Pearson Education Ltd · RQF Level 7
Pearson Edexcel Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits45
- Guided learning223 hours
- Units in this qualification14
Awarded by Pearson Education 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 Pearson Education 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.
Develop a business strategyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a business strategy
- Evaluate an organisation’s operating environment
- Develop a strategic vision
- Develop a business strategy
Develop a strategic business planReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a strategic business plan
- Prepare for business strategy implementation
- Develop plans to deliver the business strategy
Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisationsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective collabouration with other organisations
- Identify external collabourative relationships to be developed
- Collabourate with other organisations
Establish organisational governance controlsReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of compliance and non-compliance with governance requirements
- Understand the legal and regulatory framework affecting businesses
- Establish governance controls
Execute a strategic business planReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the execution of a strategic business plan
- Implement a strategic business plan
- Evaluate a strategic business plan
Lead the development of a continuous improvement strategyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a continuous improvement strategy
- Develop a continuous improvement strategy
- Manage continuous improvement
Lead the development of a knowledge management strategyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning knowledge management
- Develop a knowledge management strategy
- Manage knowledge
- Promote knowledge management
Lead the development of a quality strategyReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a quality strategy
- Develop a quality strategy
- Manage quality
Manage product and/or service developmentReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the development of new or improved products and/or services
- Establish the need for new or improved products and/or services
- Manage the development of new or improved products and/or services
Manage strategic human resourcesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes of strategic workforce planning, including forecasting future skills needs and identifying talent gaps.
- Optimise retention strategies within an organisation, considering employee engagement, development opportunities, and reward systems.
- Manage human resources strategically, aligning HR practices with organisational goals and objectives.
Manage strategic marketing activitiesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the strategic management of marketing activities, including setting objectives, allocating resources, and measuring performance.
- Evaluate a market, including analysing market size, growth potential, and competitive landscape.
- Develop a marketing communications strategy and plan, considering target audiences, messaging, and channels.
- Manage strategic marketing activities, including implementing marketing plans, monitoring performance, and making adjustments as needed.
Obtain financial resourcesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods of raising finance
- Identify the need for financial resources
- Obtain financial resources
Provide strategic leadership and directionReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics underpinning strategic leadership and direction
- Provide leadership and direction to achieve organisational objectives
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the leadership and direction of an organisation
Shape organisational culture and valuesReal unit · Pearson Education Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand organisational culture and values
- Influence organisational culture and values
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 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
The Evidence Evaluator
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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.
- Comply with statutory and Governance best practice requirements
- Develop new products or services
- Establish and maintain transparent and formal structures and policies in relation to risk and internal controls
- Oversee the effectiveness of management’s internal controls and mitigation processes and monitor organisational compliance
Where this can lead
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Your journey with us as a Lead Knowledge Strategist is just one step. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's into senior leadership, a deep technical specialism, or even exploring new avenues. The key is your curiosity and drive to keep learning and making an impact.
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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 Pearson Edexcel Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
14 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Pearson Education Ltd.
- Develop a business strategy
- Develop a strategic business plan
- Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Establish organisational governance controls
- Execute a strategic business plan
- Lead the development of a continuous improvement strategy
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.