Innovate Awarding · RQF Level 3
IAO Level 3 Diploma in Leadership and Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits37
- Guided learning150 hours
- Units in this qualification16
Awarded by Innovate Awarding · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The IAO Level 3 Diploma in Leadership and Management is an occupational qualification suited to individuals in management roles. Learners will develop skills in areas such as change leadership, team leadership, problem-solving, and data management.
These are the units Innovate Awarding 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.
An introduction to organisational governance and financeReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of organisational governance.
- Understand the requirement for ethical leadership and management in organisational governance.
- Understand the importance of gaining value for money through effective budget management.
- Apply techniques to manage a budget.
Change leadershipReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand change as a concept and as a process.
- Understand what drives organisational change.
- Apply techniques to identify drivers of change.
- Adopt approaches to deliver a change initiative.
Coaching and mentoringReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of a coach.
- Understand the role of a mentor.
- Apply coaching and mentoring techniques in context.
Data management and technology in organisationsReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the management of data in organisations.
- Understand typical technology used in organisations.
- Know the laws which influence the management of data and the use of technology in an organisation.
Effective communicationReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of communication.
- Use different methods of communication.
- Chair meetings effectively.
- Communicate with different stakeholders.
Implementing strategiesReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand key strategy concepts and models.
- Understand the strategy planning cycle.
- Apply knowledge of strategy concepts, models, and the planning cycle to implement a strategic plan.
Improving own performance as a leader and a managerReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of Continuing Professional Development to a manager.
- Know ways in which own competences can be improved.
- Manage own time.
Leadership and management fundamentalsReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of a leader.
- Know why organisations have managers.
Leading effective teamsReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of teams, including their purpose and structure
- Understand team dynamics, including the roles individuals play within a team
- Develop positive team dynamics through effective communication and collaboration
- Develop trust within a team by demonstrating integrity and reliability
Managing projectsReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the project life cycle, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling, and closure.
- Deliver a project successfully, meeting objectives within defined constraints of time, budget, and scope.
- Manage resources effectively and mitigate risks to ensure project success.
- Use project management tools and techniques to plan, track, and manage project activities.
Managing resourcesReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the resources available within an organisation, including human, financial, and physical resources
- Monitor the use of different resources to ensure efficiency and effectiveness
- Allocate resources to achieve a goal, considering priorities and constraints
- Monitor resource usage to identify areas for improvement and ensure resources are used effectively
Managing workplace performanceReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concept of performance management
- Know the performance management process
- Conduct performance management
Solving problems through effective decision makingReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the decision-making process, including identifying the problem, gathering information, and evaluating options
- Analyse data and information to support effective decision-making
- Understand problem solving techniques to identify and implement appropriate solutions
- Use decision-making skills to solve a problem effectively
- Communicate decisions to relevant stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
Stakeholder managementReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Know how stakeholders influence organisations, including their interests, expectations, and potential impact
- Understand the importance of ethical stakeholder management, including transparency and fairness
- Conduct a stakeholder analysis to identify key stakeholders and their needs
- Construct and implement a stakeholder management plan to effectively engage with stakeholders
The role of human resources in support of a managerReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the human resource (HR) function
- Understand relevant HR legal requirements
- Know how the HR function can support line managers
Working with othersReal unit · Innovate Awarding
What you'll be able to do
- Build positive working relationships with colleagues to foster a collaborative and supportive work environment.
- Manage workplace conflict constructively, resolving disagreements and promoting positive outcomes.
- Build effective relationships with stakeholders, understanding their needs and expectations.
- Apply appropriate techniques to develop positive working relationships, promoting teamwork and collaboration.
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.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
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.
- Identify and analyse project stakeholders
- Lead Change
- Lead the Data Management Capability, Strategy and Framework
Where this can lead
Lead, Stakeholder Intelligence
Your journey here is about becoming a pivotal strategic asset. Whether you choose to lead teams or become the deepest technical expert, the insights you provide will shape our future and protect our present. We're excited to see where you take it.
See the whole journey →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
This unit aims to explore corporate governance, ethical leadership, and effective budget management practices.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for IAO Level 3 Diploma in Leadership and Management
16 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Innovate Awarding.
- An introduction to organisational governance and finance
- Change leadership
- Coaching and mentoring
- Data management and technology in organisations
- Effective communication
- Implementing strategies
and 10 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.