Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development · RQF Level 5
CIPD Level 5 Certificate in Learning and Development
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits30
- Guided learning150 hours
- Units in this qualification12
Awarded by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 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.
Designing and Developing Digital and Blended Learning SolutionsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current digital technologies and their contribution to learning and development solutions.
- Design blended learning solutions that make appropriate use of new technologies alongside more traditional approaches.
- Know about the processes involved in designing and developing digital learning content efficiently and what makes for engaging and effective digital learning content.
- Understand the issues involved in the successful implementation of digital and blended learning solutions.
Developing Professional Practice in Learning and DevelopmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the knowledge, skills and behaviours required of a learning and development professional.
- Manage self and workload to deliver timely and effective learning and development services to meet client need.
- Work collabouratively with others, as a member of a team or working group.
- Apply continuing professional development techniques to devise, implement and review a personal development plan.
Developing and Delivering Learning and Development Solutions for International MarketsReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of learning and development in cross-cultural settings.
- Understand the range of factors that need to be considered when developing a global learning and development strategy and intervention.
- Design, deliver and evaluate a learning and development intervention suitable for international assignments in a timely, feasible and cost effective way.
Enhancing Participant Engagement in the Learning ProcessReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Use stakeholder analysis to inform their learning activities.
- Understand motivation theory as it relates to the learning process.
- Use neuroscience and psychology to enhance engagement throughout the learning process.
Evaluating Learning and Development in a Knowledge EconomyReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the meaning and purposes of evaluation within a learning and development context.
- Know about different theories, tools and techniques for evaluating learning and development activities.
- Know about the challenges for evaluating learning and development within a knowledge economy.
Facilitating Collective and Social LearningReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the constructs of collective and social learning.
- Know about different models of collective and social learning and their application within the workplace.
- Understand how technology has transformed the nature and shape of collective and social learning.
- Understand the benefits and challenges of facilitating collective and social learning in organisations.
Managing Learning and Development SuppliersReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procurement process within the context of learning and development.
- Procure learning and development suppliers.
- Manage learning and development suppliers.
Managing the Learning and Development Business FunctionReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the evolving nature, purpose and business improvement activities of the learning and development function in contemporary organisations.
- Understand different models for delivering the learning and development function.
- Manage different aspects of the learning and development function.
Understanding Organisation DevelopmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept and key purposes of organisation development and the relationship of organisation development with the learning and development function.
- Explain and evaluate a range of models of organisation development, including associated tools and techniques.
- Specify and describe the knowledge and skills in an organisation development role.
Understanding the Context of Learning and DevelopmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of organising and managing in a variety of contexts.
- Analyse the key factors influencing achievement of strategic objectives in varying organisation contexts and their impact on learning and development policy and practice.
- Understand how to develop learning and development policies and practice to respond to and exploit the limitations and opportunities arising from varying contextual factors.
Understanding the Role of Learning and Development in Talent DevelopmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the evolving meaning, nature and purpose of talent development in contemporary organisations.
- Explain different ways of organising and managing talent development in different contexts.
- Analyse the role of the learning and development function in developing talent.
Using Information, Metrics and Developing Business Cases for Learning and DevelopmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
What you'll be able to do
- Scrutinise appropriate learning and development data.
- Conduct small-scale research in an area of learning and development to support a business case.
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 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
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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.
- Design Learning for Digital Environments
- Engage in the strategic development of adult learning
- Evaluate the learner experience of enterprise and entrepreneurship education
- Influence and develop adult learning strategy
- Influence strategies that involve the learner
Where this can lead
Talent Development Manager
Your journey as a Talent Development Manager is a pivotal one. It's where you transition from managing programmes to truly leading a function and shaping the careers of many. The skills you hone here will set you up for significant leadership roles, whether you choose to stay in L&D, move into broader HR, or even pivot into other areas of business leadership. The opportunities are vast, and we're here to help you explore them.
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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 CIPD Level 5 Certificate in Learning and Development
12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
- Designing and Developing Digital and Blended Learning Solutions
- Developing Professional Practice in Learning and Development
- Developing and Delivering Learning and Development Solutions for International Markets
- Enhancing Participant Engagement in the Learning Process
- Evaluating Learning and Development in a Knowledge Economy
- Facilitating Collective and Social Learning
and 6 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
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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.
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