Training Qualifications UK Ltd · RQF Level 6

TQUK Level 6 Diploma in Digital Leadership (RQF)

You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.

  • LevelRQF Level 6
  • Total credits240
  • Guided learning1,112 hours
  • Units in this qualification18

Awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd · on the Ofqual register

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What you’ll learn

What each unit actually teaches you to do

The TQUK Level 6 Diploma in Digital Leadership (RQF) prepares learners with the skills required for leadership roles in the digital sector, covering topics from marketing to project management.

These are the units Training Qualifications UK 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.

Business economics and financeReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the core principles of finance and economics in order to effectively manage and/or build successful businesses.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of financial management.
  • Communicate key financial data to stakeholders.
Communications and public relationsReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the role of communications and PR within a business context and their role in creating an effective strategic approach. Develop creative solutions, create and curate content and apply communications concepts to a variety of situations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand public relations strategy.
  • Produce digital PR content.
  • Measure and evaluate outputs and outcomes of a PR strategy.
CybersecurityReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Develop a hands-on understanding of the key principles and techniques in cybersecurity.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of cyber security.
Data scienceReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Apply the core principles of data science and use industry leading tools.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use applied data science and data science tools to complete a range of tasks.
Digital design in practiceReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the importance of graphic design practice in driving business objectives, and develop the ability implement key graphic design skills.

What you'll be able to do

  • Use a photo editing software.
Digital design principlesReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the importance of graphic design theory in driving business objectives. Apply this understanding to brief and plan graphic design work effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understanding branding and advertising in a design context.
Digital marketingReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand and build a hands-on working knowledge of the channels of digital marketing. Develop skills in planning, measuring, and iterating effective digital marketing campaigns.

What you'll be able to do

  • Produce a digital marketing strategy.
  • Understand online and social advertising.
  • Understand email marketing.
  • Understand social media.
  • Understand conversion rate optimisation, CRM and automation.
  • Understand channel and web analytics reports.
  • Understand chatbots and conversational design.
  • Understand ecommerce.
Digital transformationReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the context, factors involved in, and challenges of digital transformation. Understand each of the different areas that need focus and the challenges and common pitfalls involved.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand digital transformation and disruption.
  • Build digital culture.
  • Demonstrate awareness of the ongoing nature of digital disruption and plan for ongoing change when planning for digital transformation.
Emerging technologiesReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the technological changes and skills needed to future-proof your career.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of technology in business.
Entrepreneurship and Start-upsReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Develop an understanding and the importance of entrepreneurship as a tool for development, the principles of entrepreneurship and the concept and principles of innovation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concepts of Entrepreneurship and Intrapreneurship.
  • Understand how to start a digital business.
Ethical businessReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the wide range of issues that need to be considered to drive an ethical approach to business. Be able to critically analyse, plan approaches that achieve ethical practices across the range of business functions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand ethics in a business context.
  • Plan approaches to improving ethical practices.
  • Understand equality legislation and codes of practice in organisations.
  • Plan equality and diversity initiatives.
Interaction designReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Interaction Design (IxD) is the design of interactive products and services.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the key principles of user experience.
Management and leadership culture and skillsReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the core aspects of business management and leadership that can lead to an effective business. Apply these principles to a business and critically analyse their effectiveness.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the role of organisational culture and values.
  • Understand how to manage organisational culture.
  • Understand the role of the strategic leader.
Marketing fundamentalsReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand and develop critical thinking around the core aspects of marketing as a strategic driver in business.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand different approaches to marketing strategy.
  • Understand segmentation and positioning.
  • Produce a marketing proposition.
Media productionReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the building blocks of media production for business. Plan and use these principles in a range of business contexts and evaluate their effectiveness.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of storytelling and media production and its use as a business tool.
  • Produce a content plan for a media story.
Principles of app marketingReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Develop a hands-on understanding of the key principles and techniques in launching an app.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how to launch an app.
Project managementReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Understand the importance and practical methods of effective project management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concept of project management.
Web TechnologiesReal unit · Training Qualifications UK Ltd
Develop a hands-on understanding of the key principles and techniques in web development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand content management software.

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 6 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.

Business economics and financeCommunications and public relationsCybersecurityData scienceDigital design in practiceDigital design principlesDigital marketingDigital transformation

Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.

Who’d teach you this

The Evidence Evaluator

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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 this connects

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.

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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.

One-to-one, on your real workNo lectures, no past-papers. Every unit is practised on the actual tasks your job throws at you, a tutor beside you, not a video in front of you.
Taught to the top, not the testMost courses stop at remembering. Your companion keeps climbing: analysing, judging, creating. That’s the part a machine can’t do for you.
Credits you keep, a map that continuesEvery unit is regulated and yours for good. The day you finish, Zavmo already knows the next role your new credits open.
Business economics and financeLevel 6

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

Understand the core principles of finance and economics in order to effectively manage and/or build successful businesses.

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

Built for TQUK Level 6 Diploma in Digital Leadership (RQF)

18 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Training Qualifications UK Ltd.

  1. Business economics and finance
  2. Communications and public relations
  3. Cybersecurity
  4. Data science
  5. Digital design in practice
  6. Digital design principles

and 12 more in the full unit list below.

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.

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.

  1. Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.

  1. 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
  2. 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
  3. 4AnalyseThe Analyst
  4. 3ApplyThe Coach
  5. 2UnderstandThe Connector
  6. 1RememberThe Builder

Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you

Why this matters: AI can already remember and understand for you. What it can’t do is take your real problem and judge the right call. So the only learning worth paying for is the learning that takes you to the top. That’s exactly what a tutor doing it with you, on your real work, is for.

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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