How you’d get it

How you’d get this certificate

  1. Zavmo teaches you. You learn the units one-to-one with an AI tutor, on your own work.
  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

Reach new heights in coaching and mentoring. Elevate your impact with ILM's Level 7 Certificate & Diploma for Executive and Senior Coaches!

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.

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.

02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to reflect critically on their coaching or mentoring effectiveness at an executive or senior level, identify development needs, and create a professional development plan and profile to enhance their practice.

What you'll be able to do

  • Review own ability to perform effectively as a coach or mentor at an executive or senior level, identifying areas of strength and areas for development.
  • Plan own future professional development activities, setting realistic and achievable goals to enhance coaching or mentoring skills.
  • Construct a professional profile and position themselves effectively as a coach or mentor at an executive or senior level, highlighting relevant experience and expertise.
Understanding the Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
You'll develop an understanding of the principles and practices specific to coaching and mentoring at executive or senior levels, including contextualisation, challenges, opportunities, and evaluation methods.

What you'll be able to do

  • Effectively contextualise coaching or mentoring practice at an executive or senior level, considering the specific challenges and opportunities within that context.
  • Understand the principles and practices required for effective coaching or mentoring at an executive or senior level, including advanced communication skills and leadership development techniques.
  • Understand methods for evaluating coaching or mentoring at an executive or senior level, including feedback mechanisms and performance indicators.
Undertaking Coaching or Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level Real unit · City & Guilds Limited
It teaches you to establish coaching or mentoring contracts at executive or senior levels and to plan, deliver, and review at least 20 hours of coaching or mentoring tailored to individual and organisational needs.

What you'll be able to do

  • Agree and establish a clear contract to coach or mentor individuals at an executive or senior level, outlining roles, responsibilities, and expectations.
  • Plan, deliver and review 20 hours of coaching or mentoring at an executive or senior level with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 3 individuals, adapting coaching styles to meet individual needs and organisational objectives.
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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.

  • Develop as a reflective coach or mentor

    Standard
  • Undertake Coaching or Mentoring

    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 9 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

Manager, Leadership Coaching & Mentoring

Experience here can lead to a broader HR leadership role such as VP, People or Head of HR. It can also lead to specialist roles such as Chief Learning Officer or Chief Talent Officer.

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05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 7 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

Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior LevelUnderstanding the Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring at an Executive or Senior LevelUndertaking Coaching or Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level

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 Coach The Coach · your practice partner Illustration
The Coach You have to tell the team what “Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level” means for them next month. Say it to me now, the way you would say it to them.
You The new process goes live on the 3rd and full training will be provided.
The Coach That is the announcement. Now try the one that starts with the bit they are going to hate, and we will see which you would rather receive.
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.
  • Lead it Apply

    “Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level” 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 Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level, one of this qualification's own units.

Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level Level 7

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit enables learners to reflect critically on their coaching or mentoring effectiveness at an executive or senior level, identify development needs, and create a professional development plan and profile to enhance their practice.

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

Built for City & Guilds Level 7 Certificate for Executive and Senior Level Coaches and Mentors

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

  1. Reflecting on Your Ability to Perform Effectively as a Coach or Mentor at an Executive or Senior Level
  2. Understanding the Principles and Practice of Effective Coaching and Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level
  3. Undertaking Coaching or Mentoring at an Executive or Senior Level
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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