CAE study plan
CAE · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 6 hours per week
Governance
Map governing authority, delegation and component relationships.
Practise conflicts, meeting processes and oversight scenarios.
Your checkpoint
A governance decision map with authority and reporting boundaries.
Executive leadership
Review ethical leadership, capacity and people-development cases.
Distinguish change adoption from a technology purchase.
Your checkpoint
A leadership case log with evidence and alternative actions.
Organizational strategy
Connect purpose, objectives, resources and measures.
Practise scenario analysis, contribution and weighted-score calculations.
Your checkpoint
A strategy-to-action worksheet with explicit assumptions.
Operations
Review financial stewardship, contracts, information and people controls.
Distinguish legal contexts instead of treating all nonprofits identically.
Your checkpoint
An operations risk map and worked finance examples.
Business development
Compare program need, learning evidence, credentials and event economics.
Review sponsorship, intellectual-property and lifecycle decisions.
Your checkpoint
A small program business case with evaluation criteria.
Member and stakeholder engagement
Practise cohort, renewal, attrition and member-journey reasoning.
Review volunteer and community participation barriers.
Your checkpoint
A member-value diagnostic with correctly defined metrics.
Advocacy and public policy & Marketing and communications
Distinguish authorized advocacy from unapproved personal positions.
Review evidence, compliance context and communication measurement.
Your checkpoint
An approved-position and communication-evaluation exercise.
Governance & Executive leadership & Organizational strategy & Operations & Business development & Member and stakeholder engagement & Advocacy and public policy & Marketing and communications
Complete mixed cases without reading the key.
Revisit recurring errors and verify the actual issuer and current examination arrangements.
Your checkpoint
A readiness record distinguishing verified learning from remaining scope questions.
Milestones
Week 2: Explain the decision authority and ethical issues in a governance case.
Week 4: Use units, evidence and controls correctly in strategy and finance cases.
Week 8: Resolve recurring errors and confirm issuer-specific official requirements.