Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd · RQF Level 6

BAA Level 6 Extended Diploma in Business Management

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits125
  • Guided learning510 hours
  • Units in this qualification12

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 StrategyReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the external environment affective an organisation
  • Review existing business plans and strategies of an organisation
  • Develop strategic options for an organisation
  • Devise a strategy for an organisation
  • Examine factors affecting an organisation's strategy
  • Plan the implementation
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
Financial Decision Making for ManagersReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Analyse published financial statements for business decision-making purposes
  • Analyse sources of finance available for long and short term business needs
  • Analyse financial information for business decision making
International Busines 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
Management Research proposalReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Recognise valid areas for research and develop research questions
  • Carry out a litreature review
  • Carry out research relevant to research questions
  • Evaluate research and present results and conclusions
Managing Equality and DiversityReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of effectively managing equality and diversity
  • Understand the dynamics of leading and managing equality and diversity in the organisation
Project ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
It teaches you to analyse business objectives to identify feasible projects and design systems and plans for project initiation, management, and control. You'll learn to organise, monitor, evaluate, and close projects effectively, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and resource constraints.

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.
Strategic Human Resource ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
It teaches you to understand the role of human resource management in achieving organisational effectiveness and strategic goals. You'll explore the development and implementation of HR strategies, appraise various HR approaches, and consider contemporary issues affecting strategic HRM.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role and importance of HRM in achieving organisational effectiveness and contributing to strategic goals
  • Understand the processes involved in the formulation and implementation of effective HR strategies aligned with organisational objectives
  • Appraise a range of HR strategies that could be implemented within an organisation, evaluating their suitability and potential impact
  • Understand contemporary issues and challenges affecting strategic HRM, such as globalisation, technological advancements, and changing workforce demographics
Strategic Marketing ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
You'll develop an understanding of strategic marketing management principles and their application in organisational success. This unit covers the use of tools and techniques to develop strategic marketing strategies and the ability to respond to changes in the marketing environment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamental principles of strategic marketing management and its importance in organisational success
  • Understand the various tools and techniques used to develop a robust and effective strategic marketing strategy
  • Use strategic marketing techniques to analyse markets, identify opportunities, and develop competitive advantages
  • Respond effectively to changes and challenges in the dynamic marketing environment, adapting strategies as needed
Strategic Quality ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of operations management in an organisation
  • Understand the importance of managing quality in an organisation
  • Plan a strategic quality change in an organisation
  • Implement a strategic quality change in an organisation
  • Evaluate the outcomes of a strategic quality change in an organisation
Strategic 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 Supply Chain Management and LogisticsReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the relationship between SCM and organisational business objectives
  • Use information technology to optimise supplier relationships in an organisation
  • Understand the role of information technology in SCM
  • Understand the role of logistics and procurement in SCM
  • Plan a strategy to improve an organisation’s supply chain

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

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Your passport

Every credit is a stamp you keep

Level 6 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.

Corporate StrategyEconomics for BusinessFinancial Decision Making for ManagersInternational Busines StrategyManagement Research proposalManaging Equality and DiversityProject ManagementStrategic Human Resource Management

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

Supply Chain Strategy Manager

Your journey here is about becoming a true leader in Operations. We're looking for someone who doesn't just manage, but transforms. Someone who can inspire a team, navigate complexity, and drive tangible, lasting impact on our business.

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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.

Develop a Supply Chain Strategy for the Organisation

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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Corporate StrategyLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for BAA Level 6 Extended Diploma in Business Management

12 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd.

  1. Corporate Strategy
  2. Economics for Business
  3. Financial Decision Making for Managers
  4. International Busines Strategy
  5. Management Research proposal
  6. Managing Equality and Diversity

and 6 more in the full unit list below.

These are the real units of this credential, in its own order. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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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