Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd · RQF Level 6
BAA Level 6 Diploma In Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 6
- Total credits60
- Guided learning240 hours
- Units in this qualification13
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
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
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
Leadership and ManagementReal unit · Awarding Body for Vocational Achievement (AVA) Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of leadership and management
- Understand how to improve motivation and performance through the application of relevant leadership skills
- Understand the development and effectiveness of teams
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
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
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 ProjectReal 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 research relevant to research questions
- Evaluate research and present results and conclusions
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 external environment affecting an organisation
- Review existing business plans and strategies of an organisation
- Develop options for strategic planning for an organisation
- Construct a strategy plan for an organisation
- Examine factors affecting an organisational strategy plan
- Plan for the implementation of a strategy plan
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 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.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
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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.
- Determine a research and development topic worthy of investigation
- Develop a Strategy for Inspections or Reviews
- Engage internal audiences
- Establish Strategic Direction in Line with Political Priorities for the Public Sector
- Maintain Digital Service Quality
Where this can lead
Strategic Planning Manager
This role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad. You'll develop a unique blend of analytical rigour, leadership, and commercial savvy that will open doors across the business world. We're looking for someone who wants to make a lasting impact and isn't afraid to tackle the biggest challenges.
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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 6 Diploma In Management
13 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
- Financial Decision Making for Managers
- Human Resource Management
- Leadership and Management
- Managing Quality and Service Delivery
and 7 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
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
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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