Complete Impact Manager Course

A cost-effective and step by step training course on how to measure and manage your social impact through effective monitoring, evaluation and learning. Includes everything you need to design and operationalise your own Impact Measurement System.

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Included in the Complete Impact Manager (CIM) Course:

CIM eLearning Course

Includes flexible access to 15 interactive eLearning modules (8-10 hours) covering all key topics from ‘theory into practice’.
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Group Tutorials

Access to an introductory series of four 90-minute impact measurement training webinars (run over 4 weeks).
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Group Practicals

Access to a series of four practical small group trainings with your peers, to have a go at putting key techniques into practice.
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CIM Tools & Resources

A set of downloadable start-up tools including our 12-step guide, an interactive workbook, templates and more.
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Impact CoPilot
(Discovery Session)

A 1 to 1 discussion (30 mins) with an expert concerning your Impact Measurement goals, challenges, or current situation.
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MEL Health
Check

MEL Health Check

A 1 to 1 guided review of the current status of your MEL systems, processes and tools, to identify gaps and areas for strengthening.
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About the course

Created for those needing a cost effective, yet comprehensive solution to developing and deploying an effective monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) system.

The CIM course is our flagship training offer in Impact Measurement and offers a deep-dive into key topics including participatory impact measurement, developing a theory of change, data collection methods and how to communicate your impact. Through exercises, videos and quizzes the e-learning component provides an interactive and immersive learning experience that is split into 15 modules, so you can jump in and out of different topics as required. It’s fully supported with downloadable guides, templates and a workbook to populate as you go!

It builds in LIVE group trainings and practicals spread flexibly across the year, giving you plenty of different opportunities to access them. PLUS a 1:1 advice and guidance session with an expert concerning your Impact Measurement goals, challenges, or current situation. Your MEL Health Check will also help pinpoint your current gaps and weaknesses and result in a personalised capacity development plan.

The course content is designed by experienced Impact Measurement practitioners along with experts in digital education from the University of Edinburgh.

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I would have no hesitation in recommending inFocus to any organisation looking to improve the impact of its programmes.
Mark Albion - In The Community
I found the Theory of Change Training to be a really practical and guided way to work through our organisation’s theory of change, and I really enjoyed the innovative way in which the inFocus training was conducted.
Sheri Errington - Fight with Insight
The Theory of Change process and IMM toolkit developed has helped ISCA members to improve on specific aspects of initiatives for ‘hard to reach’ groups, to make more people more active in the longer term and to measure the social impact of their efforts across Europe. We thank inFocus for this journey and look forward to further cooperation!
Saska Benedicic Tomat - ISCA
GDM has had relevant data and will continue to have relevant data collected, but this data only took shape into learning during the IMM workshop with inFocus
Chote Cover - GDM
The workshop delivered by inFocus not only helped us all to understand the differences between indicators, outcomes and tools for measurement, but it helped develop relationships between delegates that have become so integral to the production of what should be an extremely useful toolkit for anyone working in the field of football and employability.
Mark Albion - In The Community
I found the courses to be very informative, well designed, and, dare I say, a bit fun.  As way of comparison, I am concurrently taking a graduate program in social research techniques and found the explanations you provided in many areas to be much clearer and more actionable.  Kudos to all of you.
Daniel Manitsky - Stone Soup
The training delivered by inFocus is top notch, relevant, and actionable. If you want to learn how to communicate and measure your impact, learn from one of the best in the measurement and evaluation sector.
TJ - Catch the Stars Foundation
The inFocus Training has been so helpful to me as an M&E officer, enhancing my skills and giving me some great insights into how to improve my work. The course provided me with advanced skills to train other MTG data collectors.
Janet Motah - Moving The Goalposts
I would have no hesitation in recommending inFocus to any organisation looking to improve the impact of its programmes.
Mark Albion - In The Community
I found the Theory of Change Training to be a really practical and guided way to work through our organisation’s theory of change, and I really enjoyed the innovative way in which the inFocus training was conducted.
Sheri Errington - Fight with Insight
The Theory of Change process and IMM toolkit developed has helped ISCA members to improve on specific aspects of initiatives for ‘hard to reach’ groups, to make more people more active in the longer term and to measure the social impact of their efforts across Europe. We thank inFocus for this journey and look forward to further cooperation!
Saska Benedicic Tomat - ISCA
GDM has had relevant data and will continue to have relevant data collected, but this data only took shape into learning during the IMM workshop with inFocus
Chote Cover - GDM
The workshop delivered by inFocus not only helped us all to understand the differences between indicators, outcomes and tools for measurement, but it helped develop relationships between delegates that have become so integral to the production of what should be an extremely useful toolkit for anyone working in the field of football and employability.
Mark Albion - In The Community
I found the courses to be very informative, well designed, and, dare I say, a bit fun.  As way of comparison, I am concurrently taking a graduate program in social research techniques and found the explanations you provided in many areas to be much clearer and more actionable.  Kudos to all of you.
Daniel Manitsky - Stone Soup
The training delivered by inFocus is top notch, relevant, and actionable. If you want to learn how to communicate and measure your impact, learn from one of the best in the measurement and evaluation sector.
TJ - Catch the Stars Foundation
The inFocus Training has been so helpful to me as an M&E officer, enhancing my skills and giving me some great insights into how to improve my work. The course provided me with advanced skills to train other MTG data collectors.
Janet Motah - Moving The Goalposts

FAQs

Yes – the course includes both e-learning modules that you can access at any time as well as entry into our live four-week tutorials and practicals webinar series which we hold 2-3 three times a year. When you sign up, we will let you know when the next set of tutorials will be taking place. All of these sessions will be fully virtual so that you can access them from anywhere.

When you sign up, you’ll create a username and password to allow you access to your course account. This user profile will get you access to either the FIM course or, if you’ve purchased the CIM course, all the additional elements of the CIM course option as well.
How long the course takes to complete depends on your availability, what you want out of the training and how many hours a week you plan to spend on the material. However, the course is designed to be digested at your own pace and in a fully flexible manner. Hence you have continuous access for a full year to space it out across, but if you’re keen, you might complete it during the first month! You might also choose to just dip in and out of certain parts, depending upon your needs. There are three components that will require varying amounts of your time – the eLearning, the live group tutorials and practicals, and the 1:1 CoPilot sessions.
The FIM course contains 1-2 hours of e-learning material as well as the included guides and supplemental materials. We would recommend you anticipate it taking 2-3 hours total to take full advantage of all the course has to offer. The CIM course contains 10-12 hours of eLearning and materials.
No problem – we run each series 2-3 times per year. If you aren’t available for the dates, you can always join in on the next one!
Yes! You can sign up for the FIM course for FREE and access the Introductory Webinar whenever one is scheduled. If you want to access the Tutorials (x4) and Practicals (x4) only, you can purchase these with a Series Pass separately through our events page. Just login with your FIM credentials and sign up!

You can learn more about CoPiloting here. The CoPilot Discovery session consists of a 30 minute call with a MEL expert (included for FREE with both courses). The MEL Health Check (included only with a CIM course membership) includes some offline work by an inFocus Consultant reviewing background materials and documentation supplied by you and related to a development task. This is usually followed by a 30 minute information, advice and guidance session with you to guide your next steps. See here for more details about the Health Check.

Your CIM course access will last for 12 months from the day you first enroll onto the course. During this time you will have access to all the CIM course content and events. The Tutorials and Practicals run as a series at least twice a year (usually more), giving you several opportunities to attend across the year. All dates for upcoming webinars are listed in advance in the events section. After the 12 months your membership will default back to FIM course access, which is forever!
The CIM course gives you access to our two four-week live webinar series, Tutorials and Practicals which both run at least two times a year. Each individual webinar lasts two-hours, which includes a 15 minute Q&A section at the end.
No, you can always sign up individually! Our tutorials and practicals are populated by everyone who has joined since the last session took place.

Yes, you will get a full refund provided you let us know within 14 days of registering! This is part of our commitment to ensuring everyone gets a rewarding learning experience. So if you are unhappy with the course once you have signed up, for whatever reason, and want your money back, we will give you a full refund within 1 week of registering.

Just email training@impactinfocus.com with subject: REFUND and we will return any money paid within 2 weeks. A full refund is only available if requested within 14 days of registration.

The FIM course is FREE and our pricing for the CIM course has been kept to a minimum considering the quality and scope of content available. However, if the CIM course fees are not deemed affordable we have a scholarship scheme that you can learn more about here.

If you have any technical support questions concerning how to access the courses or if you have any queries about the content you can email training@impactinfocus.com with subject: COURSE TECHNICAL SUPPORT and we will respond within 24 hours by email and if we need to jump on a call we will arrange a convenient slot to speak. Our support team is super friendly and always on hand to support!

The Complete Impact Manager (CIM) course is a robust training programme that can take you from wherever your current understanding of MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning) might be to being fully capable of designing and implementing your own measurement system for your project, team or organisation. If you are looking for a more bite-sized training option to just get you started, check out our Foundations in Impact Measurement (FIM) course.

The CIM course modules covered are as follows:

  • Introduction to impact measurement
  • What needs to be in place for effective impact measurement?
  • Taking a participatory approach to IMM
  • Taking an ethical approach to IMM
  • Introducing theory of change
  • Developing a theory of change
  • How to decide on your approach to IMM
  • How to develop indicators
  • How to choose between different data collection methods and software
  • How to get the right sample
  • How to develop question-based tools
  • How to deploy data collection tools
  • How to conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis
  • How to communicate your impact
  • How to use learning to drive performance
You can access everything included with the FIM course, as well as a Complete Impact Management workbook and suite of tools, learning guides and templates put together as a toolkit to design and operationalise an end-to-end impact measurement system, which can be viewed here.

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