Certificates
Features of Certificate-Series
A Certificate-Series is a collection of related courses organized to help you build a certain skill set. CDI’s self-paced Certificate-Series guide you to develop skills in professional consulting, authentic engagement with clients, the principles in organizational consulting, collaborative consulting or facilitating strategic planning. Each Certificate-Series includes:
- Access to the three or more related individual courses, depending upon the chosen Certificate-Series
- Online and self-paced courses for maximum flexibility
- Access to relevant, practical downloadable tools and other resources
- Clear and concise video presentations that can be paused and resumed
- For paid students, personalized, actionable feedback on learning assignments from expert faculty
- Interactive pre- and post-assessments to deepen your learning
- Also for paid students, a CDI Certificate of Completion in the topic of the Certificate-Series is emailed and postal mailed upon successful completion
As with any development experience, learners in a Certificate-Series develop skills to the extent that the learners actually apply the new knowledge and tools that they glean from the courses.
See the section “Access Options” in Courses to understand the options for accessing any of the courses within a Certificate-Series.
After you have scanned the list of Certificate-Series on this page, you can enroll within whichever one you select, or you can see the section “How it Works: To Enroll & Get Started” near the bottom of this page.
Certificate – Series
Principles in Professional Consulting
This Certificate-Series gives you the practical knowledge and resources to understand the field of professional consulting, your role as an internal or external consultant, and what methods and materials to use in your consulting and when. It explains how you can always work in a highly professional, safe and ethical manner, especially in highly diverse organizations undergoing tremendous change.
3 courses
4 hours to complete
$155 to earn Certificate of Completion
13 Downloadable Tools
Personalized Learning
Authentic Engagement With Clients (and Others)
In this Certificate-Series, you’ll learn to use your personality to affect positive change in your clients’ organizations. You’ll learn to always sustain collaborative and productive relationships with your clients. You’ll be equipped to conduct powerful coaching conversations for performance, change and learning. You’ll be ready to facilitate highly productive meetings with a wide variety of clients. This Certificate-Series can be useful to anyone wanting to improve their “people skills.”
4 courses
6 hours to complete
$190 to earn Certificate of Completion
29 Downloadable Tools
Personalized Learning
Principles in Organizational Consulting
This Certificate-Series can increase your credibility and impact with your clients by improving your understanding of organizations and how they work. You’ll grasp key principles for guiding successful change, the barriers that can occur and how to overcome them. You’ll learn core strategies to recommend to your clients so their organizations can thrive well into the future.
4 courses
6 hours to complete
$190 to earn Certificate of Completion
30 Downloadable Tools
Personalized Learning
Collaborative Consulting Training
This Certificate-Series conveys the core knowledge, materials and guidelines for those who seek a non-proprietary, practical and versatile framework that provides clarity, perspective and results when solving complex problems or achieving significant goals in organizations. This universal and foundational framework is needed by any type of consultant or leader, whether they are installing new systems or guiding teams and organizations through significant change.
7 courses
13 hours to complete
$275 to earn Certificate of Completion (Collaborating organizations might charge similar fees. Their services include the additional value of facilitated cohort meetings.)
30 Downloadable Tools
Personalized Learning
Facilitating Strategic Planning
This Certificate-Series conveys the core knowledge, materials and guidelines to successfully facilitate strategic planning for any purpose in any type of organization. You’ll learn to customize the planning process to suit the client’s culture and organization. You can guide clients through the strategic thinking and discussions to generate a strategic plan that remains relevant, realistic and flexible. Meanwhile, your planners can compose the plan by completing a highly adaptable template.
5 courses
13 hours to complete
$295 to earn Certificate of Completion (Collaborating organizations might charge similar fees. Their services include the additional value of facilitated cohort meetings.)
40 Downloadable Tools
Personalized Learning
How it Works: To Enroll & Get Started
Enrollment Instructions
Create your account. Go to CDI’s Learning Management System (LMS). Read the brief “Welcome” section and click on “new account”.
Select a course or Certificate-Series. Back at the LMS, click on View the Catalog of Courses and Certificate-Series, and select the desired course or Certificate-Series.
Enroll. In your selection, click on the “Enroll” button. In the "Enroll Options" page, use Paypal for major credit cards, or enter an enrollment key if you have one.
Log-in & Learning Instructions
Start your learning. In your selected course or Certificate-Series, follow the step-by-step instructions in the "Start Here". Links to your enrolled courses will be on the right side of your pages.
For support, see CDI Help Center or email us.
Proceed at your own pace. However, paid enrolled courses should be completed within 60 days, and Certificate-Series within 90 days.
