CPD Courses in Business, Management And Leadership
Take charge of your professional development
Our innovative Continuous Professional Development programmes allow you to gather the new skills and experiences to meet your personal and professional goals in an interactive, engaging, and collaborative study environment.
With flexible study pathways designed to complement the workplace environment, our CPD courses can fit around your lifestyle, allowing you to continuously reflect on, enhance, and apply your learning to your career development. We offer a range of CPD and Professional Qualification courses from short courses covering the fundamentals of project, programme, and business management; to our industry-based leadership programmes. Check out our course pages to find out more about the wide range of CPD opportunities in areas including business, project management, visitor economy and leadership.
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Whether you wish to boost your leadership, project management, or commercial skills, find the course for you.
Project Academy
The Project Academy is a fully integrated pathway of education, training and development. If you would like to find out more about our project management courses, please contact us.
Why Choose Cumbria For Your Business Development
Cumbria is ranked 1st in the UK and 8th in the world for Quality Education by Times Higher Education (THE) Impact Rankings 2020
We have local and global industry partnerships. Some businesses include Rolls Royce, BAE Systems, BBC, National Trust, and more...
The University of Cumbria is the highest ranking university in the north, and 5th in the country, for students to go on to hold senior leadership positions after they graduate.
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Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
This two-day course provides participants with the understanding, tools and techniques for managing internal and external stakeholders in the project environment. Participants will engage with a variety of interactive exercises focusing on implementing a stakeholder strategy, exploring the theory and practices of effective communication, negotiation and escalation whilst also building skills in critical reflection to apply learning directly to the workplace environment.
Project Stakeholder Engagement and Communication
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Introduction to Commercial, Contracts and Supply
This course provides an overview of commercial procurement, including tender processes, contract types, and working with contractors and other stakeholder organisations. Participants will explore the key commercial activities within the Project Lifecycle and gain an understanding of supply chain collaboration and management.
Introduction to Commercial Contracts and Supply
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Introduction to Project Quality
A two-day introductory course, participants will explore the critical role and impact of quality management and quality leadership in the project environment. Participants will engage in a range of interactive exercises, building their knowledge of the activities in each key stage of the quality management process; including quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and continuous improvement.
Introduction to Project Quality
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Project Manager Degree Apprenticeship
This programme is designed specifically to enable you to complete the Project Manager Degree Apprenticeship, you will be provided with everything you need to know to successfully deliver projects in a range of business sectors and subject areas.
It maps directly onto the knowledge, skills and behaviours identified in this apprenticeship standard and is also designed to cover the entirety of the Association for Project Management's (APM) Body of Knowledge.
What our Partners say
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We are delighted to be working with the Brathay Trust and University of Cumbria on the Changing Culture Programme. Through CCP we aim to equip the leaders of tomorrow with the skills, knowledge and experience needed to develop the local arts provision and offer for our community into the future.
James Cobbold, Executive Director,Theatre by the Lake
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BESPOKE TRAINING PACKAGES
Contact us to discuss bespoke training packages for your business. Whether you require short courses, longer higher education programmes, or wish to work in collaboration as one of our industry partners, our academics are here to share their knowledge with you and your team.
Discover training that suits your business needs.
Take Your In House Skills To A New Level With Apprenticeships
Degree apprenticeships are open to existing employees - upskill your team by investing in their future. Our four year higher education programme allows successful apprentices to gain a degree in Project Management while they work.
The programme is aligned to the Association for Project Management's Body of Knowledge. On this programme, apprentices learn about the foundations of project management and the business environment, developing their skills by using specialist techniques and software. The programme also focuses on personal development with opportunities to improve communication and leadership skills to develop the confidence they will need as practising project managers.
For enquiries please contact the Project Academy team.
Interested in studying the MSc in Project Leadership?
We’re running a series of online Q&A sessions for prospective students.
If you’d like to find out more about these sessions, please contact the Project Academy.
Online Q&A sessions
