ATHE Ltd · RQF Level 4
ATHE Level 4 Extended Diploma in Business and Management
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 4
- Total credits120
- Guided learning480 hours
- Units in this qualification17
Awarded by ATHE Ltd · on the Ofqual register
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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.
Administrative ServicesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range and diversity of administrative skills and services required in a business environment.
- Understand how to create and use organisational systems for information management and task management.
- Support meetings and events by preparing agendas, taking minutes, and coordinating logistics.
- Understand the importance of effective communications in providing administrative services in the workplace, including written, verbal, and electronic communication.
Applied StatisticsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Collect data using appropriate methods
- Present data effectively using a range of techniques
- Interpret data to draw valid conclusions
- Apply descriptive statistical techniques to analyse data
- Calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion
- Carry out investigations using appropriate inferential statistical tests
- Interpret the results of inferential statistical tests
Communication Skills for BusinessReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand how internal communication takes place within organisations
- Understand how organisations communicate with customers
- Understand the factors that impact on the effectiveness of communications in business
- Present oral information effectively
- Communicate effectively in writing
Corporate Social ResponsibilityReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand current corporate social responsibility (CSR) issues facing businesses.
- Understand the impact of corporate social responsibility policies and practices on different stakeholders.
- Make recommendations for responsible business practice, considering ethical and sustainable approaches.
Cultural PerspectivesReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the concept of culture in an interconnected world
- Explain the importance of ethics when promoting positive intercultural relations
- Explain the importance of values when promoting positive intercultural relations
- Explain the importance of decision-making when promoting positive intercultural relations
- Describe cultural frameworks relevant to a business environment
- Describe contemporary issues relevant to a business environment
- Review own cultural assumptions
- Review own cultural perspectives
Customer Relationship ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the importance of customer relationship management (CRM) to business success and sustainability.
- Understand how effective customer relationship management is achieved through strategies, processes, and technologies.
- Understand the use of loyalty schemes in customer relationship management to retain and reward customers.
- Plan improvements to customer relationship management in a named organisation, considering customer needs and business objectives.
Digital CommunicationsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand a range of digital communications technologies, including their features, capabilities, and limitations.
- Understand the impact of digital communications on individuals, organisations, and society, including both positive and negative effects.
- Understand issues of accessibility, security, and portability in digital communications, and how to address them.
- Understand blogging, digital content management, and social networking platforms, including their uses, best practices, and potential risks.
EntrepreneurshipReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand entrepreneurship in business
- Understand the skills and qualities of a successful entrepreneur
- Prepare for a new business venture
Financial and Management Accounting Techniques for ManagersReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand financial and management accounting systems, including their purpose, components, and interrelationships.
- Can assess business organisation performance using financial and non-financial data, and identify areas for improvement.
- Can apply management accounting techniques for decision-making, including cost-volume-profit analysis, budgeting, and variance analysis.
Managing Information and KnowledgeReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the meaning of information and knowledge in the workplace
- Identify different sources of information and knowledge relevant to the workplace
- Explain how information and knowledge are shared in the workplace
- Explain how information and knowledge are used in the workplace
- Explain the importance of information and knowledge in the workplace
- Explain the importance of using current information and knowledge in the workplace
- Explain the importance of using valid information and knowledge in the workplace
- Explain the importance of using reliable information and knowledge in the workplace
- Describe policies for managing information in the workplace
- Describe procedures for managing information in the workplace
- Summarise relevant legislation for managing information
- Describe best practice for managing information
Managing OperationsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of operations management
- Understand the different types of operations systems
- Understand how operations management contributes to organisational performance
- Understand how efficient operations can improve profitability
- Understand the techniques used to analyse operational performance
- Understand how to apply techniques to make informed operational management decisions
- Understand the factors that influence operational management decisions
Managing QualityReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand approaches to quality management in organisations
- Understand the importance of quality control and quality assurance systems to organisations
- Understand the impact of organisational culture on approaches to quality management
Managing a Work-based Team ProjectReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Develop a proposal for a work-based team project, including aims, objectives, and resources.
- Plan the work-based team project, including tasks, timelines, and responsibilities.
- Implement the plan for a work-based team project, monitoring progress and addressing challenges.
- Evaluate the process and outcomes of the work-based team project, identifying lessons learned and areas for improvement.
People in OrganisationsReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand different methods of communication used within organisations
- Understand the importance of effective communication in the workplace
- Understand the characteristics of an effective team
- Understand how to contribute to effective teamwork
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of remote working for both the organisation and the individual
- Understand the issues associated with managing remote workers
- Understand methods used by organisations to monitor the performance of people in the workplace
- Understand how organisations provide support to people in the workplace
Resource ManagementReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key features of resource management, including planning, allocation, and control.
- Understand the importance of the effective use of physical resources, such as equipment, materials, and facilities.
- Understand how to use human resources effectively, including recruitment, training, and performance management.
- Understand how to review the effective use of resources, identifying areas for improvement and cost savings.
The Business EnvironmentReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the different types of organisations that exist
- Understand the purposes of different types of organisations
- Understand the responsibilities of organisations to stakeholders
- Understand different organisational structures
- Understand the advantages and disadvantages of different organisational structures
- Understand how the market environment impacts on organisations
- Understand how organisations respond to changes in the market environment
- Understand the key aspects of the national environment in which organisations operate
- Understand how the national environment can affect organisational performance
The Marketing MixReal unit · ATHE Ltd
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the elements of the marketing mix, including product, price, place, and promotion.
- Understand the application of the marketing mix in different market segments and business contexts.
- Understand digital elements of the marketing mix, such as social media marketing, search engine optimisation, and email marketing.
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.
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Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 4 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
This unit covers the range and diversity of administrative skills and services within a business environment. Learners will understand how to create and utilise organisational systems, support meetings and events, and appreciate the role of effective communication in administrative practice.
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for ATHE Level 4 Extended Diploma in Business and Management
17 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by ATHE Ltd.
- Administrative Services
- Applied Statistics
- Communication Skills for Business
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Cultural Perspectives
- Customer Relationship Management
and 11 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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