How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer City and Guilds of London Institute has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and City and Guilds of London Institute awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from City and Guilds of London Institute.

More on studying for a qualification

01What it is

This qualification covers the essentials of business administration, providing a general understanding of the routine operations found in many organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors. It allows progress on to further learning through other business administration qualifications or those in complementary subject areas.

These are the units City and Guilds of London Institute registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with City and Guilds of London Institute. It does the teaching and the mapping. City and Guilds of London Institute sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

Free first step

Try a free Future Fluency lesson first

The free part is a Future Fluency lesson on using AI at work. It is not part of this qualification. Next, a free account. We build your plan for this qualification as you set up. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

No card · Nothing to commit to

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Customer Relations Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Know how to maintain customer relations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand customer relations techniques.
Diary Management Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Know how to manage a diary system.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate effective diary management skills.
Information Management Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Know how to store and retrieve information.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply methods for information storage and retrieval.
Office Equipment Use Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Understand how to use and maintain office equipment safely.

What you'll be able to do

  • Apply safe practices for using office equipment.
Professional Behavior Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Know how to behave professionally.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate professional behaviour in a work environment.
Rights and Responsibilities Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Understand individual rights and responsibilities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify rights and responsibilities in a workplace context.
Teamwork Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Know how to work as part of a team.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate effective teamwork skills.
Telephone Skills Real unit · City and Guilds of London Institute
Know how to make and receive telephone calls.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate professional telephone communication skills.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Use office equipment in accordance with occupational regulations and safety guidelines

    Standard
04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Customer RelationsDiary ManagementInformation ManagementOffice Equipment UseProfessional BehaviorRights and ResponsibilitiesTeamworkTelephone Skills

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach You have to tell the team what “Diary Management” means for them next month. Say it to me now, the way you would say it to them.
You The new process goes live on the 3rd and full training will be provided.
The Coach That is the announcement. Now try the one that starts with the bit they are going to hate, and we will see which you would rather receive.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Lead it Apply

    “Diary Management” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Customer Relations, one of this qualification's own units.

Customer Relations Level 1

Applied to your own work

Know how to maintain customer relations.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

It is £70 a month, billed monthly. Your free first module is Future Fluency, and you can cancel any time. Teaching towards this qualification begins when you subscribe.

Your Plan Illustration

Built for City & Guilds Level 1 Certificate in Business and Administration

8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City and Guilds of London Institute.

  1. Customer Relations
  2. Diary Management
  3. Information Management
  4. Office Equipment Use
  5. Professional Behavior
  6. Rights and Responsibilities

and 2 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

Build my plan, free

No card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.

The title, level, credits, guided learning hours and unit learning outcomes on this page are taken from the Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.