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- You register with an approved centre. That is a college, training provider or employer Advance Assessments has approved to offer this qualification. Zavmo is not an approved centre, so you register with them, not with us.
- The centre assesses, and Advance Assessments awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Advance Assessments.
The Level 4 Diploma in Improvement Practitioner is a vocationally-related qualification. It is aimed at individuals working in business management roles. Learners will develop skills in areas such as data analysis, team development, and measurement systems analysis.
These are the units Advance Assessments 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.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Advance Assessments. It does the teaching and the mapping. Advance Assessments sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
What each unit actually teaches you to do
Applied improvement solutions Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Scope and initiate a change project with an improvement focus
- Define process problems and improvement opportunities using relevant empirical problem structuring methods
- Select appropriate methods and tools for empirical investigation of an improvement opportunity
- Develop a stakeholder management plan addressing the needs of individuals and groups affected by an improvement project
- Visualise and analyse work processes using appropriate techniques
- Plan an improvement project using relevant project planning and change management techniques
- Analyse process-derived quantitative data for the purpose of understanding process characteristics and improvement opportunities
- Benchmark improvement project outcomes against relevant historical and/or external comparators
- Identify and mitigate execution risks and challenges to an improvement project, considering safety, ethics, and professional values
- Plan for dissemination of the outcomes of an improvement project to maximise positive impacts within and beyond the work organisation
- Plan for the sustainable transition of improvement project outcomes to routine operations
- Explain the elements of choice and decision in planning and executing a process improvement project
- Reflect on own development as an improvement practitioner
- Explain an improvement project, its outputs and outcomes, in dialogue with affected stakeholders
Describing and sampling data Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Recognise the characteristics of nominal data and its applications.
- Recognise the characteristics of ordinal data and its applications.
- Recognise the characteristics of interval data and its applications.
- Recognise the characteristics of ratio data and its applications.
- Describe continuous quantitative data in terms of its distribution characteristics.
- Visualise continuous quantitative data in terms of its distribution characteristics.
- Visualise trends in longitudinal qualitative data.
- Interpret trends in longitudinal qualitative data.
- Apply sampling principles to quantitative datasets.
- Use software applications to produce descriptive statistics.
- Use software applications to produce visualisations.
Design of experiments Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the applications of active analytics in terms of validity
- Explain the applications of active analytics in terms of reliability
- Explain the applications of passive analytics in terms of validity
- Explain the applications of passive analytics in terms of reliability
- Select input factors for a design of experiments
- Manipulate input factors for a design of experiments
- Select output factors for a design of experiments
- Manipulate output factors for a design of experiments
- Develop Mutually Exclusive and Collectively Exhaustive (MECE) hypotheses in the null format
- Define Type I errors
- Recognise Type I errors
- Define Type II errors
- Recognise Type II errors
- Use appropriate statistical tests to confirm hypotheses
- Use appropriate statistical tests to reject hypotheses
Developing individuals and teams Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Apply principles of team formation in specific work cultures and contexts.
- Apply principles of leadership in specific work cultures and contexts.
- Apply principles of management in specific work cultures and contexts.
- Communicate appropriately to support the performance of individuals.
- Communicate appropriately to develop the performance of individuals.
- Communicate appropriately to incentivise the performance of individuals.
- Communicate appropriately to support the performance of teams.
- Communicate appropriately to develop the performance of teams.
- Communicate appropriately to incentivise the performance of teams.
- Evaluate internal stakeholders.
- Engage internal stakeholders.
- Evaluate external stakeholders.
- Engage external stakeholders.
- Balance individual factors in managing performance of self and others.
- Balance organisational factors in managing performance of self and others.
- Plan own personal development for current and future roles.
- Evaluate own personal development for current and future roles.
- Plan own professional development for current and future roles.
- Evaluate own professional development for current and future roles.
- Plan own ethical development for current and future roles.
- Evaluate own ethical development for current and future roles.
Ethics, sustainability and compliance Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate techniques for analysing the macro environment of a work organisation
- Select appropriate techniques for analysing the competitive environment of a work organisation
- Select appropriate techniques for analysing the micro environment of a work organisation
- Apply appropriate techniques for analysing the macro environment of a work organisation
- Apply appropriate techniques for analysing the competitive environment of a work organisation
- Apply appropriate techniques for analysing the micro environment of a work organisation
- Identify relevant legal regulations affecting organisational sustainability
- Interpret relevant governmental regulations affecting organisational sustainability
- Interpret relevant industry regulations affecting organisational sustainability
- Apply relevant legal regulations affecting organisational sustainability
- Apply relevant governmental regulations affecting organisational sustainability
- Apply relevant industry regulations affecting organisational sustainability
- Identify stakeholders using approaches relevant to specific work contexts
- Categorise stakeholders using approaches relevant to specific work contexts
- Relate organisational behaviour to morally desirable norms and values
- Relate organisational behaviour to legally desirable norms and values
- Relate organisational behaviour to socially desirable norms and values
- Relate individual behaviour to morally desirable norms and values
- Relate individual behaviour to legally desirable norms and values
- Relate individual behaviour to socially desirable norms and values
- Benchmark environments to set appropriate targets for sustainable organisational performance
- Benchmark peer organisations to set appropriate targets for sustainable organisational performance
Managing improvement and change projects Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Explain individual reactions to change
- Explain team reactions to change
- Manage individual reactions to change
- Manage team reactions to change
- Scope an organisational change project
- Plan an organisational change project
- Monitor an organisational change project
- Review an organisational change project
- Select appropriate project methodologies based on the characteristics of organisational change projects
- Select appropriate project methodologies based on the characteristics of process improvement projects
Measurement systems analysis Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Explain the fundamental principles of gauge repeatability and reproducibility
- Apply gauge repeatability and reproducibility principles in practical scenarios
- Determine appropriate levels of measurement systems analysis for specific applications
- Determine appropriate approaches to measurement systems analysis for specific applications
- Analyse measurement error to determine the capability of a measurement system
- Analyse measurement error to determine the stability of a measurement system
- Assess the results of a measurement systems analysis study
- Interpret the results of a measurement systems analysis study to inform decision-making
Process improvement Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Outline the characteristics of process improvement methodologies
- Outline the applications of process improvement methodologies
- Define process problems using structured approaches
- Distinguish the voice of the customer in a given process
- Distinguish the voice of the business in a given process
- Distinguish the voice of the process in a given process
- Visualise the activities of work processes using flow charts
- Visualise the resources of work processes using flow charts
- Visualise the ownership of work processes using flow charts
- Interpret process flow charts in terms of value to the customer
- Interpret process flow charts in terms of potentially wasteful activities and resources
- Interpret process layout charts in terms of value to the customer
- Interpret process layout charts in terms of potentially wasteful activities and resources
Statistical process control Real unit · Advance Assessments
What you'll be able to do
- Select appropriate methods to structure and define process problems
- Deploy appropriate techniques for root cause analysis to investigate specific process problems
- Calculate process capability and identify improvement opportunities
- Interpret control charts to determine process stability
- Identify failure modes and effects
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The jobs these credits are mapped to
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Where this can lead
Process Improvement Specialist
This work can lead to managing improvement projects and teams, or into operational excellence roles that shape strategy across a business.
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The credits, and who awards them
Level 4 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Advance Assessments 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
Applied improvement solutionsDescribing and sampling dataDesign of experimentsDeveloping individuals and teamsEthics, sustainability and complianceManaging improvement and change projectsMeasurement systems analysisProcess improvement
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 · your what-if tutor Illustration - Bring your own plan Create
For “Managing improvement and change projects” 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
“Describing and sampling data” 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
“Developing individuals and teams” 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 Applied improvement solutions, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will scope and initiate change projects with an improvement focus, define process problems using empirical methods, and select appropriate investigative tools. The unit also covers developing stakeholder management plans and visualising work processes for analysis.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for Level 4 Diploma: Improvement Practitioner
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Advance Assessments.
- Applied improvement solutions
- Describing and sampling data
- Design of experiments
- Developing individuals and teams
- Ethics, sustainability and compliance
- Managing improvement and change projects
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
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