Institute of Administrative Management · RQF Level 4
IAM Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Business and Administration (QCF)
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- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits39
- Guided learning196.5 hours
- Units in this qualification58
Awarded by Institute of Administrative Management · on the Ofqual register
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Institute of Administrative Management 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.
Agree a budgetReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to develop budgets
- Agree a budget
Analyse and report dataReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to organise and evaluate data that has been researched
- Understand how to report data that has been researched
- Analyse and evaluate data
- Report data
Assess, manage and monitor risk in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to assess, manage and monitor risk in a business environment
- Assess, manage and monitor risk in an organisation
Assist in the design of Business Continuity Management proceduresReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors that will influence the development of Business Continuity Management (BCM) procedures
- Understand how to assist with the development of BCM procedures
- Understand how to consult on BCM procedures
- Contribute to proposals for BCM procedures
- Contribute to the design of BCM procedures
Assist with the development of an organisational Business Continuity Management strategyReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational factors that will influence an organisational Business Continuity Management (BCM) strategy
- Understand how to assist with the development of an organisational Business Continuity Management strategy
- Assist with the development of a Business Continuity Management strategy
Chair meetingsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of the chair in meetings
- Prepare for chairing a meeting
- Chair a meeting using interpersonal and organisational skills
- Follow up and evaluate a meeting that has been chaired
Communicate in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of planning communication
- Understand how to communicate in writing
- Understand how to communicate verbally
- Understand the purpose and value of feedback in developing communication skills
- Plan communication
- Communicate in writing
- Communicate verbally
- Identify and agree ways of further developing communication skills
Contribute to innovation in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and benefits of innovation in a business environment
- Understand how to research, develop and review ideas for new approaches and solutions
- Understand how to present suggestions for new approaches and solutions
- Research and develop ideas for new approaches and solution
- Present suggestions for new approaches and solutions
- Evaluate, review and make suggestions for new approaches and solutions
Contribute to running a projectReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to contribute to agree to a project brief
- Understand how to contribute to a project
- Understand the purpose of contributing to the evaluation of a project
- Contribute to preparing and planning a project
- Contribute to running a project
- Contribute to evaluating the outcomes of a project
Deliver a presentationReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of preparing for and evaluating a presentation
- Understand the techniques used in enhancing a presentation
- Prepare for delivery of a presentation
- Deliver a presentation
- Evaluate a presentation
Deliver, monitor and evaluate customer service to external customersReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of external customers
- Know the types of products and services relevant to external customers
- Understand how to deliver customer service that meets or exceeds external customer expectations
- Understand the purpose of quality standards and timescales for customer service to external customers
- Understand how to deal with customer service problems for external customers
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate external customer service and the benefits of this
- Build positive working relationships with external customers
- Deliver external customer se
Deliver, monitor and evaluate customer service to internal customersReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning of internal customer
- Know the types of products and services relevant to internal customers
- Understand how to deliver customer service that meets or exceeds internal customer expectations
- Understand the purpose of quality standards and timescales for delivering customer service
- Understand how to deal with internal customer service problems
- Understand how to monitor and evaluate internal customer service and the benefits of this
- Build positive working relationships with internal customers
- Deliver customer services to agreed quality standards a
Design Business Continuity Management proceduresReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors that will influence the development of Business Continuity Management (BCM) procedures
- Understand how to develop BCM procedures
- Understand how to consult on and agree BCM procedures
- Make proposals for BCM procedures
- Design BCM procedures
Design and develop an information systemReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of information systems in a business environment
- Understand how to design and develop an information system
- Design and develop an information system
Develop a presentationReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of preparing for and evaluating a presentation
- Develop a presentation
Develop working relationships with colleagues and stakeholdersReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
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.
Drafting Financial StatementsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Draft statutory financial statements for a limited company.
- Draft simple consolidated financial statements.
- Interpret financial statements using ratio analysis.
Ensure responsibility for actions to reduce risks to health and safetyReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the hazards and evaluate the risks in the workplace.
- Reduce the risks to health and safety in the workplace.
- Reduce risks to health and safety in the workplace.
Evaluate and improve own performance in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to evaluate and improve own performance
- Evaluate and improve own performance using feedback from others
- Use evaluation and feedback to develop and use a learning plan
Evaluate and solve business problemsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business problems, their causes and impact
- Understand techniques for solving business problems
- Understand organisational and regulatory factors that influence solutions to business problems
- Understand how to evaluate approaches to solving business problems
- Recognise and analyse business problems
- Plan and carry out own solution to business problems
- Evaluate own solution to a business problem
Evaluate the organisation of business travel or accommodationReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and processes of evaluating business travel or accommodation arrangements
- Evaluate business travel or accommodation arrangements
Gather information for a Business Impact AnalysisReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to gather information for a Business Impact Analysis
- Gather information for a Business Impact Analysis
Implement, monitor and maintain administrative servicesReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to implement administrative services
- Understand how to monitor administrative services
- Understand how to maintain administrative services
- Implement administrative services for an organisation
- Monitor administrative services
- Maintain administrative services
Implement, monitor and review changeReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and benefits of implementing change
- Understand the role of the team and individuals in implementing change
- Understand the implications of implementing change
- Understand the purpose and benefits of communication when implementing change
- Understand the purpose and benefits of negotiation and dealing with problems when implementing change
- Monitor and review change and understand the purpose and benefits of doing so
- Implement change for a team
- Monitor and review change
Invite tenders and select contractorsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand tendering procedures
- Understand how to evaluate tenders
- Understand principles for negotiating a contract
- Follow procedures for handling tenders
- Identify and select contractor(s)
- Negotiate and agree a contract
Make decisions in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and process of decision-making
- Understand how to prepare to make decisions
- Understand how to make decisions
- Understand how to assess decisions and their effects
- Prepare background information to make decisions
- Make decisions
- Assess contributions to decision-making
Manage a projectReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and purpose of projects
- Understand how to prepare and plan a project
- Understand how to run a project
- Understand purpose and benefits of evaluating a project and ways of evaluating projects
- Manage the preparation and planning of a project
- Manage a project
- Evaluate the outcomes of a project
Manage an office facilityReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to provide, maintain and manage an office facility that meets the expectations of its users
- Understand how to deal with problems when managing office facilities and equipment
- Understand the purpose of health, safety, access and security requirements in an office
- Manage an office facility
Manage and be accountable for own performance in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to work effectively and be accountable for own work
- Understand how to behave in a way that supports effective working
- Plan, negotiate and be accountable for own work
- Behave in a way that supports effective working
Manage and evaluate an information systemReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage an information system
- Understand how to review and further develop an information system
- Manage an information system
- Evaluate an information system
Manage budgetsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of budgets
- Understand how to manage budgets
- Understand how to report performance against budgets
- Manage budgets
- Monitor budgets
Manage physical resourcesReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
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 the environmental impact of work activitiesReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
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.
Monitor and evaluate contractsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand monitoring procedures
- Understand how to evaluate contractor(s) performance
- Monitor the performance of contractors
- Evaluate the performance of contractor(s)
Monitor and review business processesReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
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.
Monitor and solve customer service problemsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Solve immediate customer service problems
- Identify repeated customer service problems and options for solving them
- Take action to avoid the repetition of customer service problems
- Understand how to monitor and solve customer service problems
Monitor information systemsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to monitor an information system
- Understand how to review and further develop an information system
- Monitor an information system
Negotiate in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to prepare for negotiations
- Understand how to conduct negotiations
- Understand how to complete negotiations
- Prepare for negotiation
- Conduct negotiations
- Complete negotiations
Operating credit control proceduresReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Identify non payment
- Take appropriate action with non payment
- Comply with all codes, laws and regulatory requirements
Order products and servicesReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify, select and negotiate the supply of products and services
- Understand organisational requirements and policies for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Understand how to monitor, evaluate and improve procedures for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Follow organisational procedures for the ordering and supply of products and services
- Maintain relationships with suppliers of products and services and deal with problems
- Monitor, evaluate and make recommendations to improve the ordering and supply of produc
Organise business travel or accommodationReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of information, requirements and procedures that may be needed for all types of business travel or accommodation arrangements
- Understand the types of problems that may occur with business travel or accommodation arrangements and how to deal with them
- Organise different types of business travel or accommodation arrangements
Plan and organise meetingsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the arrangements and actions required for planning and organising meetings
- Prepare for a meeting
- Support running a meeting
- How to follow up a meeting
Plan change across teamsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and benefits of planning change across teams
- Understand the role of teams and individuals in planning change across teams
- Understand the purpose and benefits of communication when planning change across teams
- Understand the purpose and benefits of negotiation and dealing with problems when planning change across teams
- Identify and develop opportunities for change across teams
- Plan for change across teams
Plan change for a teamReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and value of planning change
- Understand the role of the team and individuals in planning change
- Understand the purpose and value of communication when planning change
- Understand the purpose and value of negotiation and dealing with problems when planning change
- Identify and develop opportunities for change for a team
- Plan change for a team
Plan, allocate and monitor work in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
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.
Plan, organise and control customer service operationsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Plan customer service operations
- Supervise customer service operations
- Deal with problems relating to customer service operations
- Understand how to plan, organise and control customer service operations
Prepare specifications for contractsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand work contracts
- Understand how to prepare for selection
- Prepare specifications for work
- Agree selection criteria
Prepare, co-ordinate and monitor operational plansReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors affecting the preparation, co-ordination and monitoring of operational plans
- Understand how to prepare operational plans
- Prepare operational plans
- Co-ordinate and monitor operational plans
Propose and design administrative servicesReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand factors affecting the design of administrative services
- Understand how to develop designs for administrative services
- Understand how to consult on designs for administrative services
- Understand how to support the agreement of designs for administrative services
- Propose administrative services
- Design administrative services from specifications
- Agree a design for administrative services
Provide leadership and direction for own area of responsibilityReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
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.
Raise awareness of Business Continuity Management within a teamReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and procedures of Business Continuity Management (BCM)
- Understand how to raise awareness of BCM within a team
- Raise awareness of BCM within a team
Recruit staff in own area of responsibilityReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
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.
Support Individuals With Specific Communication NeedsReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand specific communication needs and factors affecting them
- Contribute to establishing the nature of specific communication needs of individuals and ways to address them
- Interact with individuals using their preferred communication
- Promote communication between individuals and others
- Support the use of communication technology and aids
- Review an individual’s communication needs and the support provided to address them
Support learning and development within own area of responsibilityReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the learning needs of colleagues in own area of responsibility.
- Understand how to develop a learning environment in own area of responsibility.
- Support colleagues in learning and its application.
- Evaluate learning outcomes and future learning and development of colleagues.
Support sustainability in a business environmentReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of keeping waste to a minimum in a business environment, and the procedures to follow
- Understand procedures for disposal of hazardous materials
- Understand ways of supporting and maintaining sustainability in an organisation
- Support the minimisation waste in an organisation
- Support the maintenance of procedures for the disposal of hazardous waste in an organisation
- Support and maintain sustainability in an organisation
Support the design and development of an information systemReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of supporting the design and development of an information system
- Understand how to contribute to the design and development of an information system
- Contribute to the design and development of an information system
Support the purpose and values of an organisationReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the place of organisations within sectors
- Understand how to work in ways that support organisational purposes and values
- Understand the purpose and benefits of respecting, helping and supporting other people at work
- Understand how to maintain security and confidentiality at work and deal with concerns
- Support the purpose and values of an organisation
- Help, respect and support other people at work in an organisation
- Maintain security and confidentiality in an organisation
Use customer service as a competitive toolReal unit · Institute of Administrative Management
What you'll be able to do
- Organise customer service to gain a competitive advantage
- Deliver a competitive service
- Understand how to use customer service as a competitive tool
The honest bit
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 4 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.
Agree a budgetAnalyse and report dataAssess, manage and monitor risk in a business environmentAssist in the design of Business Continuity Management proceduresAssist with the development of an organisational Business Continuity Management strategyChair meetingsCommunicate in a business environmentContribute to innovation in a business environment
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
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IAM Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Business and Administration (QCF)
- Analyse and evaluate research data and provide information
- Carry out and maintain administrative services
- Communicate during an incident
- Conduct a Business Impact Analysis and Risk Assessment
- Contribute to the preparation of a contract for the procurement of goods, services or works
- Design IT Service Desk Solutions
- Draft financial statements
- Identify project benefits and disbenefits
Where this can lead
Head of Office Services
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Skills it covers
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Analyse and evaluate research data and provide informationCarry out and maintain administrative servicesCommunicate during an incidentConduct a Business Impact Analysis and Risk AssessmentContribute to the preparation of a contract for the procurement of goods, services or worksDesign IT Service Desk SolutionsDraft financial statementsIdentify project benefits and disbenefitsImplement, monitor and review changeInvite tenders and select contractorsManage the incident responseMonitor and evaluate the effectiveness of auditsMonitor performance of contractors within healthcareN/A (not specified)Plan change across teamsPrepare, co-ordinate and monitor operational plansSupport contractors to enable them to achieve objectivesWork with providers to monitor and review performance
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
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One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
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How the thinking builds
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for IAM Level 4 NVQ Diploma in Business and Administration (QCF)
58 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Institute of Administrative Management.
- Agree a budget
- Analyse and report data
- Assess, manage and monitor risk in a business environment
- Assist in the design of Business Continuity Management procedures
- Assist with the development of an organisational Business Continuity Management strategy
- Chair meetings
and 52 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.
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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.
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- 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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