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

Part-time	Earliest Start date:
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.

Part-time
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.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

You will learn about underlying approaches and methodologies to a sustainable business and how to implement sustainable impact to contribute to positive change around us.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

Gain the knowledge and practical skills to turn your small business ambitions into reality.

Part-time
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.

Part-time
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.

Part-time
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.

Part-time
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.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

We look at changes in the way we communicate in the digital era and provide tools to help you consider how you can communicate more effectively.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

This course looks at why public policies and services have become even more prominent and important and also demonstrate the relationship between policy and organisational life.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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.

Part-time
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.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

The course is aimed at people with some knowledge of leadership and who recognise the importance of effective leadership at all levels in any organisation.

Part-time
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.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

This course takes you through different aspects of managing change and shows how to plan for change – even when the exact nature of that change is unknown.

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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

Part-time
Less than 16 hours per week

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