Skillsfirst Awards Ltd · RQF Level 3
Skillsfirst Level 3 Certificate in Principles of 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 credits13
- Units in this qualification13
Awarded by Skillsfirst Awards Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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Ten quick questions, one per Future Fluency, asked against this qualification rather than a generic one.
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Skillsfirst Awards 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.
Appraising and Developing StaffReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of conducting staff appraisals
- Understand how to evaluate work performance
- Provide learning and development objectives for staff
Coaching Skills in Team Leading and ManagementReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know key learning theories
- Develop a coaching plan
- Use coaching skills to develop team members
- Understand how to support team members to implement ideas
Developing Working Relationships with Team MembersReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the characteristics of productive working relationships between a team leader and team members
- Develop working relationships with team members
- Understand how to maintain working relationships with team members
Environmental and Ethical Issues in ManagementReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand why organisations implement environmental and ethical policies
- Evaluate the impact of work activities on the environment
- Know about management activities used to improve environmental performance
- Monitor operational compliance with ethical policies
Health and Safety Risk Assessment in Your TeamReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for risk assessment in health and safety in the workplace
- Assess risks to your team
- Understand ways in which the risk assessment process could be improved
Improving Your Own Management and Leadership PerformanceReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the importance of management and leadership skills
- Understand how to assess career and personal goals
- Understand the importance of having a personal development plan to improve own management and leadership perforrmance
Key Principles of Management and LeadershipReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know differences between leadership and management
- Understand key issues of leadership
- Understand the implications of delegating work to others
- Understand the purpose of setting work objectives with team members
- Know the importance of promoting quality in the workplace
Managing Physical ResourcesReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational policies regarding use of physical resources
- Understand how to obtain agreement for purchase of physical resources
- Understand how to obtain specified physical resource requirements
- Evaluate suppliers
Managing the Delivery of Customer ServiceReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the delivery of customer service
- Understand how to improve the customer experience
- Understand how to improve customer service delivery
Principles of Budgets and Financial InformationReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know the importance of financial information
- Develop budgets
- Understand how costs are used in making pricing decisions
Principles of Project ManagementReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to plan projects
- Implement projects
- Understand how to manage projects to conclusion
Recruiting and Selecting StaffReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to recruit staff
- Be able plan for human resource requirements
- Review the recruitment process
Supporting Organisational Change InitiativesReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to implement organisational change
- Understand the need for organisational change
- Plan for organisational change
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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
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.
Where this can lead
Organisational Change Assistant
Your journey in organisational change can take you to some really interesting places. We're here to help you build a solid foundation and grow into whatever path you choose.
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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
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Skillsfirst Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Management (QCF)
13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skillsfirst Awards Ltd.
- Appraising and Developing Staff
- Coaching Skills in Team Leading and Management
- Developing Working Relationships with Team Members
- Environmental and Ethical Issues in Management
- Health and Safety Risk Assessment in Your Team
- Improving Your Own Management and Leadership Performance
and 7 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.