Being a professional in today's fast-paced environment means having the right leadership and commercial skills to manage teams and win new clients. Improve your impact with our range of business courses.

Presentation Delivery Skills

Increase your confidence in delivering high-quality client presentations.

Jul
03
2024

Wednesday
09:30–17:30

Influence and Impact

Evaluate your personal impact and increase your influence in business

Jul
16
2024

Tuesday
09:30–17:30

Building your Inclusive Toolkit for All Research

Unless you’re consciously including people, you’re almost certainly unconsciously excluding people. This course will empower you to confidently take an inclusive approach to any research study, no matter how big or small.

Jul
18
2024

Thursday

Presentation Delivery Skills

Increase your confidence in delivering high-quality client presentations.

Sep
12
2024

Thursday
09:20–17:30

Goodbye to Stereotypes - Designing Research That is Effective, Fair and Empowering

Research can play a powerful role in giving lesser-heard groups a platform to represent themselves. This also has significant benefits for research buyers, enabling commercial and public organizations to better serve minority groups.  

This training session will help you address biases and blind spots, along with offering guidance on research design that will enable you to achieve valid and effective results.

Sep
12
2024

Thursday
09:25–16:00

Project Management Masterclass

Learn the fundamental skills and processes of effective project management

Sep
26
2024

Thursday
09:30–17:30

Strategic Management Skills

Using the tools and techniques that work in leading people.

Oct
24
2024

Thursday
09:30–17:30

An Introduction to Brand Research

Brands have become vital corporate assets, representing over 40% of the total value of the world's largest companies. Measuring, managing and maximising brand equity are therefore core competencies for almost any organisation, yet the quality of understanding in this area remains sketchy.

Oct
29
2024

Tuesday
09:30–13:30

Customer Experience - Understanding and Improvement

Managing the customer experience is fundamentally important to all organisations.

Nov
14
2024

Thursday
09:30–16:00

Influence & Impact

Research is a ‘people’ business: it’s built upon relationships and influence.  Clients, whether internal or external, will listen to, and be influenced by, those who sell the benefits to them of doing so, who deliver their definition of ‘value’ and whom they trust and respect.  The astute researcher therefore recognises the importance of the ‘emotional’ elements of business (communication, relationships, influence and impact), and knows how to leverage these for both personal and organisational

Nov
19
2024

Tuesday
09:30–17:30

Asking Smarter Questions

Asking Smarter Questions is a new training course from award-winning author and trainer Sam Knowles, which champions the art of curiosity, setting out the six Universal Principles that make every question count.

Nov
20
2024

Wednesday
09:30–16:00

Advanced Client Relationship Management

Build the commercial skills to manage and retain clients

Nov
21
2024

Thursday
09:30–17:00

One Day MBA

Journey to the heart of successful business administration with management tools that deliver immediate value

Nov
25
2024

Monday
09:00–17:00

Supercharging Systemic Change - Embedding Diversity, Equity & Inclusion within Organisations

Over the last few years, the narrative around Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) practices has moved on significantly. These are no longer “nice to haves” - a number of tailwinds are making DEI a must for any organisation, as it should be.

Nov
28
2024

Thursday
09:30–16:00

Effective & Agile Leadership Skills

Learn how to lead engaged, focused and high-performance teams

Nov
28
2024

Thursday
09:30–17:30

Building your Inclusive Toolkit for All Research

Unless you’re consciously including people, you’re almost certainly unconsciously excluding people. This course will empower you to confidently take an inclusive approach to any research study, no matter how big or small.

Dec
05
2024

Thursday

Coaching Skills for Senior Researchers

Learn how to have effective conversations in every aspect of your life as a researcher

Dec
10
2024

Tuesday
10:00–16:00

Presentation Delivery Skills

Increase your confidence in delivering high-quality client presentations.

Dec
12
2024

Thursday
09:30–17:30

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