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Certificate in Business Essentials

Identifying and Managing Development Priorities

24-28 Feb 2025
Paris
$5,950
 
16-20 Jun 2025
Dubai
$5,950
 
15-19 Sep 2025
Amsterdam
$5,950
 

Course Introduction

Competition is fierce across all markets, leading to evolving business models. Companies require teams that can identify critical actions to maintain superior performance, collaborate effectively to achieve goals, and apply high-level leadership skills to meet customer and stakeholder needs. Since no company can pursue every opportunity, developing the ability to prioritize and execute essential projects is crucial for sustaining excellent performance both now and in the future.

This Certificate in Business Essentials training course will help you develop the practices and techniques necessary to manage these demands proactively. It will enable you to translate strategy and planning into actionable steps, ensuring your company can achieve its objectives and adapt effectively as business conditions change.

This training course will feature:

  • Strategic choice and prioritisation of activities
  • Planning processes for business development
  • Team building in an agile and innovative culture
  • Leadership skills and actions that drive profitable growth
  • Anticipating and preparing for a changing future

Training Objectives

By the end of this training course, you will be able to:

  • Create action projects out of strategic programmes
  • Collaborate with partners to select priority projects and activities
  • Apply leading-edge tools and techniques of project management
  • Retaining control as part of effective project implementation
  • Lead and manage teams in a “built to change” business environment

Training Methodology

This training course will utilise a variety of proven adult learning techniques to ensure maximum understanding, comprehension and retention of the information presented.  This will include formal presentation with group discussion, group work on focused examples, detailed case study analysis and presentation, video presentations by experienced business executives, plus open discussion of specific development issues and challenges that individual participants now need to address.

Who should Attend?

This training course is highly participative and interactive, being broadly based and structured to advance the current capabilities of staff and to enable them to appreciate the wider business impact of their specialist activities.  Therefore, the course is suitable for a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Product and service development staff
  • Team leaders, supervisors, section heads and managers
  • Experienced general managers who wish to update their knowledge and skills
  • Project managers
  • Business development managers
  • Human resource development specialists

Course Outline

Day One:  Identifying Development Opportunities
  • Project definition, selection, focus and concentration of effort
  • Aligning projects with main strategic programmes
  • Contemporary best practice guidelines in project management
  • Evaluating and establishing priorities to achieve agreed goals
  • Project planning and agreeing the review processes
  • Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Two: Project Definition, Management and Control
  • Effective project definition techniques
  • Setting project scope and terms of reference
  • Internal and external negotiation and agreement
  • Project execution – including collaboration and outsourcing
  • Keeping projects under effective control
  • Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Three:  Leadership that Delivers Results
  • Team leadership, review, adjustment and control
  • Leading and managing internal/external/hybrid team structures
  • Creating vision, mission and values for the future
  • Understanding and managing internal and external expectations
  • Project leadership as a continuous development process
  • Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Four:  Entrepreneurship in Business Development
  • Building an entrepreneurial culture in your teams
  • Team-based models of business development
  • Financial and non-financial aspects of entrepreneurial activities
  • Balancing and managing risk and reward in business development
  • Retaining an entrepreneurial culture as an organisation grows and matures
  • Case example or case study on today’s topics
Day Five:  The Quest for Continuous Innovation
  • Innovation – the most significant part of business development
  • The difference between a sustaining and a disruptive innovation
  • Balancing sustaining and disruptive innovations in business strategy
  • Managing the life-cycles of products, services and strategies
  • Case example or case study to synthesise the whole course
  • Discussion – delegates’ plans for follow-up action

Certificates

  • COPEX Certificate of Attendance will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ section provides quick answers to the most common questions about our services, procedures, and policies. We aim to make your experience with us as straightforward as possible. For further assistance, our support team is ready to help.

How can I register?

There are several ways to register in our public training courses:
Online – Browse the Training Plan, select the course of choice, click on the button
“Register Now” inside the course outline page.
E-mail – Send the details (name, company name, email address and training course of
choice) of your nomination to [email protected]
Telephone – +971 4 368 6886 or +971 50 106 2750

When will I receive the confirmation for my registration/s?

Upon successful registration, processing window will take not more than 24 hours from the time of registration. An email including the registration confirmation, invoice and joining instructions will be sent to the provided email address.

What is included in the training fee?

Published training course fees are inclusive of the training venue, training manual, writing materials, lunch and coffee breaks with refreshments over the entire duration of the training course.

What are the available payment methods?

The training course fee can be settled by either:

  • Bank transfer
  • Credit Card

How many hours per day, and what are the timings of your training courses?

Our training courses will run for 5 hours per day. The standard daily timing is from 8:30 am – 3:30 pm including the coffee/tea breaks and lunch.

Where do you usually hold your training courses?

Our training courses courses are being held at five-star hotels in prime and iconic destinations across the globe. Cities such as Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dubai, Geneva, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, London, Houston, New York, Paris, Vienna, Zurich, etc.

Do you provide hotel booking assistance to your delegates?

Once officially registered, we can assist by providing the corporate rates provided by the hotel where the training course will be conducted. Early confirmation will enable us to secure the room at reduced rates

In case of failure to attend, what is your cancellation policy?

Our cancellation policy varies depending on the circumstances presented. Generally, cancellations must be initiated in formal writing at least 14 days prior to the commencement date of the training course. Further, the option to shift an existing registration to another training course on a later date is possible. Otherwise, a full refund will be initiated.

What will I receive after the training course?

Delegates who will attend and successfully complete the training course will earn a COPEX Certificate of Completion. This certification is designed to validate the successful knowledge transfer, and that the desired learning objectives and outcomes to further advance your professional competency are achieved.

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