APM endorsed learning
Build your ChPP technical knowledge on material APM has endorsed.
We are PM Elevation and our 29 technical knowledge modules in the Academy Portal have been Endorsed by APM (Association for Project Management).
This Endorsement reflects our commitment to meeting the high standards set by the profession’s chartered organisation, aligning our learning provision to the APM Competence Framework, ensuring learning is recognised, relevant and trusted.
Academy Portal technical knowledge modules
A complete learning journey, for every competence.
Not a topic list, and not a general course with the competences mentioned along the way. Each of the 29 modules works the same way: a plain overview of the subject, then the knowledge required, then the learning, then a check. It is that whole journey, in every one of them, that carries the endorsement.
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Get the basics
What the competence covers, and what it actually means.
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Understand the requirements
What APM expects you to know and be able to demonstrate.
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Learn to the right depth
Taught against the standard, at your own pace and in your own way.
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Check your knowledge
Practice questions to check your knowledge, where it most counts.
Whichever pathway you are on, you are covered.
Every core and elective competence has an endorsed learning journey of its own, so your choice is never narrowed by what we happen to cover.
Core competences
5 pairs, where you take one of the two, and
2 that are mandatory for everyone.
Core competences
5 pairs, where you take one of the two, and 2 that are mandatory for everyone.
- Budgeting and cost control or Financial management
- Change control or Conflict resolution
- Governance arrangements or Reviews
- Integrated planning or Schedule management
- Leadership or Team management
- Risk and issue management Mandatory
- Stakeholder engagement and communication Mandatory
Elective competences
Chosen to suit the work you do and the evidence you can give.
Elective competences
Chosen to suit the work you do and the evidence you can give.
- Assurance
- Benefits management
- Business case
- Capability development
- Contract management
- Diversity and inclusion
- Life cycles
- Portfolio shaping
- Procurement
- Quality management
- Requirements management
- Resource capacity planning
- Resource management
- Solutions development
- Sustainability
- Transition management
Taken by everyone
Ethics and professionalism
Not one of the competences you choose between. Ethics applies to every application, whichever competences you take, so it has a module of its own, built the same way as the rest and with its own knowledge check. It is endorsed alongside the other 28.
How it is delivered
Everything runs in the Academy Portal.
Every endorsed module is unlocked in the PM Elevation Academy, and delivered as part of the online Portal.
The journey through one competence
The Portal lays a module out in 4 stages and 9 resources.
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01
Get the basics
The whole competence before its parts: what it covers, where it overlaps its neighbours, and what an assessor listens for.
1 resource-
Overview video
Per competence
The shape of the whole competence in a few minutes: what it covers, where it overlaps with others, and what assessors expect to see.
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Understand the requirements
The competence breaks into technical knowledge areas, each written as outcomes rather than topics, so you can tell when you are finished with one.
1 resource-
Learning objectives
Per topic
What you should be able to do by the end of each technical knowledge area, set against the knowledge the standard requires for it.
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Learn to the right depth
The body of the module. Every technical knowledge area is worked through in full, then condensed for revision, in whichever format suits you.
6 resources-
Narrated topic videos
Per topic
Every technical knowledge area talked through on its own, so you can return to just the topic you are unsure about.
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Study guide
Per competence
The working text for the competence, structured for revision rather than reading once.
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Deep dives
Per topic
One per technical knowledge area, going past the definition into the trade-offs and the arguments either way.
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One page summary
Per competence
The whole competence on a single sheet, for the week before the interview.
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Presentation
Per competence
The competence as slides, for people who take in structure faster than prose.
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Podcast
Per competence
The competence discussed rather than presented, for when listening is the only option.
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Check your knowledge
The stage that answers back. Two questions for every technical knowledge area, each explaining why the tempting answer is wrong.
1 resource-
Knowledge check
Per topic
Two questions for every technical knowledge area, each with a written explanation of why the right answer is right and why the tempting one is wrong. This is where you find out what you have not understood yet.
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- Endorsed modules
- 29
- The 28 competences, and ethics
- Knowledge topics
- 200+
- Each with its own objectives
- Learning resources
- 1,000+
- Across the endorsed set
- Formats per module
- 9
- Read, watch, listen or revise
Scope
Where the endorsement starts and stops.
The endorsement is of learning content. APM assesses your ChPP application; we do not, and an endorsement of our learning content has no bearing on how your application is judged.
Endorsed
- All 29 technical knowledge modules, and every resource inside them
- Their learning objectives, and the order the material is taught in
- The videos, study guides, deep dives, summaries, slides and podcasts
- The knowledge checks that close each module
FAQs
The endorsement, in APM's words.
What is an APM Endorsed learning provision?
An APM Endorsed learning provision has demonstrated its alignment to the APM Competence Framework.
Who holds this endorsement, and for what?
We are PM Elevation and our 29 technical knowledge modules in the Academy Portal have been Endorsed by APM (Association for Project Management). This Endorsement reflects our commitment to meeting the high standards set by the profession’s chartered organisation, aligning our learning provision to the APM Competence Framework, ensuring learning is recognised, relevant and trusted.
Does the endorsement cover PM Elevation as a company?
No. APM endorses a named learning provision, not an organisation. It covers the 29 modules listed on this page and nothing else we offer: not the coaching, not the cohort sessions, and not the company itself.