This micro-credential builds on foundational entrepreneurial knowledge, focusing on the practical skills required to lead, develop, and grow business initiatives. Learners will strengthen their ability to manage teams, engage stakeholders, and bring ideas to market, while developing key competencies in communication, negotiation, and digital tools. The course emphasises sustainability, strategic thinking, and personal branding in today’s dynamic business environment.

• Lead teams and drive business initiatives to market
  Explore team development models such as Tuckman, Belbin, and Lencioni, and learn how to effectively organise, manage, and motivate teams to deliver successful business outcomes.
• Leverage digital tools and build a strong personal brand
  Assess and apply a range of information and communication technologies to enhance business performance, while developing and managing your personal brand in a professional context.
• Engage stakeholders and support sustainable business strategies
  Identify and evaluate stakeholders using tools such as power-interest grids, and design business initiatives that align with sustainability goals, including social and environmental responsibility.
• Develop negotiation, communication, and networking skills
  Apply negotiation and persuasion techniques to achieve win-win outcomes, communicate business opportunities effectively to different audiences, and build strategic networks to support growth.

This follows from Entrepreneurship 1, and prepares the learner for the challenges of the leadership and managerial functions required in the starting and growing of an organisation, covering business concepts such as the business life cycle, entrepreneurial financial management, human resource management, ethics and social responsibility, the application of business sustainability, use of technology and the importance of networking.

Assessment

• No Exams, just practical learning – This programme is assessed through engaging and hands-on methods.
• Assessment Breakdown – 10% Participation, 50% Assignment, 20% Presentation and 20% Group Work. 
• Plan ahead with ease – The assignment brief is provided in advance, allowing you to manage your study time effectively.
• Guidance every step of the way – You will receive continuous support and feedback to help you succeed throughout the course.

Tutors
Our tutors combine extensive real-world experience with strong academic backgrounds, delivering practical insights and industry expertise to enhance your learning.

Opportunities for further studies
Upon successful completion of this Award, you can:

• Take up the opportunity to follow other Awards in different areas of business and management, or
• Follow the Certificate in Business and Management (30 ECTS), and it will also lead you to further studies.

This award is designed for:

• Adult learners looking for an immersive learning experience in this field.
• Working professionals, who have been working for a number of years, and seeking to enhance their competencies, knowledge and skills in business and management.
• Prospective learners, who already have a Level 4 and/or a Level 5 qualification, and who would like to challenge themselves within this area, to further develop their expertise.

The entry requirement is:

• Successfully completed the Award in Entrepreneurship 1

Competences:

• Design, organize, and lead a team with the goal of bringing new products and services to market
• Manage your personal brand using information communication technology tools
• Design, develop and communicate business initiatives that are aligned to business sustainability
• Facilitate positive business outcomes through effective negotiation and persuasion skills

Knowledge:

• Theories of team development such as Tuckman’s, Belbin, and Leoncioni’s 5 Dysfunctions of a team
• A range of different types and functions of information communication technology tools
• Types of stakeholders and power-interest grids
• A range of business initiatives that meet Business Sustainability goals (such as environmental responsibility, corporate social responsibility and community development)
• The role and application of negotiation and persuasion skills

Skills:

Applying knowledge and understanding

• Apply negotiation skills for win-win outcomes to implement the new business opportunity
• Assess and select appropriate information communication technologies to improve company performance
• Evaluate stakeholders and assess their own personal power-interest grid
• Develop a plan for operational, personal, and strategic networking

Judgement skills and critical abilities

• Apply problem-solving skills to resolve issues that can derail the business opportunity
• Assess your current networking and selling skills

Module specific communication skills

• Transform an initial idea into a fully-fledged business opportunity and effectively communicate this opportunity through a business plan
• Effectively present and communicate opportunities to technical and business-oriented audiences
• Use relevant and appropriate terminology when discussing and exchanging views in a business context
• Communicate and articulate their ideas clearly in writing and orally

Module specific learner skills

• Adapt to changing circumstances that occur during the entrepreneurial process
• Appropriately and accurately apply the Harvard referencing system
• Acknowledge all sources of information
• Individually carry out further research in this area

Module-Specific Digital Skills and Competences

• Search, gather, communicate and share related information using digital resources
• Identify reliable, authoritative, and current digital sources

Terms & Conditions apply, talk to us for further detail on this programme.