How to use coaching at work
This course is for professionals and managers who are
seeking to develop both their own coaching skills and to
foster more effective coaching practice across all levels of
their organisation’s workforce.
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Course fee: £495
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Becoming an effective project manager
Projects are how organisations - in private and public
sectors- make things happen. They deliver the changes that
improve services to customers and increase operational
effectiveness. Staff of all types participate in projects.
This course is a partnership between the Open University and
CrossKnowledge. It blends OU expertise from years of
teaching the subject and CrossKnowledge e- learning modules
in project management. It covers project roles and
responsibilities, how to launch, control and close projects,
project teams and project risks. It will help those new to
project management to lead and/or contribute to projects
more effectively.
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Course fee: £495
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Mentoring at work
This course is for those who use mentoring to help their
staff learn and develop at work, it provides tools,
structure, ideas, resources, activities and support to
improve mentoring effectiveness. It builds on and uses their
own competence to facilitate learning in others.
Course fee: £495
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Mentoring at work
Social marketing
For professionals working in health promotion,
environmental, transport and non-profit organisations, this
course helps them apply marketing knowledge, concepts, and
techniques to influence public behaviour and advance social
goals.
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Social marketing
Getting it right: consulting and communication inside
organisations
This course helps managers to consult and communicate
effectively with their staff within both legal and best
practice contexts.
Course fee: £495
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inside organisations
Managing performance through people
Managing performance requires the alignment of the outputs
from the people working in the organisation with the goals
of the organisation. The course explains how this can be
achieved through the key processes of setting clear
objectives, monitoring performance, reviewing performance
and improving performance.
Managing performance through People
offers an opportunity to step back from your own situation
and focus on themes of understanding and improving
performance through the people you manage. The course will
be of interest to:managers at first-line and middle
management levels in large organisations, and those who have
a leadership or management role in smaller organisations;
recruiting professionals, and administrative personnel who
support the performance management process. Organisations
seeking to improve productivity through more effective and
consistent supervision and line management will gain most if
they support groups of staff to take the course.
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Effective leadership skills
Developing your leadership capabilities can be challenging.
There are so many different views about leadership; it is
hard to know which ones to act on. Some of these theories
are popular for a while, and then others take their place.
This course helps you take a critical, but constructive,
approach to the different ideas and then to identify what is
of most value to you in the different approaches to
leadership. It will enable you to take a well-founded
approach to developing your own practices and skills in
leadership.
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Managing organisational performance
Managing organisational performance
is for those professionals who want to improve their
practical contribution to how their organisation, or part of
it, identifies objectives, establishes performance measures
and uses tools and techniques to improve performance. This
course is intended to give an introduction to some of the
ideas behind managing organisational performance. It does
this from an operational viewpoint rather than managing
performance through people.
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Applying strategic thinking
Businesses need clear strategies in order to survive and
succeed. As a manager, whatever the size of your
organisation, you will need to be able to think
strategically and contribute to strategic decisions. This
course will provide you with tools, frameworks and ideas to
help you apply strategic thinking. The course will be of
benefit to: senior and middle managers; high potential
junior managers; entrepreneurs; directors of SMEs; and
professionals currently, or soon to be, involved in
developing an organisation’s strategic objectives and goals.
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Influencing strategic thinking for finance professionals
Businesses need clear strategies in order to survive and
succeed. As a finance professional, whatever the size of the
organisation you work in or with, you will need to be able
to think strategically and contribute to strategic
decisions. This course will provide you with tools,
frameworks and ideas to help you influence strategic
thinking. The course, which has been developed in
conjunction with ACCA (the Association of Chartered
Certified Accountants), will be of benefit to: senior
finance professionals; high potential junior finance
professionals; entrepreneurs; directors of small medium
enterprises; other professionals currently, or soon to be,
involved in developing an organisation’s strategic
objectives and goals.
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Influencing strategic
thinking for finance professionals
Marketing in practice
Successful marketing is about understanding and responding
to customer needs. It is much more than promotion and
selling. Understanding how to use marketing ideas and
techniques is one of the best ways to improve a business's
competitive advantage. This course introduces you to a range
of marketing concepts and tools which you are invited to
apply to your own business using a set of simple, practical
activities.
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Course fee: £495
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Leading organisational change
"The only constant is change" applies to all organisations
in the twenty first century.
At all levels in organisations leading change has become an
important part of a manager’s role. This course will provide
you with tools, frameworks and ideas to help you in leading
change initiatives effectively.
The course will be of benefit to:
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senior and middle managers;
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high potential junior managers;
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professionals currently, or soon to be, involved in
major organisational change
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Advancing your personal leadership
For professionals already exercising leadership who want a
supported opportunity to reflect upon and improve their
effectiveness, i.e. across professional and organisational
boundaries.
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Stress at work
For professionals concerned about the effect of stress on
organisational productivity, this course can help identify
and address its causes and effects and reduce the negative
impact of high individual stress levels.
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Leadership for professionals
This course provides the tools and techniques to help
finance professionals look at different aspects of
leadership and to understand the personal impact that
you have, or could have, on colleagues, subordinates and
other contacts. The underpinning activity of the course is a
Personal Development Plan in which you
select and reflect on two areas of leadership where changes
could be made to improve your personal impact.
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Finance for non-financial managers
For professionals new to financial responsibility or at a
level where they need to understand financial issues, this
course covers basic costing, budgets, financial
decision-making and interpretation of financial statements
and ratios.
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Improving your negotiation skills
This course will enable you to develop more effective
negotiation skills in your own work setting. It is suitable
for managers who would like to improve their negotiation
skills or who may be about to become actively involved in
negotiations at work for the first time. The course explores
stages of negotiation and a variety of negotiation
techniques, as well as alternatives to negotiation through
activities including case studies and scenarios.
Course fee: £495
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