Key Corporate Skills
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There are a number of skills that professionals need in the business environment which don’t necessarily fall under the standard headings of 'leadership', 'strategy', 'people management' – in fact most of the other headings in the professional skills section. These skills cross disciplines and enable you to become a more rounded manager and leader within your organisation, adding depth to your knowledge.
Ethical issues within the workplace have increased in prominence over the past decade from a peripheral consideration to a central factor in strategic decision making. For this reason, we have developed two courses to specifically raise awareness in these areas: Corporate social responsibility in practice (GB070) and Ethics at work: professional ethics in the 21st Century (GA028).
Courses
- Ethics at work: professional ethics in the 21st century
This short online course about ethics at work is designed to support professionals who encounter complex, important and topical ethical issues in their practice. - Respecting religious diversity at work
This course offers an introduction to the issues surrounding the impact of religious diversity in the workforce and the community that your organisation operates in. - Effective leadership skills
Examine different leadership ideas and theories, identify those of most value to you, and develop your own leadership practices and skills with this practical course. - Managing diversity
You will explore the basic principles of equality and diversity as they relate to the individual at work in respect of colleagues and customers. - Improving your negotiation skills
This short course helps you develop effective negotiation skills for your own work setting, using case studies to explore stages of negotiation and negotiation techniques. - Time management for you and your team
Create a more efficient business by improving time management, and learn techniques enabling you and your staff to prioritise, delegate and plan more effectively. - Working across cultures
This course introduces a number of key techniques and competencies for working across cultures and the opportunity to use them in your real working context. - Discover and apply your creative skills
This course will help develop a more creative attitude at the personal level and have a positive impact on the creativity of those around you. - Corporate social responsibility in practice
This course is aimed at individuals who need to know about CSR to understand and contribute to CSR policies and practices in their organisation. - Effective decision-making skills
This course explores how to reduce the time you spend on routine decision-making, leaving more time to consider the more challenging strategic decisions. - Mentoring at work
Advance your mentoring effectiveness by improving your workplace as a learning environment, using your skills as the key resource for helping mentees develop their own. - How to design and analyse surveys
Examine principles and processes of designing and analysing surveys, for developing new services or measuring responses to services, and how to apply them in practice. - Sustainability at work: how to go green
This course aims to introduce the broad aspects of sustainability encompassed by UK government policy. - The evolving information professional: challenges in a digital world
This course is for information professionals looking to keep up to date with modern technologies, sources of information and today’s users.
More courses
See the list of all our Professional skills courses.
Skills at the OU
- Change Management
- Clinical Leadership
- Communications
- Financial Management
- Food Science Skills
- General Management Skills
- Health and Social Care
- Human Resource Management
- IT Skills
- Key Corporate Skills
- Leadership
- Marketing
- People Management
- Problem Solving
- Project Management
- Strategy
- Travel Planning
- Updating Teacher Practice Skills
Spotlight on Key Corporate Skills
Understanding stress at work
What does stress mean? How do you identify it? How can you manage stress? Understanding stress at work (GB009) starts with the legal requirements to stress management in the workplace and how you as a manager of people can manage it positively in your own context
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