SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards · RQF Level 7
SFEDI Awards Level 7 Extended Diploma In Business Management (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits120
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards 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.
Finance for Strategic ManagersReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of financial information in business strategy
- Analyse published financial statements for strategic decision making purposes
- Understand how businesses assess and finance non-current assets, investments and working capital
- Understand different ownership structures and how they influence and measure financial performance
Global Business StrategyReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the international business environment
- Understand the impact of globalisation on business organisations
- Understand the importance and nature of Corporate Social Responsibility
Management, Control and Accountability for Financial ResourcesReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Critically evaluate the role of accounting in an organisation
- Critically assess the different ways in which an organisation can be funded
- Evaluate the methods used to report and assess financial performance
- Assess the role of management in the control of financial resources
- Examine the methods used in calculating costs
- Evaluate the use of accounting in organisational decision-making and budgeting
Managing People in OrganisationsReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Critically assess the role of Human Resource Management (HRM) and its link to organisational goals
- Critically evaluate the processes of recruitment and selection within an organisation
- Critically assess the need for flexibility of work
- Critically assess the management of employee performance and reward
- Critically assess the importance of managing employee well-being to an organisation
- Explain the characteristics of a successful team
- Analyse the challenges posed by ethics and diversity in people management
Principles of Financial Performance ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of financial resourcing on an organisation's performance
- Understand how to use appraisal methods to manage financial resources
- Assess the performance of organisations
- Understand how to use management accounting methodology to manage resources effectively
Principles of International Marketing ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the complexities and nuances of the international marketing environment, including cultural, economic, and political factors.
- Understand the systematic process of developing and implementing international marketing plans.
- Understand the specific international requirements and adaptations needed for each element of the marketing mix (product, price, place, promotion).
- Apply relevant analytical frameworks and models to identify and evaluate international marketing opportunities.
- Understand the key considerations in the effective management of international marketing operations, including logistics, distribution, and communication.
Principles of Strategic Marketing ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the essential content and structured process involved in effective marketing planning.
- Understand contemporary approaches to marketing and strategic planning within organisations.
- Understand the range of internal and external marketing and management planning tools and techniques available.
- Understand the various decision-making processes that occur within an organisation, particularly in relation to marketing strategy.
- Understand how to effectively utilise external marketing data and insights to formulate robust and informed marketing plans.
- Clearly and effectively communicate decision-making processes and rationale to key stakeholders within the organisation.
Principles of Value Added MarketingReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how market value is perceived from the perspectives of different stakeholders, including customers, businesses, and society.
- Understand various definitions and interpretations of value-added marketing.
- Understand the key factors and drivers that contribute to successful value-added marketing strategies.
- Understand the significant impact of the modern digital age on the practice and importance of value-added marketing.
- Understand the critical importance of effectively managing customer relationships in the context of value-added marketing.
- Understand the role of marketing management in optimising the value chain to deliver enhanced customer value.
Research MethodsReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate relevant research philosophies and principles
- Select a research topic
- Develop the specification of a research project
- Write and research in a critical manner
- Understand the importance of research ethics
- Develop a research methodology
- Critically analyse different sources of data
Strategic Enterprise ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the success factors in the strategic management of enterprise development
- Understand governance and relationship management
- Effectively utilise the enterprise planning process
- Apply analytic techniques in development of the enterprise
Strategic ManagementReal unit · SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of strategic management within an organisation
- Critically analyse an organisation’s competitive environment
- Evaluate the resources, capabilities and core competences of an organisation
- Understand the impact of competition on the strategy of an organisation
- Understand the formulation and implementation of organisational strategy
- Understand the effect of business ethics and social responsibility on strategy
The honest bit
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 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
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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.
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 SFEDI Awards Level 7 Extended Diploma In Business Management (QCF)
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by SFEDI Enterprises Ltd. T/A SFEDI Awards.
- Finance for Strategic Managers
- Global Business Strategy
- Management, Control and Accountability for Financial Resources
- Managing People in Organisations
- Principles of Financial Performance Management
- Principles of International Marketing Management
and 5 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
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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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