Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd · RQF Level 7
BAA Level 7 Extended Diploma in Strategic Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits120
- Guided learning415 hours
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) 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.
Corporate Communication StrategiesReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of corporate communication
- Conduct an internal corporate communications audit
- Conduct an external corporate communications audit
- Plan the development of a corporate communication strategy
Economics for BusinessReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the micro-economic business environment
- Understand the macro-economic environment in the domestic context
- Understand the implications of operating in the international economic environment on business organisations
Finance for Strategic ManagersReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of financial information in business strategy
- Analyse published financial statements for strategic decision making purposes
- Understand how businesses assess and finance non-current assets, investments and working capital
- Understand different ownership structures and how they influence and measure financial performance
Global Business StrategyReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse the international business environment
- Understand the impact of globalisation on business organisations
- Understand the importance and nature of Corporate Social Responsibility
Human Resource ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role and importance of human resource management in achieving organisational effectiveness and success
- Understand the processes involved in the formulation and implementation of effective human resource strategies
- Assess a range of HR strategies that may be implemented within an organisation to achieve its objectives
- Understand contemporary issues and challenges affecting strategic human resource management in modern organisations
Manage Continuous Organisational ImprovementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to create a culture of continuous improvement
- Analyse opportunities for improvement to organisational activities
- Plan and lead change within an organisation
Managing Quality and Service DeliveryReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify and meet stakeholder needs in service delivery
- Understand how to manage quality of service delivery
- Understand how to promote continuous improvement of service delivery
Organisational BehaviourReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand effective leadership behaviour theory and practice
- Understand how organisational structures and culture impact on the effectiveness of the organisation
- Understand how the organisation can improve employee effectiveness to respond to business opportunities
- Understand organisational decision making
Personal Leadership and Management DevelopmentReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse personal leadership and management skills to support achievement of organisational objectives
- Manage development of personal leadership and management skills to support achievement of organisational objectives
- Evaluate the effectiveness of personal development plans to develop management and leadership skills
Programme LeadershipReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Plan and agree a programme of related projects that support the strategic plans of an organisation
- Lead a programme of related projects
- Evaluate a programme of related projects
Project ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse business objectives to identify feasible projects, considering factors such as resource availability, market demand, and potential return on investment.
- Design comprehensive systems and plans for initiating, managing, and controlling projects, incorporating risk management, quality assurance, and communication strategies.
- Organise and manage a project effectively, utilising appropriate project management methodologies, tools, and techniques to ensure successful delivery.
- Monitor and control the progress of projects, tracking key performance indicators, identifying deviations from the plan, and implementing corrective actions as necessary.
- Review, evaluate, and closeout a project, documenting lessons learned, assessing project outcomes against objectives, and ensuring proper handover of deliverables.
Research for Senior ManagersReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop an appropriate research question for a business research project
- Develop a research proposal
- Undertake a litreature review
- Use data and information collection and analysis techniques
- Present research with conclusions and make recommendations based on research carried out
Risk ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the risk management function in business
- Understand how business risk is assessed and managed
- Understand the effects of business risks and how they can be managed
- Understand approaches to crisis management and business continuity planning
Strategic MarketingReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core principles of strategic marketing and its application in different contexts
- Understand how to carry out a thorough and effective strategic marketing analysis, considering internal and external factors
- Analyse strategic marketing decisions and choices, evaluating their potential impact and effectiveness
- Understand how a range of marketing strategies can be implemented to contribute to sustainable competitive advantage for an organisation
Strategic PlanningReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature, scope and need for strategic management and planning in international profit and not-for-profit organisations
- Understand a range of classical and contemporary models, concepts and tools in business strategy and planning
- Understand the processes by which organisations identify and develop their goals and values
- Understand the impact of political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors on an organisation
- Understand the key forces that represent both opportunities and threats to organisations whether for profit or not for profit
Strategic resource managementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of human resource management in supporting business strategy.
- Develop human resources in organisations.
- Understand the role of physical resource management in supporting business strategy.
- Understand the role of marketing in supporting business strategy.
- Understand the role of information systems management in supporting business strategy.
Sustainable Business StrategyReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the global sustainability agenda
- Understand the concept of the sustainable business organisation
- Understand sustainable strategic planning
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 7 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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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.
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- Manage continuous improvement of overall performance of your organisation
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- Manage, monitor and report risk
Where this can lead
Strategic Finance Manager
Your career path here is really what you make of it. We'll provide the opportunities and support, but your drive and curiosity will ultimately shape where you go. The most important thing is to keep learning, keep challenging yourself, and keep making an impact.
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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 BAA Level 7 Extended Diploma in Strategic Management
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd.
- Corporate Communication Strategies
- Economics for Business
- Finance for Strategic Managers
- Global Business Strategy
- Human Resource Management
- Manage Continuous Organisational Improvement
and 11 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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