Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 3

Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Management (QCF)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 3
  • Total credits25
  • Units in this qualification22

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units Pearson Education Ltd 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Address performance problems affecting team membersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand legal requirements, industry regulations, organisational policies and professional codes concerning performance.
  • Identify performance problems of team members.
  • Discuss performance problems with team members.
  • Set a course of action to deal with identified problems with team members.
Build, support and manage a teamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose and required attributes of a team and select those that match the team’s requirements.
  • Induct team members and communicate their roles and responsibilities.
  • Understand how to support team development.
  • Manage team performance and understand how to disband a team.
  • Understand how to disband team.
Develop and implement a risk assessment plan in own area of responsibiltyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal requirements and personal responsibilities for health and safety within an organisation.
  • Promote the importance of health and safety practices.
  • Ensure that hazards and risks are identified and managed in own area of responsibility.
  • Monitor and review health and safety performance and policy in own area of responsibility.
Develop and implement marketing plansReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
It teaches you to identify and prioritise marketing objectives within their area of responsibility. You'll develop a marketing strategy and produce a detailed marketing plan, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating its effectiveness to meet organisational goals.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify and prioritise marketing objectives for own area of responsibility
  • Produce a marketing strategy in own area of responsibility
  • Produce and implement a marketing plan for own area of responsibility
  • Monitor and evaluate the marketing plan in own area of responsibility
Know how to follow disciplinary proceduresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand performance expectations of an organisation.
  • Identify and use communication methods to assess potential cases of misconduct or unsatisfactory performance.
  • Know how to informally with cases of minor misconduct or unsatisfactory performance.
  • Follow an organisation’s formal disciplinary procedure.
Make effective decisionsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify circumstances that require a decision to be made.
  • Collect information to inform decision-making.
  • Analyse information to inform decision-making.
  • Make a decision.
Manage conflict in a teamReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Support team members’ understanding of their role and position within a team.
  • Take measures to minimise conflict within a team.
  • Understand how to encourage team members to resolve their own conflicts.
  • Understand legal and organisational requirements concerning conflict.
Manage customer service in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Establish and communicate measurable customer service standards for own area of responsibility.
  • Support staff in meeting customer service standards.
  • Monitor and evaluate customer service performance, systems and processes.
Manage knowledge in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand existing knowledge management in own area of responsibility.
  • Develop knowledge
  • Share knowledge.
  • Monitor and evaluate knowledge management in own area of responsibility.
Manage or support equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand own responsibilities under equality legislation, relevant codes of practice and own organisational policies.
  • Communicate an organisation’s written equality, diversity and inclusion policy and procedures in own area of responsibility.
  • Monitor equality, diversity and inclusion within own area of responsibility.
Manage risk in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Undertake a risk evaluation for current and planned activities within own area of responsibility.
  • Minimise the impact and likelihood of potential risks occurring in own area of responsibility.
  • Communicate identified risks.
Manage the achievement of customer satisfactionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand customer service standards required in own organisation.
  • Implement sustainable processes for customer satisfaction.
  • Manage and support colleagues in delivering customer service standards.
  • Manage and develop culture in own organisation to support customer service standards.
  • Monitor customer service levels for continuous improvement.
Managing grievance proceduresReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to prevent potential grievances.
  • Understand an organisation’s grievance policy and procedure and deal with concerns raised by individuals informally.
  • Understand how to follow grievance procedures.
Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Produce a work plan for own area of responsibility.
  • Allocate and agree responsibilities with team members.
  • Monitor the progress and quality of work in own area of responsibility and provide feedback.
  • Review and amend plans of work for own area of responsibility and communicate changes.
Prepare for and support quality auditsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the quality standards and procedures that apply to own area of responsibility.
  • Monitor work in own area of responsibility against quality standards and procedures.
  • Prepare for a quality audit in own area of responsibility.
  • Discuss quality audit findings with the auditor.
  • Complete agreed actions following a quality audit.
Procure suppliesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify requirements for supplies.
  • Evaluate suppliers that meet identified requirements.
  • Select suppliers and obtain supplies.
  • Monitor supplier performance.
Provide leadership and direction for own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Lead in own area of responsibility.
  • Provide direction and set objectives in own area of responsibility.
  • Communicate the direction for own area of responsibility and collect feedback to inform improvement.
  • Assess own leadership performance.
Recruit staff in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Review human resource requirements to meet business objectives in own area of responsibility.
  • Understand the importance of ensuring that recruitment and selection processes meet legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements.
  • Participate in the recruitment and selection process.
  • Evaluate the recruitment and selection process and identify improvements for the future.
Set objectives and provide support for team membersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Communicate a team’s purpose and objectives to the team members.
  • Develop a plan with team members showing how team objectives will be met.
  • Support team members identifying opportunities and providing support.
  • Monitor and evaluate progress and recognise individual and team achievement.
Support individuals to develop and take responsibility for their performanceReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Agree their performance development needs with an individual.
  • Understand how to help an individual create a development plan.
  • Support an individual in implementing their development plan.
  • Evaluate an individual’s progress against a development plan and provide feedback for continual performance improvement.
Support team members in identifying, developing and implementing new ideasReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop team ideas and develop the creativity of team members
  • Assess the viability of team members’ ideas.
  • Support team members to implement ideas.
  • Implement team ideas.
Support the management of redundancies in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to follow redundancy policy within own area of responsibility.
  • Communicate information on redundancies to those affected.
  • Understand how to support those affected by redundancies.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 3 credits are regulated. 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’ve earned and what’s next.

Address performance problems affecting team membersBuild, support and manage a teamDevelop and implement a risk assessment plan in own area of responsibiltyDevelop and implement marketing plansKnow how to follow disciplinary proceduresMake effective decisionsManage conflict in a teamManage customer service in own area of responsibility

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.

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Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Management (QCF)
  • Build and Manage Teams
  • Devise Sales Strategies to Suit Procurement Practices of Key Customers
  • Devise sales strategies to suit procurement practices of customers
  • Devise sales strategies to win procured business
  • Find suppliers for your business
  • Manage conflicts in work environment
  • Manage customer service
  • Manage the achievement of customer satisfaction
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Where this can lead

Customer Success Team Leader

Your journey in Customer Success is what you make it. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to grow, whether that's becoming a deep subject matter expert, a people leader, or even moving into another function. We want you to build a career that truly excites you.

See the whole journey →

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Skills it covers

What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

Build and Manage TeamsBuild and manage teamsBuild and manage teamsDevise Sales Strategies to Suit Procurement Practices of Key CustomersDevise sales strategies to suit procurement practices of customersDevise sales strategies to win procured businessFind suppliers for your businessManage conflicts in work environmentManage customer serviceManage the achievement of customer satisfactionManage the achievement of customer satisfactionProcure SuppliesProcure external services or suppliers in the creative industriesProcure suppliesProcure supplies for volunteering activitiesProcure supplies in a food and drink businessProvide leadership in your area of responsibilitySelect supplier to deliver goods, services or works

How you’ll actually learn this

One-to-one, on your own real work

A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Address performance problems affecting team membersLevel 3

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  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.
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Built for Pearson Edexcel Level 3 NVQ Certificate in Management (QCF)

22 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.

  1. Address performance problems affecting team members
  2. Build, support and manage a team
  3. Develop and implement a risk assessment plan in own area of responsibilty
  4. Develop and implement marketing plans
  5. Know how to follow disciplinary procedures
  6. Make effective decisions

and 16 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.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

Why it sticks

Most courses stop at remembering

There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

The value

Why the companion is worth £70 a month

You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.

That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.

Earned on your own work, taught to the top.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.

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