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Certified Task Management Specialist

Online Certification  ·  12 Week  ·  Globally Recognised  ·  (CTAMS)

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Executive Summary

Certified Task Management Specialist

Designed for today’s high-impact professionals, the Certified Task Management Specialist (CTAMS) delivers a rigorous Advanced-level curriculum that equips participants with the knowledge, tools and frameworks needed to excel in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation.

This 12 Week programme is structured around recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks, ensuring every graduate applies internationally validated methods to real-world challenges.

GLI’s CTAMS holders are recognised by leading organisations across Africa, the Gulf, Europe and the Americas as qualified, results-driven professionals. Whether you are advancing your current career or transitioning into new responsibilities, this certification provides the competitive edge you need in 2026 and beyond.

Programme Overview

Certification at a Glance

Certification
Certified Task Management Specialist
Acronym
CTAMS
Category
Leadership & Management
Level
Advanced
Duration
12 Week
Delivery Mode
100% Online
Assessment
Online Examination
Certificate
Digital + Physical
CPD Eligibility
CPD Accredited
Alumni Benefits
GLI Network Access
Self-Paced
USD 449
Live Virtual
USD 649
Target Audience

Who Should Enrol?

  • Managing Upward and Developing — applied to your own work
  • From Doing to Managing — applied to your own work
  • Delegation and Autonomy — applied to your own work
  • Prioritisation and Focus — applied to your own work
  • Performance and Difficult Conversations — applied to your own work
  • Decisions, Budgets and Resources — applied to your own work
Programme Inclusions

Everything Included in Your Enrolment

  • All study materials and study guide
  • Access to GLI online learning portal
  • Online examination and assessment
  • Digital certificate and digital badge
  • Physical certificate (shipped to you)
  • CPD credits for professional bodies
  • GLI alumni network membership
  • Facilitator and tutor support
  • Resource downloads and reference library
  • Automatic enrolment confirmation
Certification Benefits

Why This Certification Matters for Your Career

Leadership Capability
Develop the strategic and operational skills to lead complex strategic leadership functions
Career Advancement
Accelerate your career towards executive, director and C-suite leadership roles
Strategic Thinking
Build the strategic thinking, analysis and execution skills of world-class leaders
Organisational Impact
Design and implement strategic leadership systems that drive performance and measurable results
Personal Excellence
Develop emotional intelligence, resilience and authentic executive presence
Global Employability
Qualify for strategic leadership roles across corporates, public institutions, NGOs and enterprises worldwide
Competency Framework

Core Competencies You Will Develop

✦Strategic Thinking, Vision and Direction Setting
✦Leading Teams, People and High Performance
✦Decision-Making, Problem-Solving and Execution
✦Emotional Intelligence and Authentic Leadership
✦Organisational Strategy, Transformation and Growth
✦Professional Ethics and Governance
Course Curriculum

Programme Modules

Click any module to explore the detailed curriculum topics included in this certification.

1
Foundations and Strategic Context of Certified Task Management Specialist
  • Certified Task Management Specialist: industry context, trends and professional standards
  • Theories and models of leadership and management
  • The manager's roles, responsibilities and mindset
  • Leadership versus management and when each is needed
  • Situational and adaptive leadership
  • Values, purpose and authentic leadership
  • The organisational context and operating environment
  • Self-awareness and the leader's identity
  • Building credibility and executive presence
  • Ethics and responsible leadership
  • Personal leadership development planning
2
Managing Upward and Developing
  • Managing upward and across
  • Developing your own management practice
  • Developing strategic capability in others
  • Corporate strategy and portfolio choices
  • Growth strategy: organic, M&A and partnerships
  • Organisational design and operating models
  • Analytical techniques and bias
  • Stakeholder capitalism and ESG
  • Organisational resilience and adaptive strategy
  • Managing complexity and ambiguity
  • Strategic leadership at scale
  • Long-term value creation
  • Stakeholder mapping and analysis
  • Building strategic relationships and coalitions
  • Influencing without authority
3
From Doing to Managing
  • The transition from doing to managing
  • Delegation and appropriate autonomy
  • Developing your own management practice
  • 360-degree feedback and leadership assessment
  • Benchmarking and best-practice adoption
  • Continuous improvement and learning organisations
  • Productivity and effectiveness measurement
  • Team and engagement metrics
  • Preparing financial statements
  • Financial reporting frameworks (IFRS/GAAP)
  • Capstone scoping: a real leadership challenge
  • Situation analysis and diagnosis
  • Designing a strategic or change intervention
  • Business case and impact analysis
  • Implementation and stakeholder plan
4
Delegation and Autonomy
  • Delegation and appropriate autonomy
  • Building and leading a team
  • Managing performance day to day
  • Reflective practice and self-leadership
  • Sustaining high performance over time
  • Ethical leadership and integrity
  • Values-based decision-making
  • Corporate governance and accountability
  • Conflicts of interest and fairness
  • Diversity, inclusion and inclusive leadership
  • Corporate social responsibility and sustainability
  • Interpreting financial statements
  • Transparency and stakeholder trust
  • Regulatory awareness and compliance
  • Professional standards and continuing development
5
Prioritisation and Focus
  • Prioritisation and managing competing demands
  • Running meetings that produce decisions
  • Operational planning and workflow management
  • Managing budgets and resources
  • Strategic alignment across an organisation
  • Organisational design as a strategic choice
  • Power, coalitions and organisational politics
  • Leading under ambiguity and complexity
  • Strategic learning and the adaptive organisation
  • Culture as a strategic asset
  • Leading strategic change
  • The executive transition: from function to enterprise
  • Setting and communicating strategic direction
  • Leading through other leaders
  • Building and running a top team
6
Performance and Difficult Conversations
  • Managing performance day to day
  • Difficult conversations and managerial courage
  • Building and leading a team
  • Reporting quality and governance
  • Reputation and personal brand
  • Management accounts and dashboards
  • Time management and personal productivity
  • Prioritisation and focus
  • Budget vs actual and variance
  • Growth mindset and continuous learning
  • Managing pressure and difficult conversations
  • Cost and profitability analysis
  • Building support networks and mentors
  • Leadership impact and organisational health metrics
  • Balanced scorecard and KPI frameworks
7
Decisions, Budgets and Resources
  • Decision making for managers
  • Managing budgets and resources
  • Operational planning and workflow management
  • Digital leadership and business transformation
  • Data literacy and analytics for leaders
  • Leading technology adoption and change
  • Forecasting and planning
  • Managing distributed and digital teams
  • Dashboards, metrics and management information
  • Cybersecurity and information governance for leaders
  • Innovation platforms and experimentation
  • Technology strategy and investment
  • Operational planning and resource management
  • Financial acumen: budgets, P&L and cash
  • Cost management and value creation
8
Culture and Engagement
  • Board and investor engagement
  • Organisational culture and behaviour change
  • Sustaining change and embedding new behaviours
  • Leading across cultures and geographies
  • Security culture and awareness
  • Decision support and insight
  • Working with organisations on wellbeing
  • Habit change and behaviour design
  • Wellbeing and resilience coaching
  • Strengths, flow and engagement
  • Meaning, purpose and values
  • Policy that changes behaviour
  • Attrition, engagement and productivity analytics
  • Organisational culture assessment and change
  • Belonging, culture and employee resource groups
9
Customers and Market
  • Business model and market innovation
  • Sales and customer-service training
  • Investor relations and market communication
  • Process re-engineering and shared services
  • Fair treatment and market conduct
  • Market attractiveness and country assessment
  • Market entry modes and partner selection
  • HR function performance and service levels
  • Customer (employee/manager) satisfaction
  • Employer branding and employee value proposition (EVP)
  • Pay structures, benchmarking and market pricing
  • Building strategic customer relationships
  • Customer success and retention
  • Customer lifetime value and profitability
  • Customer data platforms and segmentation
10
Legal and Policy
  • Legal, cost and feasibility analysis
  • Contractor and visitor safety
  • Policy, planning and objectives
  • Legal and other requirements
  • Contract types and risk allocation
  • Contract administration and variation
  • Contract performance and exit
  • Contract governance and compliance
  • Guard force and contractor management
  • Real estate regulation, licensing and professional conduct
  • Policy administration and customer service in insurance
  • Regulatory reporting and audits
  • Regulatory liquidity ratios (LCR, NSFR)
  • Contract law and formation
  • Contract exit and renewal
11
Supply and Procurement
  • Fair trade and responsible supply
  • Vendor and technology management
  • Procurement and asset management under donor rules
  • Vendor, venue and supplier contracting for events
  • Water supply systems: sources, treatment and distribution
  • Communicating financial results
  • Attachment and developmental theory
  • Procurement and stock management for health commodities
  • Conflicts of interest and procurement ethics
  • Procurement and contract value
  • Procurement and contract management
  • Procurement and supply chain: scope and value
  • The procurement cycle and operating models
  • Procurement’s contribution to organisational strategy
  • Public versus private procurement
12
Ethics and Standards
  • Executive ethics and the leader’s shadow
  • Responsible and sustainable governance
  • Embedding responsible business
  • Ethics, confidentiality and professional conduct in HR
  • Corporate social responsibility and ESG
  • Data ethics, privacy and responsible analytics
  • Professional ethics and codes of conduct in HR
  • Ethics and duty of care
  • Professional ethics and duty of care
  • Legal and regulatory responsibility
  • Ethical decision-making under pressure
  • Professional roles, boundaries and settings
  • Corporate social responsibility and community impact
  • Ethics and fair customer treatment
  • Professional ethics in customer service
13
Learning and Knowledge
  • Facilitation skills and presence
  • Virtual and hybrid facilitation
  • Blended and hybrid learning design
  • Motivation and self-directed learning
  • Technical and compliance training
  • Apprenticeships and work-based learning
  • Language and communication training
  • Wellbeing and personal-effectiveness learning
  • Community and lifelong learning
  • Training needs analysis and learning strategy
  • Facilitation and difficult conversations
  • Learning cultures and the learning organisation
  • Instructional design and blended learning
  • Facilitation, coaching and mentoring
  • Knowledge management and capability building
14
Diversity and Global Practice
  • Nomination, succession and diversity
  • The business case for diversity and inclusion
  • Diversity and pay-equity analytics
  • Cross-cultural and global inclusion
  • Inclusion and the fairness of people decisions
  • Team diversity and inclusion
  • Cross-cultural communication
  • Managing virtual and cross-cultural teams
  • Financial inclusion and agency banking
  • Financial inclusion strategy
  • The agricultural sector: systems, actors and global food value chains
  • Gender, youth and social inclusion in agricultural development
  • Key global frameworks: FAO, GlobalG.A.P., SDGs and national strategies
  • Grades, standards and export certification (GlobalG.A.P.)
  • Financial inclusion and the evolving customer
15
Sustainability
  • Sustainability and responsible sourcing
  • Environmental, social and governance (ESG)
  • Sustainability reporting and disclosure
  • Embedding sustainability in sourcing
  • Mine water, tailings and environmental management
  • Social media management: platforms, communities and algorithms
  • Measurement and analytics for media and social campaigns
  • Integrated and sustainability reporting
  • The project environment and stakeholders
  • Sustainability and social impact in projects
  • Market analysis and environmental scanning
  • Sustainable and green banking
  • Sustainability and green IT
  • Control environment and risk assessment
  • Emerging assurance areas (ESG)
16
Leadership and Management
  • Change leadership models (Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin)
  • Succession and the leadership pipeline
  • Public speaking and thought leadership
  • Risk management and contingencies
  • Stakeholder management and relationships
  • Performance management systems and KPIs
  • Innovation management and creative problem-solving
  • Stakeholder and sponsor management
  • Organisational change management
  • Building project management maturity
  • Project management maturity assessment
  • Team leadership in field and project settings
  • Ethical principles and codes of practice
  • Implementation planning and risk management
  • Cold chain, packaging and shelf-life management
17
People and Development
  • Managing performance through coaching
  • Coaching challenging situations
  • Measuring coaching impact
  • Developing talent and succession
  • Leading service teams
  • Coaching and quality monitoring
  • Training and capability building
  • Team leadership in customer service
  • Coaching for performance
  • Team leadership in banking operations
  • Development banking and project finance
  • Continuing professional development
  • Career pathways and professional development
  • Measuring development impact
  • The learning and development profession
18
Performance Management
  • Funnel, pipeline and conversion metrics
  • Customer and brand health metrics
  • Dashboards and performance reporting
  • Capacity and performance management
  • Setting objectives, indicators and targets
  • Yield, productivity and profitability metrics
  • Linking CX to business performance
  • Service KPIs: CSAT, NPS, CES, SLAs
  • Net Promoter Score and satisfaction metrics
  • Performance management in service
  • Banking KPIs and branch scorecards
  • Metrics and reporting
  • Performance management systems and cycles
  • Performance measurement and KPI dashboards
  • Metrics design and the gaming problem
19
Operations
  • Finance transformation and target operating models
  • Continuous improvement of finance processes
  • Expected credit loss and portfolio quality
  • Board effectiveness and the quality of board information
  • Process improvement and HR operating efficiency
  • Onboarding and time to productivity
  • Employee relations, discipline and fair process
  • The HR operating model and business partnering
  • Managing boundaries and dual relationships
  • Integration with quality and environment
  • Design review and quality
  • Quality assurance and standards
  • Climate-smart agriculture: productivity, adaptation, mitigation
  • Productivity, collaboration and workflow tools
  • Process improvement and lean thinking
20
Financial Management
  • Financial statement and cash-flow analysis
  • Investment portfolio management
  • SME lending and value-chain finance
  • Microfinance and group lending
  • Peer support and consultation
  • Impact, blended and concessional finance
  • Total cost of ownership
  • Investment principles and objectives
  • Alternative investments
  • Ration formulation and least-cost feeding
  • The role of finance in organisations and value creation
  • Managing schedule and budget performance
  • Strategic alignment of investments
  • Marketing planning and budgeting
  • Revenue management and yield
21
Communication
  • Professional presentation and defence
  • The strategic narrative
  • Communicating and reporting to leadership
  • Management and board reporting
  • Safety communication and campaigns
  • Environmental monitoring and reporting
  • Communicating risk to the workforce
  • Incident reporting and record-keeping
  • Sustaining ethical, effective practice
  • Toolbox talks and safety communication
  • Communicating vision and telling stories
  • Stakeholder communications
  • Ethics in communications
  • Communications strategy and planning
  • Internal communications
22
Decision Making
  • Rational and intuitive decision-making
  • Data-informed and evidence-based decisions
  • Prioritisation and resource allocation
  • Risk assessment and judgement
  • Decision rights and governance
  • Executive time, attention and decision cadence
  • Make-versus-buy decisions
  • Root-cause analysis and problem solving
  • Capital structure and financing decisions
  • Analytics translation: from data to decision
  • Structured problem solving: issue trees and hypotheses
  • Data-driven decision support and analytics
  • Prioritising experience investments
  • Problem loans, restructuring and recovery
  • Evidence, judgement and scepticism
23
Change
  • Measuring change and transformation impact
  • Leading large-scale transformation
  • Measuring CX transformation impact
  • Digital transformation in banking
  • Foreign exchange and treasury operations
  • Operational risk and resilience
  • Technology governance and change control
  • Foreign exchange and hedging
  • Change management and adoption
  • The finance function and digital transformation
  • Change management in finance
  • Measuring transformation impact
  • Large-scale transformation and agile ways of working
  • Change management models (Kotter, ADKAR, Lewin)
  • Ethical frameworks and codes of practice
24
Stakeholders and Influence
  • Managing conflict constructively
  • Negotiation strategy and tactics
  • Sponsorship and negotiation selling
  • Duty of care and risk management
  • Partnership building and multi-stakeholder platforms
  • Conflict resolution over land, water and resources
  • Stakeholder mapping and collaboration
  • Influencing and presenting insights
  • Managing difficult stakeholders
  • Stakeholder mapping in banking
  • Negotiation and influencing
  • Relationship management and cross-selling
  • Wealth, SME and corporate relationships
  • Stakeholder mapping and engagement
  • Stakeholders and users of financial information
25
Risk and Governance
  • Board, governance and C-suite dynamics
  • Managing risk and controls
  • Working with a board and governance
  • Managing growth, risk and resilience
  • Regulatory compliance and biosafety
  • Complaints, accountability and fitness to practise
  • Traceability, recall and quality assurance systems
  • Regulatory compliance and market requirements
  • Governance of service standards
  • Governance of the CX programme
  • Corporate governance in banks
  • Risk, compliance and feasibility analysis
  • Enterprise risk management in banks
  • Credit risk measurement and mitigation
  • Liquidity risk and asset-liability management
26
Strategic Context
  • Technology strategy and architecture choices
  • Platform and ecosystem strategy
  • Digital business models and monetisation
  • Growth strategy and expansion sequencing
  • Aligning HR strategy with organisational strategy
  • Strategic workforce planning and demand forecasting
  • Reward strategy and total reward frameworks
  • Retention strategy and turnover analysis
  • Wellbeing and holistic health strategy
  • Vision, mission and strategic intent
  • Competitive strategy and positioning
  • Turning strategy into results
  • Category management and strategy development
  • Sourcing strategies and portfolio (Kraljic)
  • Negotiation strategy and planning
27
Evidence and Data
  • Web and campaign analytics
  • Web, campaign and funnel analytics
  • Sales analytics and forecasting tools
  • Qualitative and quantitative research
  • Translating insight into strategy
  • Baseline surveys and data collection tools
  • Data quality, analysis and reporting
  • Legal responsibilities and professional bodies
  • Client feedback and satisfaction
  • Portfolio of evidence and reflective practice
  • Complaint data and learning
  • Data visualisation for finance
  • Psychodynamic and psychoanalytic approaches
  • Evidence-based improvement
  • Record-keeping and data protection
28
Technology
  • Scaling technologies and business models
  • Digital advisory, e-extension and mobile services
  • Digital and self-service transformation
  • Closed-loop feedback systems
  • Self-service and digital support
  • CRM systems and customer data
  • Customer service technology stack
  • Technology selection and integration
  • Emerging service technologies
  • Digital, mobile and internet banking
  • The banking system, intermediation and financial markets
  • Digital disruption and the future of banking
  • Branch-to-digital migration
  • Digital banking platforms and APIs
  • Payment technology and switches
29
Projects and Delivery
  • Project and programme oversight
  • Balancing short-term delivery and long-term value
  • Operational planning and execution discipline
  • Workforce planning and scheduling
  • Leading service projects and change
  • Banking products, services and delivery channels
  • Leading banking projects and change
  • Risk-based audit planning
  • Tender planning and documentation
  • Continuous improvement of delivery
  • Continuous improvement of programmes
  • Driving measurable delivery improvement
  • Developing the project business case
  • Project budgeting and financial control
  • Financial risk in projects
30
People Administration
  • Employee engagement models and drivers
  • Data protection and employee privacy
  • Recruitment marketing and candidate attraction
  • The employee lifecycle and HR value chain
  • Employee voice, surveys and action planning
  • Workforce planning and the capability gap
  • Employee engagement and what actually drives it
  • Workforce and shift management in retail
  • Loyalty programmes and rewards
  • Employee experience and engagement
  • Customer and employee satisfaction
  • Applicant tracking systems and recruitment analytics
  • Linking performance to reward and consequence
  • Digital HR and the employee experience platform
  • Future of work and workforce transformation
Learning Outcomes

What You Will Achieve

  • Managing Upward and Developing — applied to your own work
  • From Doing to Managing — applied to your own work
  • Delegation and Autonomy — applied to your own work
  • Prioritisation and Focus — applied to your own work
  • Performance and Difficult Conversations — applied to your own work
  • Decisions, Budgets and Resources — applied to your own work
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Frequently Asked Questions

Common Questions

What is the CTAMS certification?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

Who should enrol in the CTAMS?

This certification is ideal for Managers and Team Leaders, Heads of Department and Directors, Senior Executives and Aspiring Leaders and Business Owners and Entrepreneurs, and other professionals seeking to formalise their expertise in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation with a globally recognised credential.

How long does the CTAMS certification take to complete?

The programme is structured over 12 Week and offers flexible learning modes. Self-paced learners can progress at their own schedule, while live virtual participants follow a structured cohort schedule with facilitator-led sessions.

Is the CTAMS internationally recognised?

Yes. GLI certifications are recognised across 100+ countries and are aligned with recognised global leadership and management competency frameworks. Graduates receive a digital certificate, a physical certificate and CPD credits recognised by employers worldwide.

What is the cost of the CTAMS certification?

The Certified Task Management Specialist is offered in two formats: Self-Paced at USD 449 and Live Virtual at USD 649. Corporate group rates are available for organisations enrolling 5 or more participants. Contact GLI for a bespoke corporate training quotation.

What does the CTAMS certification include?

Enrolment includes all study materials and study guides, access to GLI's online learning portal, online examination, digital certificate and badge, physical certificate (posted), CPD credits, GLI alumni network membership, and ongoing facilitator support.

What is the assessment format for the CTAMS?

The Certified Task Management Specialist is assessed through an online examination consisting of multiple-choice questions, case study analysis, and practical application assignments. The assessment is designed to evaluate real-world competency, not just theoretical recall.

What CPD credits do I earn from the CTAMS?

The Certified Task Management Specialist carries Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits, which can be applied towards professional body requirements including recognised international professional associations.

Can I study the CTAMS while working full-time?

Absolutely. The self-paced option is designed for busy working professionals and allows you to study when and where it suits you. Live virtual sessions are typically scheduled in the evenings or on weekends to accommodate professional commitments.

What career outcomes can I expect from the CTAMS?

Graduates progress towards executive, director and C-suite leadership roles. The CTAMS strengthens your expertise in strategic leadership, organisational management and business transformation and positions you for advancement across corporates, public institutions, NGOs and enterprises.

Graduate Voices

What Our Alumni Say

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The curriculum was directly applicable to my daily work. I immediately applied what I learned and saw results within weeks of completing the programme.

Managing Director
Private Sector
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GLI's certification is the most practical professional programme I have attended. The international frameworks gave me credibility with my employer and clients.

Operations Manager
NGO Sector
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I earned my CTAMS while working full-time. The self-paced format made it possible, and the quality of the content is genuinely world-class.

Head of Strategy
Government
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