Highfield Qualifications · RQF Level 3
Highfield Level 3 Diploma in Business Administration Skills (RQF)
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits40
- Guided learning236 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by Highfield Qualifications · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Highfield Qualifications 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.
AdaptabilityReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Is able to accept and deal with changing priorities related to both their own work and to the organisation.
CommunicationsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrates good communication skills, whether face-to-face, on the telephone, in writing or on digital platforms. Uses the most appropriate channels to communicate effectively. Demonstrates agility and confidence in communications, carrying authority appropriately. Understands and applies social media solutions appropriately. Answers questions from inside and outside of the organisation, representing the organisation or department.
Decision makingReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Exercises proactivity and good judgement. Makes effective decisions based on sound reasoning and is able to deal with challenges in a mature way. Seeks advice of more experienced team members when appropriate.
External environment factorsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understands relevant external factors, e.g. market forces, policy and regulatory changes, supply chain etc. and the wider business impact. Where necessary understands the international/global market in which the employing organisation is placed.
ITReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Skilled in the use of multiple IT packages and systems relevant to the organisation in order to: write letters or emails, create proposals, perform financial processes, record and analyse data. Examples include MS Office or equivalent packages. Able to choose the most appropriate IT solution to suit the business problem. Able to update and review databases, record information and produce data analysis where required.
Interpersonal skillsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Builds and maintains positive relationships within their own team and across the organisation. Demonstrates ability to influence and challenge appropriately. Becomes a role model to peers and team members, developing coaching skills as they gain area knowledge.
Planning and organisationReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Takes responsibility for initiating and completing tasks, manages priorities and time in order to successfully meet deadlines.
- Positively manages the expectations of colleagues at all levels and sets a positive example for others in the workplace.
- Makes suggestions for improvements to working practice, showing understanding of implications beyond the immediate environment, (e.g. impact on clients, suppliers, other parts of the organisation).
- Manages resources, e.g. equipment or facilities.
- Organises meetings and events, takes minutes during meetings and creates action logs as appropriate. Take
PoliciesReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understands the organisation's internal policies and key business policies relating to sector.
ProcessesReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understands the organisation's processes, e.g. making payments or processing customers’ data. Is able to review processes autonomously and make suggestions for improvements. Applying a solutions-based approach to improve business’s processes and helping define procedures. Understands how to administer billing, process invoices and purchase orders.
ProfessionalismReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Behaves in a professional way. This includes: personal presentation, respect, respecting and encouraging diversity to cater for wider audiences, punctuality and attitude to colleagues, customers and key stakeholders. Adheres to the organisation's code of conduct for professional use of social media. Acts as a role model, contributing to team cohesion and productivity - representing the positive aspects of team culture and respectfully challenging inappropriate prevailing cultures.
Project managementReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Apply relevant project management principles and tools to define the scope of projects
- Apply relevant project management principles and tools to plan projects
- Apply relevant project management principles and tools to monitor projects
- Apply relevant project management principles and tools to report on project progress
- Plan the required resources to successfully deliver projects
- Undertake projects as required
- Lead projects as required
QualityReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Completes tasks to a high standard. Demonstrates the necessary level of expertise required to complete tasks and applies themselves to continuously improve their work. Is able to review processes autonomously and make suggestions for improvements. Shares administrative best-practice across the organisation, e.g. coaches others to perform tasks correctly. Applies problem-solving skills to resolve challenging or complex complaints and is a key point of contact for addressing issues.
Record and document productionReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Produces accurate records and documents including: emails, letters, files, payments, reports and proposals. Makes recommendations for improvements and present solutions to management. Drafts correspondence, writes reports and able to review others' work. Maintains records and files, handles confidential information in compliance with the organisation's procedures. Coaches others in the processes required to complete these tasks.
Relevant regulationReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Understands laws and regulations that apply to their role including data protection, health and safety, compliance etc.
- Supports the company in applying the regulations.
ResponsibilityReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrates taking responsibility for team performance and quality of projects delivered. Takes a clear interest in seeing that projects are successfully completed and customers’ requests are handled appropriately. Takes initiative to develop own and others' skills and behaviours.
StakeholdersReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Has a practical knowledge of managing stakeholders and their differing relationships to an organisation. This includes internal and external customers, clients and/or suppliers.
- Liaises with internal/external customers, suppliers or stakeholders from inside or outside the UK.
- Engages and fosters relationships with suppliers and partner organisations.
The organisationReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Learners need to show they understand their organisational, purpose, activities, aims, values, vision for the future, resources and the way that the political/economic environment affects the organisation.
Value of their skillsReal unit · Highfield Qualifications
What you'll be able to do
- Knows organisational structure and demonstrates understanding of how their work benefits the organisation.
- Knows how they fit within their team and recognises how their skills can help them to progress their career.
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
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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
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Where these credits take you
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Where this can lead
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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
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for Highfield Level 3 Diploma in Business Administration Skills (RQF)
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Highfield Qualifications.
- Adaptability
- Communications
- Decision making
- External environment factors
- IT
- Interpersonal skills
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.
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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.
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