Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 7
Pearson BTEC Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits60
- Guided learning150 hours
- Units in this qualification16
Awarded by Pearson Education Ltd · 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 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.
Corporate Communication StrategiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of corporate communication
- Conduct an internal corporate communications audit
- Conduct an external corporate communications audit
- Plan the development of a corporate communication strategy
Creative and Innovative ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of creative and innovative management in organisations
- Support creative and innovative management processes for an organisation
- Influence others to effect change in an organisation
- Plan to overcome barriers to implementation of creative and innovative management ideas in an organisation
Developing Corporate CultureReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the characteristics of corporate culture affect the achievement of organisational objectives
- Propose organisational values that will influence corporate climate
- Develop strategies to communicate with stakeholders of an organisation who belong to different cultural groups
Developing Strategic Management and Leadership SkillsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between strategic management and leadership
- Apply management and leadership theory to support organisational direction
- Assess leadership requirements
- Plan the development of leadership skills
Developing Successful Business TeamsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features of successful business teams
- Support team development
- Monitor the performance of teams
Leading E-strategyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the value of an e-strategy in organisations
- Develop an e-strategy for an organisation
- Plan the implementation of an e-strategy for an organisation
- Manage an e-strategy in an organisation
Managing Corporate Responsibility in the Wider Business EnvironmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the wider implications and effects of global integration on organisations
- Understand the importance of responsible corporate governance in organisations
- Understand the effects of environmental legislation, directives and guidance on organisations
- Understand the socio-cultural, ethical and moral issues that affect organisations in the current economic environment
Managing Financial Principles and TechniquesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Apply cost concepts to the decision-making process
- Apply forecasting techniques to obtain information for decision making
- Participate in the budgetary process of an organisation
- Recommend cost reduction and management processes for an organisation
- Use financial appraisal techniques to make strategic investment decisions for an organisation
- Interpret financial statements for planning and decision making
Professional Development for Strategic ManagersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess personal and professional skills required to achieve strategic goals
- Conduct a skills audit to identify learning style
- Implement a personal development plan
Research Methods for Strategic ManagersReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to select a research question
- Conduct a litreature review
- Understand techniques used to interpret data in a research proposal
- Choose the appropriate methodology to research the question
- Present the findings of a research proposal
Strategic Change ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the background to organisational strategic change
- Understand issues relating to strategic change in an organisation
- Lead stakeholders in developing a strategy for change
- Plan to implement models for ensuring ongoing change
Strategic Human Resource ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the strategic management of human resources contributes to the achievement of organisational objectives and strategic aims
- Develop comprehensive human resource plans for an organisation, aligned with its strategic objectives
- Understand the key human resources policy requirements that organisations must adhere to
- Examine and critically evaluate human resources management practices within an organisation
Strategic Marketing ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of strategic marketing management
- Understand the various tools and techniques used to develop a strategic marketing strategy
- Use strategic marketing techniques to achieve organisational goals
- Respond effectively to changes in the external marketing environment
- Adapt strategic marketing plans to reflect changes in the marketing environment
Strategic PlanningReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the external environment affecting an organisation
- Review existing business plans and strategies of an organisation
- Develop options for strategic planning for an organisation
- Construct a strategy plan for an organisation
- Examine factors affecting an organisational strategy plan
- Plan for the implementation of a strategy plan
Strategic Quality and Systems ManagementReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of operations management in an organisation
- Understand the importance of managing quality in an organisation
- Plan a strategic quality change in an organisation
- Implement a strategic quality change in an organisation
- Evaluate the outcomes of a strategic quality change in an organisation
Strategic Supply Chain Management and LogisticsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the relationship between supply chain management and organisational business objectives
- Use information technology to optimise supplier relationships in an organisation
- Understand the role of information technology in supply chain management
- Understand the role of logistics and procurement in supply chain management
- Plan a strategy to improve an organisation’s supply chain
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
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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
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- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Pearson BTEC Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Corporate Communication Strategies
- Creative and Innovative Management
- Developing Corporate Culture
- Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Skills
- Developing Successful Business Teams
- Leading E-strategy
and 10 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.
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Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
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- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
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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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