Business Lifestyle Skills

The Business Lifestyle Skills Diploma course is ideal for anyone involved in running a business or anyone who is hoping to set-up his or her own business.
The areas covered in this course are also fundamental to your everyday life whether you are applying for a job, writing a letter to apply for a grant or a mortgage or working out your personal finances on your computer.
In order to be a success in business you need to have the following skills:

Business Skills
People Skills
Communication Skills
Planning Skills
Problem Solving Skills

This course aims to successfully equip the student with the necessary knowledge to ensure both business and personal success.

Further Details

Study Skills



  • Approaches to learning

  • Organising yourself for study

  • Reading skills

  • Getting to know your textbooks

  • Note-taking skills

  • Preparing assignments


Business Communication



  • Communication: Some Theories and Models

  • Barriers to Communication

  • Formal and Informal Communication


Effective Business Writing



  • Introduction to Effective Business Writing

  • Writing Letters, Memos and Faxes

  • Writing Effective Reports


Presentation and Social Interaction Skills



  • Oral Presentations

  • Business Meetings

  • Self Presentation for Job Selection

  • Organisational Culture and Recruitment


Marketing



  • Introduction to Marketing

  • Markets and Customers

  • The Marketing Mix


Simple Book Keeping



  • The Need for Financial Control

  • Accounts

  • Control

  • Book-Keeping and Reconciliation

  • Cash Book

  • Petty Cash Book

  • Sales Ledger

  • Purchase Ledger

  • Wages Book

  • Debtors and Creditors


Business Planning



  • Drawing up a Business Plan

  • Implementing the Business Plan


For a more detailed syllabus on this course, click here






Qualifications





On completion of your course, you will receive two qualifications:

Qualification 1: Business Lifestyle Skills Diploma

Business Lifestyle Skills Diploma issued by Stonebridge Associated Colleges, entitling you to use the letters SAC Dip after your name.

Qualification 2: Level 4 Business Lifestyle Skills Award

At the end of this course successful learners will also receive a level 4 NCFE Award certificate of achievement. That means that it is independently accredited at a level of learning equivalent to level 4 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) for England, Wales and Northern Ireland (in which case GCSE's are at levels 1 and 2 and A Levels are at level 3).



This award has been designed by Stonebridge Associated Colleges to meet specific learners' or employers' requirements. Accreditation by NCFE is a guarantee of quality. It means that this learning programme has been scrutinised and approved by an independent panel of experienced educational professionals and is quality audited biannually by NCFE.







Study Options





This course is an online course. With online study you have access to your entire course from the start of your studies. You can access your course materials, and submit all of your question papers to your personal tutor, online from anywhere in the World using your unique student account.

If you do not have Internet access, or would prefer to study this course via the traditional paper/postal based study method, you can find more information on the course by clicking on the link below.










Fees





 

Guide Price: £265.00

Delivery: Online
Category: Business & Management