The Business & Management programmes are designed to provide a distinctive bridge between oral skills and a broad business and management context. Assessment tasks in presentation skills and professional interaction all relate to professional competence while focusing achievement through developing perceptive listening and speaking skills and personal confidence within the context of the participating, responding group.

There is no specific ESB requirement for prior learning at any level, but it is expected that candidates entering for a given level will have the communication skills, knowledge and understanding to benefit from that level. This will usually mean a prior level of competence at the start of the ESB programme no lower than a level below the expected outcome.

Where ESB is used in conjunction with a parent programme such as GNVQ, NVQ or other business or management course, the entry requirements for that course will determine the entry level for the comparable ESB level. Candidates are not entitled to enter more than one level on any one occasion of assessment.

These Qualifications are

• Business (Levels 2-3)
• Management (Levels 3)
• Award in Professional Presentation Skills (Level 4)
• Professional Communication (Levels 4-5)
• Management Diploma
  

ESB Professional, Business & Management qualifications are appropriate for:

• Candidates following business or management courses at Levels 2-5 with generic or specific requirements for recognising communicative competence
• Candidates in business or management positions of authority (from Level 3)
• Candidates seeking progression from ESB's generic or specific vocational qualifications at Level 3 to Professional Communication grades
• Candidates following a free-standing communications course
• Candidates requiring evidence of professional communication skills as part of their continuing professional development (CPD)

The syllabuses for these qualifications and all other adult qualifications can be viewed and downloaded by following the links ‘Downloads’ then ‘Syllabuses’ and then under the heading of ‘Adult Learners’.

Similarly fees can be seen by following ‘Downloads’ and clicking on ‘Other Documents’

• As ever at ESB there is always someone to advise and help you with any of our qualifications at or via the Ormskirk office on 01695 573439 or via email admin@esbuk.org

• Alternatively direct to the Adult Learners Consultant, Graham Le-Gall, via Graham.Le-gall@esb.org