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ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 6

ATHE Level 6 Diploma in Strategic Risk and Crisis Management

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

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits40
  • Guided learning40 hours
  • Units in this qualification8

Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

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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.

Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS)Real unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit provides learners with knowledge of the key components, roles, and responsibilities within an Incident Command Structure (ICS). You'll analyse critical issues in developing ICS for various incidents, emphasising communication and coordination.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the critical issues associated with the development and delivery of an effective Incident Command Structure (ICS).
Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectivesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
It teaches you to develop an original academic response in the form of a Policy White Paper, integrating practitioner experience with academic litreature. You'll evaluate strategic risks and analyse crisis management perspectives to synthesise a 'pracademic' approach.

What you'll be able to do

  • Develop a Policy White Paper that demonstrates a fully developed ‘pracademic’ approach to the subject and literature, combining practitioner experience with a sound understanding of the academic literature.
Managing the Crisis ResponseReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll understand theoretical and practical models of crisis management response. The unit involves analysing these models, evaluating their strengths and weaknesses, and developing an integrated framework applicable to diverse crisis situations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the ways in which theoretical and actual models of crisis management response work and can be developed into an integrated framework that has utility in a crisis management environment.
Mapping the FutureReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll understand emergent risks facing organisations and analyse these within a strategic framework. The unit supports the development of future strategy-setting and decision-making by evaluating the potential impact of such risks on organisational operations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the overall nature of emergent risks currently faced by organisations.
  • Analyse the emergent risks within a framework that supports future strategy-setting.
  • Apply the framework to support effective decision-making processes.
ResilienceReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll study different approaches to organisational resilience within a crisis management context. The unit covers various dimensions and strategies of resilience, enabling learners to evaluate their application in developing resilient organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the different approaches to resilience.
  • Analyse how different approaches to resilience can be utilised in developing resilient organisations.
  • Evaluate the application of resilience approaches within a crisis management context.
Sense-Making and Decision-Making in Crisis EnvironmentsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
You'll explore academic models of sense-making and decision-making relevant to crisis management. The unit covers key components of these models and their application in understanding complex crisis situations to support effective decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the main academic models of sense-making.
  • Understand the main academic models of decision-making.
  • Evaluate how sense-making models can be utilised in a crisis management context.
  • Evaluate how decision-making models can be utilised in a crisis management context.
Understanding Contemporary Strategic Risk and Crisis ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit provides learners with an understanding of the contemporary risk environment, highlighting key characteristics and trends shaping the 21st-century risk landscape. You'll evaluate the influence of globalisation, technology, and political instability on strategic risk and crisis management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the changing nature of the risk environment in the 21st century, specifically the 2020s.
  • Evaluate the key factors contributing to the evolving risk landscape.
  • Analyse the implications of the changing risk environment for strategic risk and crisis management.
Understanding the Crisis EnvironmentReal unit · ATHE Ltd
This unit examines a crisis management model that addresses the complexity of emergent risks and threats. You'll analyse how the model supports risk identification and the development of appropriate risk and crisis management frameworks and protocols.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand a model of crisis management that considers the complexity of the emergent risk and threat environment.
  • Analyse how the model supports the development of appropriate risk management frameworks.
  • Analyse how the model supports the development of appropriate crisis management protocols.
  • Analyse how the model supports the development of appropriate crisis management capabilities.

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 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.

Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS)Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectivesManaging the Crisis ResponseMapping the FutureResilienceSense-Making and Decision-Making in Crisis EnvironmentsUnderstanding Contemporary Strategic Risk and Crisis ManagementUnderstanding the Crisis Environment

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

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Where this connects

Where these credits take you

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Where this can lead

Resilience Manager

Your journey in resilience is about continuous learning and increasing impact. Whether you choose to lead larger teams, become an unparalleled expert, or transition into broader operational leadership, the foundational skills you build here will set you up for a truly impactful and rewarding career.

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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.
Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS)Level 6

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Resilience ManagerCrisis Management SpecialistSenior Resilience SpecialistCrisis Management Specialist ManagerLead Crisis Management SpecialistLead Resilience Strategist

This unit provides learners with knowledge of the key components, roles, and responsibilities within an Incident Command Structure (ICS). Learners will analyse critical issues in developing ICS for various incidents, emphasising communication and coordination.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.
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Built for ATHE Level 6 Diploma in Strategic Risk and Crisis Management

8 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.

  1. Creating the Incident Command Structure (ICS)
  2. Developing an original academic response on strategic risk and crisis management perspectives
  3. Managing the Crisis Response
  4. Mapping the Future
  5. Resilience
  6. Sense-Making and Decision-Making in Crisis Environments

and 2 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.

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.

  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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