Pearson EDI · RQF Level 3
Pearson EDI Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Starting Your Own Business (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning120 hours
- Units in this qualification113
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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.
Advertise Products or Services for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Review the benefits and costs of advertising business products or services.
- Place an advertisement that promotes the business effectively.
- Deal with the results of advertising.
- Monitor and review the success of an advertisement.
Advertise Products or Services for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know the benefits of advertising the business.
- Plan and design an advertisement for the business.
- Monitor the success of advertising the business.
Assess health and safety risks in your businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to carry out health and safety risk assessments in your business
- Understand how to record and communicate workplace health and safety risk assessments
- Understand how to review workplace health and safety risk assessments
Assess health and safety risks in your businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what is needed to undertake health and safety risk assessments in your business
- Understand how to carry out and communicate health and safety risk assessments in your business
- Understand when to review health and safety risk assessments in your business
Assess your ability to run a businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess the skills and abilities needed for running your business
- Understand how to judge your and other people’s ability to deal with potential changes to the business
- Understand how to set and monitor your own performance targets
Balance Business Needs and Personal LifeReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Review business and private life priorities.
- Achieve a better work-life balance.
- Manage expectations and obtain positive support.
Balance Business Needs and Personal LifeReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify business and private life priorities.
- Plan to achieve business and private life priorities.
- Manage expectations and obtain support.
Bidding for WorkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare a bid about products or services.
- Understand the purposes of proposals and quotations.
- Ensure security around tendering for work.
Bidding for WorkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare a bid for products or services.
- Know the differences between proposals and quotations.
- Understand the need for security around tendering for work.
Carry Out Plans for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to implement business plans.
- Understand how to monitor business plans.
- Understand how to revise the business plans.
Carry Out Plans for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Implement business plans.
- Monitor business plans.
- Evaluate and revise business plans.
Carry Out a Review of a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Review the current state of the business.
- Assess the factors that affect the performance of the business.
- Make decisions about how to improve the business.
Carry out Banking for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of banking facilities available to a business.
- Open and operate a bank account for a business.
- Understand how to monitor the operation of a business bank account.
Carry out Banking for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know the types of banking facilities available for a business.
- Open and operate a bank account for a business.
- Monitor the operation of a business bank account.
Check what Customers Need from the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Undertake market research to identify the customers for the business.
- Analyse markets and customer needs.
- Match customer needs to business targets.
Choose supplies and suppliers for your businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare and monitor a schedule of the supplies needed for your business
- Understand how achieve best value when buying supplies for your business
- Understand how to manage and control business supplies to maximise the profitability of your business
Choose your business premisesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how the choice of business premises can affect your business success
- Understand how to choose and evaluate suitable premises for meeting your business needs
Choose your business premisesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why premises are important to your business
- Understand how to choose suitable premises for meeting your business needs
Comply with business legal requirementsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess risks when selecting a legal status for your business
- Understand how to comply with legal requirements of setting up and running your business
Controls for Customer PaymentsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Establish targets to control credit for a business.
- Assess options for controlling credit.
- Take appropriate action to keep debts to a minimum.
- Comply with credit control legislation.
Controls for Customer PaymentsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the effect of debt on a business.
- Know about different ways of controlling credit.
- Understand what action is needed to keep debts to a minimum.
- Know the law affecting credit control.
Create your business infrastructureReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate infrastructure options for your business
- Understand how to implement and review an infrastructure for your business
Create your business infrastructureReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the kind of infrastructure your business needs
- Understand how to create an infrastructure for your business
Deal with Discipline and Grievance in a Small BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with discipline or grievance problems in a small business.
- Know when to use dismissal procedures.
- Understand current legal requirements on discipline, grievance and dismissal procedures.
Deal with Workplace Problems or DisputesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with problems relating to employee conduct and behaviour in a small business.
- Understand issues relating to dismissing employees in a small business.
- Comply with legal requirements for dismissal procedures.
- Record discipline, grievance and dismissal proceedings and outcomes.
Decide on a Business LocationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate factors affecting the business location.
- Identify different business location options.
- Decide which location will best meet the business needs.
Decide on a Business LocationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate factors affecting the business location.,
- Evaluate different business location options.,
- Decide which location will best meet the business needs.
Define the Product or Service of the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Define the product or service.
- Charge the appropriate price for products or services.
- Set targets for sales and distribution.
Define the Product or Service of the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Define the product or service.
- Charge the right price for products or services.
- Set targets for sales and distribution.
Delegate Work to OthersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know what work to delegate and who to delegate it to.
- Delegate work to others.
- Communicate expectations and assess the effectiveness of the support given to people with delegated authority.
- Monitor work undertaken by others.
Delegate Work to OthersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to make decisions about which work to delegate.
- Make plans to delegate work to others.
- Support the people who are doing delegated work.
- Understand how to check on work delegated to others.
Delivering a Good Service to CustomersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor and improve customer services
- Manage and review changes in customer services.
Delivering a Good Service to CustomersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Deal with customer service problems.
- Make changes to customer services.
Develop People’s Skills for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to develop staff in a business
- Arrange training to meet individual needs
- Understand how to monitor progress in developing staff skills
Develop Procedures to Control Risks to Health and SafetyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Develop health and safety procedures to meet legal requirements appropriate to the business.
- Review health and safety procedures and then assess the changes required
- Communicate health and safety procedures.
- Record and monitor health and safety procedures.
Develop Procedures to Control Risks to Health and SafetyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal duties for health and safety in the workplace
- Know the procedures required to control health and safety risks in the business
- Make arrangements to review the effectiveness of health and safety procedures
Develop a Website for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Choose a web-hosting service and a website developer.
- Decide on a website specification.
- Oversee and monitor technical development of the website.
Develop a Website for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify a provider of web-hosting and website services.
- Decide on a website specification.
- Maintain the continuing development of the website.
Develop your business ideaReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate how to evaluate your business idea
- Demonstrate how to assess the market for your business idea
Developing People’s Skills for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan to develop staff in a business
- Arrange training to meet individual needs
- Monitor progress in the development of staff skills.
Essential Skills and Behaviours in Business EnterpriseReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of having a vision for a business.
- Apply effective communication skills
- Sell the business to customers and other stakeholders and identify improvements.
- Show innovation and problem-solving.
- Develop relationships that will benefit the business.
- Make deals on behalf of the business.
Estimate financial needs for your businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate financial options to fund your business
- Understand how to monitor income and expenditure against your business objectives
- Understand how to monitor profit and loss for your business
Evaluate Decision to Buy a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the potential of a business opportunity.
- Understand own motives when buying a business.
- Understand what is involved in buying an existing business.
Evaluate Decision to Buy a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate a business opportunity.
- Review own motives and contribution to a new business.
- Develop a plan to purchase a business.
Explore Overseas Markets for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate markets for exporting abroad.
- Know what is needed to sell abroad.
- Plan for trading abroad.
- Know the cultural implications of trading abroad.
Explore Overseas Markets for a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate opportunities for trading abroad.
- Determine what is needed to trade abroad.
- Plan for trading abroad.
- Adapt to the cultural implications of trading abroad.
Explore your business motivesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand your needs and aspirations when setting up and running a business
- Understand how to evaluate your role and personal development needs in your business
Explore your business motivesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify your needs and aspirations when setting up a business
- Be aware of how your own role can affect your personal and business needs
Getting the Best Out of Staff in the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Set performance targets for people in the business.
- Monitor performance against targets.
- Deal with poor performance.
Getting the Best Out of Staff in the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Set performance targets for people in the business.
- Monitor performance against targets.
- Deal with poor performance.
How to Treat Business CustomersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand customer needs and expectations in the business,
- Provide good customer care.,
- Monitor service level expectations
How to Treat Business CustomersReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Meet customer needs and expectations in the business.
- Provide good customer care.
- Monitor service level expectations.
Impact of the Environment on a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the potential impact of environmental laws and regulations on the business.
- Comply with environmental laws and regulations.
- Review the effectiveness of environmental practices within the business.
Impact of the Environment on a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Know about environmental laws and regulations and their potential impact on the business.
- Comply with environmental laws and regulations.
- Develop effective environmental practices within the business
Import or Export Products or ServicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Import and export products and services of a business.
- Apply the standard trade terms of buyer and seller responsibilities that relate to the countries involved.
- Operate within the relevant import and export laws and regulations.
- Review risks and opportunities when trading abroad
Improve the Financial Performance of a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Estimate the financial state of the business.
- Prepare financial forecasts.
- Produce a financial plan to improve the financial performance of the business.
Improve the Financial Performance of a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the financial state of the business.
- Prepare reliable financial forecasts for the business.
- Produce a plan to improve the financial performance of the business for different scenarios.
Improve your business skillsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess the benefits of improving your business skills and knowledge
- Understand how to develop and monitor a plan for improving your business skills and knowledge
Improve your business skillsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how developing your skills and knowledge can help your business
- Understand how to improve your business skills and knowledge
Improving the Quality of Products or ServicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for providing customers with improved quality products or services.
- Understand the improvements needed to give the business a competitive edge.
- Monitor and improve quality.
Improving the Quality of Products or ServicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate customer expectations in relation to the quality of products and services
- Establish quality improvement targets to give the business a competitive edge
- Monitor and improve quality.
Invest Capital in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to decide to invest capital in a business.
- Understand the risks involved in making an investment in a business.
- Understand how a capital investment can affect a business.
Invest Capital in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Prepare to invest capital in a business.
- Assess the risks of making an investment in a business.
- Assess the impact of a capital investment on a business.
Keep Financial RecordsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of financial records running a business.
- Know the financial information that needs to be recorded in a business.
- Select an accounts management system to support a business.
- Produce financial records
Keep Financial RecordsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of financial records to running a business.
- Understand how financial information is recorded in a business.
- Select an appropriate accounts management system to support a business.
- Assess effectiveness of the accounts management system for a business.
Keeping Up to Date with Current Legislation in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with current legal requirements for the business.
- Understand the importance of setting terms and conditions that meet legal requirements.
Keeping Up to Date with Current Legislation in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Comply with current legal requirements for the business
- Understand the importance of setting terms and conditions that meet legal requirements
Make Changes to Improve a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Be able plan changes to improve the business.
- Understand what is needed to support and implement the changes.
- Monitor their impact of the change on the business.
Make Changes to Improve a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan of changes to improve the business.
- Persuade relevant people to support the proposed changes.
- Develop a system for monitoring and evaluating the impact of the changes.
Make a cash flow forecastReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to set cash flow targets in line with financial plans for your business
- Understand how to set up systems to monitor cash flow forecasts for your business
- Understand how to control income and expenditure shortfalls for your business
Making Business PresentationsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare for business presentations.
- Understand the importance of communication in making presentations.
Making Business PresentationsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Make a business presentation.
- Secure agreements on the business presentation.
Manage Own Time and EfficiencyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assess own work effectiveness and efficiency.
- Identify strengths and weaknesses of own time management.
- Plan improvements to own time management and work effectiveness.
Manage Own Time and EfficiencyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate own work effectiveness and efficiency.
- Set targets to improve own time management skills.
- Monitor time management skills and work effectiveness.
Managing Succession for the Family BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Discuss and decide options for succession in a family business.
- Make plans for succession in the business.
Managing Succession for the Family BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Select and agree the right successor(s) for the family business.
- Implement a succession plan for the business.
Monitor the Quality and Use of Supplies and EquipmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the supplies and equipment needs of the business.
- Make improvements in supplies and equipment.
- Monitor the use and effectiveness of supplies and equipment.
Monitor the Quality and Use of Supplies and EquipmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Review supplies and equipment needs of the business needs.
- Predict needs and make changes to improve supplies and equipment.
- Understand how to monitor the quality of suppliers, supplies and equipment.
Monitoring the Social Performance of a Social EnterpriseReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the social performance of a social enterprise.
- Develop new social objectives.
Monitoring the Social Performance of a Social EnterpriseReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Monitor the social performance of a social enterprise.
- Develop new social objectives.
Obtaining Support for a Business IdeaReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan how to obtain support for a creative business idea.
- Understand the types of support available.
- Present the creative business idea.
Obtaining Support for a Business IdeaReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan how to obtain support for a creative business idea.
- Understand the types of support available.
- Prepare for presenting the creative business idea.
Plan Staffing Needs in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the staffing needs of a business.
- Make plans for staff recruitment in a business.
- Produce individual training plans for staff in a business.
Plan Staffing Needs in a BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Decide the staffing needs of a business.
- Plan staff recruitment in a business.
- Plan staff training needs in a business.
Plan how to let customers know about products or servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Review the market for the business’s products or services.
- Produce a plan for marketing the business’s products or services.
- Make plans for regular monitoring and reviewing of marketing performance.
Plan how to let customers know about products or servicesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate the market for the business’s products or services.
- Plan for marketing the business’s products or services.
- Review marketing performance.
Plan the Exit Strategy from the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan an exit strategy.
- Assess the feasibility of the exit plan.
Plan to sell your product or serviceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess the market for selling your product or service
- Understand the importance of setting sales targets for your business
Plan to sell your product or serviceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods of selling a product or service
- Understand methods of selling a product or service
Prepare WagesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal obligations involved in preparing and making reductions to wages.
- Understand when and where to get professional advice.
Prepare WagesReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare wages in keeping with legal obligations, relating to National Insurance and income tax.
- Seek professional advice from the appropriate experts and resources.
- Differentiate variations that can alter the payment of wages.
- Make arrangements for the payments of wages.
Produce a plan for your businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to produce and present a plan for your business
- Understand how to use the business plan to support the continuing success of your business plan
Recruit people for your businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand what factors to consider when recruiting for a possible job vacancy in your business
- Understand how to prepare an advertisement for a possible job vacancy
- Understand how to select an applicant for a possible job vacancy
Recruit people for your businessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to set recruitment requirements for a possible job vacancy in your business
- Understand how to advertise for a possible job vacancy in your business
- Understand how to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of a recruitment process
Review Job Roles and Handle RedundancyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Apply good practice and legal procedures when planning for staff redeployment and redundancy.
- Review job roles and plan changes in staffing for the business.
- Deal with redeployment or redundancy.
Review Job Roles and Handle RedundancyReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify potential staff changes needed for the business.
- Know the legal requirements of redeployment and redundancy.
- Plan for redeployment and/or redundancy in the business.
Review the Skills the Business NeedsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Decide what skills a business needs.
- Fill potential skills gaps.
Review the Skills the Business NeedsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Assess what skills a business needs.
- Make decisions about filling skills gaps in order to meet the business needs.
Run a Business from HomeReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits and challenges of running a business from home.
- Know the facilities that may be needed for running a business from home.
- Understand how to create a professional image when running a business from home.
- Understand how to deal with the expectations of family, neighbours and clients.
Run a Business from HomeReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for running a business from home.
- Select appropriate facilities needed for running a business from home.
- Project professionalism when running a business from home.
- Deal with the expectations of family, neighbours and clients.
Seek Advice and Help for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate sources of advice and help available for the business.
- Obtain advice and help for the business.
- Review and record the effectiveness of advice and help obtained.
Seek Advice and Help for the BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify where to get the best advice and help for the business.
- Obtain advice and help for the business.
- Check and record the advice and help obtained.
Sell Products or Services using the InternetReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate requirements and opportunities for selling through the internet.
- Know what resources and systems are needed for setting up e-trading.
- Make plans for implementing an e-business.
- Understand how to monitor the progress of e-trading.
Sell Products or Services using the InternetReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Investigate opportunities for selling through the internet.
- Organise resources, systems and legal compliance for e-trading.
- Implement e-business plans against which success can be judged.
- Monitor progress and assess effectiveness of e-trading
Sell your product or serviceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess what customers need from your business
- Understand how to promote and reach agreement to sell your products or services
Set Up a Stakeholder Pension Scheme for a Small BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for a stakeholder pension scheme in a small business.
- Identify the possibilities involved in setting up a stakeholder pension scheme.
- Set up a stakeholder pension scheme for a small business.
Set Up a Stakeholder Pension Scheme for a Small BusinessReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the value of having a stakeholder pension scheme in a small business.
- Set up a payroll deduction scheme.
- Set up a stakeholder pension scheme for a small business.
- Communicate information about a stakeholder pension scheme with staff.
Sub-Contract WorkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Plan for sub-contracting work or services.
- Deal with sub-contractor failures to meet terms and conditions.
- Agree changes to terms and conditions with sub-contractors.
Sub-Contract WorkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Agree and assess contracts for sub-contracted work or services.
- Deal with sub-contractor failures to meet terms and conditions.
- Negotiate with sub- contractors to improve contracts
Undertake Freelance WorkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Promote self to customers.
- Understand how to work with the customer.
- Manage finances from freelance work.
Undertake Freelance WorkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Use marketing and networking skills to promote own work.,
- Negotiate contracts and manage finances for freelance work.,
- Use freelance work to build a reputation for the business.
VAT Registration and ReturnsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why the business has decided to register for Value Added Tax (VAT).
- Understand how to use professional guidance in relation to VAT registration.
- Understand how to use VAT is used on purchases and sales.
- Prepare a VAT form
VAT Registration and ReturnsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand if the business needs to register for VAT.
- Understand when to seek professional help and where to find it.
- Understand how to prepare a VAT form on time.
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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.
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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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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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.
- Assess the environmental impact of your business
- Assist in Controlling Customer Accounts
- Carry out the banking for your business
- Choose a legal format for your business
- Complete VAT registration and submit returns for your business
- Define and develop your products and services
- Delegate Work in Your Business
- Develop Employees for Your Business
Where this can lead
Export/Import Coordinator
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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.
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Built for Pearson EDI Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Starting Your Own Business (QCF)
65 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Advertise Products or Services for a Business
- Assess health and safety risks in your business
- Assess your ability to run a business
- Balance Business Needs and Personal Life
- Bidding for Work
- Carry Out Plans for a Business
and 59 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.