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Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development · RQF Level 7

CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic Learning and Development

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  • LevelRQF Level 7
  • Total credits120
  • Guided learning240 hours
  • Units in this qualification24

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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, and every one you earn is yours to keep.

Advanced employment law in practiceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit focuses on the major principles that underpin employment law, the defences which are available to employers and the remedies that claimants seek when they bring their cases to court.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal framework for employment regulation in the UK.
  • Understand regulations that aim to protect employees from unlawful acts of discrimination.
  • Understand law in relation to establishment, alteration and termination of employment contracts.
  • Understand compliance in relation to further regulations relevant to major areas of people practice.
Advanced employment law in practiceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll gain a comprehensive understanding of UK employment law, including discrimination, employment contracts, and termination processes. The unit covers legal frameworks, employee protections, and compliance requirements relevant to employment regulation.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the legal framework for employment regulation in the UK
  • Understand regulations that aim to protect employees from unlawful acts of discrimination
  • Understand law in relation to the establishment of employment contracts
  • Understand law in relation to the alteration of employment contracts
  • Understand law in relation to the termination of employment contracts
  • Understand compliance in relation to further regulations relevant to major areas of people practice
Advanced equality, diversity and inclusionReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit explores strategic workplace equality, diversity and inclusion.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concepts of equality, diversity and inclusion.
  • Understand the theoretical insights, segregation and inequality in the UK labour market.
  • Understand the legal, moral and business cases for managing equality and diversity and developing a culture of inclusion.
  • Understand the effectiveness of workplace approaches to managing equality and diversity and developing inclusive workplace cultures.
Advanced equality, diversity and inclusionReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit provides learners with an understanding of equality, diversity, and inclusion concepts, including theoretical insights into labour market segregation. You'll examine legal, moral, and business reasons for managing equality and fostering inclusive cultures.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand equality
  • Understand the concepts of diversity
  • Understand the concepts of inclusion
  • Understand the theoretical insights into segregation in the UK labour market
  • Understand the theoretical insights into inequality in the UK labour market
  • Understand the legal cases for managing equality and diversity and developing a culture of inclusion
  • Understand the moral cases for managing equality and diversity and developing a culture of inclusion
  • Understand the business cases for managing equality and diversity and developing a culture of inclusion
  • Understand the effectiveness of workplace approaches to managing equality and diversity
  • Understand the effectiveness of workplace approaches to developing inclusive workplace cultures
Business research in people practiceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit contains the components to enable a systematic approach to define, design and undertake a business research project in people practice.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan a people practice business research project aimed at adding organisational value.
  • Justify the most appropriate research methods to collect data for the chosen project.
  • Analyse data to make decisions and provide business and people management insights.
  • Propose recommendations based on conclusions derived from the research and analysis.
Business research in people practiceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll be equipped to plan and conduct people practice business research projects that add organisational value. The unit covers selecting appropriate research methods, analysing data, and making informed decisions to provide insights into people management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Plan a people practice business research project aimed at adding organisational value.
  • Justify the most appropriate research methods to collect data for the chosen project.
  • Analyse data to make decisions and provide business and people management insights.
  • Propose recommendations based on conclusions derived from the research and analysis.
Designing learning to improve performanceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit focuses on the significance of learning design and delivery considering the organisational context and the needs to be addressed.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how learning is impacted by both the external environment and internal organisational context.
  • Understand the importance of learning needs assessment to inform the design process.
  • Understand the role of impact measurement within the learning process.
  • Understand the importance of design and delivery of learning events in context.
Designing learning to improve performanceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll develop knowledge and skills to design effective learning interventions that enhance performance. The unit covers the impact of external and internal factors on learning design, the importance of needs assessment, and methods for measuring learning impact.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how learning is impacted by the external environment.
  • Understand how learning is impacted by the internal organisational context.
  • Understand the importance of learning needs assessment to inform the design process.
  • Understand the role of impact measurement within the learning process.
  • Understand the importance of design of learning events in context.
  • Understand the importance of delivery of learning events in context.
Leadership and management development in contextReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit focuses on the distinction between leaders and managers.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand management and leadership within the wider organisational, social, political and cultural context.
  • Understand differences between a range of leadership and management development interventions.
  • Understand the outcomes of leadership and management development programmes.
  • Understand the development of international managers and leaders so that they can operate in a global context.
Leadership and management development in contextReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
It teaches you to analyse management and leadership within organisational, social, political, and cultural contexts. You'll evaluate various development interventions and their outcomes, considering the influence of wider societal trends.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand management within the wider organisational context.
  • Understand management within the wider social context.
  • Understand management within the wider political context.
  • Understand management within the wider cultural context.
  • Understand leadership within the wider organisational context.
  • Understand leadership within the wider social context.
  • Understand leadership within the wider political context.
  • Understand leadership within the wider cultural context.
  • Understand differences between a range of leadership development interventions.
  • Understand differences between a range of management development interventions.
  • Understand the outcomes of leadership development programmes.
  • Understand the outcomes of management development programmes.
  • Understand the development of international managers so that they can operate in a global context.
  • Understand the development of international leaders so that they can operate in a global context.
Managing people in an international contextReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit examines the challenges and complexities facing organisations when they become international.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how major strategic and contextual forces shape the management of people in international organisations.
  • Understand how and why people management practice varies between different countries and regions across the world.
  • Manage staffing and employment practices in international organisations.
  • Understand effective and sustainable people management activities in international contexts.
Managing people in an international contextReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
It teaches you to understand the strategic and contextual influences on managing people in international organisations. You'll compare global people management practices and develop skills to manage staffing and employment across diverse regions.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how major strategic and contextual forces shape the management of people in international organisations.
  • Understand how and why people management practice varies between different countries and regions across the world.
  • Manage staffing and employment practices in international organisations.
  • Understand effective and sustainable people management activities in international contexts.
Organisational design and developmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit focuses on the principles of organisational design and development.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concepts and theories underpinning organisational design and development.
  • Understand the range of options for organisational design and how these may be implemented in practice.
  • Understand approaches to organisational development as a means of enabling organisations to meet their goals.
  • Understand how organisational design and development contributes to effective change.
Organisational design and developmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll study the core concepts and theories of organisational design and development, analysing various structural options and their implementation. The unit also covers approaches to organisational development to support organisational objectives and culture.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand the concepts and theories underpinning organisational design and development.
  • Understand the range of options for organisational design and how these may be implemented in practice.
  • Understand approaches to organisational development as a means of enabling organisations to meet their goals.
  • Understand how organisational design and development contributes to effective change.
People management and development strategies for performanceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit focuses on the ways in which people management professionals and the people management function in organisations create value and make a strategic contribution to the achievement of organisational objectives in different sectors and scenarios.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand and debate the ways in which people management practices and strategies are connected to organisational outcomes and add value.
  • Understand current strategic practice in major areas of people management and development work.
  • Understand the role and influence of people management professionals.
  • Understand ways in which people management practice varies in different contexts.
People management and development strategies for performanceReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit explores the connection between people management practices and organisational performance, enabling learners to analyse strategic approaches and evaluate how these strategies add value. You'll also debate the ethical considerations influencing people management.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand and debate the ways in which people management practices and strategies are connected to organisational outcomes and add value.
  • Understand current strategic practice in major areas of people management and development work.
  • Understand the role and influence of people management professionals.
  • Understand ways in which people management practice varies in different contexts.
Personal effectiveness, ethics and business acumenReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit is about supporting successful workers and promoting effective and ethical behaviours to champion better work and working lives and develop business acumen.

What you'll be able to do

  • Model principles and values that promote inclusivity aimed at maximising the contribution that people make to organisations.
  • Achieve and maintain challenging business outcomes for yourself and organisations.
  • Apply learning to enhance personal effectiveness.
  • Influence others during decision-making while showing courage and conviction.
Personal effectiveness, ethics and business acumenReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit focuses on modelling inclusive principles and values to enhance individual contributions within organisations. You'll learn to achieve business outcomes and apply learning to improve personal effectiveness and ethical decision-making.

What you'll be able to do

  • Model principles and values that promote inclusivity within organisations
  • Maximise the contribution that people make to organisations
  • Achieve challenging business outcomes for yourself
  • Achieve challenging business outcomes for organisations
  • Apply learning to enhance personal effectiveness
  • Influence others during decision-making
  • Show courage and conviction when influencing others
Technology enhanced learningReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit considers the role of technology within learning and the use of technology-enabled content and platforms within organisations.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand major technological developments and their impact upon the design and delivery of learning and development.
  • Understand technological solutions and their relevance within learning and development.
  • Understand how learning technologies are implemented within organisations.
  • Understand the role of data and artificial intelligence in improving the effectiveness of learning and development provision.
Technology enhanced learningReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit covers major technological developments affecting learning and development design and delivery. You'll understand various technological solutions, their implementation within organisations, and their role in enhancing learning experiences.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand major technological developments and their impact upon the design and delivery of learning and development.
  • Understand technological solutions and their relevance within learning and development.
  • Understand how learning technologies are implemented within organisations.
  • Understand the role of data and artificial intelligence in improving the effectiveness of learning and development provision.
Wellbeing at workReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit highlights the importance of wellbeing in the contemporary workplace to employer and employee outcomes.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how wellbeing is relevant to the workplace.
  • Understand the links between work, health, wellbeing and people management practices and processes.
  • Understand how employer and employee wellbeing aligns with strategy.
  • Understand the importance of the wellbeing strategy to sustain organisational performance.
Wellbeing at workReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
You'll explore the relevance of wellbeing in the workplace, including its dimensions and links to health and people management practices. The unit covers the alignment of wellbeing strategies with organisational goals and their role in sustaining workforce health.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand how wellbeing is relevant to the workplace
  • Understand the links between work, health and wellbeing
  • Understand the links between people management practices and processes
  • Understand how employer wellbeing aligns with strategy
  • Understand how employee wellbeing aligns with strategy
  • Understand the importance of the wellbeing strategy to sustain organisational performance
Work and working lives in a changing business environmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit extends understanding of the interaction between the commercial business environment and likely future developments in the world of work, employment, and the management of people.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand ways in which major, long-term environmental developments are affecting employment, work and people management in organisations.
  • Understand current and short-term developments in the people management business environment.
  • Understand how change, innovation and creativity can promote improvements in organisational productivity.
  • Understand the key interrelationships between organisational commitment to ethics, sustainability, diversity and wellbeing.
Work and working lives in a changing business environmentReal unit · Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
This unit examines the impact of long-term environmental developments on employment, work, and people management. You'll analyse technological, demographic, and economic trends and understand how change and innovation can improve organisational productivity.

What you'll be able to do

  • Understand ways in which major, long-term environmental developments are affecting employment
  • Understand ways in which major, long-term environmental developments are affecting work
  • Understand ways in which major, long-term environmental developments are affecting people management in organisations
  • Understand current and short-term developments in the people management business environment
  • Understand how change can promote improvements in organisational productivity
  • Understand how innovation can promote improvements in organisational productivity
  • Understand how creativity can promote improvements in organisational productivity
  • Understand the key interrelationships between organisational commitment to ethics, sustainability, diversity and wellbeing

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Level 7 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.

Advanced employment law in practiceAdvanced employment law in practiceAdvanced equality, diversity and inclusionAdvanced equality, diversity and inclusionBusiness research in people practiceBusiness research in people practiceDesigning learning to improve performanceDesigning learning to improve performance

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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.
Advanced employment law in practiceLevel 7

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Employment Law SpecialistSenior Employment Rights SpecialistSenior Employment Law SpecialistEmployment CounselSenior Employment Law ManagerSenior Employment Law Advisor

This unit focuses on the major principles that underpin employment law, the defences which are available to employers and the remedies that claimants seek when they bring their cases to court.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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Built for CIPD Level 7 Advanced Diploma in Strategic Learning and Development

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

  1. Advanced employment law in practice
  2. Advanced equality, diversity and inclusion
  3. Business research in people practice
  4. Designing learning to improve performance
  5. Leadership and management development in context
  6. Managing people in an international context

and 6 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.

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  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.

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

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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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