ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 3
ATHE Level 3 Certificate in Entrepreneurship
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 3
- Total credits16
- Guided learning44 hours
- Units in this qualification18
Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units ATHE Ltd 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.
Assessing Your Business IdeaReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of correctly assessing your business idea
- Use a range of idea analysis tools
- Gain feedback on the idea/s from a range of stakeholders and other interested parties 4.
- Assess the viability of the new business
- Identify the next steps
Building Your Online PresenceReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of having an online presence 2.
- Establish a company website to support your business 3.
- Understand how Pay Per Click and Search Engine Optimisation can be used to generate targeted website traffic
- Understand how social media can be used to support your business 5.
- Create a plan to increase your business’ online presence
Building a BrandReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of a strong brand
- Understand how brand can influence the culture of your business
- Identify the desired characteristics of your organisation’s brand
Developing Innovation and CreativityReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the concepts of innovation and creativity in business
- Understand how to foster innovation and creativity
- Review and further develop innovation and creativity in own business or business idea
Developing Your StrategyReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Create a mission and vision for your business
- Understand what is meant by strategy and its importance for the success of your business 2
- Analyse the competitors of your business 3
- Identify competitive advantage
- Create a strategy for your business
- Identify risks and establish contingencies
Developing YourselfReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of personal development in achieving business success
- Manage own mental health 3.
- Analyse own strengths and areas for improvement in order to support business success
- Understand how to access support/resources for own personal development 5
- Create a personal development plan
Developing a Customer Service FocusReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of customer service
- Create customer service standards
- Plan for a customer service focus in your business
Employing StaffReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how to establish the staffing needs of the business
- Understand how to manage the recruitment process
- Understand the legal requirements related to recruiting and employing people
- Plan and allocate human resources
Managing FinanceReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of financial management in business
- Understand how to measure the financial health of a business
- Understand financial reporting requirements
- Forecast cashflow
- Create a budget
Managing PeopleReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the how people management supports business success
- Understand how to use training, mentoring and coaching to improve productivity
- Understand the issues with people management
- Understand how to build a team of staff
- Create a staff induction and monitoring process
Managing Physical ResourcesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how information and data can be used in the management of physical resources 2.
- Understand the process of procuring resources
- Understand how to manage physical resources
Managing QualityReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of managing quality in your business
- Identify risks to quality in your business
- Develop policies and processes to establish and monitor quality
Marketing Your BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the marketing methods used by businesses
- Understand the different marketing methods appropriate for your business
- Create a marketing plan for your business
Planning Your New BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Assess the key issues faced by your start-up business
- Choose a legal structure for your business
- Understand the concept of intellectual property for business
- Understand how to apply principles of contract law to your business
- Understand the specialist support required for your business and how this is obtained.
- Determine other resource requirements for the new business
- Create a ‘start-up’ action plan
Presenting Your BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Know how businesses present information effectively
- Identify your business’ stakeholders and their expectations
- Use oral communication skills for your business
- Use written communication skills for your business
Researching Your MarketReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the types of market research undertaken by business
- Research the marketplace for your business
- Analyse customer feedback
Selling Your Products and ServicesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the sales process
- Convey the features and benefits of your product or service
- Develop a sales plan
Sourcing FinanceReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of finance available
- Understand the criteria investors use to make investment decisions
- Identify appropriate investors
- Create a pitch for investors
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.
- Develop Employees for Your Business
- Managing Money Matters
- Promote yourself and your ideas
- Set and monitor financial targets for your business
- Win and retain customers for your business
Where this can lead
Strategy Analyst
Your journey here starts with learning the fundamentals, but the possibilities are pretty vast. We're investing in you for the long haul, and we're excited to see where your career takes you within Zavmo and beyond. It's a challenging but incredibly rewarding path if you've got the drive.
See the whole journey →Showing 3 roles, drawn from 10 job records mapped to this qualification.
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 ATHE Level 3 Certificate in Entrepreneurship
18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Assessing Your Business Idea
- Building Your Online Presence
- Building a Brand
- Developing Innovation and Creativity
- Developing Your Strategy
- Developing Yourself
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
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.