Business Skills
Project managers are faced with numerous challenges—from budgeting issues and project planning to team conflicts and beyond. This is where business skills come in. They provide you with the foundation for success in the business world and comprise of a collection of soft skills, including, but not limited to, communication, analytical, presentational, negotiation and organisational skills.
Having the right soft skills, in addition to your technical skills, can help ensure that your projects are successful. Other benefits include building strong customer relations and high customer care standards, increasing performance, maintaining a positive and productive company culture and motivating employees to improve their performance.
When you take a course that focuses on proper business communication, you'll be able to meet the needs of both your customers and your employees or colleagues. They aid you in distinguishing yourself from others in your team or in your field and can help you advance your career. With our business skill training, delivered in person at your workplace, you'll learn how to handle common project management issues with confidence.
These skills can help boost your career, no matter what profession you're currently in. You'll be armed with the key knowledge of how to manage a team, make employees productive and, ultimately, grow a business.
Who can benefit from our Business Skills courses?
Our business and personal effectiveness courses are primarily for project managers looking to improve their skills in specific areas.
Each course is designed to help you handle unique challenges—like making an impact in meetings, improving assertiveness, or managing people in projects.
Our courses also offer training in Excel, helping you to create reports, track project metrics and use data to back up your recommendations.
Learn business skills that drive your project management career forward
Exciting opportunities are emerging for project managers who can demonstrate well-rounded skillsets or specialities that suit the current landscape.
Many organisations need better processes, planning and people management to reach their goals. At the same time, others are undergoing digital transformations that must be overseen by skilled project managers.
Whether you want to start a new role or overcome challenges in your existing one, our training courses for business will deliver the practical skills you need.
What will you learn in our management training courses?
- Learn communication skills for delivering presentations, managing stakeholders, and developing business relationships.
- Support business goals like developing assertiveness, facilitating teamwork, managing change, and getting results without authority.
- Improve personal effectiveness in areas like time management, conflict resolution, report creation, and Know-How planning.
- Learn management skills like team building, SMART objective setting, and performance management.
- Advance your Excel skills so you can gather, analyse, and present data in project management scenarios.
Choose from popular on-site business training courses
Business skills training
Develop the business skills you need to become a highly valued project manager.
Management training
Get the confidence and skills required to begin your management journey.
Business communication training
Learn how to communicate impactfully with colleagues and stakeholders.
Personal effectiveness training course
Develop your personal skills to make an impact at work and reach your career goals.