Transitioning into a leadership position can be difficult, but with the right training, you can take the reigns and guide your team to success. Exploring communication skills, conflict management, and more, this course is packed with instruction for turning you into the type of leader who drives their company forward and promotes innovation. You’ll explore what it means to be a good leader, how to handle change, and other valuable skills you can utilize in your new position.
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ILM specialises in formal leadership qualifications. They offer a range of apprenticeships from an introductory level all the way up to senior management. As part of the City & Guilds Group, their training and qualifications are synonymous with quality and integrity, while they continuously adapt and improve their qualifications to meet the needs of the modern workforce.
This course does not constitute part of/or work towards an ILM qualification. It is a business skills course designed to meet the practical needs of the modern workforce.
You don’t become a successful leader overnight. Like any other skill, good leadership is developed with experience, and everyone starts with the essentials. In this leadership primer, you’ll learn how to drive your team forward with effective communication skills and training techniques. You’ll dive into benchmarking and auditing performance to ensure quality results and ultimately develop your own leadership style that will uplift and inspire your team.
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ILM specialises in formal leadership qualifications. They offer a range of apprenticeships from an introductory level all the way up to senior management. As part of the City & Guilds Group, their training and qualifications are synonymous with quality and integrity, while they continuously adapt and improve their qualifications to meet the needs of the modern workforce.
This course does not constitute part of/or work towards an ILM qualification. It is a business skills course designed to meet the practical needs of the modern workforce.
The business world is changing at a record pace. Widespread strategic innovation means that businesses now face more complex and dynamic issues than ever before. In this course, you will learn to apply 21st-century strategic models to your work and become one of the most valuable people in your company.
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Anna Shaw is a Strategy and Innovation Consultant at Lucency, based in Sydney, Australia. She has 20 years experience appraising strategy, finance, and business models. This experience has been derived from working across multiple industries in the UK, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia, for globally based financial institutions, servicing some of the world’s leading corporations. Her broadly based skillset includes strategy and innovation, finance, risk governance, economics, general management and business development. Anna has an insatiable curiosity about how ingenious business models are created, executed, and evolve. Her core focus is on training people in all types of businesses (from start ups, new ventures and established firms), how to turn their sensational new growth ideas into value propositions that delight and business models that work.
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Cultivate top-notch communication skills to augment your relationship with your staff and in turn, boost your business. As business moves faster and faster in today’s digital age, it’s essential to assure that clear communication exists across your organization–and this course explores the skills required to make that dream a reality.
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Andreas Loizou has run training course since 1999. His clients include governments and financial institutions around the world. Andreas has also signed off research at BNP Paribas, worked in equity research at Goldman Sachs and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. He has also served as Director of Training at FT Knowledge, and was the highest-rated speaker on the Financial Times Intro to the City program six years in succession. Andreas has a first class degree in English Literature from Leeds and an M. Phil in English from the University of Cambridge. He is also a graduate of the Faber & Faber Novel Writing Academy. His first book, The Devil’s Deal, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 2012. It featured on the WH Smith Business Book Chart, was Pearson’s Business Book of the Month, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and six other languages. Andreas is now a Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School, where he talks to MBAs and Masters in Occupational Psychology about effective communication. He splits his time between London, Madrid and writing his next book – The Genius Guide to Modern Business Writing, which comes out in Spring 2015.
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Finance does not come easy to most of us who do not work directly in finance. Still, knowing financials, especially in terms of meeting objectives, is one of the most important skills a business professional can have. This course provides a fluent understanding of fundamental financial theory that will give you a leg up in any business-related industry, regardless of your place in it.
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Dr. Janet Cole has over 20 years of finance experience. She trained as a chartered accountant with Hays Allen and worked in financial and management accounting roles as well as audit, information systems and business change. Dr. Cole worked for a range of firms during her finance career such as ARRI, Hoechst and Moss Chemists. She worked closely with managers and directors helping them to understand and make decisions based on key financial data.
Dr. Cole has been involved in providing finance and information systems training in her commercial roles and as an Associate Professor at Kingston University where she teaches on Finance, Information Systems and Business Change courses. She is the current chair of the Business Change special interest group for the British Computer society and contributed to the review of the Change Management Institutes body of knowledge. For more details on this course and instructor, click here.
In our frantic, numbers-driven world, the importance of clear writing is often overlooked. Whether it’s a two-line email or a two-hundred-page report, the quality and speed of your written communication is crucial to your career success. Stand out by mastering business writing.
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Andreas Loizou has run training course since 1999. His clients include governments and financial institutions around the world.
Andreas has also signed off research at BNP Paribas, worked in equity research at Goldman Sachs and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with PWC. He has also served as Director of Training at FT Knowledge, and was the highest-rated speaker on the Financial Times Intro to the City program six years in succession.
Andreas has a first class degree in English Literature from Leeds and an M. Phil in English from the University of Cambridge. He is also a graduate of the Faber & Faber Novel Writing Academy. His first book, The Devil’s Deal, was published by FT Prentice Hall in 2012. It featured on the WH Smith Business Book Chart, was Pearson’s Business Book of the Month, and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean and six other languages.
Andreas is now a Leader in Residence at Leeds University Business School, where he talks to MBAs and Masters in Occupational Psychology about effective communication. He splits his time between London, Madrid and writing his next book – The Genius Guide to Modern Business Writing, which comes out in Spring 2015.
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Successful people need a wide range of practical skills to make the most out of the numbers available to them. This course will take you through a proven process derived from years of teaching financial and business modeling to the world’s top financial institutions.
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Harold Graycar is an experienced executive with a broad background in information technology, business development and general management.
His degrees are in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the University of Sydney, Australia. In addition to his numerate and analytic skills, Harold’s ability to communicate and work with personnel from non-technical backgrounds makes him a valuable contributor to multi-disciplinary projects, and an effective business trainer.
He has had over 25 years’ experience in technical, commercial and general management roles: advising corporate and government clients on project funding, models and strategies for business development, procurement of equipment and services and outsourcing of systems and operations — all based around business analysis and numerate skills.
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Project Management is central to the work and success of all organizations. In this course, you’ll master the art of Project Management and become one of the most valuable people in your company.
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Brett Topham has over 15 years of experience in contract and project management, and has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 2004. He has worked in a variety of roles in project / program management, procurement, contract management, and portfolio management. Mr. Topham served as the Deputy Account Lead with responsibility for a +$70M (annual) portfolio of U.S. Federal contracts, capturing and reporting financial data from all operations and projects; providing oversight, review, and approval of proposals and change requests; consolidating and presenting financial performance reports for senior management.
Don A. Cox has been a Project Management Professional (PMP®) since 1999, and has more than thirty years experience in successful integration and implementation of large scale IT systems in both the public and private sectors. Mr. Cox has successfully managed multi-year programs and projects ranging from $70M to more than $650M.
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