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Gain industry‑recognised qualifications to progress in your career or deepen your existing expertise

Professional Qualifications

Professional Qualifications to Advance Your Career

Our Professional Qualifications courses are training programmes designed to help individuals gain industry‑recognised qualifications that strengthen your knowledge and skills, confidence, and career prospects. We have a range of offerings, including leadership and management, accounting, health and safety, and HR practices. 

Flexible Study Options That Fit Around Your Life

Whether you want to take the next step in your career, or strengthen your current knowledge with an accredited qualification, these courses provide a range of study options - from self-study, tutor-led online or classroom delivery - allowing the flexibility to work around your current commitments.

Upcoming Courses

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  • Duration: 1 Day Course
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Face to Face at our St Albans Campus

During this 1 day course, learners will develop the skills and knowledge needed to deal with a range of emergency first aid situations, including: managing an unresponsive casualty, CPR, choking, shock, wounds and bleeding and minor injuries.

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  • Duration: 3 Day Course
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Face to Face at our St Albans Campus

Over a 3 day period, learners will develop the skills and knowledge needed to deal with a range of first aid situations, including: assessing an incident, managing an unresponsive casualty, CPR, heart attacks, choking, head and spinal injuries, fractures, anaphylaxis and more.

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  • Duration: TBC
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Online

This course is perfect if you are working in a managerial role or wanting to progress in your current career.

 

  • Unit 1 - Understanding the induction
  • Unit 2 - Developing yourself
  • Unit 3 - Leading and motivating a team effectively
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  • Duration: TBC
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Online

As well as providing an excellent knowledge base in leadership and management, this course is ideal for students who are planning to progress in their career to the next level of management and those aspiring to achieve a career as a leader or manager.

 

  • Unit 1 - Leading & Motivating a team effectively
  • Unit 2 - Planning change in the workplace
  • Unit 3 - Understanding conflict management in the workplace
  • Unit 4 - Understanding stress management
  • Unit 5 - Understanding training and coaching in the workplace
  • Unit 6 - Understanding quality managment in the workplace
  • Unit 7 - Managing workplace projects
  • Unit 8 - Solving problems and making decisions
  • Unit 9 - Understanding leadership
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  • Duration: TBC
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Online

Designed for project managers, department heads, and other middle managers. This ILM course will help you to further improve your skills and experience to increase your team’s performance and prepare for senior management responsibilities.

 

  • Unit 1 - Managing individual development
  • Unit 2 - Understanding organisational culture and ethics
  • Unit 3 - Becoming an effective leader
  • Unit 4 - Leading innovation and change
  • Unit 5 - Management communication
  • Unit 6 - Managing own continuing professional development
  • Unit 7 - Understanding financial management
  • Unit 8 - Solving problems by making effective decisions in the workplace
  • Unit 9 - Managing equality and diversity in the workplace
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  • Duration: TBC
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Online

Designed for project managers, department heads, and other practicing middle managers.

 

During the course, you will learn to evaluate individual performances in an organisation and explore how to use your own ability to fulfil key responsibilities of the leadership role. You will develop your technical knowledge, practical expertise, and your strategic insight. By managing individual development, understanding organisational culture and ethics, you will learn to become an effective leader.

 

  • Unit 1 - Managing individual development
  • Unit 2 - Understanding organisational culture & ethics
  • Unit 3 - Becoming an effective leader
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  • Duration: TBC
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Online

Designed for project managers, heads of departments, and other mid-level managers. This ILM course will help them to hone their skills and experience to improve their and their team’s performance and prepare for senior management responsibilities.

 

While completing your ILM qualification, you’ll learn how to facilitate innovation and change within your team, provide direction for your direct reports, and manage your own personal skills and development. You’ll study how the intricacies of organisational culture and ethics can influence your leadership style and how it can be leveraged to improve your company’s performance.

 

  • Unit 1 - Managing individual development
  • Unit 2 - Understanding organisational culture and ethics
  • Unit 3 - Becoming an effective leader
  • Unit 4 - Leading innovation and change
  • Unit 5 - Managment and communication
  • Unit 6 - Managing own continuing professional development
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  • Duration: TBC
  • Days/Times: TBC 
  • Location: Online

Designed for project managers, department heads, and other middle managers. This ILM course will help you to further improve your skills and experience to increase your team’s performance and prepare for senior management responsibilities.

 

While completing your ILM qualification, you’ll learn how to develop the effective communication skills you’ll need as a reflective manager, understand the importance of innovation and change management in a business, and how to evaluate your employees’ individual performance. You’ll study how to influence the management of equality and diversity within your business and learn how you can apply decision making techniques to various workplace situations.

 

  • Unit 1 - Managing individual development
  • Unit 2 - Understanding organisational culture and ethics
  • Unit 3 - Becoming an effective leader
  • Unit 4 - Leading innovation and change
  • Unit 5 - Management communication
  • Unit 6 - Managing own continuing professional development
  • Unit 7 - Understanding financial management
  • Unit 8 - Solving problems by making effective decisions in the workplace
  • Unit 9 - Managing equality and diversity in the workplace

Please choose the course you are most interested in from the dropdown list above.