Business and management
Business and management covers planning, organising people and resources, and making decisions that keep an organisation running.
What the work involves
- Planning budgets and targets
- Supervising a team
- Improving a process
- Reporting to senior managers
Questions to ask yourself
- Do I enjoy coordinating people?
- Am I comfortable making decisions with incomplete information?
Try a beginner activity
Write a one-page plan for improving one process at your workplace: the problem, the change, the cost and how you’d measure success.
What a course alone won’t do: A short course in management builds knowledge, but it does not by itself make someone a manager. Promotion usually depends on experience and performance.