Pearson EDI · RQF Level 5
Pearson EDI Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Management (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits38
- Units in this qualification42
Awarded by Pearson EDI · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Pearson EDI 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 EDI
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.
Analyse the market in which your organisation operatesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse customers’ needs.
- Analyse the market using research tools and techniques.
- Communicate research findings to inform managerial decisions.
Build, support and manage a teamReal unit · Pearson EDI
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.
Conduct a quality auditReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand quality management.
- Prepare to carry out a quality audit.
- Carry out a quality audit.
- Communicate results of a quality audit.
- Monitor corrective action and maintain records.
Develop a customer-focused organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and communicate a vision for customer-based values in own organisation.
- Develop success criteria and maintain a customer focus across an organisation.
- Monitor customer focus and identify areas for improvement across own organisation.
Develop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Align objectives of own area of responsibility with those of own organisation.
- Implement operational plans in own area of responsibility.
- Monitor and evaluate operational plans in own area of responsibility..
Develop and implement a risk assessment plan in own area of responsibiltyReal unit · Pearson EDI
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 EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify marketing objectives for own area of responsibility
- Prioritise marketing objectives for own area of responsibility
- Produce a marketing strategy in own area of responsibility
- Produce a marketing plan for own area of responsibility
- Implement a marketing plan for own area of responsibility
- Monitor the marketing plan in own area of responsibility
- Evaluate the marketing plan in own area of responsibility
Develop working relationships with colleagues and stakeholdersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify stakeholders and their relevance to an organisation.
- Understand how to establish working relationships with colleagues and stakeholders.
- Create an environment of trust and mutual respect with colleagues and stakeholders.
Developing collaborative relationships with other organisationsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify potential collabourative opportunities with other organisations.
- Agree the strategic aims and objectives of collabouration.
- Agree methods and expected outcomes of collabouration.
- Instigate and sustain a collabourative relationship with another organisation.
- Review and evaluate the collabouration with another organisation.
Ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirementsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the operational compliance of procedures in meeting legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements.
- Identify and make recommendations on areas of non-compliance with procedures for legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements relating to own area of responsibility.
Establish risk management processes for an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand risk management within own area of responsibility.
- Establish a risk management process for an organisation.
- Allocate resources to enable risk management activities to take place.
- Communicate risk management processes across an organisation.
Examine staff turnover issues in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the reasons for, and impact of, staff turnover whilst maintaining confidentiality in own area of responsibility.
- Compare staff turnover rates across organisations.
- Understand how to turn unexpected staffing turnover into opportunities rather than threats.
Implement change in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to implement change in own area of responsibility.
- Involve and support others through the change process.
- Implement and monitor a plan for change in own area of responsibility.
Inform strategic decision-makingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand an organisation’s environment to inform strategic decision-making.
- Evaluate the current strategic direction of an organisation.
- Use information to inform strategic decision-making.
Know how to follow disciplinary proceduresReal unit · Pearson EDI
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.
Lead innovation within an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse an organisation’s current approach to innovation practice.
- Design an innovation process for an organisation and demonstrate its implications for long-term success.
- Support others in implementing innovative ideas.
- Review and improve the performance of the innovation process.
- Provide recognition for the innovative success.
Manage a budget for own area or activity of workReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a budget for own area of responsibility.
- Manage a budget.
- Review budget management performance.
Manage a programme of complementary projectsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand principles, processes, tools and techniques of programme management.
- Develop a programme plan.
- Communicate programme aims and plans to project managers.
- Monitor project and programme progress.
- Evaluate a programme.
Manage a tendering processReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand tendering processes
- Draw up a specification for required products or services.
- Write an invitation to tender document and communicate it to prospective suppliers.
- Understand how to respond fairly to pre-tender queries.
- Evaluate received tenders.
- Select a supplier and provide post-tender feedback.
Manage health and safety across an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand an organisation’s responsibilities and liabilities in relation to health and safety.
- Promote health and safety across an organisation.
- Ensure that health and safety requirements are met across an organisation.
- Monitor, review and report on health and safety policy and practices.
Manage physical resourcesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of sustainability when using physical resources.
- Identify resource requirements for own area of responsibility.
- Obtain required resources for own area of responsibility.
- Monitor and review the quality and usage of resources in own area of responsibility.
Manage product development and marketingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assess whether products or services meet the needs of existing and potential customers in own organisation
- Identify potential opportunities to meet customer requirements in own organisation
- Implement potential opportunities to meet customer requirements in own organisation
- Co-ordinate the marketing and development of own products or services
- Monitor demand for own products or services
- Adjust marketing accordingly
Manage risk in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
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 EDI
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.
Manage the environmental impact of work activitiesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal requirements and environmental policies that impact on own area of responsibility.
- Understand how to assess the impact of work activities on the environment and how this can be minimised.
- Assess and report on the environmental impact of work activities in own area of responsibility.
- Organise work activities and resource use to minimise environmental impact.
- Promote ongoing improvement in environmental performance.
Managing grievance proceduresReal unit · Pearson EDI
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.
Monitor and review business processesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor business processes in own area of responsibility.
- Review and improve business processes in own area of responsibility.
Outsource organisational processesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify non-core processes within an organisation.
- Evaluate the implications of outsourcing non-core processes.
- Select a vendor to outsource non-core processes to.
- Outsource non-core processes.
- Monitor and review the outsourcing of non-core processes.
Plan and manage a projectReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles, processes, tools and techniques of project management.
- Agree the scope and objectives of a project.
- Identify the budget in order to develop a project plan.
- Implement a project plan.
- Manage a project to its conclusion.
Plan change in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan change.
- Develop plans for change in own area of responsibility.
- Develop systems for monitoring and assessing progress.
- Evaluate barriers and determine ways to overcome resistance to planned change.
- Develop a communication strategy to facilitate the process for change.
Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
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 EDI
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.
Promote equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion across an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of an inclusive and diverse workforce.
- Understand organisation’s responsibilities under equality legislation and relevant codes of practice.
- Benchmark equality, diversity and inclusion.
- Communicate equality, diversity and inclusion policy and procedures.
- Review effectiveness of equality, diversity and inclusion issues.
Promote the use of technology within an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a strategy to promote the use of technology, in line with organisational values and customer needs.
- Implement a strategy for promoting technology across an organisation.
- Monitor and review the impact of an organisation’s technology strategy, in line with best practice.
Provide leadership and direction for own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
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 EDI
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.
Review risk management processes in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and evaluate risk management processes within own area of responsibility.
- Improve the risk management process.
Support individuals to develop and take responsibility for their performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
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 the culture of an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of organisational culture.
- Agree values and objectives in support of an organisation’s culture.
- Monitor objectives and their effectiveness.
Support the management of redundancies in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Pearson EDI
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.
Work productively with colleagues and stakeholdersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Provide colleagues and stakeholders with information.
- Consult with colleagues and stakeholders in relation to decisions or activities.
- Understand the importance of fulfilling agreements and honouring commitments made to colleagues and stakeholders.
- Understand how to manage potential conflicts of interest.
- Understand how to be able to monitor working relationships.
- Review and improve the effectiveness of working relationships.
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 5 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.
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 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.
- Analyse Customer and Business Needs and the Business
- Analyse and report investment implications of sector economics
- Assess and Review the Compliance Risks Relevant to Your Organisation
- Build and manage teams
- Commission and Oversee Outsourced Policy Evaluation
- Contribute to Institutional Development of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Education
- Create and agree development plans
- Create and agree development plans for job seekers to gain and maintain employment
Where this can lead
Lead Innovation Strategist
Your journey as a Lead Innovation Strategist is about more than just a job; it's about building a career at the cutting edge of business. We're looking for someone who sees this role as a launchpad for significant impact, both within Zavmo and potentially beyond. The future is unwritten, and we want you to help us write it.
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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.
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.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson EDI Level 5 NVQ Diploma in Management (QCF)
42 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Address performance problems affecting team members
- Analyse the market in which your organisation operates
- Build, support and manage a team
- Conduct a quality audit
- Develop a customer-focused organisation
- Develop and evaluate operational plans for own area of responsibility
and 36 more in the full unit list below.
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.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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.
Build my plan, freeNo 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.