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A short course introducing you to key concepts within Chinese culture, with a specific focus on business and professional engagement.

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Less than 16 hours per week	August 2026

This course will take you on a learning journey to consider aspects of storytelling at the personal, organisational, and social levels.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Gain the knowledge and practical skills to turn your business ambitions into reality and learn how to inject creativity into your idea before developing a commercial proposition.

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Less than 16 hours per week

This course is aimed at individuals with little or no coaching experience who have an interest in using coaching in organisations, in developing people, ensuring wellbeing and enabling performance.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Learn about the approaches and methodologies for sustainable business and how to implement a sustainable impact for positive change.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Gain the knowledge and practical skills to turn your business ambitions into reality and learn how to inject creativity into your idea before developing a commercial proposition.

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Less than 16 hours per week

This course will help you develop the problem-solving skills needed to contribute effectively in many organisational settings and improve your analytical and problem-solving skills.

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Less than 16 hours per week

This course shows what a strategy is, who can be a strategist and how to develop a strategic mindset.

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Less than 16 hours per week

The aim of this course is to enable you to use financial techniques in managerial decision-making, and become more confident about dealing with finance professionals.

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Less than 16 hours per week

This course will help you understand the challenges of teamworking in an ever-changing environment and apply a variety of techniques to develop your own teamworking skills.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Explore the changes in how we communicate in the digital era and discover tools to help you consider how to communicate more effectively.

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You will develop a general understanding of financial reports and learn some basic accounting concepts so you can understand what the main financial statements are intended to do.

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This course will help you understand and define the term 'design thinking', explain how it can create value and explore how it is used.

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This course deals with performance measures that can be calculated from information in a business's or public sector organisation's published, audited financial statements.

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This course examines why public policies and services have become even more prominent and important, and demonstrates the relationship between policy and organisational life.

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You will learn how and why people interact with each other in different ways and look at how they contribute to the successful working of organisations.

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Less than 16 hours per week

This course provides the opportunity to reflect on your creative journey so far, whilst learning new tools, skills and approaches to add value to organisations.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Improve your professional and intercultural communication skills with this introductory course

Part-time	Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week	August 2026

This short course explores the COVID-19 pandemic to examine the role of languages and cultures in situations of crisis across the world.

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Less than 16 hours per week	August 2026

This course encourages you to take an interest in developing your people, their wellbeing and the organisations you work in using a coaching approach.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Explore aspects of leadership and the importance of effective leadership in a digital era.

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In this course, you will learn about the importance of strategic monitoring and control systems and why they are fundamental to effective strategy implementation.

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Less than 16 hours per week

This course focuses on interactions inside and outside organisations, and the wide variety of environments that organisations network with in our economic, political and social world.

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This course covers different aspects of managing change and shows how to plan for change, even when the exact nature of that change is unknown.

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This course gives you opportunities to consider your own approach to collaboration and explore collaboration within organisations.

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Learn to use web and channel analytics to plan, implement and optimise effective digital marketing campaigns.

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Understand the core building blocks that are essential for successful digital transformation.

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Gain the skills to create, manage and optimise successful online display advertising campaigns that deliver results.

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Learn how to use design thinking to improve decision-making, solve problems, and foster innovation as part of digital transformation.

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Drive the performance of digital transformation through measurement, innovation, iteration, and continuous improvement.

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Explore the role of data, artificial intelligence (AI), and the principles of data science for digital transformation.

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Build social media marketing skills across a range of channels, measure your success, and optimise your approach.

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Gain the practical skills to create effective online content that engages your audience and delivers business objectives.

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Build critical skills to create and measure successful digital marketing campaigns.

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Build critical skills to create and measure successful digital marketing campaigns.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Build social media marketing skills across a range of channels, measure your success, and optimise your approach.

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Unlock the skills to use Search Engine Optimisation and Pay Per Click effectively.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Learn how to build high-performing email marketing campaigns, from targeting the right audience to email analytics and analysis.

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Less than 16 hours per week

Gain the practical skills to create effective online content that engages your audience and delivers business objectives.

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Discover how to implement strategic initiatives and develop your organisation's readiness to transform.

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Learn how to plan and build an effective digital marketing strategy using PR Smith's SOSTAC® framework.

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Learn how digital transformation works and the factors that impact an organisation's successful transformation.

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Develop effective communication skills and strategies for modern workplaces with this practical, expert-designed CPD course.

Part-time	Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week	August 2026

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