Learning Resource Network · RQF Level 5
LRN Level 5 Extended Diploma in Business and Enterprise
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits240
- Guided learning960 hours
- Units in this qualification21
Awarded by Learning Resource Network · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Learning Resource Network 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 CommunicationReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate understanding of the different types of business information and their purpose.
- Present business information effectively.
- Demonstrate understanding of the issues and constraints in relation to the use of business information and communication security in organisations.
- Communicate business information using appropriate methods and understand the impact of information.
Company LawReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of a company
- Draw up the constitution of a company
- Understand share capital and capital maintenance
- Understand about shareholders, directors, charges and insolvency
Contemporary Issues in MarketingReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of relationship marketing in a contemporary business context, explaining its principles, benefits, and strategies for building long-term customer loyalty.
- Understand the role of marketing in non-traditional contexts, such as non-profit organisations, public sector agencies, and social enterprises, and the adaptations required for effective marketing in these settings.
- Understand the importance of applying the extended marketing mix in the service sector, including the elements of people, process, and physical evidence, and their impact on service quality and customer satisfaction.
- Understand the reasons for the increasing emphasis on ethics and social responsibility in marketing, including consumer expectations, regulatory pressures, and the potential for reputational damage.
EntrepreneurshipReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Define and explain the terms: entrepreneurship, enterprise and owner-management
- Understand the nature of business development in the context of existing organisations and of new business start-ups
- Understand the concepts of innovation and creativity and the roles that both play in entrepreneurship and business development
European LawReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the EU institutions
- Understand the sources of EU law and issues of sovereignty
- Understand the sources of EU law and issues of sovereignty
- Understand the European provisions relating to the free movement of goods, services and establishment of businesses
Human Resource Management PrinciplesReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key differences between traditional personnel management and modern human resource management
- Understand the strategic role of human resource management in achieving organisational goals
- Understand how to effectively recruit employees, including developing job descriptions, advertising vacancies, and conducting interviews
- Understand how to reward employees in order to motivate and retain them, including designing compensation packages and implementing performance-related pay schemes
- Know the legal and procedural mechanisms for the cessation of employment, including redundancy, dismissal, and retirement
Human Resources DevelopmentReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the difference between personnel management and human resource management, outlining the key characteristics and strategic implications of each approach.
- Understand how to recruit employees, detailing the processes involved in attracting, selecting, and onboarding suitable candidates.
- Understand how to reward employees in order to motivate and retain them, explaining different reward systems and their impact on employee performance and satisfaction.
- Know the mechanisms for the cessation of employment, including resignation, retirement, redundancy, and dismissal, and the legal requirements associated with each.
Incoming and Domestic TourismReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a tourist product and its appeal
- Interpret visitor trends, visitor types and their motivations
- Understand ways in which incoming and domestic tourism is promoted and managed
- Understand the structure and role of public sector organisations in supporting incoming and domestic tourism
Leadership within OrganisationsReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the differences between leadership and management and their impacts on business success
- Understand leadership styles
- Understand how leaders create and maintain successful teams.
Managing Human Resources PracticeReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different perspectives of human resource management, including strategic HRM, employee relations, and talent management, and their impact on organisational performance.
- Understand ways of developing flexibility within the workplace, including flexible working arrangements, job sharing, and telecommuting, and their benefits for both employees and employers.
- Understand the impact of equal opportunities within the workplace, including legislation and best practices for promoting diversity and inclusion and preventing discrimination.
- Understand approaches to human resources practices in organisations, including recruitment, training, performance management, and compensation, and their alignment with organisational goals.
Marketing CommunicationsReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the concept of an integrated marketing communications strategy, detailing its key components and benefits for organisations.
- Explain the major theories relating to communication and communication processes and how these are used to underpin the development of real-world marketing communication campaigns.
- Analyse the relative strengths and weaknesses of individual marketing communication tools, such as advertising, sales promotion, public relations and publicity, and personal selling.
- Create an integrated marketing communications programme, incorporating a range of appropriate tools and techniques to achieve specific marketing objectives.
- Analyse other related issues affecting marketing communications, including the legal, ethical and cultural challenges and the implications of globalisation for marketing strategies.
Marketing PlanningReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Compile marketing audits, gathering and analysing relevant data to assess an organisation's current marketing performance and identify areas for improvement.
- Understand the main barriers to marketing planning, including internal and external factors that can hinder the development and implementation of effective marketing strategies.
- Formulate a marketing plan for a product or service, setting objectives, defining target markets, and outlining specific marketing activities and resource allocation.
- Understand ethical issues in marketing, including deceptive advertising, privacy concerns, and social responsibility, and their implications for marketing decision-making.
Marketing StrategyReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the core concept of marketing and its strategic role within a business organisation
- Understand how marketing contributes to achieving business objectives and creating competitive advantage
- Build a comprehensive marketing strategy, including setting marketing objectives, identifying target markets, and developing marketing plans
- Understand the concept and role of market segmentation and positioning in targeting specific customer groups and creating a unique brand identity
Operations ManagementReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature and importance of operations management
- Understand the link between operations management and strategic planning
- Understand how to organise a typical production process
- Apply relevant techniques to the production of an operational plan for an organisation
Passenger Transport OperationsReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the appeal, motivational factors and variables behind travel decisions
- Understand the management of passenger systems and nodes
- Understand the factors of competition between transport operators
- Understand the effects of developments and issues on transport operations
Planning a New Business VentureReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of business organisations
- Understand factors that determine market potential
- Develop a business case
- Pitch a business proposal
Project Management for BusinessReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand fundamental project management principles and their application in a business context
- Understand the different project management methodologies and their suitability for various projects
- Effectively manage a project's human resources, including recruitment, training, and performance management
- Apply established project processes and procedures to ensure projects are delivered on time and within budget
Research in BusinessReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Select a topic for research
- Conduct a data review and Analyse the findings
- Conduct a research project
- Analyse research findings
- Present the research outcomes
- Evaluate the research outcomes
Resort ManagementReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the function and structure of resort operations
- Understand the role and impact of quality systems and procedures
- Understand the management issues relating to incidents
Risk ManagementReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the risk management function in a start-up business
- Understand how business risk is assessed and managed and who is involved with risk management in a new business
- Understand the effects of business risks and how they can be managed
- Understand approaches to crisis management and business continuity planning in a developing business
Sustainable Tourism DevelopmentReal unit · Learning Resource Network
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the rationale for planning in the travel and tourism industry
- Understand different approaches to tourism planning and development
- Understand the need for planning for sustainable tourism
- Understand current issues related to tourism development planning
- Understand the sociocultural, environmental and economic impacts of tourism in developing countries and emerging destinations
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 5 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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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 brand strategy
- Research the background and experiences of your clients
Where this can lead
Marketing Planning Specialist
Your career path here isn't a rigid ladder; it's more like a climbing wall with many routes to the top. We're committed to helping you find the path that best suits your ambitions and strengths, whether that's leading people or becoming an unparalleled technical expert.
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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 LRN Level 5 Extended Diploma in Business and Enterprise
21 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Learning Resource Network.
- Business Communication
- Company Law
- Contemporary Issues in Marketing
- Entrepreneurship
- European Law
- Human Resource Management Principles
and 15 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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