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- The centre assesses, and ProQual Awarding Body awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from ProQual Awarding Body.
This Level 7 NVQ Diploma is for individuals in strategic management and leadership roles. It allows candidates to demonstrate competence in areas such as strategic business planning, quality strategy development, and collaborative relationship management. Successful completion indicates the ability to provide strategic leadership within an organisation.
These are the units ProQual Awarding Body 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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with ProQual Awarding Body. It does the teaching and the mapping. ProQual Awarding Body sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Design business processes Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand techniques and tools that support the design of business processes, including process mapping and analysis
- Develop business processes that are efficient, effective, and aligned with organisational goals
- Evaluate the effectiveness of business processes in terms of performance, cost, and customer satisfaction
Develop a business strategy Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles that underpin the development of a successful business strategy.
- Evaluate an organisation’s operating environment, considering internal and external factors that may impact its strategic direction.
- Develop a clear and compelling strategic vision for an organisation, outlining its long-term goals and aspirations.
- Develop a comprehensive business strategy that aligns with the organisation's vision and objectives, taking into account the competitive landscape and available resources.
Develop a strategic business plan Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles underpinning the development of a robust strategic business plan
- Prepare the organisation for the successful implementation of the business strategy
- Develop detailed plans to effectively deliver the strategic business objectives
Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisations Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective collaboration with other organisations, including the benefits, challenges, and ethical considerations involved.
- Identify potential external collaborative relationships that align with organisational goals and objectives.
- Collaborate effectively with other organisations, demonstrating strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
Establish business risk management processes Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand various business risk management models and techniques, including risk identification, assessment, and mitigation strategies.
- Develop business risk management processes, incorporating relevant policies, procedures, and controls.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of business risk management processes, identifying areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions.
Establish organisational governance controls Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of compliance and non-compliance with governance requirements, including the potential consequences.
- Understand the legal and regulatory framework affecting businesses, including relevant legislation and industry standards.
- Establish organisational governance controls to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
- Implement and monitor governance controls to mitigate risks and ensure accountability.
Execute a strategic business plan Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles underpinning the successful execution of a strategic business plan
- Implement a strategic business plan effectively, ensuring alignment with organisational goals
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a strategic business plan and identify areas for improvement
Lead the development of a continuous improvement strategy Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles underpinning the development of a continuous improvement strategy within an organisation
- Develop a comprehensive continuous improvement strategy that aligns with organisational objectives
- Manage the implementation and ongoing monitoring of continuous improvement initiatives
Lead the development of a knowledge management strategy Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles underpinning effective knowledge management within an organisation.
- Develop a comprehensive knowledge management strategy that aligns with the organisation's strategic objectives.
- Manage knowledge effectively, ensuring its accessibility, accuracy, and relevance to users.
- Promote knowledge management throughout the organisation, fostering a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Lead the development of a quality strategy Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a quality strategy, including quality management frameworks and customer expectations.
- Develop a quality strategy that aligns with organisational goals and objectives, incorporating key performance indicators and targets.
- Manage quality, ensuring that quality standards are met and continuously improved.
Manage product and/or service development Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in the development of new or improved products and/or services
- Establish the need for new or improved products and/or services based on market analysis and customer feedback
- Manage the development of new or improved products and/or services, ensuring alignment with organisational goals and customer requirements
Manage strategic human resources Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and processes involved in strategic workforce planning, including forecasting future skills needs.
- Optimise employee retention within an organisation through the implementation of effective strategies and initiatives.
- Manage human resources strategically, aligning HR practices with the overall business strategy to achieve organisational goals.
Manage strategic marketing activities Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of strategic management in relation to marketing activities within an organisation
- Evaluate a market, identifying key trends, opportunities, and threats
- Develop a comprehensive marketing communications strategy and plan, aligned with organisational objectives
- Manage strategic marketing activities effectively, monitoring performance and making adjustments as necessary
Obtain financial resources Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various methods available for raising finance, including debt financing, equity financing, and grants.
- Identify and justify the need for financial resources within an organisation, based on its strategic objectives and operational requirements.
- Obtain financial resources through appropriate channels, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and organisational policies.
Optimise the use of technology Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles that underpin the optimisation of technology within an organisation
- Scope the potential use of technology to meet specific organisational needs and objectives
- Optimise the use of technological solutions to improve efficiency and effectiveness
- Manage the implementation and ongoing use of technology within the organisation
Promote equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusion Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles underpinning equality, diversity and inclusion in the workforce and their legal context
- Evaluate organisational strategies, policies and practices to ensure they effectively address equality, diversity and inclusion requirements
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion policies and practices within the organisation to foster a positive and inclusive work environment
Provide strategic leadership and direction Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key characteristics that underpin effective strategic leadership and direction within an organisation.
- Provide effective leadership and direction to teams and individuals to ensure the achievement of organisational objectives.
- Evaluate the overall effectiveness of the leadership and direction provided within an organisation, identifying areas for improvement.
Shape organisational culture and values Real unit · ProQual Awarding Body
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key components of organisational culture and values, and their impact on organisational performance.
- Understand different models and frameworks for analysing organisational culture.
- Influence organisational culture and values through leadership and communication.
- Implement strategies to promote desired cultural values within an organisation.
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.
- Standard
Build and Sustain Collaborative Relationships with Other Organisations
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Build and sustain collaborative relationships with other organisations
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Develop an organisational strategy in a food and drink business
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Develop and manage a strategy for your photo imaging business or practice
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Develop and sustain collaborative relationships with departments and other organisations
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Developing a Strategic Business Plan for Your Organisation
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Implement and evaluate strategic and operational business plans
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Implement and evaluate strategic and operational business plans
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Implement technology foresight processes
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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- 7 records
- 1 record
- 1 record
Showing 6 roles, drawn from 623 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Lead Knowledge Strategist
This work can lead to director-level roles in organisational learning, to a Chief Knowledge Officer position, or into leading a Learning and Development function.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 7 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by ProQual Awarding Body 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
Design business processesDevelop a business strategyDevelop a strategic business planDevelop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisationsEstablish business risk management processesEstablish organisational governance controlsExecute a strategic business planLead the development of a continuous improvement strategy
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 Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Pitch it Evaluate
“Manage strategic marketing activities” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Develop a strategic business plan” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Draft the real one Create
You do “Obtain financial resources” 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.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Lead the development of a quality strategy” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Build and Sustain Collaborative Relationships with Other Organisations
- Develop an organisational strategy in a food and drink business
- Develop and manage a strategy for your photo imaging business or practice
- Develop and sustain collaborative relationships with departments and other organisations
- Developing a Strategic Business Plan for Your Organisation
- Implement and evaluate strategic and operational business plans
- Implement technology foresight processes
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 Design business processes, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will explore techniques and tools for designing efficient business processes. The unit enables the development and evaluation of processes that align with organisational goals, focusing on performance, cost-efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for ProQual Level 7 NVQ Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ProQual Awarding Body.
- 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.
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