Cima offers a wealth of professional development resources
CIMA has a wide range of free internet based resources designed to support members’ continuing professional development.
CIMA members are increasingly expected to possess a wide range of abilities, including technical know-how, management competence, personal skills and a sound, up to date understanding of the business environment.
CIMA’s suite of CPD products delivers resources that help you maintain and develop all those skills. Whatever your professional development needs – enhancing your personal skills, gaining a deeper understanding of advances in finance or managing your CPD online – our CPD centre provides instant help at the click of a mouse.
Here are some of the resources available to members – free of charge – to support your development activities.
Through this online planning tool, members can assess their professional development requirements, choose appropriate activities, create action plans and evaluate their progress.
Key features:
- roles – plan your CPD around the requirements of your current role and your future career aspirations
- ideas generator – browse through a wide range of suggested learning activities
- action plan – document your progress
- analysis – reflect on and evaluate your development activities.
A powerful and well respected business skills resource, Harvard ManageMentor PLUS® provides accessible, practical information on key management topics at both operational and strategic levels. More than 35 modules cover topics ranging from project management to presenting and marketing.
Each module offers practical advice, tips and tools developed under the guidance of experts, practitioners and business leaders.
Key features:
- topic overview - familiarise yourself with your chosen subject using a helpful summary
- what would you do? Work through a scenario, then compare your answer with the suggested solution
- core concepts – go over the main ideas in the topic
- test yourself – assess your learning on key points with a ten question quiz
- tools – refer to checklists, forms and worksheets
- learn more – research the subject in greater depth by following links to further reading on the topic.
This CIMA e-journal includes news articles, country reports and company profiles. It provides members with a database of more than 3,000 full text business and academic journals, with an archive going back as far as the 1920s.
Updated daily, Business Source Corporate® also allows users to access research as soon as it’s published, ensuring that they have the latest tools and techniques at their fingertips.
Key features:
- basic search – conduct simple searches by author, company, industry, key word, publication or subject
- advanced search – refine your searches by combining different categories
- browse – scroll through an A to Z of company and industry profiles, country reports and SWOT analyses
- country reports – access up to 1,400 economic reports from sources including EIU, Global Insight, Icon Group and CountryWatch
- industry profiles – search through an extensive collection of 3,900 industry profiles and yearbooks
- company profiles – take your pick from 10,000 substantial profiles.
September 2009
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