How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

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  2. You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer City & Guilds Limited has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
  3. The centre assesses, and City & Guilds Limited awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from City & Guilds Limited.

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01What it is

Aimed at leaders and managers, this City & Guilds diploma develops skills and knowledge in areas such as communication, finance, and relationship building. The qualification is vocationally-related and relevant to the business management sector. Successful candidates will be able to apply these skills in a leadership role.

These are the units City & Guilds Limited 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. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with City & Guilds Limited. It does the teaching and the mapping. City & Guilds Limited sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Building Relationships - Knowledge Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll understand approaches to managing relationships with partners, customers, and stakeholders, including building trust, collabourative working techniques, and conflict management strategies.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand approaches to partner relationship management, including building trust, fostering collaboration, and managing expectations.
  • Understand approaches to customer relationship management, including providing excellent service, addressing concerns, and building loyalty.
  • Understand approaches to stakeholder relationship management, including identifying stakeholders, communicating effectively, and managing their interests.
  • Use collaborative working techniques to enhance teamwork, communication, and problem-solving.
  • Manage different levels of workplace conflict, including identifying causes, mediating disputes, and finding resolutions.
Building Relationships - Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit equips learners with skills to build trust with stakeholders through transparent communication. You'll develop negotiation, influencing, and conflict management skills to achieve positive outcomes and foster collabouration.

What you'll be able to do

  • Build trust with internal and external stakeholders through consistent and transparent communication
  • Use negotiation and influencing skills to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes
  • Manage conflict in the workplace constructively and fairly
  • Identify and share good practice to improve team and organisational performance
  • Work collaboratively with others to achieve shared goals and objectives
Communication - Knowledge Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of interpersonal skills and various communication forms, including verbal, non-verbal, written, and electronic. You'll understand how to apply communication techniques appropriately in professional contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand interpersonal skills, including active listening, empathy, and effective communication.
  • Understand different forms and techniques of communication, such as verbal, non-verbal, written, and electronic communication.
  • Understand how to apply different communication forms and techniques appropriately in various professional contexts, considering the audience, purpose, and message.
Communication - Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit develops learners' communication skills across professional contexts, focusing on adapting language and non-verbal techniques, chairing meetings, presenting information clearly, and practising active listening with cultural sensitivity.

What you'll be able to do

  • Communicate effectively in a variety of contexts, using appropriate language and communication styles
  • Chair a meeting effectively, managing the agenda, facilitating discussion, and ensuring that decisions are made
  • Present information clearly and concisely, using visual aids and engaging presentation techniques
  • Actively listen to others, demonstrating empathy and understanding
Finance - Knowledge Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with foundational knowledge of financial management, including setting and managing budgets aligned with organisational objectives, monitoring expenditure, and financial forecasting methods.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose of financial management within an organisation, including its role in achieving organisational objectives.
  • Set a budget that aligns with organisational goals and resource availability.
  • Manage a budget effectively, including monitoring expenditure and identifying variances.
  • Understand methods of financial forecasting, including their application and limitations.
Finance - Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to set and manage budgets aligned with organisational goals. They will monitor income and expenditure, evaluate budget management processes, and identify areas for improvement.

What you'll be able to do

  • Set a budget that aligns with organisational goals and resource availability
  • Manage a budget effectively, monitoring income and expenditure
  • Evaluate budget management processes and identify areas for improvement
Leading People - Knowledge Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll explore various leadership styles, team dynamics, and motivational strategies, alongside the impact of organisational culture and the importance of equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand different leadership styles and their impact on team performance
  • Understand how to lead different teams, considering their composition and objectives
  • Improve performance in the workplace through effective motivation and feedback
  • Understand the importance of organisational culture in shaping employee behaviour and performance
  • Understand equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace and their legal and ethical implications
Leading People - Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to communicate organisational vision and goals, improve individual performance through coaching and mentoring, support high-performing team development, and assist teams through change.

What you'll be able to do

  • Communicate organisational vision and goals effectively to team members.
  • Improve individuals' performance in the workplace through coaching, mentoring, and feedback.
  • Support the development of a High Performing Team by fostering collaboration, trust, and shared goals.
  • Support a team through change by providing clear communication, addressing concerns, and promoting adaptability.
Management of Self - Knowledge and Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge and skills in planning workload, prioritising tasks, applying time management techniques, and creating personal development plans to enhance efficiency and professional growth.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand different approaches to planning own workload, including prioritisation and time management techniques.
  • Understand time management techniques and tools, including their application and effectiveness.
  • Plan own personal development, including identifying learning needs and setting development goals.
  • Use time management and prioritisation techniques to manage own workload effectively.
  • Create a personal development plan that aligns with career aspirations and organisational needs.
Managing People - Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll learn to manage team performance effectively, including setting objectives, providing constructive feedback, addressing underperformance, recognising talent, and delegating work appropriately.

What you'll be able to do

  • Manage performance within a team, including setting objectives, providing feedback, and addressing underperformance.
  • Recognise and manage talent within a team, including identifying potential and providing development opportunities.
  • Effectively delegate work to team members, considering their skills, experience, and workload.
Managing People – Knowledge Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain knowledge of managing multiple and remote teams, developing high-performing teams, performance and talent management techniques, effective delegation, and recruitment processes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Manage multiple teams effectively, considering their diverse needs and priorities.
  • Manage remote teams, utilising appropriate communication and collaboration tools.
  • Develop high performing teams through effective leadership, motivation, and team building activities.
  • Understand performance management techniques and talent management models to optimise individual and team performance.
  • Delegate effectively, assigning tasks appropriately and providing necessary support and guidance.
  • Understand how to recruit people into an organisation, including attracting, selecting, and onboarding new employees.
Operational Management - Knowledge Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit provides learners with knowledge of operational management models, business development tools, continuous improvement methods, change management, management reporting, and the effective use of technology and data security.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand operational management approaches and models, including their strengths and weaknesses
  • Understand business development tools and approaches to continuous improvement, such as Lean and Six Sigma
  • Initiate and manage change effectively, minimising disruption and resistance
  • Understand the purpose of management reporting in providing insights and supporting decision-making
  • Understand effective technology use and data security in organisations, including relevant regulations and best practices
Operational Management - Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to create and deliver operational plans aligned with strategic goals, manage organisational change, demonstrate commercial awareness, and produce management reports through data analysis.

What you'll be able to do

  • Create and deliver operational plans that align with strategic objectives.
  • Support, manage, and communicate change effectively within an organisation.
  • Demonstrate commercial awareness in decision-making and operational activities.
  • Produce management reports based on the collation, analysis, and interpretation of data, presenting findings clearly and concisely.
Problem Solving and Decision Making - Knowledge and Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain comprehensive knowledge of problem-solving and decision-making techniques. They will critically analyse and evaluate data to identify problems, assess options, and make informed decisions in various contexts.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand problem solving and decision making techniques, including their application in different contexts
  • Critically analyse and evaluate data to solve problems and make informed decisions
Project Management - Knowledge Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll gain an understanding of project governance, including key stakeholders and organisational policies, as well as how to define, manage, and evaluate projects effectively through structured processes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the requirements of project governance within an organisational context.
  • Set up a project, including defining objectives, scope, and resources.
  • Manage a project, including planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling project activities.
  • Evaluate the success of a project against pre-defined criteria and key performance indicators.
Project Management - Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to develop practical skills in planning, managing, and evaluating projects, including task definition, resource allocation, risk management, progress monitoring, and effectiveness assessment.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan a project, including defining tasks, allocating resources, and setting timelines.
  • Manage a project, including monitoring progress, managing risks, and resolving issues.
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of a project in terms of achieving its objectives and delivering value.
Self-Awareness - Knowledge and Skills Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
This unit develops learners' self-awareness by exploring their impact on others, emotional intelligence, learning and behaviour styles, and reflective practices to improve working style and performance.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand own impact on others in terms of communication, behaviour, and leadership style.
  • Understand emotional intelligence and its role in building effective relationships and managing conflict.
  • Understand different learning and behaviour styles and how they influence individual and team performance.
  • Reflect on own working style, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement.
  • Reflect on own performance, evaluating achievements, challenges, and lessons learned.
  • Plan activities based on learning styles to enhance personal and professional development.
03The standards

The national standards these units are built against

What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.

  • Lead your organisation

    Standard
  • Manage operational information security management activities

    Standard
04Where it leads

The jobs these credits are mapped to

A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.

Showing 6 roles, drawn from 11 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.

Where this can lead

Operations Training Manager

This role can lead to senior leadership positions such as VP of Operations Enablement, Chief Learning Officer or Chief Operations Officer.

See the whole journey
05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by City & Guilds Limited rather than by Zavmo. 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 have covered and what is next.

What you would be collecting

Building Relationships - KnowledgeBuilding Relationships - SkillsCommunication - KnowledgeCommunication - SkillsFinance - KnowledgeFinance - SkillsLeading People - KnowledgeLeading People - Skills

Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.

How you’d practise it

You don’t watch this. You do it.

You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.

The Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Project Management - Knowledge” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
The same lesson on the real thing: the conversation in the middle, the thinking ladder on the left, and the criteria each answer is evidencing on the right.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Project Management - Knowledge” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Draft the real one Create

    You do “Finance - Knowledge” on a real document of your own. Zavmo works on the draft you have to send anyway, so the coursework and the job are the same piece of work.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Problem Solving and Decision Making - Knowledge and Skills” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Leading People - Knowledge” is practised on the team you actually have. You talk through the call you are about to make, and Zavmo makes you say it the way you would say it to them.

How you would learn this

One to one, on the work you already do

A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.

A lesson from Building Relationships - Knowledge, one of this qualification's own units.

Building Relationships - Knowledge Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Learners will understand approaches to managing relationships with partners, customers, and stakeholders, including building trust, collabourative working techniques, and conflict management strategies.

How the thinking builds
  1. 1 Remember
  2. 2 Understand
  3. 3 Apply
  4. 4 Analyse
  5. 5 Evaluate
  6. 6 Create
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Your Plan Illustration

Built for City & Guilds Level 5 Diploma for Leaders and Managers

17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by City & Guilds Limited.

  1. Building Relationships - Knowledge
  2. Building Relationships - Skills
  3. Communication - Knowledge
  4. Communication - Skills
  5. Finance - Knowledge
  6. Finance - Skills

and 11 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.

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