FREE COURSES FOR MEMBERS​

FREE COURSES FOR MEMBERS

Professional Writing

Professional writing is a course that aims to advance your business writing skills and techniques by developing your use of vocabulary, grammar, understanding of different business writing genres and your ability to write effectively write professional business documents. You will be taught a professional way of writing that is clear, concise and seeks to convey information and ideas quickly in a professional setting.  This course will be useful to anyone who provides written communication at work either administration staff, researchers, customer service professionals, auditors or someone who simply wishes to advance their professional writing skills in general. Learning the skills to professional writing will help with effective communication in the workplace. It is important to note that when writing in a professional setting, the higher the position of the addressee the more formal you should be. Our professional writing course is here to help you develop and improve your professional writing skills in a short period of time. After completing this course, you will be able to use your professional writing skills to express your ideas in a clear manner and inform and persuade the reader in any professional environment.

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Business Model

A business model (also known as a business plan) is a company’s core strategy for profitably doing business. An excellent business strategy builds your success and captures value for different aspects of your business. Business model innovation is key for delivering a longer lasting competitive advantage. This new online business model course demonstrates how exploring your business model logic and its implications for organizational structure can improve your organization’s approach to innovation and customer value creation. Whether you’re analyzing raw materials or making decisions about the newest form of business, your company’s business model directs your inquiries and ensures everything you do is for the good of your organization. The course will focus on a company’s products, services, target market and any anticipated expenses. A business model would help a new developing company to attract investment, recruit talent and initiate management and staff. For established businesses, a regular update on the company’s business plan is essential in anticipating trends and challenges ahead. Business plans also help investors evaluate companies that interest them. You will learn to better understand how to build a coherent and compelling business model narrative to describe and guide your operational managerial choices and what is required to ensure a scalable learning culture that both inspires workers to take chances and provides the structural elements to make it possible for them to do so. Additionally, to develop your own business strategy, pick the right product for your company, calculate anticipated expenses, balancing pricing and costs in order to produce a business idea that makes sense to investors. Upon completing this online business course, you will be able to build a coherent and compelling business model narrative to describe and guide your operational managerial choices.

Leadership

To become an effective leader one needs to have strong leadership skills. From honing skills in emotional intelligence and developing high-performing teams, to leading with influence or encouraging innovation, leadership development covers all the skills necessary to manage people, products, and projects more effectively. This course will be beneficial to any newly appointed manager, managers applying for a higher role and aspiring managers whether you are managing people, products or projects. In this program, you will learn about different leadership styles, how they can align communication, and when and how to apply each to be more agile and effective. You will develop relational skills, self-knowledge and self-awareness on the way to unfold your own leadership style. Learn to bring the best version of yourself to any situation. We will talk about how to encourage open, respectful, and productive conversations for improving collaboration and collective decision-making. We will also closely examine the role of communication for leaders’ identity and their relationships with others. By understanding and leveraging your power of persuasion, influence, and team dynamics, you will be able to develop your team’s success strategy for high performance. In addition, you will learn to make effective decisions and implement and develop new processes in any leadership role you acquire.

Investment Law

Investment Law will cover the current TRNC laws on various investment areas including but not limited to; property ownership, how to establish different company types as a foreigner in North Cyprus, tourism, obtaining licences and various other development opportunities. North Cyprus has become a hub for foreign investors as it continues to grow in its Real Estate and Development. This course will explore the nature of investment law as well as recent developments in the area, including investment strategies and procedures. The course will address both theoretical and practical aspects of investment law. North Cyprus’ beautiful scenery, low tax expenses and low costs of property makes for a secure, low risk investment option. Additionally, it is a non-Euro-zone economic area with an international population, meaning that all property prices are linked to the stable pound sterling, making it a huge investment point for overseas buyers. This course will also cover the unlimited investment opportunities found in starting a company in North Cyprus as well as rules pertaining solely to foreigners. We will teach you about each particular company type, all of the incentives and procedures for company establishment fully in accordance with the Law, as well as all the structure and start-up requirements and tax implications involved in respect to each different company type.  With Brexit requiring the UK to strike deals outside EU trade agreements, seize on this opportunity for skilled lecturers specialising in all aspects of international law. This course will steer you in the right direction when learning to invest in terms of the Law, as well as what is best for one’s own and/or company’s realization. Testimonials from featured guest speakers from all over the world who have investments in Northern Cyprus shall be a bonus gift at the end of the course. This course will be beneficial to anyone interested in investing or

Communication

Good communication in a company and in society overall is seen as an asset through which successful collaboration and positive effective change can be made. In any workplace environment you need to be able to effectively communicate and influence both your peers and/or customers or clients. This course will be beneficial to anyone just entering a new role and would like to improve their collaboration and communication skills for influence and positive impact. Through this course, you’ll discover the best communication strategies for effective workplace collaboration, and reflect on your own personal communication style in order to maximize your influence and achieve meaningful change within your profession. You’ll learn the importance of matching your communication style with your work and project goals and learn how to manage challenging conversations.  You’ll also learn when to cooperate and when to compete, how to create persuasive messages, ask thoughtful questions, engage in active listening, and choose the right medium (face-to-face conversation, video conference, phone call, or email) for your messages. By the end of the course, you’ll be able to understand what others want, respond strategically to their wants and needs, craft convincing and clear messages, and develop the critical communication skills you need to get ahead in business and in life.

Business Marketing

Marketing focuses on the branding and promotion of products and services to the market. A person with marketing knowledge and education has access to other different careers such as core sales and marketing concepts including marketing management, brand development, customer services, international business social media strategies, public relations and more. Social media provides brands and businesses the opportunity to interact with their customers in a personalized way on a huge scale is great telling of consumer reaction and behaviour and thus social media undoubtedly plays a huge role in the way a business is perceived in the current business and marketing world. In this course you will learn how to develop and implement an effective marketing plan that focuses on effective marketing tactics with goal setting and performance tracking skills, identify how and whish social media platforms can strengthen your marketing campaign and how to use content marketing as a form of promotion and marketing. You will also gain advanced knowledge in different skills including as how to set budgets, find new customers, enter into international markets and decide prices and profits for their business or company.

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Negotiation

Negotiation skills are vital in business as they aid in creating healthy relationships between parties which leads to smooth business, including in the delivery of services, sales and other legal contracts. Within a company, negotiation skills can lead to your career advancement. This course will help enhance your negotiation skills in order for you to effectively contribute to business success and gain an approach that brings up goodwill, despite any diversity in parties’ interests. A good negotiator knows how to create healthy, valuable and long-standing business relationships and reduces the chance of merging problems and conflicts in any given situation. In this course you will walk away with tools on how to resolve small differences between parties before they escalate, reflect on your own personal behaviours and refine your approach to be more effective in negotiating.