ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 6
ATHE Level 6 Extended 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 credits120
- Guided learning480 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by ATHE 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 ATHE 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.
AccountingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of financial accounting and reporting
- Apply the principles of financial accounting
- Apply management accounting principles and procedures
BrandingReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of branding and brand awareness for organisations
- Understand the principles of brand equity
- Understand the role of ‘secondary’ brand associations in building brand equity
Economics for BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the micro-economic business environment
- Understand the macro-economic environment in which businesses operate
- Understand the implications for business organisations of operating in the international economic environment
Factors determining Marketing StrategiesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various influences that impact the determination of a marketing strategy.
- Understand the role and application of marketing intelligence in strategic decision-making.
- Understand the importance of stakeholder engagement and its impact on organisational marketing strategies.
- Understand the nature of strategic marketing analysis techniques and the process of making strategic choices.
Financial Decision Making for ManagersReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse published financial statements to facilitate business decision-making
- Analyse sources of finance to meet business needs
- Analyse financial information to inform decision making
Human Resource ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how effective human resource management contributes to overall organisational effectiveness and performance.
- Understand the processes involved in formulating and implementing comprehensive human resource management plans.
- Understand the contemporary issues and challenges currently affecting human resource management practices in organisations.
Leadership and ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand strategic leadership and management in organisations
- Understand how to improve organisational performance through the application of relevant leadership and management skills
- Understand how leaders and managers utilise teams in improving organisational performance
Logistics and Supply Chain ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand theories of supply chain management and their contribution to achieving business objectives
- Understand the role of logistics in supply chain management
- Understand the role information technology plays in supply chain management
Management Information SystemsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of information systems in organisations
- Understand the relationships between information systems, organisational strategy and e-strategy
- Understand how information systems and information technology improve organisational performance
- Understand how to manage effective, secure information systems
Managing ChangeReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how models or frameworks of strategic change can support the change process in organisations
- Understand strategies to encourage the involvement of stakeholders in the management of change
- Develop a change strategy against business aims and objectives
Managing Finance in the Public SectorReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of accountability in public sector finance in a national context
- Understand how to manage financial resources in a public sector organisation
- Understand how to manage a public sector tender process
Managing Quality and Service DeliveryReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to identify and meet stakeholder needs when managing quality and service delivery
- Understand how to manage quality and service delivery
- Understand how to embed quality improvement and service delivery
Marketing communicationsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the principles of marketing communications
- Explain integrated marketing communications (IMC)
- Explain the use of digital media for marketing purposes
- Develop an integrated marketing communications plan
Personal Leadership and Management DevelopmentReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how personal leadership and management skills support the achievement of organisational objectives
- Manage development of own personal leadership and management skills to support achievement of personal and organisational objectives
- Reflect on the effectiveness of personal development plans in developing management and leadership skills
Project ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Analyse business objectives to identify potential projects, assess their feasibility, and determine appropriate methodologies.
- Design systems and develop comprehensive plans for initiating and effectively managing projects.
- Understand the processes involved in monitoring and controlling project progress to ensure successful completion.
- Understand the procedures for closing projects and reviewing their success against defined objectives and key performance indicators.
Research ProjectReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Consider appropriate research methodologies in preparation for conducting research
- Conduct research based on the research question or hypothesis and analyse the findings
- Present findings from research investigations
- Review own personal learning
Risk ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the effects of risks on business organisations
- Understand the risk management function in organisations
- Understand approaches to crisis management and business continuity planning
- Prepare an effective risk management plan
SalesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles of selling and the application of different selling methods.
- Understand the key principles and stages of the sales process, from lead generation to closing the deal.
- Understand the importance and application of sales technologies for improving organisational efficiency and effectiveness.
- Understand the financial dimensions of sales, including revenue generation, profitability, and cost management.
- Understand the different types of sales structures commonly found in organisations and their respective advantages and disadvantages.
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.
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.
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- Manage Brand Identity
- Manage brand and corporate reputation
- Raise awareness of risk management within an organisation
Where this can lead
Brand Manager
Your journey as a Brand Manager is just the beginning. The skills you hone here—strategic thinking, creative leadership, team development, and market insight—will open doors to a wide array of exciting and impactful roles within marketing and beyond. We're here to help you build that future.
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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 ATHE Level 6 Extended Diploma in Management
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Accounting
- Branding
- Economics for Business
- Factors determining Marketing Strategies
- Financial Decision Making for Managers
- Human Resource Management
and 12 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
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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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