An intensive professional development training course on
Certificate in Business Essentials
Identifying and Managing Development Priorities
Why Choose Certificate in Business Essentials Training Course?
Certificate in Business Essentials Training Course is designed for organisations operating in highly competitive markets where business models, priorities, and customer expectations are constantly evolving. In this environment, companies must focus their resources on what truly matters. The ability to identify development priorities, make strategic choices, and execute the right initiatives is essential to sustaining superior performance both now and in the future.
This Business Essentials Course addresses the reality that no organisation can pursue every opportunity available to it. Instead, success depends on prioritising essential activities, aligning projects with strategy, and mobilising teams to deliver results. Participants will explore how to convert strategic intent into practical action by applying effective planning, leadership, and collaboration techniques across the organisation.
By attending this Certificate in Business Essentials Training Course, participants will develop the skills needed to proactively manage change, lead teams in agile environments, and ensure that projects support long-term business objectives. The course emphasises leadership behaviours, team-based execution, and forward-looking thinking, enabling organisations to anticipate future challenges and respond with confidence, focus, and clarity.
What are the Goals?
This Business Essentials Training Course aims to strengthen participants’ ability to translate strategy into action while maintaining control, collaboration, and alignment across the organisation. The course focuses on practical skills that support effective project selection, leadership, and execution.
By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:
- Convert strategic programmes into clearly defined and actionable projects
- Collaborate effectively with partners and stakeholders to prioritise activities
- Apply leading-edge tools and techniques of project management
- Retain control throughout the lifecycle of project implementation
- Lead and manage teams in a business environment designed for continuous change
- Balance competing priorities while maintaining focus on essential outcomes
These goals ensure participants are equipped to deliver measurable results in dynamic business conditions.
Who is this Training Course for?
Professionals Responsible for Business Development and Execution
This Certificate in Business Essentials Training Course is designed for professionals who play a role in identifying priorities, managing projects, and leading teams across the organisation, including:
- Product and service development professionals
- Team leaders, supervisors, section heads, and managers
- Experienced general managers seeking to refresh their knowledge and skills
- Project managers responsible for delivery and control
- Business development managers
- Human resource development specialists supporting organisational growth
The course is particularly valuable for those seeking a broader understanding of how their specialist role contributes to overall business performance.
How will this Training Course be Presented?
This Certificate in Business Essentials Training Course is delivered using a range of proven adult learning methods designed to maximise understanding, engagement, and retention. The learning approach is highly interactive and encourages active participation throughout the course.
The course presentation includes:
- Structured presentations combined with group discussion
- Group work based on focused business examples
- Detailed case study analysis and participant presentations
- Video presentations by experienced business executives
- Open discussion of real development challenges faced by participants
This blended methodology ensures that concepts are not only understood but also applied. Participants will leave with practical insights and tools that can be directly transferred to their own organisational context.
The Course Content
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Certificate and Accreditation
- AZTech Certificate of Completion for delegates who attend and complete the training course
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