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Business and Management Courses

If you work in the business and professional sector, you'll be providing services in areas like accounting, business management, finance, economics, sales and marketing, project management, administration and employment.
The sector also includes jobs in trade unions, employer organisations and associations.
Jobs in the business and professional section cross over into every kind of industry imaginable. You could be working in reception for an oil refinery, doing the accounts for a bookseller or be part of the human resources team for a telecommunications company.
The are also many opportunities to work interstate or overseas with many of the skills in the business and professional sector.

Business and Management CoursesIf you work in the business and professional sector, you'll be providing services in areas like accounting, business management, finance, economics, sales and marketing, project management, administration and employment.

The sector also includes jobs in trade unions, employer organisations and associations.

Jobs in the business and professional section cross over into every kind of industry imaginable. You could be working in reception for an oil refinery, doing the accounts for a bookseller or be part of the human resources team for a telecommunications company.

 


The are also many opportunities to work interstate or overseas with many of the skills in the business and professional sector.

Jobs in Business and Management:

  • Start Your Own Business
  • Work in a Professional Office Environment
  • Project Management
  • Marketing and Advertising
  • PR, HR, Leadership & Motivation

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Short Course

Advertising and Promotions

  Learn to take a Product or Service and Promote it Effectively Upon enrolment, you will receive all of the materials that are essential to complete the course.  There are ten lessons in this course, each requiring about 10 hours work by the student. This course is designed as a program to first help you understand the marketing world, then to assist you in making decisions and developing skills in marketing. Emphasis is placed on profitability and efficiency!

Business Operations

  The aim of this course is to provide you with the building blocks for a successful career in business planning and operations. Covering topics such as business law, the money market, taxation, business plan writing and mistakes to avoid, it is a solid foundation, developed by highly qualified and experienced professionals.

Business Planning

  Planning is an integral part of the success of a business. In every business, there are certain things that should be planned for, using systematic, proven methods. This course will help you to develop a better capacity to plan, and in turn, develop a better capacity to successfully manage a business.

Business Studies

  This course develops the skills necessary for managing a small business, or a department within a larger business. Developed by professionals with many years of experience, it covers a range of topics that will ensure your career in Management has a strong foundation.

Entrepreneurship

  This course analyses entrepreneurship as a crucial part of business development, and will enhance your ability to apply entrepreneurial principles to business. Develop the entrepreneur in you! increase innovation in your business, and increase the chance of business success.

Industry Project

  This is a practical requirement for several certificate and diploma qualifications.

Instructional Skills

  This course develops skills in teaching. At 100 hours of study, this course includes, but exceeds the scope of a typical Train the Trainer Course. Learn to train staff for a workplace to perform their jobs better; more efficiently and safely. It is appropriate for people teaching at a vocational level, or involved in supervising and instructing staff in a workplace situation.

Leadership

  Leadership skills are needed in all facets of our society: business, politics, religion, youth services, and leisure industries, to mention only some. This new course is relevant to all of those areas, developing your understanding of, and capacity to apply leadership skills

Legal Terminology

  Want to understand the law better? An understanding of legal terminology is valuable in many different situations. Anyone working in a law office needs this knowledge; and often a course like this can be a first step toward a job such a situation Businessmen, politicians, public servants, accountants...in fact many different professions need a solid understanding of legal terminology The language of law differs from most other role-specific languages in that legal language is culture-bound and intertwined with each particular society and its legal system. Legal language is not a universal language such as is the case of the language of natural science, which is an almost universal language utilised by scientists worldwide. Legal language is developed in laws or sentences, in administrative acts or in private negotiations, and it is always based in the dialectical relationship between being and having to be, between legal prescription and concrete case. While retaining its fundamental characteristics, it has diversity of styles and of environments.

Management

  This course outlines management theories and procedures, problem solving and decision making tactics, staff management, and more. Developed by professionals with a substantial amount of industry experience, it is the perfect foundation for a successful career.  Make sure your management style is grounded in the 'tried and true'.

Marketing Foundations

  Marketing is a cornerstone of every modern business. A lack of marketing knowledge is frequently the reason why a good business concept does not succeed. This course deals with all aspects of marketing from presentation and packaging, to advertising and selling. It will help you to develop an acute awareness of what is needed to achieve and maintain a good market share.

Marketing Psychology

  Why do people choose to buy something? What influences their thinking to decide one way rather than another? Develop your ability to understand how an understanding of Psychology can be applied to marketing. When you understand why people make a decision to buy, or not to buy, you have a foundation for improving the marketing of anything. This is a different but very important and valuable course for anyone involved in sales, marketing or business of any kind.

Marketing Systems

  This course is designed as a program to help you firstly understand the marketing world; then assist you in making a decisions and developing skills in marketing. Emphasis is placed on profitability and efficiency!

Motivation

  Understand what Motivates People in any area of life.     Motivated people work better, live more satisfied lives and are generally healthier and happier.  Motivated employees drive the success of a business. Learn how to get the best of employees by understanding more about this fascinating subject. Motivation is very simply, a process or mechanism that causes us to act or think in a certain way. It is a general term for any part of the hypothetical psychological process that involves experiencing needs and drives, and the behaviour that leads to the goal that satisfies them.

Personnel Management

  This course will develop your ability to carry out the various tasks associated with managing personnel, such as recruitment, training and controlling. Emphasis is placed on knowledge and methods that will improve workplace morale and productivity.

Professional Practice For Consultants

  Want To Start a Consultancy Business? This course is a valuable guide to setting up and operating a consulting business in any profession. Experts are always in demand by business, government bodies, public organisations and private individuals. Everyone needs help from time to time from someone who has greater expertise than themself. If you have training, and/or significant experience in just about anything;  you may have the potential to become a consultant in your field of expertise.

Project Management

  Project Management is an invaluable tool used in all industries, and in all sorts of situations. It is relevant to a diverse range of projects, including technical, human resources, marketing, and more. This is a compressed version of a much longer course, so it is highly informative, and great value for money. It was developed by highly qualified professionals, with years of experience in their respective fields. This course develops your ability to manage a wide variety of different types of projects, with relevance to any industry

Sales Management

  For any company or organisation to have success financially it must have a desirable product. This product must be of need to a large proportion of the general public. Advertising, using all available media outlets, should get the message across. But the most important link after the manufacturing and advertising (marketing) is the salesperson/sales representative - The person who actually sells the product to the consumer. Without him, the financial/corporate world would come to a halt!  This course will take you from developing a strong personality (confidence and knowledge) through to communication, marketing, dealing with upper management, getting to know your product, the A B C of selling, the opening and closing or a sale, stress management, how to increase your company's profits, etc.

Sales Skills

   Learn to close the deal! This course guides you through many different methods of Opening and Closing a Sale. Discover the secrets of successful salespeople and draw out the ammunition you need to take charge of your career today. What is the difference between selling and marketing?Selling is the ultimate destination of the marketing process, but not the whole process. Marketing involves a much bigger and wider perspective, of which selling is only a part. Marketing is the process of packaging up product features, pricing, promotions and distribution and presenting them to the market for consideration. It encompasses both the pre-sale and post sale process.

Small Business Management

  Have you ever considered running a business of your own – working the hours you want with no one else to answer to but yourself? Why not make the break now and start earning the income you desire. Courses Direct’s Small Business Management course teaches the skills and principles you should know in order to establish your own business, so you can start making money and enjoy the freedom that comes from working for yourself. Think of the satisfaction you will feel by starting your own business and watching it grow. You can be the one in control of every element of its success.

Starting A Small Business

  Learn how to start a business under the guidance of a professional business expert, and plan and initiate development of a business venture. A large percentage of small businesses fail within the first two years. Make sure your business isn't one of them! This course will be one of the reasons it won't be. There are two parts to the course. In the first part, you learn about how to run a business. The second part involves either you starting a business (this may be very small, or larger), or reviewing the running of an established business. Over several lessons, your tutor will guide you through several stages which assess, analyze and improve operations in this "real life situation".

Supervision

  Learn to be a Supervisor, for any workplace. The key to success of any company or organisation is good management and the key to good management is the Supervisor.  Good supervision is, in fact, the single most important factor in the success of any advanced economy.

Workplace Health & Safety

  Learning to recognise potentially dangerous situations can mean the avoidance of litigation, work disruption, and significant, unnecessary costs. Make sure that an accident that could have been avoided is not the reason your business fails. This course was developed by highly qualified professionals, who have years of experience in industry.


Certificate

Certificate in Legal Practice

  Take a first step toward working in the Law. The legal and crime prevention industries are huge; and only a small proportion of people who work in these professions are lawyers. Everyone working in these industries still needs to understand legal language; have good communication and organisational skills and be able to interact with and support the overall purpose of the organisation they work in; whether a legal office, police, jail, court, security firm; or something else. This course has been developed to build knowledge and skills that are valuable for support staff in all of these types of organisations. (eg. Law office staff, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Solicitors, Law Professors, Legal Receptionists/Secretaries, Private Investigators, Authorised Government Inspectors and Officers, Law Enforcement Officers and many others.

Certificate In Marketing

  A successful career in marketing depends very much on the most appropriate training. An outgoing personality, organised and communicative is an asset, but education is a key factor for success. This course provides a solid foundation for working in marketing, either in your own business, or in someone else's. The right combination of knowledge, skill, and personality will always be in high demand; so if you need the skills and knowledge, this course is a legitimate step in the right direction.

Certificate In Personnel Management

  At the heart of every successful business is sound personnel management. Learn how to improve morale and productivity in workplace, and strengthen your capacity to manage effectively. A foundation qualification for supervisors, personnel managers or even business owners who wish to strengthen their capacity to manage people.


Advanced Certificate

Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Marketing)

  This Advanced Certificate in Applied Management (Marketing) trains in you those practical skills needed to manage your business or to work in a company at a managerial level. The course will give you the basic knowledge and basic practical experience to boost your confidence in moving to a new position or creating your own company. This is a flexible, relevant course for those wanting to move into supervisory or managerial positions.

Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Small Business)

  Training for Entrepreneurs, Small Businessmen or anyone seeking to improve their career prospects in the world of Commerce.It offers core study options (including Office Practice, Management, Business Operations and Marketing Foundations), as well as specialist subjects, which focus on those areas highly applicable to small business.

Advanced Certificate In Applied Management (Supervision)

  This is a very solid training for anyone working or wishing to work as a supervisor or manager of people in any type of workplace.The course was devised originally with input from a variety of independent industry representatives from outside the school; and it has been continually reviewed and revised in response to feedback from students (sought upon completion of each module), as well as feedback from teaching staff and industry contacts.


Associate Diploma

Associate Diploma In Human Resource Management

  Effective Human Resource Management is an essential part of the development and execution of company strategy. A great Human Resource Manager is multi-skilled, and has a broad knowledge base.  This course is a comprehensive foundation on which to build a strong career in HR. It covers a diverse range of subjects; which is indicative of the scope of this profession. The course has been developed by a professional with over 30 years experience in the field.

Associate Diploma In Marketing Management

  Marketing Managers are responsible for all aspects of marketing, not just sales (Sales managers deal only with sales). In smaller businesses, the marketing manager may often also be the sales manager, but in large well structured organisations, the Marketing Manager could find themselves in charge of tasks as diverse as stock control and transport, packaging, general promotions, and after sales service, with one or several sales managers heading sales teams working under their direction. Job Prospects and Opportunities Graduates may seek work across a wide range of industries, in positions such as: Marketing Officer Sales Manager, Sales Representative Retail Manager Distribution Manager Marketing Manager Promotions or Public Relations Officer Freelance Marketing Consultant Customer Service Officer Small Business Owner/Operator Commission Salesperson ... etc This course aims to train you on a broad basis to undertake anything from a narrow to very broad scope of activities within the realm of business operations, specific to marketing.


Diploma

Diploma in Management

  Management skills are in high demand, but for a successful career in management, you will require not only knowledge and skill, but an appropriate personality and a depth of experience to draw from to make the right decision for each situation you confront.  This course is great value for money, and offers highly qualified tutors who are still very much active in management

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