Free Career Development Courses
Always completely free for anyone!
These personal and career development courses are designed for you if you want to improve your life or work prospects. They are completely free of charge to use.
There are no limitations, no need to sign up or share personal information, and everything here will enable you to build and develop transferrable skills. The full range of courses available is shown below, but do come back regularly to check out new additions to this learning library.
Our Flagship Communication Skills Programme is free!
Great interpersonal relationships are incredibly important today, and we can all benefit from upgrading our communication skills.
This is why we are particularly proud to release our Flagship Communication Skills programme, "Unleash Your Word Power", offering access to the full online programme completely free of charge!
You won't need your Email address, nor any other personal details. You are free to use the whole 15 modules of the course with our compliments! There's no catch. This programme is tried and tested, and it's absolutely free!
You've nothing to lose, and everything to gain, so why not jump right in and get started!
Customised for businesses
For businesses, we offer a range of customised options, all offering high value at industry-beating low prices.
To ensure this valuable resource continues and develops, we offer bespoke customisation through Develop Life Ltd, together with LMS integration. This will add essential funding to the BusinessPotential project, allowing it to continue. Contact us for more information.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
Great interpersonal relationships are incredibly important today, and we can all benefit from upgrading our communication skills.
This is why we are particularly proud to release our Flagship Communication Skills programme, "Unleash Your Word Power", offering access to the full online programme completely free of charge! We won't ask you for your Email address, or any other personal details. You are free to consume the whole 15 modules of the course with our compliments. You'll learn about:
- The Conversation Cycle
- Acknowledging
- Active Listening
- Effective Questioning
- Demonstrating empathy.
- Understand the components that carry your message to another person and the techniques to optimise them,
- Optimise your Body Language,
- Create your best vocal impact,
- Understand unintended conversations vias, and how to remove them from our conversations,
- Begin to understand your own natural rapport language,
- Understand how to recognise and adapt to the language preferences of others,
- Explore rapport building techniques of pacing, mirroring and matching.
- Why we don't always process communications in the way they were intended
- How to identify your own language habits and choose to optimise them
- Create clear and positive communications, that will be processed in the way that you intended
- Mastering Self-Talk, visualisations and anchoring.
- The Habit Loop,
- Mastering self-talk
- Creating positive Visualisations
- Anchoring, Embedded language and Embedded Commands,
- How to guide others toward positive outcomes, by subtly shaping how they process information,
- How to influence conversations effectively while maintaining ethical integrity.
- The Behaviour Continuum and Guardian Model
- Ego and Communication
- Your Conversational Safety-Net
All of our expertly devised courses are completely free, so there is nothing stopping you from getting onto this courses right now! Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
This course isn't simply about how to write an Email or letter. We produce written content every day, both in work and outside, in our private lives. This is about how we come across to a customer in a more challenging scenario, like a distressed person, or complaint, and how we represent our organisation.
Do we leave an impression of care, collaboration, respect and dedication to service? Or do we use our processes and policies as ammunition in our customer interactions?
How we present ourselves becomes the customer's perception of your business, your organisation. To make this perception a positive one, we have the responsibility to carry your company Values as a fundamental part of your service intent, in each and every dialogue, whether verbally on the phone or in person, or in our letters and Emails.
There is nothing stopping you from getting on this course right now! Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
This comprehensive course is designed to equip sales professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to excel in sales while upholding the highest ethical standards.
In today's market, trust and integrity are paramount. This course will guide you in understanding buyer motivations, shifting your approach from selling to guiding, crafting compelling narratives, ethically utilising persuasive techniques, overcoming buyer hesitation, and closing sales in a way that fosters long-term relationships.
There is nothing stopping you from getting on this course right now! Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
The importance of mental health can’t be overstated. It shapes how we think, feel, and engage with the world. Yet, in the hustle of daily life, we often neglect it, postponing care until burnout, isolation, or emotional distress take hold.
Whatever you’re doing, today is the perfect time to make mental well-being a priority. This 7-day workout challenge is designed to help you cultivate resilience, self-awareness, and positivity, through bite-sized, practical exercises. Each day, we’ll explore a different aspect of mental health, from managing stress and practicing mindfulness to building supportive connections and re-framing negative thoughts.
There is nothing stopping you from getting on this course right now! Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
This course will provide you with an introduction to the role of People Leader within your organisation. It's particularly relevant to people leaders working within their business's Customer Contact Centre.
The first of a number of elearn modules, in this module you will:
- Understand the key purpose and role of People Leader in the Contact Centre
- Begin to define the most appropriate working culture that supports to aims and objectives of the organisation while engaging with every individual team member
- Develop a consistent leadership approach with flexibility to address any situation effectively.
There is nothing stopping you from getting on the management track right now! Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
The role of a People Leader is to support the individuals and team, while getting the job done. In a nutshell, those are the critical elements of any managerial role. Remember Adair's "Action-Centred Leadership" model from Module 1, and how we need to achieve a balance between all three elements of leadership.
"Getting the job done" though, requires us to examine, analyse and understand, how our people are actually performing, and what reasons there could be for lower (or higher) performance with individuals within your team. It's also challenging continuous improvement. The fact is, (and we'll say this again and again), today's "WOW" is tomorrow's expectation!
In this module, we'll introduce you to your new team! Well, in this case, it's a virtual team, one we made up - each with their own story, their own background, their own likes, dislikes, attitudes, motivation and performance. You'll be creating performance action plans for the people in this virtual team, then prioritising your activities, so you are likely to make the biggest impact quickly.
In this module, then, you'll
- Connect the dots between the motive of your organisation to serve and the motive - and motivation - of your customer to do business
- Understand the key performance areas in which you can really drive performance in your team
- Be able to identify your team outliers, and create realistic KPI targets
- Identify - and work with - your Real Time Management Tool Kit
- Understand SMART goal setting
- Create performance action plans, and a powerful briefing template that will keep your team engaged.
In addition, we'll explore the opportunities for discussing and challenging performance, and how to optimise these opportunities, including your team briefings, buzz sessions and daily "stand up" planning sessions. any situation effectively. There is nothing stopping you from getting on the management track right now! Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
This module - one of the series designed to develop new managers in a customer Contact Centre - is based around people. Organisations always say that people are their most important asset, but don't often give them the focus that treats them like unique individuals.
This module is about leading performance, though it's about understanding your people. By the end of this module, you will:
- Understand the different management approaches you need to consider for different types of people
- Understand how change is perceived by different people types
- Have the tools to develop a motivation strategy that addresses the motivational triggers of every individual in your team
- Create a strategy for developing your team to be a high-performing team.
There is nothing stopping you from getting on the management track right now! Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from international contributors.
One of the most important responsibilities of a people leader is around developing their people. You will have regular interventions, one to ones, coaching sessions and team briefings within your operational "operating rhythm" - all of which give you the opportunity to stimulate growth and improvement in your team, while underpinning the strategy for continuous customer improvement.
In this module, we'll explore techniques for developing your people through structured and unstructured coaching, and at the end of this, you will:
- Understand how to develop and maintain a coaching culture within the Contact Centre
- Understand feedback approaches for both Internal and external validators
- Work with the GROW model of coaching
- Begin to formulate detailed performance and coaching aids for the people in your team.
Understanding our Values can help us to understand, and deal with, other people - people who may not exhibit the same Values you hold dear. Understanding your Values will also help you to align to your own organisation - your working culture, the Values that your organisation aspires to.Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from the Articulate elearning system.
So many jobs these days are project-based, and exist as temporary assignments to deliver change or transformation within an organisation. Learn the basics of project management here, and be ready for the challenge!Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from the Articulate elearning system.
This short course will give you a great foundation in how to deliver training in the business, with authority, authenticity and gravitas. As an internal employee, you already know the job, so training within your peer group can really be a win-win, as your colleagues and internal network will already be aware of your track record and ability. Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from the Articulate elearning system.
This course, from our free "Quick-e" library, will take you no more than 30 minutes to complete, and in this content, we'll cover what is a Performance Improvement Plan, some examples of Performance Improvement Goals, what's included in a Performance Improvement Plan, some essential considerations and a link to downloadable templates, that can be customised to your organisation's document standards. Get Started.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from the Articulate elearning family and wider Internet.
This course, from our free "Quick-e" library, will take you no more than 20 minutes to complete, and in this content, we'll cover:
- What is a Diversity Ally;
- 5 Roles of being a Diversity Ally;
- How to embody the 5 Roles;
- Developing into a true Ally - additional thoughts;
- Summary, and further learning.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from the Articulate elearning family and wider Internet.
This course, from our free "Quick-e" library, is about how to identify, and prevent, phishing scams. In less than 20 minutes, we'll cover:
- What are phishing attacks?;
- Phishing Facts;
- Typical phishing scam example - and clues to identifying it;
- A quick knowledge check;
- A short summary, with helpful links to additional material.
Produced by BusinessPotential, thanks to much help from the Articulate elearning family and wider Internet.
This course, from our free "Quick-e" library, is about how to run a performance review. In less than 30 minutes, this Quick-e guide will cover:
- What is a Performance Review;
- Pros and Cons of Performance Reviews;
- Considerations;
- An Example Approach;
- A short summary, with helpful links.
In this course, created by BusinessPotential.com in conjunction with our friends at Revolution Radio, Northampton, and the Articulate learning community you’ll learn the basics of managing stress. First, you’ll discover what stress is and how your body responds to it. Then, you’ll learn 3 common stress triggers and how to manage them, by eliminating, reducing or coping.
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In less than 30 minutes, this course will:
- Explain the context of Gravitas;
- Develop gravitas through optimising your tone of voice, and;
- Develop Confidence;
- Improve your listening skills.
There is nothing stopping you from starting this course right now! Get Started.
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