Pearson EDI · RQF Level 7
Pearson EDI Level 7 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 7
- Total credits45
- Guided learning168 hours
- Units in this qualification17
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.
Design and manage the business processesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand process management.
- Design a sustainable business process for use across an orgainisation.
- Manage, monitor and review business processes.
Develop a strategic business planReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand an organisation’s vision or strategic direction.
- Provide an organisation with a direction that is incorporated into the strategic business plan.
- Gain stakeholder support for the strategic business plan.
Develop strategic direction and leadershipReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop own leadership.
- Develop and communicate an organisational vision, purpose and set of values.
- Review own leadership performance.
Establish policies and proceduresReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and regulatory requirements that impact upon own area of responsibility.
- Understand the ethical and social requirements that impact upon own area of responsibility.
- Develop policies to meet legal, regulatory, ethical and social requirements for own area of responsibility.
- Communicate policies to stakeholders.
Improve organisational performanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Examine the existing culture in relation to performance.
- Evaluate performance in own organisation.
- Identify opportunities for organisational improvement and develop a communications strategy.
- Support continuous improvement in organisational performance.
- Evaluate the impact of performance improvement.
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.
Lead change in an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Lead change.
- Promote organisational reasons for change.
- Gain support for change.
- Support people through the change process.
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 quality systemsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand and evaluate quality management systems and standards in own organisation.
- Evaluate systems in own organisation.
- Establish responsibilities for meeting organisational quality standards with key stakeholders.
- Implement a quality management system in own organisation.
- Monitor and evaluate quality performance for continuous improvement within own organisation.
Obtain additional finance for an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Review the financial position of an organisation.
- Identify and evaluate sources of additional finance for an organisation.
- Obtain additional finance for an organisation.
- Review procedures for obtaining additional finance.
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 an organisation’s workforceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify workforce requirements for an organisation.
- Review the current workforce of an organisation against identified requirements.
- Plan how an organisation’s workforce requirements will be met.
- Communicate workforce plans to relevant individuals.
Promote knowledge management across an organisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop strategies and procedures to facilitate knowledge management.
- Support knowledge management.
- Monitor and evaluate knowledge management across an organisation.
Put a strategic business plan into actionReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Promote a strategic business plan to colleagues and stakeholders.
- Implement and monitor performance against a strategic business plan.
- Ensure a strategic business plan remains current.
- Evaluate the performance of a strategic business plan.
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.
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Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 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
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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.
- Communicate and implement your compliance policy within your organisation
- Contribute to preparing for workforce planning based on service needs
- Develop a workforce plan
- Develop and coordinate organisational performance
- Develop the Culture of Your Organisation
- Develop your organisation’s vision, strategies and business plans
- Enable improvements in organisational performance
- Identify and evaluate forces for change that may impact on the workforce
Where this can lead
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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 7 NVQ Diploma in Management (QCF)
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Design and manage the business processes
- Develop a strategic business plan
- Develop strategic direction and leadership
- Establish policies and procedures
- Improve organisational performance
- Inform strategic decision-making
and 11 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
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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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