ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 6

ATHE Level 6 Extended 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 credits360
  • Guided learning1,799 hours
  • Units in this qualification24

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.

Administrative SystemsReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how a framework of integrated systems affects the administrative performance of organisations
  • Understand the role and function of policies and procedures in meeting customer requirements
Advanced Finance for Business ManagersReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to assess the future cash flow position of a business
  • Understand the impact of cash flow forecasts on decision making
  • Understand how costing techniques contribute to decision making
  • Understand the financial implications of capital investment decisions
  • Assess the financial performance and stability of a business
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
Business ResearchReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand research methods and approaches relevant to business research
  • Recognise valid areas for research and develop research questions
  • Carry out research relevant to research questions
  • Evaluate research outcomes
  • Present research and conclusions
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
Finance for Administrative ManagersReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the relationship between cost accounting and management accounting
  • Understand how budgets and budgetary techniques can be used to plan and control finance
  • Understand the structure and purpose of company accounts
Fundamentals of Administrative ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of administrative management
  • Understand administrative systems
  • Understand the role of communication in organisations
Human Resource ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll gain an understanding of human resource management (HRM) within organisations, including strategic HRM and human resource planning. They will explore recruitment, selection, development, performance management, and employee relations processes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the context and role of human resource management (HRM) within organisations.
  • Understand the nature of strategic HRM and its alignment with overall business strategy.
  • Understand the role of human resource planning (HRP) in organisations and its contribution to workforce management.
  • Understand the process of recruitment and selection, including attracting, assessing, and hiring suitable candidates.
  • Understand the context of human resource development (HRD) and its importance in employee training and development.
  • Understand the role of performance management and reward systems in motivating and retaining employees.
  • Understand the context of the relationship between the employee and the organisation, including employment law and employee relations.
Information for Strategic Decision MakingReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of information systems in strategic decision making
  • Understand how information systems support the business
  • Understand the rationale for quantitative approaches and techniques in decision-making
  • Understand how the systems approach is used to solve problems and make decisions
Knowledge Management StrategyReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of knowledge management in the organisation
  • Understand the practice of knowledge management in an organisation
  • Understand the impact of knowledge management on business strategy
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
Leadership, Motivation and Group DynamicsReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of groups and teams in organisations
  • Understand how groups and teams support organisational performance
  • Understand the role of motivation in organisations
  • Understand the function of leadership in organisations
  • Understand the role of employee engagement in organisations
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 Business FacilitiesReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of facilities management and managers in businesses
  • Plan and manage organisational accommodation
  • Understand how considerations and legislation related to health and the environment influence facilities management
  • Understand the relationship between business ethics and facilities management
Managing Information and KnowledgeReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the need to manage information and knowledge within organisations
  • Understand the role of ICT in managing information and knowledge
  • Understand the links between knowledge management strategy and competitive advantage
Managing OperationsReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the activities that make up operations management
  • Understand the relationship between operations and performance
  • Understand the importance of administration in operations management
  • Understand the relationship between operations management and business functions
Managing QualityReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the activities that make up quality management
  • Understand how quality management supports performance in organisations
  • Understand the role administration plays in managing quality
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.
Operations ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of operations management within organisations
  • Understand the role of operations management and the importance of meeting operational performance targets
  • Understand how and why organisations use performance evaluation
  • Understand the impact of a range of quality improvement techniques on competitive advantage
Organisational Analysis and ChangeReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the evolution of and changing perspectives on organisation and management theory
  • Understand the impact of a dynamic external environment on organisational structures and processes
  • Understand the relationship between structure, culture and the strategic objectives of organisations
  • Understand models for planning and implementing organisational change
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 Context of Corporate GovernanceReal unit · ATHE Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the context and theory of corporate governance
  • Understand the UK model of corporate governance and the role of Codes of Practice
  • Understand the role of the board of directors and how it is structured
  • Understand the role of stakeholders, shareholders and institutional investors
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.

Administrative SystemsAdvanced Finance for Business ManagersAdvanced Finance for Decision MakersBusiness ResearchCustomer Focus for Strategic AdvantageFinance for Administrative ManagersFundamentals of Administrative ManagementHuman Resource Management

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

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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 system

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.
Administrative SystemsLevel 6
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Built for ATHE Level 6 Extended Diploma in Business and Administrative Management

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

  1. Administrative Systems
  2. Advanced Finance for Business Managers
  3. Advanced Finance for Decision Makers
  4. Business Research
  5. Customer Focus for Strategic Advantage
  6. Finance for Administrative Managers

and 18 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.

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