Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd · RQF Level 7
FAQ 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 qualification18
Awarded by Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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.
Design business processesReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand techniques and tools that support the design of business processes
- Develop business processes
- Evaluate the effectiveness of business processes
Develop a business strategyReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 business risk management processesReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand business risk management models and techniques
- Develop business risk management processes
- Evaluate the effectiveness of business risk management processes
Establish organisational governance controlsReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand strategic workforce planning, including forecasting future workforce needs and developing strategies to meet those needs.
- Optimise retention in an organisation, implementing strategies to improve employee satisfaction and reduce turnover.
- Manage human resources strategically, aligning HR practices with organisational goals and objectives.
Manage strategic marketing activitiesReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the strategic management of marketing activities, including planning, implementation, and evaluation.
- Evaluate a market, analysing market trends, competitor activities, and customer needs.
- Develop a marketing communications strategy and plan, outlining objectives, target audiences, and communication channels.
- Manage strategic marketing activities effectively, allocating resources, monitoring performance, and making adjustments as needed.
Obtain financial resourcesReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods of raising finance
- Identify the need for financial resources
- Obtain financial resources
Optimise the use of technologyReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the optimisation of technology
- Scope the use of technology
- Optimise the use of technological solutions
- Manage the use of technology
Promote equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusionReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning equality, diversity and inclusion in the workforce
- Evaluate organisational strategies, policies and practices which address equality, diversity and inclusion requirements
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion policies and practices
Provide strategic leadership and directionReal unit · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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 · Future (Awards and Qualifications) 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
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.
- Comply with statutory and Governance best practice requirements
- Design and Test Operational Delivery Business Process
- Develop an investment strategy to meet agreed investment objectives
- Develop an organisational strategy in a food and drink business
- Develop and manage a strategy for your photo imaging business or practice
- Develop new products or services
- Developing a Strategic Business Plan for Your Organisation
- Establish Strategic Direction in Line with Political Priorities for the Public Sector
Where this can lead
Lead Knowledge Strategist
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 FAQ Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Future (Awards and Qualifications) Ltd.
- Design business processes
- Develop a business strategy
- Develop a strategic business plan
- Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Establish business risk management processes
- Establish organisational governance controls
and 12 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.