Certification
Please note the next CCM exam date will be Wednesday 21st November 2012. The deadline for registering to sit this exam and submit your original certificates if you haven’t already done so will be by 5.00 pm on Monday 21st May 2012, any correspondence received after this date/time won’t be accepted and candidates will need to wait until March 2013 to sit the exam.
As of January 2013 new regulations concerning the CCM exam will apply. Please see below for more details.
What is CCM?
In many professions, a successful career is marked by an appropriate degree of professional development, verified by a credible certification program and recognized by both the public and one’s peers.
The Certified Club Manager (CCM) designation has been the hallmark of professionalism in club management since 1965 and is the cornerstone of CMAE’s member recognition programme. It is a valuable and widely respected mark of a manager’s commitment to professional development and the club industry.
The CCM programme is managed by the CMAE’s Education Policy Board (EPB), with oversight by the Association’s Board of Directors. It is the Education Policy Board’s responsibility to consider suggestions from the membership and to ensure that CCM remains current in adapting to the ever-changing club management environment.
The CCM designation is awarded to club managers who can prove that they posses a good working knowledge of all ten of the core competencies, by passing the CCM Exam to the minimum standards. The CCM exam takes place on one day, in two sessions. Candidates are allowed a maximum of 7 hours to complete the exam.
- For details of eligibility conditions to take the CCM exam, please click here.
- For details of exam procedures, sample questions and a sample case study, please click here.
- For details of the registration process and to download the CCM Registration Form, please click here.
How Much Does It Cost?
Initially, there is a non-refundable registration fee of £75:00/€95.00 to be submitted at the time of registration. If eligible to sit for the CCM exam, the following fees will apply:
- CCM Exam - £350.00/€400.00
- CCM Exam Re-sit - £75.00/€95.00
Please Note: These fees are set by the CMAE Board of Directors and may be subject to change from time to time. Members will be notified of the fees that will apply to them when eligibility to take the CCM Exam is confirmed.
Continual Professional Development
All new CCM designations are awarded for a period of five years. Except for those in Retired membership status, CCMs are required to earn at least 120 Education and/or Association Credits during the five-year period following their CCM date to maintain their CCM designations. At least half of these must be Education Credits. CCMs meeting these requirements will have maintained the designation for another five-year period.
CCM Eligibility Regulations To Get Tougher
In order to meet the international standards for the globally-recognised ‘Certified Club Manager’ (CCM) certification process, the current eligibility requirements for European club managers is going to get tougher from 1st January 2013 onwards. In Europe, the current requirement to have attended one ‘BMI International’ educational programme will be changed to require CCM candidates to have attended two, three and eventually four five-day courses in the future, such changes being phased in over the next few years, commencing 1st January 2013.
Club managers in the USA and Canada already have these regulations in place, and our colleagues in South Africa and China will be changing their CCM eligibility requirements in the coming years to match. The CMAE Education Policy Board are currently planning details of these 5-day courses, details of which will be announced in the coming months.
Those who are eligible to sit their CCM exam prior to 31st December 2012 (we will have exams in November 2011, March 2012 and November 2012) will be able to do this under the current eligibility requirements, but those taking the exam after 1st January 2013 will have to fulfil the new eligibility requirements. If you were planning to sit the exam in November 2011, you should have already submitted your application for to Sharon Reekie (sharon.reekie@cmaeurope.plus.com) and if you wish to take the exam in March or November 2012, you should submit your application form to Sharon AT LEAST six months prior.
Full details of the new eligibility requirements will be published in the September issue of ClubNetworker.
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