(Short Course) Business Communication Skills

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Course details

Year of entry

2025

Duration

4 weeks

Institution Code

G53

Location

Online

Why choose this course?

This course offers a structured approach to support you and your organisation to tackle the current challenges of a rapidly changing business environment where business leaders are required to communicate effectively to avoid conflict and manage an agile organisational culture.

Key course features

  • Study online.
  • Learn effective business communication skills to provide your organisation with the tools and techniques required to communicate more effectively with key stakeholders.
  • Explore emotional intelligence, public speaking, presentation skills and corporate communications.

What you will study

This course will cover the following topics:

  • Introduction to Business Communications
  • The art of collaboration and teamwork: Emotional intelligence and awareness
  • Social and public communication: Public speaking, presentation skills and corporate communications
  • Written communication and reading between the lines

Undertaking this course will require:

  • 16 hours of Scheduled Learning and Teach Hours.
  • Guided Independent Study.

Entry requirements & applying

There are no entry requirements for this course; just an interest in the subject!

 

Teaching & Assessment

You will be required to complete an online discussion forum on each weekly topic. The forums will enable you to reflect and demonstrate your learning. Ongoing learning log and reflections on discussions for the different topics each week will combine to form the assessment.

 

Fees & funding

£45

Do you live in Wales? We have a number of funding opportunities available, please complete the form below to find out if you are eligible to study this course for free. Apply now via this form.

Once you have completed your fee waiver application this will go to our funding team to process, and we will then contact you as soon as possible to let you know if you are eligible or not to have your fees waived..

If you are eligible, we will then contact you to let you know how to secure your place on the course..

* Please note the fee waiver is only available to students studying 30 credits or less in an academic year. If you commence further study during this academic year, which will take you over 30 credits, this may result in the fee waiver being removed and you may be charged for the short course.

Course dates

This course doesn’t have any fixed dates for the 2023/2024 academic year but is available upon demand.

If you would like to be part of a cohort for this short course, or if you would like to register a cohort from your workplace, please email us at enterprise@glyndwr.ac.uk.

The delivery of this short course can be flexible to meet your or your business’ needs.