Programme Aim

The SFEDI Endorsed Award for Business Advisers is specifically designed to enable practitioners to help small businesses assess, develop and improve their business through changes both to the business and themselves.

Business Support Framework

The award is based on the National Occupational Standards for Business Support and focuses on three areas:

• Personal Professional Development
• Building Business Support Relationships
• Delivering Business Support

Who are these qualifications for?

This award is for you if your role includes the following activities:

• Initiating and maintaining effective business relationships
• Helping your clients to analyse their business and encouraging and supporting them to implement appropriate changes
• Developing your own business support networks
• Evaluating and developing your own practice in relation to business support

Delivery

Every candidate will have a personal assessor allocated to them.

A typical journey towards achieving the qualification will involve:

• Completion of a self-assessment against the award framework
• An initial meeting with your assessor to review your existing skills/current role.
• Together you will plan how you will demonstrate that you meet the standards and how you will fill any gaps through a development plan.
• Observation(s) by your assessor of you carrying out your role, feedback and discussion.
• Gathering evidence to demonstrate that you meet the requirements of the qualification.
• A final professional discussion and agreement of ongoing professional development.

You would normally be expected to complete the qualification within 12 months.

What about training and development?

As with other SFEDI awards, you are not required to attend specific courses or programmes of study. Where you identify a gap in your knowledge or performance you decide, in consultation with your assessor, how you will fill that gap.

WMQC offers various workshops and/or mentoring to meet your specific needs. Your assessor will be able to discuss these with you.

Want to know more?

If you would like further information, an application form, or an informal chat about this award, please contact:

Programme Manager
Linda Henry
024 7656 1500
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