Complete Business Management

Course Code

OSC1084

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Learn everything you need to know about business management in this complete bundle, from home. Distance learning couldn’t be easier!

Learn the key steps you will need to consider when planning and creating your business to increase your chances of success and minimise risk.
Understand how to market your business, identifying competition and setting pricing and branding strategies.
Plan how to provide for the individual needs of customers and prepare for the obstacles and opportunities that will arise in your venture.
Learn the most efficient ways to advertise your business and how to handle and recruit staff.
Understand the key practices and principles of operations management.
Understand how operations connects with other aspects of an effective organisation, such as marketing and HR.
Know how to manage teams and develop effective transactions.
Learn how to set effective goals and measure performance.
Investigate the four types of leadership styles.

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This Complete Business Management bundle includes:

Business Management Level 3
Starting Your Own Business Level 3
Business Operations and Lean Management Level 3

All course materials will be delivered to you by post or email, so it couldn’t be easier. Our experienced and friendly tutors will help you every step of the way.

You may start at any time and have a full year to complete your studies, so you can work at your own pace. Completed coursework can be delivered by post or via email, so handing in an assignment is simple.

Course Duration

Up to 2 years.

Course Outcome

You will receive three Certificates of Achievement in Business Management Level 3, Starting Your Own Business Level 3, Business Operations and Lean Management Level 3.

Entry Requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this course.

Assessment

Tutor-marked assignments.

Business Management QLS Level 3

Managers as people
Feedback
Delegating
Average managers and great managers
Listening
Developing your staff
Coaching

Managing in context
Strategy
Structure
Systems
Financial systems
Performance and development review

Holding meetings
Developing effective transactions
Ineffective transactions
Stages of team development
Performing

Expectations
Measures
Outcomes
Keeping performance records

SMART goals
Achieving balance
Motivations
Considerations when goal setting
Learning from experience

Leadership and management
Four styles of leadership
Leadership and politics
Dealing with conflict
How to make collaboration work
Leadership influences on management

Business Operations and Lean Management QLS Level 3

Explain the role of operations management within various different kinds of organisation
Describe how operations management has become crucial to organisations’ success in the modern world
Demonstrate how the concept of the value chain applies to a variety of different kinds of organisation
Give examples of the impact good operations management can have on organisational effectiveness

Justify why the role of the operations manager is fundamentally changing
Explain why effectively managing people is crucial to operations management
Explain how teams can enhance the operations function

Explain the relationship between marketing and operations
Justify the need for flexible approaches to product and service design
Describe key principles in product and service design
Define and utilise the concept of value analysis

Explain the relationships between value chains, supply chains and logistics
Demonstrate best practice in selecting and working with suppliers and providers
Describe the options available in designing processes
Explain the importance of controlling the value chain

Describe how operations managers can assess the efficiency and effectiveness of their operations
Explain how best practice organisations manage their operations
Identify a range of cost-reducing methods that can be applied to operations
Define and explain lean synchronisation

Define what quality means and how to measure it
Explain operational risk and how to manage it
Demonstrate how operations managers deal most effectively with the complexity of modern organisations
Explain why and how organisations adopt a continuous improvement approach to operations

Starting Your Own Business QLS Level 3

Why start your own business?
Character and motivation
Before you start: managing yourself and planning
Market research
Sales and profits
Competitors
Financial planning
Suppliers
Employing people
Stock and asset management

Deciding on the form of your business (sole trader, partnership, limited company)
How to decide what is best for you
Setting goals for yourself

Your product or service
Value for money
Competition
Segmenting your market
Pricing

Identifying your potential customers
Promoting your business
Before sale
After sale

Understanding your business finances
Working with figures
Break-event point
Fixed and current assets
Cash flow
Sources of finance
Managing your money

Why do you need a business plan?
The format and structure of your business plan
Yourself, your people. your values, your mission
Your business model
Your market
Your competition
Development
Profit forecast
Risks

Assessment

This course is assessed through a series of written assignments, which are submitted to your tutor to be marked. There is no external examination required.

Course Duration

Once enrolled, you will have two years to complete this bundle, which will allow you to work at your own pace, without the pressure of tight deadlines. You will also receive 24 months tutor support, so you can feel confident that you’ll get the help you need. Studying around your work and family commitments has never been easier.

Study Method

The course is designed for study by distance learning at home or at work. Students receive a course manual, assignments and study guide, plus tutor support by mail or email.

Course Outcomes

At the end of this course, successful learners will receive three Certificate’s of Achievement from the Quality License Scheme which includes a Learner Unit Summary (which lists the components the learner has completed as part of the course).

Awarding Body

The courses have been endorsed by the Quality License Scheme for their high-quality. These courses are not regulated by Ofqual and are not an accredited qualification. We will be able to advise you on any further recognition, for example, progression routes into further and/or higher education. For further information please visit the Learner FAQs on the Quality License Scheme website.

These courses have been benchmarked at Level 3 against level descriptors published by Ofqual, to indicate the depth of knowledge and understanding that you would expect at this level.

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* Three colour highlighter
* Student notebook

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