Business and management

Learn to manage your team confidently, increase productivity, and embrace trends and technology to achieve your business goals.

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 us and equip yourself for success in any sector.

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.

Team managers and leaders’ essential skills course

Strategic planning and management

Unlock the power of strategic thinking to clearly define your organization’s vision and mission. Learn how to make critical decisions that set strategic objectives and guide your organization’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.

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.

Stakeholder management course

Management

Build your confidence and skills to excel in a management role. Join us to learn strategies and tactics needed for effective management to develop your relationships with employees or tackle complex situations with ease CCE management courses

Centre for Continuing Education Management courses

Sydney Leadership Accelerator Program

University of Sydney Business School Management

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.

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.

Coaching skills for managers course

The ROI of happiness masterclass

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

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

Mastering finance is essential for business success. Our dynamic finance courses will empower you to enhance company revenue and tackle challenges with innovative solutions. Benefit from expert insights at the University of Sydney, no matter your experience level. Take charge of your financial future.

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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.

Contract management course

Communication

Business communication

Imagine the impact you could have as a leader with exceptional communication skills. Our 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 organization and externally. We believe that powerful, confident messaging can propel your success. Start your journey to becoming an expert communicator today.

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Business writing

Mastering effective business communication is crucial for professional success, and we understand the challenges you may face. Our courses are specifically designed for professionals seeking to refine their writing skills and enhance their business communication for impactful messaging. We provide practical, real-world applications of business writing techniques, empowering you to write with confidence and persuasion.

No prerequisites are required for our accessible face-to-face and online training, because we believe everyone should have the opportunity to improve their skills.

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Business strategy

Are you ready to take your business to the next level? Whether you're an experienced business owner or a budding entrepreneur, our dynamic business strategy courses will equip you with the tools to analyse your market, outshine your competitors, and craft a winning game plan. Open to all, our courses ensure you're well-prepared to make strategic decisions in today's fast-paced business world.

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Medicine and health

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.

Become a CVE member

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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.

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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.

Digital Project Sponsor course

Supply chain management

Foundations of Intelligent Supply Chain Management is a microcredential for managers and business owners who want to broaden their understanding of supply chain management. You will learn the latest trends and technological developments in managing complex supply chains. This course is delivered online in partnership with our Institute of Transport and Logistics and GS1 Australia.

Foundations of Intelligent Supply Chain Management course