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A1
This unit is mainly about making sure you have the personal resources (particularly knowledge, understanding, skills and time) to undertake your work role and reviewing your performance against agreed objectives. It also covers identifying and undertaking activities to develop your knowledge, skills and understanding where gaps have been identified.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
A2
This unit is about managing your personal resources (particularly knowledge, understanding, skills, experience and time) and your professional development in order to achieve your work objectives and your career and personal goals.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
A3
This unit is about developing your personal networks to support both your current and future work. Your personal networks may include people in your own organisation, people you meet from other organisations and people you are in contact with over the phone or the internet.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B1
Every organisation should have an overall strategic business plan and each identified area of responsibility should also have an operational plan that will contribute to achieving the objectives set out in the strategic business plan. The ‘area of responsibility’ may be, for example, a branch or department or functional area or an operating site within an organisation.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B2
This unit is about making sure you have a clear and up-to-date picture of the environment in which your organisation operates and can produce information which could be used for planning and operational purposes.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B3
This unit is about providing your organisation with a clear sense of direction and long-term plans that will help it move in that direction. Managers and leaders need to focus on the future and provide a clear vision of where the organisation is going and the route it is going to follow to get there.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B4
Once a strategic business plan has been developed and agreed, it needs to be put into action. This means: ‘selling’ the plan to the managers and other staff involved in putting it into practice; having agreed standards for measuring success; carefully monitoring the implementation of the plan and making adjustments along the way, a process that may need a lot of flexibility and openness to change.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B5
This unit is about providing direction to the members of your team and motivating and supporting them to achieve the objectives of the team and their personal work objectives.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B6
The unit is about providing direction to people in a clearly and formally defined area or part of an organisation and motivating and supporting them to achieve the vision and objectives for the area.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B7
This unit is about providing direction to people in the organisation and enabling, inspiring, motivating and supporting them to achieve what the organisation has set out to do.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B8
Organisations must show that they act responsibly in relation to their staff, customers, investors and the communities in which they work. All types of organisations must obey the law in key areas such as health and safety, employment, finance and company law.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B9
Every organisation, whatever its size or history, has a culture (simply defined as ‘the way we do things around here’). The culture of an organisation is based on assumptions and values about business, working life and relationships. These values influence the way people behave towards each other and customers, and how they relate to their work.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B10
This unit is about taking the lead in establishing and operating an effective risk management process across your organisation. This involves systematically identifying, evaluating and prioritising potential risks and communicating information to enable appropriate decisions and actions to be taken.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B11
This unit is about actively promoting equality of opportunity and diversity in your area of responsibility. It is intended to go beyond compliance with equality legislation and move towards a situation where there is awareness in your area of and active commitment to the need to ensure equality of opportunity and the benefits of diversity.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
B12
This unit is about taking a lead in actively promoting equality of opportunity and diversity in your organisation. There are a multitude of organisational benefits from doing this ranging from releasing the full potential of the workforce to being seen by customers, suppliers, potential employees and the wider community as a fair, forward looking and ethical employer.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
C1
This unit is about encouraging and supporting the identification and practical implementation of ideas.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
C2
This unit is about encouraging and supporting the identification and practical implementation of ideas in your area of responsibility.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
C3
This unit is about encouraging and supporting the identification and practical implementation of ideas across your organisation.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
C4
‘Change’, in it various forms, is happening more often within organisations. The driving force for change may be external or internal to the organisation or a mixture of both. It may be a reaction to events or an attempt to improve the organisation for the future.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
C5
This unit is about the planning that is needed to make a specific change or put into practice a programme of change. It involves developing a strategy to make the change that is needed, taking note of barriers, risks and the need to put appropriate monitoring and communication systems in place.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
C6
This unit is about putting into practice the strategy and associated plans for a specific change or programme of change. This involves putting in place the necessary resources and supporting systems, including monitoring and communications, to turn the ‘vision’ into a practical reality.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
D1
This unit is about developing working relationships with colleagues, within your own organisation and within other organisations, that are productive in terms of supporting and delivering your work and that of the overall organisation.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
D2
This unit is about developing productive working relationships with colleagues, within your own organisation and within other organisations with which your organisation works, and with identified stakeholders.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
D3
This unit is mainly about recruiting and selecting people to undertake identified activities or work-roles within your area of responsibility.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
D4
This unit is about taking a lead in identifying the workforce requirements of your organisation and how these will be satisfied.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
D6
This unit is about ensuring that the work required in your area of responsibility is effectively planned and fairly allocated to individuals and/or teams.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
D7
This unit is about supporting colleagues in identifying their learning needs and helping to provide opportunities to address these needs.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
E1
This unit is about having ownership of and being responsible for a budget for a defined area or activity of work. It initially involves preparing, submitting and agreeing a budget for a set operating period.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
E2
This unit is about managing finance in order to achieve the stated objectives for your area of responsibility. It involves developing and agreeing a master budget for your area and using this to monitor, evaluate and control performance and take action to deal with identified variances.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
E3
This unit is about identifying the need for and obtaining additional finance to fund the organisation’s proposed activities. The organisation may already be generating some surplus income through the ongoing supply of its products and/or services.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
E4
This unit is about your role in making sure that the organisation gets the technology it needs and uses it in the best way possible.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
E5
Fundamental to this unit is an understanding of the terms “hazard” and “risk”. They have been defined overleaf and it is VERY IMPORTANT that they are understood before undertaking the unit.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
E6
This unit is concerned with managing the overall health and safety process in your area of responsibility.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
E7
This unit is concerned with leading the overall approach to health and safety in your organisation.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F1
This unit is about managing a project for which you have been given responsibility. This involves developing and agreeing a plan for the project and monitoring and controlling implementation of and changes to the plan.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F2
This unit is about managing a specific programme of different projects which are independent but still depend on each other.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F3
This unit is about managing business processes to make sure the organisation delivers outputs that meet customers’ needs and stakeholders’ needs, and organisational and legal requirements.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F4
This unit is about developing a framework which describes your organisation's customers and how your organisation intends to market its products or services (or both).
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F5
The delivery of excellent customer service involves meeting and exceeding customer expectations.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F6
Your job involves delivering and organising excellent customer service. However good the service provided, some of your customers will experience problems and you will spot and solve other problems before your customers even know about them.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F7
If you have chosen this unit your organisation should be encouraging you to get involved with making changes to improve customer service.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F8
When you are working with your customers you are not working alone. Behind or alongside you there are others involved in the process who impact on how well you can deliver your products or services. These individuals may be from within your organisation or from the outside.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F9
This unit is about making sure that relevant and reliable information about the organisation’s market and customers is constantly available and shared.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F10
This unit is about ensuring that your organisation puts customers first. The organisation’s vision, values, processes and systems, for example, should all be clearly driven by and geared to satisfying customer needs.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F11
This unit covers a broad range of general, operational management responsibilities, all aimed at satisfying customers with the processes, products and or services being delivered.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
F12
This unit is about overseeing the continuous improvement of the overall performance of the organisation. The emphasis is very much on identifying and implementing changes which will add value in the eyes of customers and other key stakeholders.
Date Added: 11/04/2007
NVQ Management L4 matrix part 1&2
Date Added: 01/06/2010

 
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