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Forthcoming Courses
If you’re starting or expanding a business and looking for new ideas or direction, we have a number of courses to put you on the right track. Read below to see what courses are currently available or call 0800 952 0181 for further information. Please note courses are subject to change.
Advanced Marketing
This course will enable you to think critically about the application of marketing and improve your abilities to overcome the problems typically associated with implementing a marketing strategy. You will also learn how to achieve superior performance in sales growth, market share and turnover.
Target Audience: Anyone wanting to gain an in-depth understanding of marketing practices in order to achieve superior performance, growth and market share.
Book Keeping Made Easy
Sometimes people fear the bookkeeping or accounting process, outsourcing it to another individual or company. Through attending this course, we will help you understand the financial aspects of business so you can handle your finances with confidence.
Target Audience: Anyone looking to broaden their understanding of bookkeeping and accounting.
Exploring Self-Employment
Have you ever thought about starting your own business? Exploring Self-Employment is designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs understand the ins and outs of going into business.
Target Audience: For anyone interested in what it takes to become self-employed or to start a new business.
Financial Forecasting
This course provides a basic understanding of how to prepare a financial plan and explores some of the problems associated with budgeting alongside "best practices" in budgeting.
Target Audience: Anyone interested in discovering how to prepare a financial plan, potential pit falls of ineffective forecasting and best practice.
First Aid
The course focuses on key life-saving skills, provides an opportunity to learn the first aid response to the most common accidents and situations, and is underpinned by relevant theory.
Target Audience: Anyone wanting a basic understanding of emergency care.
Go For It!
Many people fail to follow their dreams of starting a business or becoming self-employed because they lack the self-belief or confidence to make it happen. This course is designed to give you an insight to how you can pass your strengths and skills in to enterprise and build upon them for the future.
Target Audience: Anyone looking to make a positive change in their life, learn new skills, improve self-confidence and ultimately become more prepared for self-employment and enterprise.
Marketing Your New Business
There are many ways to market your business and generate new business leads. This course is designed to open you up to new ideas and ways of improving your marketing strategy to make your sales grow consistently year on year.
Target Audience: Anyone looking to produce an effective marketing strategy for their new business and explore new ways of identifying and targeting potential customers.
Money Matters
Money Matters is a short course designed to make you more aware of personal finance options, how to address debt problems and plan for the future. This is a friendly and informal course typically running over three sessions held in easy to reach local community centres and venues across North East Lincolnshire.
Target Audience: Anyone with the desire to gain greater confidence in managing their finances, understand how to plan for major purchases and move forward.
Practical Selling Skills
This course provides an introduction to the sales process and demonstrates some basic selling techniques that, when implemented, can lead to increased sales through understanding how customers make buying decisions. If you are considering starting a business or are already trading and have little or no experience of selling then this course is for you.
Target Audience: Anyone considering starting a business or already trading wishing to increase sales and understand the customer decision making process.
Producing Your Business Plan
Business plans come in many shapes and sizes. During this course you will learn about generating ideas, analysing the market, promoting your business, sales and cash flow forecasting and how to run a sustainable business.
Target Audience: Anyone wishing to learn how to build a realistic and robust business plan for starting-up.
Understanding Marketing
What is marketing? Good marketing starts before a product is produced or a service delivered. This course will help you understand your competitors, identify your customers and highlight what you need to consider for effective marketing.
Target Audience:For anyone interested in how effective marketing techniques can help them target their customers.
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