ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 6

ATHE Level 6 Diploma In Business and Administrative Management

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits120
  • Guided learning480 hours
  • Units in this qualification8

Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

These are the units ATHE 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.

Advanced Finance for Decision MakersReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of financial information and financial analysis in business risk assessment and decision making
  • Understand how financial statements and their structure provide a sound basis for business decision making
  • Understand sources of finance and how businesses finance fixed assets and working capital
  • Understand how different ownership structures influence financial performance
  • Understand how accountability for financial reporting and the integrity of reporting are influenced by ethical, governance and accounting standards
Customer Focus for Strategic AdvantageReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the strategic customer service aims of organisations and the customer service values
  • Understand how being a listening organisation contributes to the achievement of a customer service vision
  • Understand how customer service strategy and objectives contribute to the development of customer-driven processes
  • Understand the links between people development, empowerment and the implementation of customer service strategies
  • Understand communication, recognition and reward actions that contribute to customer service strategies
  • Understand continuous improvement processes and their impor
Leadership SkillsReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Use fundamental leadership skills
  • Develop the leader – follower relationship
  • Deal with a variety of leadership situations
Management Information Systems for BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of information systems in global business
  • Understand the relationships between information systems, business strategy and e-commerce
  • Understand how information technology impacts on business performance
  • Understand how key information systems improve business performance and enhance decision-making
  • Build and manage effective, secure information systems
Managing Risk in BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of risk management in business
  • Understand how to assess and manage risk
  • Understand the different types of risk
  • Understand the impact of the external environment on risk management
  • Understand the role of a manager with overall responsibility for risk management and risk management systems
  • Understand contingency planning and crisis management
  • Understand risk in relation to marketing
Marketing Management in BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
It teaches you to understand the strategic role of marketing in business. They will learn to build marketing strategies, apply market segmentation and positioning, and understand the marketing mix, differentiating between commercial and social marketing approaches.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept and strategic role of marketing within a business organisation.
  • Understand how to build a comprehensive marketing strategy to achieve business objectives.
  • Understand the concept and role of market segmentation and positioning in targeting specific customer groups.
  • Understand the principles and function of the marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion) and how they interact.
  • Understand the difference between marketing strategies and approaches in commercial, not-for-profit, and public sector organisations.
Strategic ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of strategic management
  • Conduct strategic analysis
  • Understand how to formulate organisational strategy to achieve competitive advantage
  • Understand the implementation of organisational strategy
  • Assess the role of administrative management in strategy formulation and implementation
The Dynamics of LeadershipReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of leadership
  • Understand the leadership process
  • Understand the role of power and influence in leadership
  • Understand the importance of values
  • Understand the impact personality on leadership
  • Understand the links between motivation, satisfaction and performance
  • Understand team or group leadership
  • Understand how situational factors influence leadership
  • Understand approaches to leading 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 6 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.

Advanced Finance for Decision MakersCustomer Focus for Strategic AdvantageLeadership SkillsManagement Information Systems for BusinessManaging Risk in BusinessMarketing Management in BusinessStrategic ManagementThe Dynamics of Leadership

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

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.

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ATHE Level 6 Diploma In Business and Administrative Management
  • Develop and maintain a marketing information system
  • Manage Risk
  • Report, treat and monitor risks
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

Where this can lead

Decision Support Analyst

Your journey as a Decision Support Analyst is about continuous growth. We're looking for someone who sees this role not just as a job, but as a stepping stone to becoming a true financial leader and strategic partner to the business. The opportunities here are as vast as your ambition.

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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 223 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.

Develop and maintain a marketing information systemManage RiskManage riskReport, treat and monitor risks

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.

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.
Advanced Finance for Decision MakersLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for ATHE Level 6 Diploma In Business and Administrative Management

8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.

  1. Advanced Finance for Decision Makers
  2. Customer Focus for Strategic Advantage
  3. Leadership Skills
  4. Management Information Systems for Business
  5. Managing Risk in Business
  6. Marketing Management in Business

and 2 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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, free

No 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.