional Certificate in Coaching
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 1 module is allowed):
- Module 1: Foundations of Coaching
- Module 2: Intermediate Coaching Skills
- Module 3: Advanced Coaching Skills
- Module 4: Certified Coaching Skills - Psychological Sciences For Work and Living
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 1 module is allowed):
- Module 1: Understanding Yourself (Self Mastery)
- Module 2: Understanding Others (Work and Relationship Mastery)
- Module 3: Stress and Resilient Living (Life Mastery) - Resilient Leadership and Business Sustainability Series
(each module is also considered as a programme; maximum 1 module is allowed):
- Module 1: Entrepreneurial Mindset and Business Accountability
- Module 2: Risk & Change Management
Assessment
Certification
Participants who meet all the CPBM requirements and are eligible to receive the certificate are required to (1) fill up this form; (2) collate all relevant module certificates and (3) email us at cps@smu.edu.sg with documents (1) and (2).
Depending on the cycle each completed CPBM is processed, certificates will only be issued in July or January each year.
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Please note that the programme fees are subject to change without prior notice.
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Additional Details
*Please note that for the suite of programmes above, analytics modules will only be recognized ONCE for CPBM computation.
Participants' admission to any of the programmes above are subject to the respective programme's eligibility criteria.
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