Professional Business Skills - Futureproof Training

Topics to choose from:

Understanding the benefits of effective project management
The key stages of project management
- Scope / Planning / Execution / Monitoring / Closure
Setting clear project objectives / goals
- Feasibility research
- Agreeing success criteria
Personal organisation, planning & prioritisation
- Assigning key roles & responsibilities
Project execution
- Implementing a communication strategy
Monitoring & evaluating progress
- Critical path analysis

Understanding the writing process
- Adopting a structured approach
- Separating planning & writing
- The importance of accuracy & objectivity
Using language well
- Is your writing interesting?
- Use plain english
- Avoid distracting the reader with mistakes
Ensuring your documents are reader-centric
Identifying the most effective document structure
- Organising the key points & relevant facts
- Selecting the most appropriate visuals
- Writing a summary / conclusion

What is diversity and inclusion?
The key legal principles which impact on diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- 2010 Equality Act
- Identifying the four main types of discrimination
Why it makes business sense to embrace diversity and inclusion?
- Understanding unconscious bias
- Why everyone holds unconscious beliefs
- The difference between conscious & unconscious bias
- Learning how to adjust your patterns of thinking
How to encourage the values and behaviours that foster an inclusive culture
- Identifying key behaviours required
- Employing an inclusive approach to all business activities

How effective finance management can benefit the business
- Understanding financial jargon & phrases
- Profit, cash flow & the balance sheet
The importance of a healthy cash-flow position
Understanding & managing business cost
Variable & fixed costs
Calculating break-even point
Financial planning ~ forecasting & budgeting

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