Ongoing Professional Development
Overview
As ACMP, we enhance the ongoing professional development of a certificant and encourage and recognise individualised learning and application of knowledge. We offer a standardised and objective mechanism for obtaining and recording professional development activities and sustain the global recognition and value of the Certified Change Management Professional™ (CCMP) credential. We further indicate to employers the certificant’s right to use the CCMP credential and that they remain relevant and current in their knowledge of change management practices. ACMP Southern African Chapter’s Professional Development is fully governed by ACMP Global.
Importance of Professional Development
As change professionals we engage in learning activities to develop and enhance our abilities. It is the intentional maintenance and development of the knowledge and skills needed to perform in a professional context by honing current skills (either developing them to a new level, or to learning new ones) that will expand or prepare an employee’s job role for potential promotion. For these reasons, it is important for you to engage in continual professional development to stay relevant in the discipline of change management.
Key Programs
Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP™) Certification
The CCMP™ is a globally recognized credential established by ACMP for professionals to demonstrate their commitment to leading the way change works. The CCMP™ was developed based on ACMP’s industry-leading Standard for Change Management© (“the Standard”) that defines best practices in change management. The CCMP™ is a way for professionals to demonstrate their investment in ongoing development while successfully applying their experience to respond to a breadth of change management situations. To understand more about the The CCMP™ program, click here
QEP Program, Courses and Training
The Qualified Education Provider™ (QEP) program, developed and managed by ACMP, promotes the consistency of change management training by qualifying courses that align to ACMP’s Standard for Change Management© and adult education best practices. QEP courses can be used to satisfy the Certified Change Management Professional™ (CCMP) application or continuing education requirements. The QEP Registry offers potential students one place to quickly find these qualified courses. To learn more about ACMP’s QEP Program, how to become a QEP as well as the QEP Courses, click here.
Change Management Standard
ACMP’s Standard for Change Management
ACMP’s Standard for Change Management© (“Standard©”) is a collection of generally accepted practices in change management and is one of the foundational elements in advancing the change management profession and discipline. Released in September 2014, the Standard© provides the foundation for the Certified Change Management Professional™ (CCMP) credential, the Qualified Education Provider™ (QEP) Program, and empowers change practitioners to lead the way change works. The Standard standard by which one assesses professionals and their ability to execute change through their Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP) credential. The Standard consists of a set of sequential processes and a set of deliverables or artefacts.
The basic approach is the application of a sequence of steps to lead to the successful delivery of a change project. The Standard is comprised of 23 steps in the process. The project management approach to change trusts that the process will yield predictable results without the need to address the skills of the practitioners implementing the steps. The Standard stops short of being prescriptive about what to do – but is quite obviously more detailed than the most detailed comparative model.
If you’re working on a tactical and technical change, the level of detail for the approach to the change process may help you accomplish those changes.
The Artifacts
- In addition to the 23 steps, there are 47 artefacts. These artefacts connect to the steps in one of three ways:
–Required Input – They’re needed to provide the process so that correct outcomes can be created.
–Required Output – For the process to be complete, the artefact must be created.
–Revised – In this case, the document is required as an input and will likely be revised during the process.
Generally, the artefacts created at the output of one process step are used as inputs for subsequent steps. Some artefacts, like the business case, project charter, and vision statement, are assumed to exist before the start of the project, as are artefacts that relate to the organisation, like a strategic plan, success measures, vision, mission, and values. In some cases, it’s reasonable to expect that it’s necessary to create these artefacts before beginning the project.
