ABE · RQF Level 6

ABE Level 6 Diploma in Strategic HR Management (QCF)

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

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits137
  • Guided learning168 hours
  • Units in this qualification10

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

This qualification in Strategic HR Management enables learners to explore international business planning, employee engagement and relations, marketing strategy, human resource strategy, and emerging technologies. It is relevant for individuals aiming to develop strategic HR capabilities.

These are the units ABE 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.

Business LawReal unit · ABE
You'll understand the English legal system and its application to business, including contract law and laws relating to agency, partnership, and companies. The unit covers legal principles, sources of law, and the formation of contracts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the English legal system, including its structure, sources of law, and key legal principles.
  • Understand contract law for business, including the formation, interpretation, and enforcement of contracts.
  • Understand the law relating to agency, partnership and company, including the legal rights and responsibilities of each type of business organisation.
Business strategyReal unit · ABE
This unit covers business and financial planning principles, business strategy development, and the relationship between organisational strategy, goals, and efficiency. You'll also explore leadership strategy alignment and regulatory requirements.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of business and financial planning within an organisation.
  • Understand the key elements of business strategy and its implementation.
  • Understand the relationship between organisational strategy, goals, and overall efficiency.
  • Understand the relationship between a leadership strategy and the broader business strategy of an organisation.
Emerging TechnologiesReal unit · ABE
You'll understand emerging technologies, their characteristics, and applications across sectors. The unit covers the impact on global business environments and the skills and planning required for successful technology adoption.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the fundamental nature and scope of emerging technologies in various sectors.
  • Understand the impact of emerging technologies on the global business environment, including opportunities and challenges.
  • Understand the skills and planning required by business organisations when adopting emerging technologies to ensure successful implementation.
Employee engagement and relationsReal unit · ABE
This unit explores employee relations, engagement, and conflict resolution within organisations. You'll understand communication, trade union roles, legislation, and factors influencing motivation and job satisfaction.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of effective employee relations within an organisation
  • Understand the factors that contribute to employee engagement
  • Understand the role of conflict and conflict resolution in fostering positive employee engagement and relations
Global Talent ManagementReal unit · ABE
This unit examines the corporate HR function's role in global talent management, including attracting, developing, and retaining talent. You'll explore current issues, such as diversity and inclusion, and the strategic importance of global talent management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of the corporate HR function in Global Talent Management, including its responsibilities and strategic importance.
  • Understand current issues surrounding Global Talent Management, such as diversity, inclusion, and cross-cultural considerations.
  • Understand how Global Talent Management links with company strategy, contributing to overall organisational success and competitive advantage.
Human Resource StrategyReal unit · ABE
This unit covers the development of human resource strategy aligned with organisational goals. You'll explore HR audits, organisation development, change management, and strategic considerations such as workforce demographics and skills gaps.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the process of developing a human resource (HR) strategy aligned with organisational goals
  • Understand the principles of organisation development and change management
  • Understand the importance of adopting a strategic approach to human resource management
International business planningReal unit · ABE
You'll examine PESTLE factors, cultural differences, and market entry strategies in international business. The unit also covers developing international business plans and managing associated risks for global operations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key considerations for international business operations
  • Understand how to develop a comprehensive international business plan
  • Understand the principles of managing risks associated with international business
Leadership and managementReal unit · ABE
You'll study leadership theories, styles, and the role of business ethics in decision-making. The unit also covers managerial processes to develop understanding of effective leadership and ethical considerations in business contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the nature of leadership and business ethics, including different leadership styles and ethical considerations in decision-making.
  • Understand managerial processes, including planning, organising, leading, and controlling resources to achieve organisational goals.
Marketing strategyReal unit · ABE
You'll study contemporary marketing issues, the strategic role of marketing, and ethical considerations. The unit covers the development of marketing strategies aligned with organisational objectives and globalisation impacts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand contemporary issues and trends impacting marketing practices
  • Understand the strategic role of marketing within an organisation's overall objectives
  • Understand the process of developing a comprehensive marketing strategy
Strategic change managementReal unit · ABE
This unit provides knowledge of strategic change management, including processes, frameworks, and strategies for implementing change. You'll analyse conflict resolution, stakeholder engagement, and communication during strategic change initiatives.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the management of strategic change, including the processes and frameworks involved in implementing change initiatives.
  • Understand strategies to effect strategic change in organisations, including communication, stakeholder engagement, and resistance management.
  • Understand the role of conflict and conflict resolution within strategic change, including identifying sources of conflict and implementing effective resolution strategies.

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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.

Business LawBusiness strategyEmerging TechnologiesEmployee engagement and relationsGlobal Talent ManagementHuman Resource StrategyInternational business planningLeadership and management

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

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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.
Business LawLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Learners will understand the English legal system and its application to business, including contract law and laws relating to agency, partnership, and companies. The unit covers legal principles, sources of law, and the formation of contracts.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for ABE Level 6 Diploma in Strategic HR Management (QCF)

10 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ABE.

  1. Business Law
  2. Business strategy
  3. Emerging Technologies
  4. Employee engagement and relations
  5. Global Talent Management
  6. Human Resource Strategy

and 4 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.

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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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