iCan Qualifications Limited · RQF Level 7
iCQ Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 7
- Total credits15
- Guided learning83 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
This Level 7 qualification is aimed at individuals in, or aspiring to, senior management roles. It covers strategic management and leadership skills, including resource management, governance, and risk management within a business context. Successful candidates will develop the knowledge to optimise technology and manage product development.
These are the units iCan Qualifications 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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Design business processesReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the various techniques and tools available to support the design and optimisation of business processes.
- Develop new or improved business processes that align with organisational objectives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of existing and newly developed business processes, identifying areas for further improvement.
Develop a business strategyReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a business strategy
- Evaluate an organisation’s operating environment
- Develop a strategic vision for an organisation
- Develop a business strategy for an organisation
Develop a strategic business planReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a strategic business plan
- Prepare for business strategy implementation within an organisation
- Develop plans to deliver the business strategy for an organisation
Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisationsReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of effective collaboration with other organisations, including communication, trust, and shared goals
- Understand the benefits and challenges of collaborative relationships
- Identify external collaborative relationships that could benefit an organisation
- Develop and maintain collaborative relationships with other organisations, ensuring mutual benefit and effective communication
- Review and improve collaborative relationships to maximise their effectiveness
Establish business risk management processesReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different business risk management models and techniques
- Develop business risk management processes within an organisation
- Evaluate the effectiveness of implemented business risk management processes
Establish organisational governance controlsReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the nature of compliance and non-compliance with governance requirements, and the potential consequences
- Understand the legal and regulatory framework affecting businesses, including relevant legislation and industry standards
- Establish governance controls within an organisation, ensuring compliance with relevant requirements
Execute a strategic business planReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the execution of a strategic business plan
- Implement a strategic business plan within an organisation
- Evaluate a strategic business plan and its implementation
Lead the development of a continuous improvement strategyReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a continuous improvement strategy within an organisation
- Develop a comprehensive continuous improvement strategy for an organisation
- Manage the implementation of continuous improvement initiatives and monitor their impact
Lead the development of a knowledge management strategyReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning knowledge management within an organisation
- Develop a knowledge management strategy aligned with organisational objectives
- Manage knowledge resources and facilitate knowledge sharing within an organisation
- Promote knowledge management practices and encourage employee participation
Lead the development of a quality strategyReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the development of a quality strategy within an organisation
- Develop a comprehensive quality strategy for an organisation
- Manage quality assurance processes and monitor their effectiveness
Manage product and/or service developmentReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key stages involved in the development of new or improved products and/or services
- Understand the factors that contribute to the successful development of new or improved products and/or services
- Establish the need for new or improved products and/or services through market research and analysis
- Define the specific requirements and objectives for new or improved products and/or services
- Manage the development process, ensuring it aligns with the defined requirements and objectives
- Monitor and evaluate the progress of the development process, making adjustments as necessary
Manage strategic human resourcesReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand strategic workforce planning within an organisation
- Optimise retention of staff within an organisation
- Manage human resources strategically within an organisation
Manage strategic marketing activitiesReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the strategic management of marketing activities, including the role of marketing in achieving organisational objectives
- Understand the importance of market analysis and planning in strategic marketing
- Evaluate a market, considering factors such as size, growth, and competition
- Develop a marketing communications strategy and plan that aligns with organisational objectives
- Manage strategic marketing activities, including budgeting, resource allocation, and performance monitoring
Obtain financial resourcesReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand methods of raising finance for an organisation, including different types of funding and their implications
- Identify the need for financial resources within an organisation, based on strategic objectives and operational requirements
- Obtain financial resources for an organisation, following appropriate procedures and securing necessary approvals
Optimise the use of technologyReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning the optimisation of technology, including its potential benefits and limitations
- Scope the use of technology to identify opportunities for improvement and innovation
- Optimise the use of technological solutions to enhance efficiency, productivity, and customer experience
- Manage the use of technology, ensuring its effective implementation and ongoing maintenance
Promote equality of opportunity, diversity and inclusionReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles underpinning equality, diversity and inclusion in the workforce
- Evaluate organisational strategies, policies and practices which address equality, diversity and inclusion requirements
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion policies and practices within an organisation
Provide strategic leadership and directionReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics underpinning strategic leadership and direction
- Provide leadership and direction to achieve organisational objectives
- Evaluate the effectiveness of the leadership and direction of an organisation
Shape organisational culture and valuesReal unit · iCan Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key components of organisational culture and values, including their impact on organisational performance.
- Understand how organisational culture and values are developed and maintained.
- Influence organisational culture and values through effective leadership and communication.
- Implement strategies to promote positive organisational culture and values.
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 7 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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Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
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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.
- Build and sustain collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Business Process Design and Improvement
- Comply with statutory and Governance best practice requirements
- Design and implement business analysis strategy
- Develop an organisational strategy in a food and drink business
- Develop and manage a strategy for your photo imaging business or practice
- Develop and sustain collaborative relationships with departments and other organisations
- Direct Information Security Governance: Establish and Maintain
Where this can lead
Lead Knowledge Strategist
Your journey with us as a Lead Knowledge Strategist is just one step. We're committed to helping you grow, whether that's into senior leadership, a deep technical specialism, or even exploring new avenues. The key is your curiosity and drive to keep learning and making an impact.
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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
Learners will study techniques and tools for designing business processes. They will be able to develop new or improved processes aligned with organisational objectives and evaluate their effectiveness for continuous improvement.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for iCQ Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by iCan Qualifications Limited.
- Design business processes
- Develop a business strategy
- Develop a strategic business plan
- Develop and manage collaborative relationships with other organisations
- Establish business risk management processes
- Establish organisational governance controls
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.
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.