Pearson EDI · RQF Level 5
Pearson EDI Level 5 Certificate In Management and Leadership (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits20
- Guided learning260 hours
- Units in this qualification14
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.
Developing Successful Business TeamsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the features of successful business teams
- Support team development
- Monitor the performance of teams
Leadership in Your OrganisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Provide leadership for a part of an organisation
- Understand how organisational context affects leadership style
- Develop leadership skills to meet organisational needs
Management Decision MakingReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how information and knowledge informs management decision making
- Understand how Information and Communication Technology (ICT) supports management decision making
- Take management decisions
- Plan improvements to a management decision making system
Management of ChangeReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Identify issues requiring change
- Plan for change
- Implement the change process
Managing BudgetsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the function of financial planning and forecasting
- Understand break even analysis
- Compile budgets
- Interpret budgets to establish break even
Managing Communications at WorkReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of communications in an organisation
- Manage interpersonal communication skills
- Manage workplace communications
Managing Innovation in an OrganisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to manage innovation in an organisation
- Measure the level of innovation in a work group or organisation
- Understand how organisational climate can foster innovation
- Understand the methods that unlock innovation
Managing ProjectsReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of project management
- Plan a project
- Manage the implementation of a project
- Present project outcomes to stakeholders
Managing Staff PerformanceReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Set detailed work objectives for staff
- Evaluate work activities against organisational requirements
- Review work performance of staff
Personal DevelopmentReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Review time management skills
- Complete a skills audit
- Produce a personal development plan
- Implement a personal development plan
Principles of Management and LeadershipReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the link between management and leadership
- Understand the skills and styles of management and leadership
- Apply theory in an organisational context
- Plan for the development of leadership and management skills
Principles of Strategic ManagementReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational strategic plans
- Understand the strategic effects of an organisational plan
- Develop a strategy to communicate organisational plans
- Evaluate the implications of an organisational plan for an operational area
Quality Management in an OrganisationReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Understand the culture needed to embed TQM
- Understand the systems that support TQM
Recruitment and SelectionReal unit · Pearson EDI
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse personnel requirements for job vacancies
- Understand how employment legislation affects the recruitment of personnel
- Participate in recruitment and selection activities
- Propose improvements to recruitment and selection processes in an organisation
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 5 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.
- Change Management for IT Enabled Systems
- Deliver the benefits for the project
- Design and Implement Change Management Strategy and Programmes for IT Enabled Systems
- Manage Change Management Programmes for IT Enabled Systems
- Manage agreed project changes
- Manage team communications
Where this can lead
Budget Manager
Your journey here starts with mastering the numbers, but it quickly evolves into influencing decisions and shaping the financial future of the company. We're excited to see where you'll take it.
See the whole journey →Showing 6 roles, drawn from 89 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 5 Certificate In Management and Leadership (QCF)
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson EDI.
- Developing Successful Business Teams
- Leadership in Your Organisation
- Management Decision Making
- Management of Change
- Managing Budgets
- Managing Communications at Work
and 8 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.