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How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Highfield Qualifications has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and Highfield Qualifications awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Highfield Qualifications.

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01What it is

The Level 1 Certificate in Business Administration is vocationally related. Learners develop skills in meeting visitors, understanding health and safety, and producing business documents.

These are the units Highfield Qualifications 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Highfield Qualifications. It does the teaching and the mapping. Highfield Qualifications sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Communication in a business environment Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to understand and apply effective written and verbal communication in business. You'll produce clear written communications tailored to audiences and communicate verbally with confidence and professionalism.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the requirements of effective written and verbal business communication, including purpose, audience, and context
  • Produce written business communications that are clear, concise, and appropriate for the intended audience
  • Communicate verbally in business environments, demonstrating effective listening, speaking, and interpersonal skills
Deal with customer queries, requests and problems Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit covers the handling of customer queries, requests, and problems in a business environment. You'll understand organisational procedures and develop skills to respond professionally and effectively, maintaining a helpful attitude.

What you'll be able to do

  • Deal with customer queries, requests and problems in a business environment.
  • Deal with customers’ queries in a professional and timely manner.
  • Deal with customers’ requests efficiently and effectively.
  • Deal with customers’ problems, seeking assistance when necessary.
Employee rights and responsibilities Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll gain knowledge of employee rights and responsibilities within organisations and industries. The unit covers the role of trade unions, industry regulations, and employer expectations, fostering understanding of workplace conduct and legal frameworks.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of different organisations and industries in relation to employee rights and responsibilities
  • Understand employers’ expectations regarding employee conduct, performance, and adherence to company policies
  • Understand employees’ rights under employment law, including rights related to pay, working conditions, and discrimination
  • Understand employees’ obligations to their employer, including duties related to attendance, performance, and confidentiality
Handle mail Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll develop knowledge and skills to handle mail efficiently. The unit covers sorting and distributing incoming mail, preparing outgoing mail, and following procedures for confidential and sensitive correspondence.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the procedures for dealing with different types of mail
  • Sort and distribute incoming mail accurately and efficiently
  • Prepare outgoing mail for dispatch, including addressing and postage
Health and safety in a business environment Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit addresses the essential aspects of health and safety requirements in a workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand health and safety responsibilities in a business environment
  • Work in a safe way in a business environment
  • Comply with health and safety requirements in a business environment
Manage time and workload Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
It teaches you to manage their own time and workload effectively. You'll identify tasks, prioritise activities, plan work to meet deadlines, organise their work area, and monitor progress while seeking assistance when necessary.

What you'll be able to do

  • Identify tasks and activities within their own workload
  • Explain the importance of prioritising tasks
  • Describe methods for managing their own time effectively
  • Plan their own workload to meet deadlines
  • Organise their work area to maximise efficiency
  • Monitor their own progress against agreed targets
  • Seek assistance when required to manage time and workload
Meet and welcome visitors in a business environment Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to meet and welcome visitors in a business environment professionally. The unit covers reception protocols, security measures, the importance of first impressions, and effective communication to guide and assist visitors appropriately.

What you'll be able to do

  • Describe procedures for meeting and greeting visitors in a business environment
  • Explain the importance of first impressions when meeting visitors
  • Demonstrate appropriate communication skills when meeting visitors
  • Follow organisational procedures for visitor registration
  • Guide visitors to the appropriate location within the business environment
  • Provide assistance to visitors as required
Prepare text from notes Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll explore techniques and conventions for preparing text from notes. The unit develops the ability to produce accurate, clear, and coherent text from both personal and others' notes, ensuring effective written communication.

What you'll be able to do

  • Prepare text from notes using appropriate techniques and conventions
  • Produce text accurately and effectively from own or others’ notes, ensuring clarity and coherence
Principles of business administration Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
Covers essential foundations of effective business administration practices.

What you'll be able to do

  • Meet and welcome visitors in a business environment
  • Provide mail services
  • Use office equipment
Principles of business communication Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll understand the concepts and standards of business communication.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use a telephone and voicemail system in a business environment
  • Communicate with others in a business environment
  • Produce business documents
  • Store and retrieve information
Principles of personal performance and development Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
A unit focused on understanding personal effectiveness and development within the workplace context.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know employees’ rights and employers’ expectations
  • Manage their own work
  • Know ways of managing and improving personal performance and development
Principles of working in a business environment Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit introduces the learner to the conceptual underpinnings and practical implications of working in a business environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the purpose and structure of business organisations
  • Contribute to environmental sustainability within an organisation
  • Support equality and diversity within an organisation
  • Know the requirements of confidentiality and security in an organisation
Produce business documents Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll understand the preparation and formatting of various business documents. The unit develops skills to produce and distribute documents accurately using appropriate software, ensuring clarity and professionalism in business communication.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to prepare business documents, including formatting and content requirements
  • Prepare business documents accurately and efficiently, using appropriate software
  • Distribute business documents using appropriate methods, ensuring confidentiality and security
Store and retrieve information Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit provides learners with an understanding of information storage and retrieval methods and technologies. You'll be able to gather, store, and retrieve information accurately and securely following organisational procedures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of information storage and retrieval, including different methods and technologies
  • Gather and store information accurately and securely, following organisational procedures
  • Retrieve information efficiently and effectively, using appropriate search techniques and tools
Use a telephone and voicemail system Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll gain knowledge of telephone and voicemail system procedures and etiquette. The unit develops skills to make and receive calls professionally, manage voicemail messages, and handle call transfers and holds appropriately.

What you'll be able to do

  • Know the procedures for using a telephone system effectively
  • Know the features and functions of a voicemail system
  • Make telephone calls in a professional manner
  • Receive telephone calls and take accurate messages
  • Access and manage voicemail messages effectively
Use office equipment Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit equips learners with knowledge of common office equipment and safe operating procedures. You'll develop competence in using equipment efficiently to complete tasks while understanding the importance of maintenance and safety.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use a range of common office equipment safely and effectively
  • Use office equipment competently to complete tasks in a timely manner
Using Email Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to compose and send emails using appropriate software tools. The unit also covers effective management of incoming emails, including prioritisation, organisation, and use of email features to ensure professional communication.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use e-mail software tools and techniques to compose e-mail messages
  • Use e-mail software tools and techniques to send e-mail messages
  • Manage incoming email effectively by prioritising and organising messages
Word Processing Software Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
You'll learn to use word processing software effectively. The unit covers accurate text entry, editing, combining information, logical structuring, and formatting to produce well-presented professional documents.

What you'll be able to do

  • Enter, edit, and combine text and other information accurately within word processing documents, ensuring data integrity
  • Structure information logically within word processing documents using appropriate formatting and layout techniques
  • Use word processing software tools effectively to format and present documents to a professional standard
Work with others in a business environment Real unit · Highfield Qualifications
This unit focuses on interpersonal skills and teamwork within a business environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Work with others in a business environment
  • Work with others in a business environment
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03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Deal with customer queries, requests and problems

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04The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 1 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Highfield Qualifications rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Communication in a business environmentDeal with customer queries, requests and problemsEmployee rights and responsibilitiesHandle mailHealth and safety in a business environmentManage time and workloadMeet and welcome visitors in a business environmentPrepare text from notes

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Practical Builder The Practical Builder · your make-it-real tutor Illustration
The Practical Builder Paste in the draft you have for “Produce business documents”. Not a tidied one, the one you would actually send.
You It is mostly there. The recommendations section is thin.
The Practical Builder Thin is fine, vague is not. Take recommendation two and tell me who does what by when, then we will see if it survives.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Produce business documents” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Manage time and workload” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Communication in a business environment, one of this qualification's own units.

Communication in a business environment Level 1

Applied to your own work

This unit enables learners to understand and apply effective written and verbal communication in business. Learners will produce clear written communications tailored to audiences and communicate verbally with confidence and professionalism.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for Highfield Level 1 Certificate In Business Administration (RQF)

19 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.

  1. Communication in a business environment
  2. Deal with customer queries, requests and problems
  3. Employee rights and responsibilities
  4. Handle mail
  5. Health and safety in a business environment
  6. Manage time and workload

and 13 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.

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