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  3. The centre assesses, and Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

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01What it is

Access information about the level of each of our new qualifications, as well as guided learning hours (GLH), total qualification time (TQT) or total notional hours, and credit values

These are the units Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 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, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.

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02The units

What each unit actually teaches you to do

Advances in digital learning and development Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit provides learners with an understanding of technological developments in learning and development. You'll learn to create engaging digital content and apply online facilitation techniques to deliver effective live learning activities.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand technological developments and advancements in the field of learning and development.
  • Create engaging digital learning content to meet specific learning and development purposes.
  • Apply a range of online facilitation functions and techniques to deliver an effective live online learning activity.
Employment relationship management Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll gain knowledge of employee voice, engagement, and practices that support improved working lives. The unit covers conflict behaviour, dispute resolution, and lawful management of performance, disciplinary, and grievance matters.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of employee voice, engagement, and practices that support better working lives for employees.
  • Understand different forms of conflict behaviour and methods of dispute resolution within the workplace.
  • Understand how to manage performance, disciplinary, and grievance matters lawfully and fairly.
  • Understand the role of employee bodies in employment relations and their impact on organisational practices.
Equality, diversity and inclusion Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit provides learners with a comprehensive understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion in organisations. You'll be able to promote these principles through policies and practices, embedding best practice and monitoring effectiveness.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the importance of embracing equality, diversity and inclusion in organisations, including the benefits and challenges.
  • Ensure equality, diversity and inclusion is reflected and promoted in the organisation, through policies, practices, and training.
  • Embed best practice approaches to equality, diversity and inclusion, monitoring their effectiveness and making improvements as needed.
Evidence based practice Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll develop strategies for effective critical thinking and decision making in people practice. The unit includes data analysis, problem-solving techniques, and measuring the impact and value of people practice within organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand strategies for effective critical thinking and decision making, including data analysis and problem-solving techniques.
  • Understand the importance of decision-making strategies to solve people practice issues, considering ethical and legal implications.
  • Measure the impact and value of people practice to the organisation, using relevant metrics and reporting methods.
Leadership and management development Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
It teaches you to understand the relevance of leadership and management, including required knowledge, skills, and behaviours. You'll explore various learning and development initiatives and evaluate their effectiveness in developing leaders and managers.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the relevance of leadership and management within organisations, including the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for effective leadership and management.
  • Understand a range of different learning and development initiatives that can be used in developing leaders and managers.
  • Understand how to evaluate the effectiveness of leadership and management development initiatives.
Learning and development essentials Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll explore how learning and development integrates with other organisational functions and contributes to strategy. The unit covers designing learning solutions, facilitating learning in various contexts, and recognising alternative learning methods.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how learning and development connects with other areas of the organisation, including their strategic importance.
  • Understand the key principles of designing effective learning and development solutions.
  • Understand the importance of facilitating learning in different contexts, considering individual learning styles and organisational needs.
  • Understand the importance of alternative methods of learning for individuals and organisations, such as e-learning, coaching, and mentoring.
Organisational performance and culture in practice Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit examines the connections between organisational structure and the wider world of work in a business context. It highlights the factors and trends, including the digital environment, that impact on business strategy and workforce planning.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the connections between organisational structure, strategy and the business operating environment.
  • Understand organisational culture and theoretical perspectives on how people behave at work.
Organisational performance and culture in practice Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll examine the relationships between organisational structure, strategy, and the business environment. The unit also covers organisational culture, theories of workplace behaviour, and how people practice contributes to achieving business goals.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the connections between organisational structure, strategy and the business operating environment.
  • Understand organisational culture and theoretical perspectives on how people behave at work.
  • Understand how people practice supports the achievement of business goals and objectives.
People management in an international context Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit offers learners an understanding of people practice from an international perspective, including cultural, legal, and ethical considerations. You'll explore challenges in managing diverse workforces and expatriates within global organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the principles of people practice from an international perspective.
  • Understand the challenges associated with people practice in an international context.
  • Understand the importance of effective people practice in an international context.
  • Understand the process and benefits of effectively managing expatriates within an international organisation.
Professional behaviours and valuing people Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll demonstrate professional and ethical behaviours in people practice, adhering to relevant codes of conduct and legislation. The unit also covers championing inclusive and collabourative strategies to build positive working relationships and commitment to professional development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Demonstrate professional and ethical behaviours, in the context of people practice, adhering to relevant codes of conduct and legislation.
  • Champion inclusive and collaborative strategies for building positive working relationships, fostering a culture of respect and trust.
  • Demonstrate personal commitment to learning, professional development and performance improvement, actively seeking opportunities to enhance skills and knowledge.
Reward for performance and contribution Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll analyse the impact of different reward approaches and packages on employee motivation and organisational performance. The unit includes using benchmarking data to inform reward strategies and supporting line managers in reward decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the impact of reward approaches and packages.
  • Develop insight from benchmarking data to inform reward approaches.
  • Understand the role of people professionals in supporting line managers to make reward decisions.
Specialist employment law Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit covers the purpose and enforcement of employment regulation, including relevant bodies and legislation. You'll understand lawful management of recruitment, selection, change, reorganisation, pay, and working time issues.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the purpose of employment regulation and the way it is enforced in practice, including the roles of relevant bodies and legislation.
  • Understand how to manage recruitment and selection activities lawfully, ensuring compliance with anti-discrimination laws and fair practices.
  • Understand how to manage change and reorganisation lawfully, including consultation requirements and redundancy procedures.
  • Understand how to manage issues relating to pay and working time lawfully, including minimum wage requirements, holiday entitlement, and working time regulations.
Talent management and workforce planning Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll study contemporary labour market trends and their implications for workforce planning. The unit covers the purpose and importance of workforce planning and talent management, including managing contractual arrangements effectively.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand key contemporary labour market trends and their significance for effective workforce planning.
  • Understand the purpose and importance of workforce planning within an organisation.
  • Understand the purpose and impact of effective talent management strategies.
  • Understand the importance of managing contractual arrangements and ensuring effective onboarding processes for new employees.
Well-being at work Real unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit provides learners with an understanding of well-being in the workplace, including its relevance and the factors shaping it within organisational contexts. You'll develop the ability to design and implement well-being programmes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand well-being and its relevance to workplaces.
  • Understand how well-being is shaped by the organisation’s internal and external context.
  • Develop a wellbeing programme.
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.

  • Assess Workforce Demand

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  • Assess Workforce Supply

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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 341 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

Employment Law Specialist

This role can lead to managing a team of employee relations specialists, or into a director role setting employment law strategy and advising senior leadership.

See the whole journey
05The credits

The credits, and who awards them

Level 5 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development 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

Advances in digital learning and developmentEmployment relationship managementEquality, diversity and inclusionEvidence based practiceLeadership and management developmentLearning and development essentialsOrganisational performance and culture in practiceOrganisational performance and culture in practice

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 Navigator The Navigator · your what-if tutor Illustration
The Navigator Your plan for “Talent management and workforce planning” assumes the same two people are free in March. What have you seen that makes you slightly uneasy about that?
You One of them has been pulled onto the migration twice already. Probably fine.
The Navigator That is the thread worth pulling. Let us build the version where it happens a third time and find the move that works either way.
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.
  • Bring your own plan Create

    For “Talent management and workforce planning” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.

  • Map a live decision Analyse

    “Equality, diversity and inclusion” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.

  • Lead it Apply

    “Employment relationship management” 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 Advances in digital learning and development, one of this qualification's own units.

Advances in digital learning and development Level 5

Applied to your work in any of these jobs

This unit provides learners with an understanding of technological developments in learning and development. Learners will develop skills to create engaging digital content and apply online facilitation techniques to deliver effective live learning activities.

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

Built for CIPD Level 5 Associate Diploma in People Management

13 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

  1. Advances in digital learning and development
  2. Employment relationship management
  3. Equality, diversity and inclusion
  4. Evidence based practice
  5. Leadership and management development
  6. Learning and development essentials

and 7 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.

Learned on your own work, taught one-to-one.

Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your free first module is Future Fluency, so you can see how the teaching works before you pay for anything.

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