Skillsfirst Awards Ltd · RQF Level 3
Skillsfirst Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Innovation (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits16
- Units in this qualification3
Awarded by Skillsfirst Awards Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The Skillsfirst Level 3 Certificate explores the principles of innovation, particularly within a business environment. It is designed for individuals in marketing and sales roles who wish to contribute to and encourage new ideas. Learners will develop skills in evaluating working practices and managing ideas.
These are the units Skillsfirst Awards 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.
Encourage new ideas and innovation amongst the work teamReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Manage the flow of ideas generated by team members, ensuring all ideas are captured, documented, and assessed fairly.
- Effectively manage the ideas of team members, providing constructive feedback and guidance to foster creativity and innovation.
- Manage the implementation of team members' innovative ideas, providing the necessary resources, support, and guidance to ensure successful execution.
- Manage the implementation of team members' innovative ideas, including planning, monitoring, and problem-solving to overcome challenges.
Innovation in a business environmentReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Evaluate current working practices within a business environment to identify areas for potential innovation and improvement.
- Evaluate the feasibility of a new idea, considering its potential benefits, risks, and resource requirements.
- Communicate innovative ideas effectively to decision makers, presenting a clear and compelling case for their adoption.
Principles of contributing to innovation and changeReal unit · Skillsfirst Awards Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose of innovation within a business environment, including its potential benefits and challenges.
- Understand how to contribute effectively to innovation initiatives within a business.
- Understand the reasons for change in a business environment, including market forces, technological advancements, and internal factors.
- Understand the implications of change for a business, including its impact on employees, processes, and profitability.
- Understand the process of change in a business environment, including planning, implementation, and evaluation.
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 3 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.
Where this can lead
Business Innovation Manager
Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many different routes to the top. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your strengths and ambitions, whether that's leading teams, becoming a deep subject matter expert, or moving into a different part of the business entirely.
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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
Learners will develop skills to manage ideas generated by team members, implementing systems to capture, assess, and fairly evaluate these ideas. The unit also covers managing the implementation of innovative ideas, including providing constructive feedback and necessary support.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Skillsfirst Level 3 Certificate in Principles of Innovation (QCF)
3 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Skillsfirst Awards Ltd.
- Encourage new ideas and innovation amongst the work team
- Innovation in a business environment
- Principles of contributing to innovation and change
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.