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Grow your retail business
Find out how to improve your retail business, attract more customers and grow your sales through tactics like visual merchandising and online retail.
Cyber security for business
Introduction to small business cyber security, risks to your business, and tools and techniques to help you manage it.
Skills required by growing businesses
How the complexity and variety of skills your business needs to access increase as your business grows.
Building a management team
Key considerations when building an effective management team for your business.
Protect your business from ransomware
Understand what ransomware is, how it works, what impact it may have on your business and how you can prevent it.
Delegation skills for business owners and directors
Why effective delegating of business tasks can be efficient time management and how to best go about it.
Managing your team
Discover the skills that make for successful team management.
Skills and training for company directors
Extra training that may be needed to fulfil the duties of a company director.
Leadership skills for business owners and directors
Skills that directors and business owners need to develop to be effective leaders.
Strategy skills for business owners and directors
How strategy can help your business, and how to use SWOT and gap analyses to determine business strategy.
Types of director, their duties and employment status
Detailing the different types of company directors, their duties and employment status
Choosing a director
Check that directors you plan to appoint have the right skills and expertise
Appointing and paying company directors
Dealing with company directorial appointments and deciding on how to pay them
How to recruit directors
How to find and recruit company directors
Effectively manage your company directors
Ensuring your directors perform to the best of their ability by using inductions, appraisals and training courses
Who to notify if you transfer your business to a new legal structure
An overview of the different groups and organisations that need to know about your new business entity
Impact of cyber attack on your business
Understand the impact of cyber attacks on businesses and their finances, reputation and consumer confidence.
Creative businesses and employment in Northern Ireland
Key statistics on creative industries employment, number of businesses and economic impact in Northern Ireland.
Creative sector in Northern Ireland
Introduction to the creative sector in Northern Ireland - its sub-sectors, growth and key organisations.
Examples of popular open source products and types
Common types of open source software and examples of applications for small business accounting, project management, etc.