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The Certified Acquisition Integration Managers (CAIM™) designation shows readiness to deliver the value of your M&A deals.
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Downloads
Popular with our students ,and an essential building block for your business' integrations, our downloads include checklists and tools to get you off the ground
- Downloads can be accessed within the lessons in the course
- From our Downloads page. (Available when you are logged in)
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Choose Your Delivery Method. Our training is online training that can be studied at your own pace. Select how you'd like to study, below
Self-Paced
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Study online at your own pace.
Suitable for students with
- An immediate need to complete the training and certification
- Limited time to study each week
Cohort Class
Join a group. Learn together
Students are organized into a study group (cohort) class.
Each week the cohort is assigned lessons to study online. A review meeting is held at the end of the week to discuss and ask questions about what they have learned with an instructor.
The cohort is a popular way of being held accountable for completing the training and certification, while still allowing self-paced study
Private Class
Discussions tailored for your business
Thinking about confidential discussions?
- Consider our Private Classes
- Available in 3 delivery formats, including classroom learning
All students are from a single business, allowing acquisition-specific and confidential discussions to take place with your instructor
The pace and schedule of studies are agreed before starting
Early 2025 Cohort Class details
This training and certification is 100% online, self-paced study, with weekly review meetings..
- The course contains 10 lessons
- Students will be asked to study between 1 and 3 lessons per week, which should take between 1.5 to 3.5 hours of self-paced learning
- Student should complete the assessment at the end of each lesson
Self-study should begin on, or around, January 10, 2025.
- On Fridays, students will meet for 45 minutes to review and discuss what they have learned in that week's lessons. Discussions will go into details on areas that the students have questions about. Meetings will be held:
- Kick Off: Friday January 10th, 10am EST/3pm GMT
- Welcome and kickoff
- Friday January 17th, 10am EST/3pm GMT, Week 1 review
- (Lesson 1: Getting off the Ground, Lesson 2: Different Ways to Integrate, & Lesson 3: The Integration Organization)
- Friday January 24th, 10am EST/3pm GMT, Week 2 review
- ( Lesson 4: Integration Objectives & Lesson 5: Finance in Integrations)
- Friday January 31st, 10am EST/3pm GMT, Week 3 review
- (Lesson 6: Staff Retention after an Acquisition & Lesson 7: Onboarding Acquired Staff)
- Friday February 7th, 10am EST/3pm GMT, Week 4 review
- (Lesson 8: Preparing for Day 1 & Lesson 9: Communication During Integrations)
- Friday February 14th, 10am EST/3pm GMT, Week 5 review and Final Assessment
- (Lesson 10: Creating Acquisition Integration Projects & the Final Assessment)
- Kick Off: Friday January 10th, 10am EST/3pm GMT
- After registering, you will receive a calendar invitation to the weekly review meetings
Frequently Asked Questions
This special class works in a group activity to reinforce the learning and discuss areas in detail. The objective is to understand the practicalities of delivering acquisition integrations.
Students will study 2 lessons per week and meet on a Friday morning to discuss. The 5 meeting will discuss 1 lesson and the Final Exam, which is a scenario-based quiz.
You will be able to show your Certified Acquisition Integration Manager badge using the icons that allow you to share your badge with LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, once you have qualified
The value of the Mastermind is learning from other professionals who are (or have) gone through similar processes on their own. Traditionally, skills in the profession were accumulated through experience gained over a series of integrations.
The Integration Mastermind is an online opportunity for experienced integration managers to pass on their knowledge through discussion topics, anecdotes, and lessons that they have learned over the years. Most of the daily work of an acquisition integration manager is very specific to each integration, but the skills and methods are valuable to colleagues.
Each lesson has a quiz that tests you on topics taught within that module. You must pass each quiz to get access to the Final Quiz. The Final Quiz poses realistic scenarios that an Acquisition Integration Manager could be asked to resolve.
To recertify as an Acquisition Integration Manager, you must attend a minimum number of Mastermind sessions. This ensures that you get the opportunity to learn from experienced integration managers as part of your recertification.
See here for the Recertification Process.