Business and management

Online business courses

These short and intensive professional development courses are for managers, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers and anyone working in high-tech companies and organisations. 

Our courses are for those at the beginning of their managerial career, those who are relatively new to managerial roles and those in middle-management roles in companies and organisations of all sizes, from SMEs through to global multinationals.

They are also aimed at entrepreneurs and individuals seeking to develop their knowledge and skills across a broad range of business subjects.

These online courses do not require attendance at Oxford - they can be taken from anywhere in the world.

If you are looking for business degree programmes, MBAs and short executive education programmes, please visit the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford.

Course dates confirmed

• Business Negotiations (1 - 2 September)

• Technical Team Leadership (22 Nov - 1 Dec)

July - September 2021 (dates for these courses to be confirmed)

• Advanced Effective Leadership through Emotional Intelligence

• Agile Project Management

• Artificial Intelligence Demystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business

• Blockchain for Managers 

• Branding and Marketing

• Design Thinking Practitioner

• Effective Leadership through Emotional Intelligence

• Financial Analysis and Analytics

• Lean Six Sigma 'Taster Session'

• Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt

• Lean Six Sigma Green Belt 

• Managing Innovative Technology 

• Managing Workplace Behaviour for Better Performance

• Project Management

• Starting a Successful Business

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Business courses in Oxford

The business courses listed below are on hold.

There are currently no dates available for classroom courses in Oxford until further notice.

Short and intensive practical courses for managers, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers and anyone working in high-tech companies and organisations. 

These short courses can be taken separately or as part of a weekly discount package.

Please sign up to Course news to be updated when we schedule new dates for these courses. You may also wish to consider our new online courses listed above.

Week 1

• Applying Knowledge Management: Principles and Practices (1-day course - Date TBC)
• Successful Change Management (1-day course - date TBC)
• Essentials of Project Management (1-day course - date TBC)
• Advanced Project Management (1-day course - date TBC)
• Project Risk Management (1-day course - date TBC)
• Lean Six Sigma Leadership Yellow Belt (1-day course - date TBC)

Details of the discount registration for Week 1

Week 2  

• Starting a Successful Business (1-day course - date TBC)
• Managing Innovative Technology (1-day course - date TBC)
• Branding and Marketing (1-day course - date TBC)
• Commercialising Digital Innovations (1-day course - date TBC)
• Business and Technology Valuation and Marketing (1-day course - date TBC)
• Financial Analysis and Analytics (1-day course - date TBC)

Details of the discount registration for Week 2

Week 3

• Leadership and Entrepreneurship (1-day course - date TBC)
• Emotional Intelligence for Leaders (NEW) (1-day course - date TBC) 
• Workplace Psychology: How to Make the Workplace Work for You (1-day course - date TBC) 
• Strategic Planning and Foresight: Learning from and Managing for the Future (1-day course - date TBC) 
• Agile Project Management (2-day course - dates TBC)

Details of the discount registration for Week 3

Tech for Managers 

A programme of short, intensive and practical courses which have been developed to help you gain a critical appreciation of these important technologies.

• Cyber Security for Managers (11 June)

Dates To Be Confirmed.

• Design Thinking: A Collection of Methods and Tools for Inventive Problem Solving (1-day course - date TBC)
• FinTech for Managers (1-day course - date TBC)
• Artificial Intelligence De-mystified: Opportunities and Value in Your Business (1-day course - date TBC)
• Blockchain for Managers (1-day course - date TBC)

Discount registration

These courses can be taken separately or as part of Tech for Managers: Discount Registration

Other courses

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

During this five-day course you will learn how to practise Lean Six Sigma in your organisation and to affect significant and meaningful change in this practical, hands-on course.

Systems Engineering Fast-Track

Learn how to design and manage complex systems with this five-day course in Oxford. Next dates TBC.

Bespoke courses

Ask us about tailored courses for groups - we can arrange bespoke courses in Oxford or in-house.