Agored Cymru · RQF Level 5
Agored Cymru Level 5 Extended Diploma in Leadership for Sustainability (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits89
- Guided learning260 hours
- Units in this qualification11
Awarded by Agored Cymru · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Agored Cymru 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.
Sustainable Business: Boosting Sustainable Profits Through Customer-Focused InnovationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for leading systematic innovation for competitiveness and business sustainability.
- Understand the role of innovation in business success.
- Know how change is linked to innovation.
- Lead development of customer-focused product and service innovations.
- Understand how to protect organisational reputation.
Sustainable Business: Carbon Reduction through Engaging Front Line PeopleReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Apply the principles of ‘Sustainable Carbon Reduction’.
- Understand the need to engage front line people to deliver ‘Sustainable Carbon Reduction’.
- Lead the engagement of front line people to deliver a change in daily routines for ‘Sustainable Carbon Reduction’.
- Demonstrate success through reporting to Programme Sponsors at senior company level.
Sustainable Business: Collaborative Working through Strategic Alliance and Sustainable Supply Chain PartneringReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for a systematic approach to developing alliances and creating supply chain partnerships.
- Demonstrate the need for shared ambitious goals and selecting the best team to achieve sustainable results.
- Develop a Performance Reporting structure based upon the principle of Policy Deployment.
- Deliver measured sustainable results.
- Create opportunities and develop a strategy to increase sales through value adding.
- Understand the principles of Leading and Managing a Strategic Alliance or Supply Chain Partnership.
Sustainable Business: Communication and Employee EmpowermentReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the need for effective four-way communication within an innovative organisation.
- Engage the workforce in contributing ideas on how to improve the business.
Sustainable Business: Cutting Waste – Sustainable Cost Reduction Through Internal ConsultancyReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of process mapping and waste tracking.
- Quantify the cost of waste and secure independent verification of results.
- Develop a prioritised action plan to eliminate or reduce waste.
- Change to deliver sustained financial and non-financial measured efficiency savings.
Sustainable Business: Employment Performance Metrics and Appraisals for Leading a Sustainable BusinessReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the link between business goals and employee performance metrics and appraisals to lead on delivering a sustainable business strategy.
- Understand the role that key performance indicators play in measuring and improving individual performance.
Sustainable Business: Incentive, Recognition and Reward for Business SustainabilityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how incentives are linked to ‘Key Performance Indicators’ as an important element in delivering sustainable performance improvement.
- Understand how an incentive, recognition and reward system could be improved within the company.
- Understand business problems can be used to improve performance.
Sustainable Business: Leading Business Goals and Deployment for SustainabilityReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Implement strategic thinking processes.
- Lead an organisation to develop a sustainable strategy that will help to assure the future profitability of the business.
- Understand the principles of effective policy deployment.
- Understand the business performance of an organisation.
Sustainable Business: Principles of Leading Sustainable ChangeReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to lead economic, social/health, environment sustainable change programmes.
- Apply strategic tools to both develop and deploy economic, social/health and environmental objectives to deliver cross boundary, inter-departmental goals.
- Understand the characteristics of Leadership & Management for a successful Sustainability Change Agent.
- Understand the critical success and failure factors relating to the principles of delivering sustainable change.
Sustainable Business: Promoting Sustainability Through Diversity & Equality for InnovationReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the critical importance of diversity and equality in improving competitiveness and organisational effectiveness.
- Know how creating a focus for diversity around a business goal provides context for action.
- Understand the need for active measures to promote innovative and diverse teams.
- Understand the need for promoting equality of opportunity and recruiting and managing diversity.
Sustainable Business: Succession Planning and Talent Management for Sustainability within Small and Medium-Sized EnterprisesReal unit · Agored Cymru
What you'll be able to do
- Know the key issues relating to succession planning and talent management.
- Develop a framework to identify critical skills, knowledge and experiences that are vital to the current and sustainable success of the business.
- Develop a prioritised action plan for the selection and personal and professional development of future business leaders, and senior management through talent management.
- Implement a Succession Strategy.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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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.
Where this can lead
Carbon Reduction Manager
Your journey as a Carbon Reduction Manager isn't just a job; it's a critical mission. The skills you'll develop, the impact you'll make, and the challenges you'll overcome will set you up for a truly impactful and rewarding career, whether you choose to lead teams, shape policy, or become the ultimate technical expert. We're excited to see where you take it.
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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 Agored Cymru Level 5 Extended Diploma in Leadership for Sustainability (QCF)
11 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Agored Cymru.
- Sustainable Business: Boosting Sustainable Profits Through Customer-Focused Innovation
- Sustainable Business: Carbon Reduction through Engaging Front Line People
- Sustainable Business: Collaborative Working through Strategic Alliance and Sustainable Supply Chain Partnering
- Sustainable Business: Communication and Employee Empowerment
- Sustainable Business: Cutting Waste – Sustainable Cost Reduction Through Internal Consultancy
- Sustainable Business: Employment Performance Metrics and Appraisals for Leading a Sustainable Business
and 5 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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