General Management Certificate Courses

Working effectively with a team is one of the essential tasks of a manager, whether it is an employee of an organisation or a business owner. In the digital age, most managers are dealing with team members who are spread across the world. Communication and collaboration can be difficult with geographical and time constraints. That is what the Smart Teams: Collaboration in the Digital Age course aims to resolve. 

Emeritus’ Smart Teams: Collaboration in the Digital Age course addresses different engagement strategies that are vital for business success. It aims to align the engagement of the employees with the values and core mission of the organisation to generate higher revenues ultimately.

Smart Teams: Collaboration in the Digital Age by Emeritus one-month course combines cutting edge research from MIT with top-notch educators to facilitate learning using various interactive tools. Not only that, Emeritus uses a Socio-Metric Tool: Riff Platform to facilitate all the group discussions and assignments. Riff Platform is a cloud-based data insights application and video client.

The 30-days course on Contract Management covers contracts in detail: its terms, forming a contract, managing it and much more. We can see two types of business that take place: international and domestic. In these businesses, a number of contracts are made each day and businesses run on those contracts. 

There are different types of contracts: for service or sale, private or public, b2b or consumer, offline or online. To provide services or sell their goods, businesses make contracts and get themselves partners or distributors, exporters and associates. Even the government makes contracts for the development of infrastructure and services such as railways, highways and much more.

Nowadays in the world of contracting, various practices are mingling. For starters, due to the business being marked by integration, specialization and outsourcing, business entities are getting into various kinds of contracts. Furthermore, now there are certain standard terms in business which is known as General Conditions of Contract. Even though there is a decrease in transaction cost, the theme of either take it or leave it has been introduced. Next, the digitalization has accelerated contracts as now they take place on emails, e-stores and much more. Lastly with the help of software and digital contracts take place but it increases risks of careless mistakes.

The world we live in today is ever-changing and painstakingly competitive. As such, creative thinking is more important now than it has ever been. The Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise online course from the University of Bristol will help you develop the confidence to come up with ideas that have the potential to make a difference.

Not only will you learn how to come up with an idea, but you will also learn how to convert it into action. The Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise programme will equip you with problem-solving capabilities and problem-structuring tools to help you tackle complex issues. You will also learn how to articulate your ideas, pitch them successfully, and develop networks through this four-week programme.

With the Unleash Your Potential: Innovation and Enterprise online training, you will learn all that and more. You have to devote just three hours every week. Since this course is 100% online, applicants will study at a convenient pace. Candidates can also check out learner reviews for the programme before enrolment.

The Japanese Business Management training programme encompasses information about Japan's path to economic supremacy, its failure, and the potential to grow in the future. Learning from the case studies of industry giants like Nissan, Toyota, Honda, Softbank, and Recruit, students will understand the nuances of running successful businesses. The four-week edX course is self-paced.

Japanese Business Management online training offers an overview of the Japanese management ecosystem. The course is perfect for students in the domain of business and management. Japan's premier institution, Waseda University, provides the intermediate-level programme. Candidates need to commit three to five hours weekly to learn at a comfortable pace. 

The Japanese Business Management programme comprises several corporate philosophies for students to understand the benefits and limitations of Japan's business ecosystem. The course emphasises socioeconomic factors and international interventions that have shaped the corporate culture, vision, and strategy of Japan. Jusuke JJ Ikegami, from Waseda Business School (WBS), will be your edX course instructor. The self-paced course has two different tracks of enrolment; verified and audit track. The audit track is free of cost and gives access to the programme for a limited duration. 

TU Delft in collaboration with edX education has designed a certificate course on Open and Smart Government where it explores the processes, benefits, and challenges faced by governments as well as citizens for implementing the Open Government movement. The course will explore how governments can become more transparent and open but at the same time try to deal with several challenges related to data sensitivity. The students will be exposed to challenges solved in policy-making as well as explore algorithms and blockchain technology aiding this process. 

The Open and Smart Government programme will explore the need for open government data in policymaking. The course will explore learning about the technology that will help in open government data. The Open and Smart Government certification course will run for a short duration of 4 weeks and is planned as an intermediate difficulty level program. The amount of effort required to put it at least for 4 to 7 hours a week and this is an instructor-led course with requirements and deadlines. 

This course namely Working in Teams: A Practical  Guide is immensely beneficial for the candidates

This course also explains the importance of teams, it also explains the rules of individuals in the team, the necessity of systems and processes for fruitful teamwork and communication and it also discusses the processes for addressing team disputes or team conflicts.

The course will get you equipped with a huge range of tools and templates and you will be able to utilize this with any team. Working in Teams: A Practical  Guide certification course is mainly based on humanities and the level of this course is introductory, the course will be taught in the English language. Working in Teams: A Practical  Guide course is sponsored by UQx institution and this course is self-paced in nature, hence you can pursue this course at any time. The duration of this course is around 4 weeks and it requires a minimum effort of 6-8 hours per week. There are two options to enrol in the programme, verified and audit. If you want the certification, you can opt for the verified mode whereas in the audit track, you will have access to the course for a limited period of time. 

You will be instructed by instructors like Lydia Kavanagh(Professor at the University of Queensland) and David Neil(Senior lecturer at the University of Queensland).

The State Bank of India based course on Unleashing Creativity at the Workplace is an advanced level program created for the purpose of using creativity as a tool to help any individual contribute to the firm and themselves. The candidate will learn how to reinvent and renew themselves and learn to build strategies in both products and services in accordance with future demands. 

The candidate will use examples of new-age companies that have tried and succeeded over the years and will discuss the importance of a creative personality, process, and organization with examples and creative assignments. Unleashing Creativity at the Workplace certification course will enhance the creativity of students as a better value-adding employee and draws inspiration from Einstein in promoting the concept of imagination for enriching the creativity of the individual. Unleashing Creativity at the Workplace course runs for a small duration of 4 weeks and is self-paced for student comfort. The candidate needs to put in an effort of 1 to 3 hours a week with the expectation of having an above-average difficulty level.

The Business of Aging in the Longevity Economy course by edX imparts intelligence to the learners in wide concepts of aging which includes senior housing, public policies, an overview of aging, population trends, dementia care, and the importance of studying aging. This program also talks about the demand for service workers. The candidate will understand the concepts of health and aging by pursuing this program.

This program aims to provide comfortable and healthy life for all living beings. The business of Aging in the Longevity Economy course also speaks about the important concepts in senior living administration. There are three modules in the program which would suit all kinds of learners who want to gain knowledge in aging and the economy.

The verified certificate is provided to the participants who complete the Business of Aging in the Longevity Economy certification course in a successful way. The certificate is signed by a mentor and verified by the institute. This certificate can be shared on LinkedIn, resume, or CV of the participant. 

The fundamental course on Corporate social responsibility (CSR): A strategic approach, provides the learners a beginner-friendly atmosphere to learn the technique of CSR to be incorporated into businesses which shares values of scotties for both customer welfare and business profits. This Corporate social responsibility (CSR): A strategic approach certification course is issued by edX, an online education providing platform in partnership with the University of pennsylvania. Corporate social responsibility (CSR): A strategic approach programme, is under the guidance of experienced faculty from the University of Pennsylvania that follows a flexible learning system of self-paced online courses without much prerequisites. The students have the choice to audit the course without payment or go for a verified track account which offers the benefits of certification, unlimited course access, and graded assessments, to the students.

Corporate social responsibility (CSR): A strategic approach course mainly focuses on CSR and its applications with stresses on key and basic concepts like corporate structures and nonprofit experience involved in implementing CSR, developing better partnerships, improving uses of pooled resources, how to deepen the impact and so on. The candidates will be getting 2 tracks to complete the course. One is the verified track which offers unlimited access to the course materials. Again on the other hand in the audit track, the stduents are only allowed to study the course for a limited period free of cost.

Technology Forecasting for strategic decision making - An Introduction programme is an introductory-level study. The course helps you make sound strategic decisions using technological forecasting. Using practical problems and case studies, you will learn about various technological forecasting methodologies and extrapolation techniques with S-curves.

Technology Forecasting for strategic decision making - An Introduction certification has been designed by professor Bala Ramadurai of IIT Madras and professor Dmitry Kucharavy of EM  Strasbourg Business School. The course uses a combination of video lectures, live sessions, case studies, assignments, and an exam to help motivate you and evaluate your progress. You need to have data management skills to extract maximum knowledge from this course.

Technology Forecasting for strategic decision making - An Introduction is a four-week course postgraduate course in Management Studies with the option of certification. The course material will be available on Swayam, the online learning platform. Technology Forecasting for strategic decision making is an AICTE approved Faculty Development Program course.

Intellectual Property Management in the Food Sector: Safeguarding Your Trademarks in the Global Marketplace certification is a short initiative by 3 institutes namely EIT Food, University of Warsaw, and FutureLearn. With this course, candidates will be able to discover how intellectual properties can be protected in the food industry. This online programme falls under the Business & Management category of courses on FutureLearn.

Intellectual Property Management in the Food Sector: Safeguarding Your Trademarks in the Global Marketplace certification syllabus deals with managing, and safeguarding a company’s IP. The candidates will also learn to make an evaluation of the problem sources by using patents and navigating the entire world of SMEs.

Intellectual Property Management in the Food Sector: Safeguarding Your Trademarks in the Global Marketplace training course is very important for professionals because it will teach the best practices that one can use for a company’s intellectual property management since it is one of the greatest assets that a company can possess.

Candidates with the Introduction to Business Management certification can explore what qualities it takes to become a successful manager of the business. This 4 weeks short online course on business and Management is designed in partnership with King's College London, and FutureLearn. With this course, candidates will develop their very own personal style of managing a business.

With the help of this Introduction to Business Management certification, candidates can learn a whole range of business management skills that may seem relevant to their life, or any other field of work they are into. Candidates will also grasp mandatory concepts, terminology, and tools in Business Management.

Introduction to Business Management certification syllabus focuses on 4 important pillars under business management which are managing the people, the money, the information, and also having an understanding of one’s own self so that the candidate can communicate professionally in business situations thereby identifying their own leadership style.

Catching the attention of your audience is critical in today’s fast-paced business scenario. This necessitates communicating complicated business ideas and plans more simply. The Visual Thinking for Business online course is based on the trend of ‘Visual Thinking’, which focuses on conveying ideas in a captivating manner.

The Visual Thinking for the Business programme by iversity will equip you with visual representation and elementary drawing skills that will come in handy during business discussions, presentations, and meetings. With the help of this course, you will become proficient in drawing representative artefacts, objects, characters, and people.

The Visual Thinking for Business online programme will also teach you visual structuring techniques. This will help you to explicate complex business problems through the common visualisation language. Starting from simple shapes, you will gradually draw more sophisticated forms and faces. You will also learn a range of sketching, shaping, and colouring methods during this course.

Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step Two programme will talk about the changing culture in the NHS, particularly the shift from ‘what is the matter with the patient’ to ‘what matters to the patient’. This is the sequel to the ‘Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step One’ training course on FutureLearn. You will learn what personalised care is and how it will particularly help the population of England. 

The Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step Two online course is offered by NHS England and NHS Improvement and will be taught by Jo Fitzgerald and Colin Royle. It is a 4-week training programme. However, you can decide your own schedule. The course requires about 2 hours of learning each week. You will be exposed to various learning tools such as short videos, long-form and short-form articles, audio files and quizzes. You can also track your progress and be a part of a global classroom.   

Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step Two training also offers certification, which can be useful for your career. 

NHS England aims to move towards a highly personalised healthcare system for better health management. However, this is a relatively new concept, which is why FutureLearn is hosting the Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step One programme to educate about it. Through this course, you will understand this targeted approach to care and health.

The Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step One training is a four-week virtual programme provided by the NHS. The in-depth course content will explain how personalised care is a significant advantage for all of England’s residents and how this new healthcare system works in practice. The curriculum is free to join, open to everyone, with a self-paced schedule for convenient learning.  

Moreover, the Personalised Care: Peer Leadership Foundation - Step One course provides two other enrolment tracks (paid), each with its exclusive benefits. The curriculum also includes activities, articles, videos, audios, expert educators, and a completion certificate (for eligible learners only). You can progress at your comfortable pace and dedicate just two hours per week to finish the training adequately.