Leadership & management course catalogue: Empowering leaders for the future of work
Explore a wide range of leadership skills courses designed to support your organisation’s growth. From free introductory courses to comprehensive degree programmes, our courses cater to every learning need, helping your team stay competitive in an increasingly complex business world.
If you're looking to access any of these courses through your employer, please contact us using the form below for more information on how we can tailor our offerings to your organisation’s needs.
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Course & qualification types
Free courses: Start your digital learning journey today
Our free OpenLearn courses are ideal for those looking to strengthen their leadership and management skills. These courses provide foundational knowledge and practical tools to help you lead effectively, manage teams, and navigate complex workplace challenges.
- Advancing black leadership
- An introduction to public leadership
- Approaching leadership with care
- Collaborative leadership in voluntary organisations - produced by The Open University's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL)
- Collective leadership
- Contemporary issues in managing
- Developing leadership practice in voluntary organisations - produced by The Open University's Centre for Voluntary Sector Leadership (CVSL)
- Diversity and inclusion in the workplace
- Effective communication in the workplace
- Hybrid working: skills for leadership
- Inclusive Leadership: Collaborating for professional development
- Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
- Introducing black leadership
- Leadership and followership
- Leadership challenges in turbulent times
- Leadership for inclusion: thinking it through
- Leadership for inclusion: what can you do?
- Leadership in Health and Social Care - video
- Managing and managing people
Degrees, modules and short courses: Upskill your team with expert knowledge
Our degree programmes, modules, and short courses are designed to provide in-depth knowledge of leadership, management, and business practices. Whether you're looking for a full degree or targeted professional development, we offer a variety of options to help your employees grow as leaders and managers.
Note: The links below will take you to the main Open University site, but if you're an employer or looking to access these courses through your employer, be sure to return to this page and contact us using the form below.
Undergraduate and postgraduate degrees
Many of our degree programmes offer the flexibility to study individual modules as standalone courses, allowing you to tailor learning to your team’s specific needs.
- BA (Honours) Business Management
- BA (Honours) Business Management (Accounting)
- BA (Honours) Business Management (Economics)
- BA (Honours) Business Management (Innovation and Enterprise)
- BA (Honours) Business Management (Leadership Practice)
- BA (Honours) Business Management (Marketing)
- BA (Honours) Marketing and Business Management
- BA/BSc (Honours) Design and Innovation
- BSc/BA Open Degree
- MSc in Human Resource Management
- MSc/MA Open Degree
- MBA (Masters of Business Administration)
Microcredentials
Designed to rapidly build specific leadership and management skills, our microcredentials offer professional development with academic credit, so you can keep your skills up-to-date and competitive.
- Agile leadership and management
- Business management: financial accounting for non-financial roles
- Business management: fundamentals of management accounting
- Business management: improving organisational practice
- Business management: marketing principles and practice
- Business management: people management and leadership
- Business management: project management
Short courses
Perfect for those looking for targeted learning in specific leadership and management areas, our short courses cover essential skills that can be applied directly in the workplace:
- Analytical thinking for problem solving
- An introduction to intercultural competence in the workplace
- Behavioural insights for the workplace
- Business agility foundations
- Business agility intermediate
- Collaboration skills for the workplace
- Communication skills in the digital world
- Creating a successful and sustainable business
- Creative thinking for the workplace
- Design thinking in the digital world
- Introduction to business and workplace coaching
- Developing a coaching culture
- Developing strategy to manage uncertainty
- Developing team leader skills
- Evaluating financial performance
- Leadership in the digital world
- Managing a budget
- Managing change in the digital world
- Managing uncertainty through monitoring and control
- Managing uncertainty through policy implementation
- Organisational behaviour in the workplace
- The impact of storytelling in business
- Understanding financial statements
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