GQA Qualifications Limited · RQF Level 3
GQA Level 3 Diploma in Customer Service
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits55
- Guided learning289 hours
- Units in this qualification23
Awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
The GQA Level 3 Diploma in Customer Service is an occupational qualification. It allows learners to develop skills in areas such as organising customer service delivery, using social media, and handling challenging customers. It also covers processing sales orders and promoting equality and diversity.
These are the units GQA 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.
Communicate verbally with customersReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of effective verbal communication with customers
- Use appropriate customer service language and techniques when communicating verbally with customers
Communicate with Customers in WritingReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of effective written communication with customers.
- Understand the different types of written communication used with customers.
- Plan written communications to customers, considering the purpose, audience, and message.
- Communicate with customers in writing, using clear, concise, and professional language.
Contribute to the organisation of an eventReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key stages and considerations involved in event organisation
- Carry out necessary pre-event actions to ensure a successful event
- Set up an event space effectively and efficiently
- Carry out appropriate post-event actions, including evaluation and reporting
Deliver customer service to challenging customersReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics and behaviours of challenging customers
- Understand the importance of maintaining a professional and calm demeanour when dealing with challenging customers
- Deal with challenging customers in a professional and effective manner
- Apply techniques for de-escalating conflict situations with challenging customers
- Identify when to seek assistance from a supervisor or colleague when dealing with challenging customers
Deliver customer service whilst working on customers' premisesReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the procedures for delivering customer service whilst working on customers’ premises
- Understand how to communicate effectively with customers whilst working on their premises
- Deliver customer service in a professional manner whilst working on customers’ premises
- Resolve customer issues effectively whilst working on customers’ premises
Develop customer relationshipsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and methods involved in developing effective customer relationships
- Develop and maintain positive customer relationships in a professional context
Exceed customer expectationsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to exceed customer expectations in a professional environment
- Exceed customer expectations when delivering services to customers
Manage diary systemsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and benefits of managing diary systems effectively
- Understand the different types of diary systems and their features
- Understand the importance of data security and confidentiality when managing diary systems
- Schedule appointments and meetings using a diary system
- Manage and update diary entries accurately and efficiently
Manage individuals' performanceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes and procedures involved in managing under-performance of individuals in the workplace.
- Understand the importance of addressing under-performance promptly and fairly.
- Manage individuals' performance in the workplace, including setting objectives, providing feedback, and addressing under-performance.
Manage personal and professional developmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Identify personal and professional development requirements based on self-assessment and feedback
- Fulfil a personal and professional development plan through appropriate learning activities and experiences
- Maintain the relevance of a personal and professional development plan by regularly reviewing and updating it in response to changing needs and priorities
Negotiate in a business environmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the fundamental principles that underpin successful negotiation in a business context.
- Prepare thoroughly for business negotiations, including defining objectives and strategies.
- Carry out business negotiations effectively, using appropriate techniques and communication skills.
Organise and deliver customer serviceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of organising customer service delivery within an organisation
- Understand the resources required to effectively organise customer service delivery
- Plan the delivery of customer service in line with organisational policies and procedures
- Deliver customer service that meets customer needs and expectations
- Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of customer service delivery
Principles of businessReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the characteristics of different business markets
- Understand the factors that influence business innovation
- Understand the processes involved in business growth
- Understand the principles of financial management within a business context
- Understand the processes involved in business budgeting
- Understand the principles of sales and marketing within a business context
Processing sales ordersReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes and procedures involved in processing sales orders accurately and efficiently
- Understand the importance of data protection and confidentiality when handling customer information
- Process sales orders in accordance with organisational guidelines
- Accurately record and track sales order information
- Follow up sales order processing to ensure customer satisfaction
- Resolve any issues or discrepancies that may arise during sales order processing
Promote additional products and/or services to customersReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles and techniques involved in promoting additional products and/or services to customers
- Promote additional products and/or services to customers effectively and ethically
Promote equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplaceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the legal and ethical requirements relating to equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- Understand organisational policies and procedures relating to equality, diversity and inclusion
- Understand the importance of promoting a culture of equality, diversity and inclusion within the workplace
- Understand the personal impact of discrimination and prejudice on individuals
- Understand the importance of respecting individual differences and valuing diversity
- Support equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace by challenging discriminatory behaviour
- Promote inclusive practices in all aspects of work
Provide reception servicesReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the scope and purpose of reception services within an organisation
- Provide a professional and efficient reception service to visitors and staff
Resolve customers' problemsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of monitoring customers’ problems to identify trends and areas for improvement.
- Understand the processes involved in resolving customers’ problems effectively and efficiently.
- Deal with customers’ problems in a professional and timely manner, ensuring customer satisfaction.
Support customer service improvementsReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the processes involved in supporting customer service improvements within an organisation
- Identify opportunities for improvements to customer service based on customer feedback and organisational needs
- Support the implementation of agreed improvements to customer service in line with organisational procedures
Support customers through real-time online customer serviceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of providing effective customer service through real-time online channels.
- Understand the requirements for supporting customers effectively through real-time online customer service.
- Establish the specific customer service support needs of individual customers.
- Provide real-time online customer service that meets customer needs and expectations.
Understand customers and customer retentionReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the purpose and benefits of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems
- Understand the importance of customer retention strategies for business success
- Understand how to measure customer satisfaction and use feedback to improve service quality
Understand the customer service environmentReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key concepts and practices that underpin effective customer service delivery
- Understand the relationship between customer service and the overall brand image of an organisation
- Understand the typical structure of customer service departments and teams within organisations
- Understand the implications of relevant legislation and regulations on customer service delivery
Use social media to deliver customer serviceReal unit · GQA Qualifications Limited
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the role of social media in a business environment, including its benefits and risks
- Understand different social media platforms and their suitability for customer service
- Deal with customer enquiries and complaints using social media channels
- Maintain a professional and consistent brand image when using social media for customer service
- Monitor and respond to customer feedback on social media
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
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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.
- Deliver brand promise using social media
- Deliver customer service to challenging customers
- Negotiate agreements with partners in a food and drink business
Where this can lead
Associate Global Customer Retention Specialist
This Associate role is your first step into a really exciting and impactful career. We're here to help you learn, grow, and find the path that's right for you. If you're keen to make a real difference to our customers and our business, we'd love to have you on board.
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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
This unit focuses on verbal communication skills in customer service, highlighting active listening, non-verbal cues, and the use of positive, professional language. Learners will develop the ability to adapt their communication style to suit individual customer needs effectively.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for GQA Level 3 Diploma in Customer Service
23 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by GQA Qualifications Limited.
- Communicate verbally with customers
- Communicate with Customers in Writing
- Contribute to the organisation of an event
- Deliver customer service to challenging customers
- Deliver customer service whilst working on customers' premises
- Develop customer relationships
and 17 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.
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