Business and Management Courses


Business, management and marketing courses for professional development or for working in your own business.
Learn practical skills and fundamental business process with our online courses that offer you a variety of options and support from professionals who have many years’ experience. We have been business since 1979, we can help you develop your business skills. 

  
Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Marketing)

Learn management & marketing in the one course for better career or business success. Making sales may be a valued skill, but managing sales is more valuable. ...

9 modules
900 hours
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Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Small Business)

Three equal parts to this course - learning broad management skills then skills more related to an entrepreneurial approach to small business, and finally the ...

9 modules
900 hours
Advanced Certificate
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Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Supervision)

Learn both management & supervision skills provides a career advantage for supervisors or managers. A unique type of training - practical, experience based; pre...

9 modules
900 hours
Advanced Certificate
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Advanced Certificate in Business Studies

Prepare for a career in business, small or large, as an entrepreneur, business owner or manager. A fast track qualification giving a good foundation for a profe...

9 modules
900 hours
Advanced Certificate
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Advanced Certificate in Human Resource Management

This course is a comprehensive foundation on which to build a strong career in HR. It covers a diverse range of subjects which is indicative of the scope of thi...

9 modules
900 hours
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Advanced Certificate in Management

Management Certificate - skills are always in high demand - in private business and public institutions, sports, clubs and other organisations. Develop the know...

9 modules
900 hours
Advanced Certificate
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Advanced Certificate in Management (Business Professionals)

An intensive course of study for the discerning business person. It includes a full suite of studies designed to cater to the needs of business professionals. L...

9 modules
900 hours
Advanced Certificate
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Advanced Certificate in Multidisciplinary Studies

Learn about business and management across a variety of different disciplines or industries to optimise your employability across the decades to come. Expand yo...

9 modules
900 hours
Advanced Certificate
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Advanced Certificate in Sales & Marketing

A course of study in sales, marketing and business through distance education. Learn skills which can be used across a range of workplaces to promote product or...

9 modules
900 hours
Advanced Certificate
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Advertising and Promotions

Learn advertising and promotions essentials for business improvement and profit. Understand how to reach and communicate more effectively with your target market.

10 lessons
100 hours
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Bookkeeping Applications (Bookkeeping II)

Learn bookkeeping and accounting, finance, profit and loss in business and commerce. Apply your learning to your own trading business or to work as a bookkeeper...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Bookkeeping Foundations (Bookkeeping I)

Gain vital business skills in bookkeeping. This course is ideal to establish great accounting practices ensuring the financial health of a business. Brush up on...

13 lessons
100 hours
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Business Coaching

Become a Business Coach and learn how to help startups, SMEs and more achieve their full potential. Pass on your experience & knowledge to others.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Business Operations

Understanding business operations is vital to ensure that you are across all of the business functions and that each business function runs smoothly.

6 lessons
100 hours
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Business Planning

Learn to create an effective business plan, so you know what you will be doing in your business. This online course will help you ensure that you have sound bus...

11 lessons
100 hours
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Business Storytelling

Business Storytelling course- position your business using appropriate language understand effective copywriting, public relations, marketing communications or ...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Business Studies

Understand the essentials of business management so that you can make the best decisions for the business that you own or manage for a successful operation.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Certificate in Business and Life Coaching

Not only is this a career that is exciting and satisfying, it is also very lucrative. Business Coaches are in huge demand and can command high incomes.

6 modules
600 hours
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Certificate in Legal Practice

Work in legal practice or support, para legal or other law related jobs.

6 modules
600 hours
Certificate
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Certificate In Management

Gain effective and essential management skills with a Certificate in Management. Understand the business functions so that you can undertake your role as a busi...

6 modules
600 hours
Certificate
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Certificate In Marketing

Marketing is a weak point in most businesses - what you learn here can make a big difference to success in your own business or your employ-ability working fo...

6 modules
600 hours
Certificate
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Certificate In Personnel Management

Productivity and profit in any workplace depends upon how the staff perform. Learn to better understand and manage people and you have a sill that can make a hu...

6 modules
600 hours
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Certificate in Property Management

This course is designed to give you a range of skills that are useful and often required to be applied in the management and maintenance of properties.

6 modules
600 hours
Certificate
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Cyber Security

Understand Cyber Security, the types of threats resulting in cyber attacks, and defense mechanisms available.

11 lessons
100 hours
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Economics (Fundamentals)

Learn the fundamentals of economics, how small and large economies work, and the economic laws and factors that affect every aspect of finance and wealth.

9 lessons
100 hours
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Entrepreneurship

Gain entrepreneurial skills and knowledge to start or grow a business with this course. Learn to assess opportunity, plan and manage risk to become successful

10 lessons
100 hours
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Event Management

Learn to plan, create and manage events with access to the one-on-one guidance of your tutor, 5 days a week.

9 lessons
100 hours
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Event Management 2 (Virtual and Hybrid)

Learn to organise events that can be attended online - as part of a larger live event, or a completely virtual event. These can be conferences, seminars, perfor...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Financial (Money) Management

Financial Management can be a minefield of confusion if you don't know what you're doing - but it's also a field of gold if you know where to look! Avoid many c...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Industrial Psychology

Study Industrial Psychology and gain an understanding of the thought processes that take place in the minds of people at work - improve staff motivation and per...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Instructional Skills

You may have much knowledge to impart, but if you lack the skill to impart your thoughts effectively, your instructing will fall on deaf ears. This course will ...

11 lessons
100 hours
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Internet Marketing

Learn about social media marketing, search engine optimisation, online advertising, selling techniques and how to engage with your online audience with the Inte...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Job Profiling

Job Profiling - self paced online course. Learn to match the job or career with the right person.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Leadership

Sharpen your leadership skills. Leadership skills are important. They allow a leader to effectively communicate with, and influence the actions of their followe...

7 lessons
100 hours
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Logistics

Logistics management encompasses both problem solving and supply chain management.

10 lessons
100 hours
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Management

Learn to manage businesses, people, money or resources. Understand the theories and practice that underpin modern management, to make better decisions and exerc...

7 lessons
100 hours
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Managing Change

Learn to adapt to a fast changing world. Manage changes for minimal disruption and optimal productivity. Learn to plan better and implement change for better ou...

9 lessons
100 hours
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Managing Innovation

Online course in Innovation Management will teach you how to transform ideas or products, adapting and producing goods or services that are better and more succ...

9 lessons
100 hours
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Managing Remote Work

Learn techniques for successful and collaborative remote working. Organise staff who work remotely. Improve productivity. Understand the challenges and advanta...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Marketing Foundations

Learn sales, marketing, advertising and PR for business improvement and profit. Understand fundamental marketing from product knowledge, presentation and promot...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Marketing Psychology

Understand the psychology of selling. Study consumer behaviour and think how your customer thinks. Discover how to raise visibility and succeed at marketing.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Marketing Systems

Learn about the marketing world; the systems that operate locally, nationally and internationally. Make better decisions about how and where to market your prod...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Motivation

Understand what Motivates People in any area of life. Motivated people work better, live more satisfied lives and are generally healthier and happier. A 100 hou...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Office Practices

Learn the basics in administration work and how an office works - start your career the right way, or improve the running of your own office. Get to know more a...

8 lessons
100 hours
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Operations Management

This Course provides essential knowledge on how businesses operate. A great overview of how business functions are interrelated, both to other competitors and t...

9 lessons
100 hours
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Personnel Management

If you have a natural ability to relate well to people, add some serious knowledge to that and become an invaluable member of any business - the Personnel Manag...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Professional Practice For Consultants

Sell your expertise to the world. This course is a valuable guide to setting up and operating a consulting business in any profession.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Project Management

Project Management skills are a vital component in many professions. Learn to manage projects with this 100 hour course in project management.

9 lessons
100 hours
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Sales Management

Study this Sales Management course and learn the skills to build your company's profit and your own.

9 lessons
100 hours
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Sales Skills

Learn sales: how to evaluate and motivate a potential customer, solving problems for them, opening and closing a sale, and much more.

12 lessons
100 hours
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Security Management

Learn about products services and strategies in the security industry. Know how to minimise the risk of all types of crime from assault to theft; petty crime t...

9 lessons
100 hours
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Specialist Award in Business

A specialist qualification in business; to build on prior studies and experience, allowing you to "fill the gaps" in your knowledge, and expand your career and ...

5 modules
500 hours
Specialist Award
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Starting A Small Business

Start your own small business and know what you need to do to make sure that your business is a success with our Starting a Small Business course.

12 lessons
100 hours
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Strategic Management

Learn to analyse the internal and external affects on an organisation or business, and implement appropriate short, medium and ling term strategies to reduce ri...

9 lessons
100 hours
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Supervision

Learn to supervise, direct and manage people at work - individuals or teams. Training for supervisors, foremen or leading hands; covering valuable skills for an...

10 lessons
100 hours
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Time Management

Learn time management strategies and tools with this online course. Be more effective and efficient in business, work and your private life.

8 lessons
100 hours
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Workplace Health & Safety

Learn to recognise potentially dangerous situations, and avoid litigation, work disruption, and significant, unnecessary costs.

10 lessons
100 hours
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