Business and management
New and emerging managers
Toolkit for new managers
Gain confidence and essential leadership skills as a new manager. Master management techniques, enhance planning, and develop effective problem-solving skills. You'll learn to prioritise tasks, identify an inspiring leadership style, and create a motivating workplace environment. Prepare to tackle team challenges, from conflict resolution to driving change. Join the Centre for Continuing Education (CCE) and equip yourself for success in any sector.
CCE Toolkit for new managers course
Team managers and leaders’ essential skills
Communication will be your most used tool as a new or aspiring leader. This entry-level management course will enhance your communication, goal-setting, conflict management, and trust-building skills. It offers practical strategies for effective team leadership. Key topics include leadership roles, team effectiveness, motivation, and handling conflicts. It's suitable for new managers, team leaders, and supervisors.
CCE Team managers and leaders’ essential skills course
Strategic planning and management
Unlock the power of strategic thinking to clearly define your organisation’s vision and mission. Learn how to make critical decisions that set strategic objectives and guide your organisation’s direction.
Access essential analytical skills and tools to develop effective strategies and discover how to translate them into actionable operational and project plans within budget constraints. Explore innovative strategies that lead to your desired future.
CCE Strategic planning and management course
Stakeholder management
Learn to effectively manage diverse stakeholders in everyday contexts, not just during specific projects. This course is designed for those who interact with stakeholders without direct reporting relationships in commercial, government, and non-profit sectors.
By the end, you'll be able to apply key principles of stakeholder management, including understanding power and interest dynamics, handling adversarial situations, and building support and advocacy.
CCE Stakeholder management course
Centre for Continuing Education (CCE)
If you're an aspiring business professional or business owner looking to enhance your skills and knowledge, our business and management courses are the perfect choice for you.
Our courses cover a wide range of hard and soft skills providing you with practical insights and real-world tasks to immediately implement new skills.
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Management
Build your confidence and skills to excel in a management role. Join CCE to learn strategies and tactics needed for effective management to develop your relationships with employees or tackle complex situations with ease.
Sydney Leadership Accelerator Program
University of Sydney Business School
Unlock your leadership potential. Cultivate essential skills to navigate leadership transitions and confidently drive personal and organisational success. This four-day program is designed for new and experienced managers and provides vital frameworks and insights for effective leadership in complex environments. Collaborate with peers and return ready to inspire change in your organisation.
Sydney Leadership Accelerator Program course
Team management
People management essentials
Unlock your team's potential and enhance your people management skills to boost overall performance. Acquire practical communication and negotiation strategies to effectively manage individuals and teams. Learn to lead more efficiently, navigate change, and resolve conflicts within your team.
CCE People management essentials course
Coaching skills for managers
Bring out the best in your people with workplace coaching. Learn essential coaching skills to help solve problems, set goals, and foster on-the-job learning. Discover how to boost motivation and performance through techniques like the GROW cycle, solution-focused questions, SMART goals, reframing, and action planning. This practical course enables immediate application of your skills, promoting individual and team growth and encouraging active problem-solving.
CCE Coaching skills for managers course
The ROI of happiness masterclass
Sydney Executive Plus
Explore the vital role of happiness and optimism in organisations and their impact on your bottom line. Discover evidence-based tools to cultivate productive well-being and develop habits that infuse joy into your daily life. Learn how to harness optimism to boost motivation and empower your teams for greater success. Gain valuable insights to lead with happiness, creating an inspiring environment that elevates your entire team and transforms your workplace into a hub of positivity and productivity.
The ROI of happiness masterclass
Human Resources
Employees are at the forefront of any successful business, and as a manager or human resources professional it's your job to ensure they work effectively and flourish too. From exploring core HR concepts and achieveing best practice to applying compliance regulations, the knowledge gained from completing these courses will empower you with essential skills for success.
Organisational psychology
CCE's organisational psychology courses will provide you with practical skills for understanding personal and employee behaviour. Learn about motivation, communication, and creating a thriving work environment.
CCE organisational psychology courses
Cultural competence
National Centre for Cultural Competence (NCCC)
Enhance cultural competence in your organisation with NCCC's self paced online, research-based program. NCCC's short courses are suitable for individuals, teams, and managers looking to improve their understanding of cultural competence and address bias and racism in the workplace and broader social contexts.
NCCC cultural competence courses
Cultural competence and diversity
Embracing cultural competency and diversity is essential foreffective leadership and communication. CCE courses are designed to provide valuable insight and skills to help your team enagage with diverse perspectives and build positive relationships. CCE are here to support you in navigating a truly global society. Join CCE in creating a more inclusive future.
CCE cultural competence and diversity courses
Finance, risk and contracts
Finance for the non-financial manager
As a non-financial manager, it's essential to understand the financial drivers of your business. This course will help you grasp the concepts behind external financial accounting and internal management accounting, including budgeting, costing, and key performance indicators. You will also clarify the often-misunderstood area of accrual accounting.
You will learn how to prepare, interpret, and analyse financial statements, such as balance sheets and profit and loss statements. By the end of the course, you will feel confident in understanding how your business decisions impact your company's financial performance.
Finance for the non-financial manager course
Finance for business
Mastering finance is essential for business success. CCE's dynamic finance courses will empower you to enhance company revenue and tackle challenges with innovative solutions.
CCE finance for business courses
Risk management and corporate governance
This risk management course is a vital investment for those looking to enhance their understanding of risk management and corporate governance. It covers key topics such as risk identification, assessment, strategic planning, reduction strategies, monitoring, and control. You will learn to implement best practices and comply with ASX Corporate Governance Principles, ensuring organisational success.
We encourage you to view risk management as an opportunity, by addressing both positive and negative risks and gain tools to navigate challenges in commercial, government, and not-for-profit sectors.
Learn to evaluate risk context, define risk appetite, and create effective treatment strategies. This course is essential for fostering investor confidence and promoting a proactive culture of risk awareness.
Risk management and corporate governance course
Contract management
This contract management fundamentals course teaches essential skills for implementing, managing, monitoring, and closing contracts. You will learn about the contract lifecycle, effective agreement establishment, relationship management, performance monitoring, and issue resolution, enabling your organisation to acquire services or products at a fair price and quality.
Communication
Business communication
Imagine the impact you could have as a leader with exceptional communication skills. CCE's business communication courses are tailored to empower you, whether you're a seasoned leader or just starting out. Our interactive teaching methods will help you gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to share information clearly, both within your organisation and externally. Start your journey to becoming an expert communicator today.
CCE business communication courses
Business writing
Mastering effective business communication is crucial for professional success, and we understand the challenges you may face. CCE's courses are specifically designed for professionals seeking to refine their writing skills and enhance their business communication for impactful messaging.
Business strategy
Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Whether you're an experienced business owner or a budding entrepreneur, CCE's dynamic business strategy courses will provide you with the tools to analyse your market, outshine your competitors, and craft a winning game plan.
Medicine and health
Sydney Health Executive Education (SHEEd)
The Faculty of Medicine and Health is committed to shaping the future of healthcare by providing you with a comprehensive education and research environment that encompasses dentistry, health sciences, medical sciences, medicine, nursing and midwifery, pharmacy, and public health.
Designed for health professionals, we offer flexible, high-quality specialist executive education and short courses in medicine and health for professional development.
All Sydney Health Executive Education medicine and health management courses
Emerging Health Leaders
This program will equip you with concepts, tools and techniques to be prepared for the transition to leadership roles in the rapidly changing and increasingly challenging healthcare system.
This three-day program is a collaboration between the University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine and Health and Business School, bringing together a group of subject matter experts in leadership with extensive experience in a wide range of healthcare organisations and other industries.
Emerging health leaders course
Veterinary practice management
Centre for Veterinary Education (CVE)
Do you feel like you're working hard every day, but things could be more organised and efficent? but you don't know where to start?
The Organisation of Your Hospital WebinarPLUS NurseEd course aims to simplify these your daily processes by helping you create a structure to your workflow. It focuses on patient management, client management, and scheduling - as well as how to ensure your hospital is resourced and can run smoothly, even when you're not there! Vet practice management course
Vet practice management course
Become a CVE member today and enjoy this course and many others to support your veterinary practice.
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Project management
John Grill Institute for Project Leadership
Our Executive Leadership in Major Projects (ELMP) programs are designed to provide senior executives with the necessary skills to manage projects and lead teams effectively. Customised short courses are tailored to meet the specific needs of your organisation.Learn more about project management short courses
Digital project sponsor course
This course is designed for you as an executive overseeing digital projects, combining research with practical insights. Through various case studies, you will learn about your responsibilities as a project sponsor and the key attributes necessary for success. By the end of the course, you will be able to define the role of a project sponsor, differentiate between the roles of a sponsor and a project manager, understand key activities within the role, identify critical success factors, and develop strategies to overcome challenges.
This course is ideal for you if you have been appointed as a project sponsor or are a digital project steering committee member.