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Marketing communications as a strategic function free course icon level 3: advanced icon

Money & Business

Marketing communications as a strategic function

Marketing communications help to define an organisation's relationship with its customers. This free course, Marketing communications as a strategic function, emphasises the strategic importance of such communication and its long-term effect on consumers. Communication models can act as a predictive guide, but in the end it is important to ...

Free course
6 hrs
Employee engagement free course icon level 3: advanced icon

Money & Business

Employee engagement

Engagement is a key buzzword in 21st century management. Strategic human resource management rests on the belief that people are the key to achieving competitive advantage. Employees need to be seen as assets to be developed, not costs to be controlled. This free course explores three key themes: employee engagement, employee involvement and ...

Free course
10 hrs
Hybrid working: skills for leadership free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Money & Business

Hybrid working: skills for leadership

This course will give you an opportunity to reflect on who you are as a hybrid leader and how you want to develop. It will help you understand how to empathise with your workforce and how to adapt your communication skills when working in the office and when working remotely. It will prompt you to start thinking about how you can encourage your ...

Free course
10 hrs
Capacity and demand management free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Society, Politics & Law

Capacity and demand management

This free course, Capacity and demand management, is part of the series focusing on leadership, decision-making and communication in the context of policing within the community. This course focuses on the use of data to make decisions, using actions taken in managing capacity and demand as the applied example. The course uses examples not ...

Free course
5 hrs
Leadership for inclusion: what can you do? free course icon level 3: advanced icon

Education & Development

Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?

This course will help you to develop your understanding of how to promote and support learning for all, within classrooms with a diverse student and staff population. It will encourage you to embrace your own capacity to lead at any level of an organisation. You will explore the tensions around collective responses and individualised challenges,...

Free course
9 hrs
Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Languages

Getting started with Chinese business culture essentials

Business dealings with China are on the increase. As a result, more and more organisations and business people are realising the need of doing more than just adhering to the rules of Chinese etiquette (such as presenting business cards with both hands) or the ‘dos and don'ts’ (such not opening gifts in front of your hosts) to have successful ...

Free course
6 hrs
How to write a CV article icon

Education & Development

How to write a CV

A CV (curriculum vitae) is a brief account of your education, qualifications, skills and work-based experience, used mainly when applying for a job. Your CV is your first opportunity to tell an employer what you can do. A well written CV can make the difference between getting an interview and not being considered for the role.

Article
5 mins
My career goal: Business and administrative article icon

Money & Business

My career goal: Business and administrative

Do you have business acumen just waiting to be tapped? Find resources below to develop your communication and strategic skills, maybe even an apprenticeship to begin your career in business.

Article
20 mins
Difference and challenge in teams free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Money & Business

Difference and challenge in teams

This free course looks at how teams ‘travel’ together on a journey of development. Those journeys are hardly ever smooth. The course encourages you to recognise difference and challenge amongst individuals in the team who are pulling in different directions. It will help you identify where such challenges can be embraced for the benefit of your ...

Free course
2 hrs
Continuity and learning free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

Continuity and learning

This free course, Continuity and learning, has a practical and professional development focus. You will explore interactive dimensions of workplace learning: how people and workplace cultures create formal, informal, planned and unplanned opportunities to learn. You will read about 'biographical learning' research, where adults develop ...

Free course
12 hrs
Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Money & Business

Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market

This free course, Using voluntary work to get ahead in the job market, explores how engaging in voluntary work can enhance your employment opportunities

Free course
12 hrs
School business manager: Developing the role free course icon level 1: introductory icon

Education & Development

School business manager: Developing the role

There is an ongoing revolution in the running of state schools and this is making the position of the school business manager both significant and necessary. Government thinking, together with profound changes in society generally, will affect every institution both in terms of pedagogy and the physical environment, particularly technology and ...

Free course
8 hrs