CYMCA · RQF Level 3
YMCA Level 3 Diploma in Enterprising Skills in a Business Environment (QCF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits59
- Units in this qualification8
Awarded by CYMCA · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units CYMCA 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 Organisation, Behaviour and CommunicationReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the structure and function of an organisation
- Agree work activities with others
- Behave appropriately in the workplace
- Communicate effectively in the workplace
Developing the Innovative IntrapreneurReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how intrapreneurs are innovative
- Demonstrate personal creativity through the use of different methods
- Propose solutions to business problems
- Develop own enterprising skills and attributes
Developing the Mindset and Skills Required for EnterpriseReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the mindset and skills required to be a successful entrepreneur
- Understand the mindset and skills required to be a successful intrapreneur
- Understand how enterprising skills contribute to business success
Leadership and TeamworkReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of teams
- Understand leadership attributes and skills
- Contribute effectively as a team member and leader
- Assess effectiveness of team performance
Planning and Pitching a New Business OpportunityReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a business idea
- Develop a marketing and sales plan
- Know techniques for planning resources for a business plan
- Use financial techniques for planning a business opportunity
- Develop a structured business plan
- Present a pitch for approval of a business idea
Project ManagementReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of project management, including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closure.
- Produce a comprehensive project plan that clearly defines the project's aims, outcomes, scope, timeline, resources, and risk management strategies.
- Implement the project plan effectively, managing resources, coordinating tasks, and addressing any challenges that may arise.
- Evaluate the success of the project against the original plan, assessing whether the specified aims and outcomes were achieved and identifying lessons learned for future projects.
The Business EnvironmentReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Know about current socio-economic trends
- Understand how the current business environment may impact on business opportunities
- Understand the stages of business development
- Make business decisions using knowledge of the current business environment
Using Enterprise Skills in the WorkplaceReal unit · CYMCA
What you'll be able to do
- Use negotiation skills
- Network to support role in business
- Innovate in the workplace
- Carry out research to inform decision-making
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 3 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
Assessor
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.
Where this can lead
Associate International Intrapreneurship Coordinator
Your journey starts here, but where it goes is really up to you. We're committed to providing the opportunities and support for you to build a truly impactful career, whether that's becoming a deep specialist or a future leader in innovation.
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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 YMCA Level 3 Diploma in Enterprising Skills in a Business Environment (QCF)
8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by CYMCA.
- Business Organisation, Behaviour and Communication
- Developing the Innovative Intrapreneur
- Developing the Mindset and Skills Required for Enterprise
- Leadership and Teamwork
- Planning and Pitching a New Business Opportunity
- Project Management
and 2 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.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.