Training

This leadership training course teaches you how to lead your team to greater success, will show you how to motivate and influence your team. Inspiring them to become high-performers within your business.

This course explores the ways in which you can maximise the benefit of attending and exhibiting at overseas trade shows. How do you decide which trade shows to attend and which markets to target? How can pre-event market research and engagement facilitate a successful trip?

Develop staff who are absolute beginners, fairly new to Excel, or with limited experience in working with formulas and building spreadsheets from scratch. Gain a firm foundation on your Excel knowledge with this one-day course, this is a perfectly designed course for a top-up or an up-skill in the foundational elements toward truly benefiting from Excel.

In today’s fast-paced global market, understanding sanctions and export controls is more crucial than ever. These regulations are essential for maintaining national security, international peace, and economic stability. Our ” Trading in a Sanctioned Environment” course is designed to provide you with the practical knowledge and skills needed to mitigate risks and ensure compliance in your global trade operations.

The comprehensive 3-day Level 3 First Aid at Work (FAW) qualification is essential for designated first aiders in medium to high-risk workplaces or those with larger workforces. This course meets HSE expectations and equips participants with the skills and confidence to respond effectively to a range of workplace emergencies. This course is the most comprehensive first aid course in the UK.

Successful businesses have a defined approach to identifying and submitting quality tenders, and expressions of interest for awards and contracts.

Funded by Lancashire Skills & Employment Hub and the UK Government, the Skills Bootcamp in International Trade is a comprehensive Level 3 course, covering import and export procedures; documentation and compliance; and factors affecting export growth.

Whether you're stepping into your first project or looking to sharpen your foundational skills, Project Management Essentials is the perfect launchpad. This dynamic one-day course is designed specifically for junior or aspiring project managers who want to build confidence, understand core principles, and deliver projects successfully. Instead of lengthy textbooks or complex methodologies, we use practical tools and real-world examples, discussing and using the tools together.  We do not focus on specific project management IT systems, as there are many available – rather, the course content introduces practical, core project management expertise which can be applied to many situations and can help ensure any IT solution is used as an enabler to change, rather than its driver.

This introduction course is aimed at those involved in the administration of international trade to ensure an understanding of rules of origin, product classification and item valuation to meet the demands of international trade in both exporting and importing. Understanding origin, tariffs and valuation is essential for correct calculation of taxation and duties, and mistakes leading to non-payment or underpayment are considered a serious matter by HMRC.

This introduction course is aimed at anyone involved in international trade who needs to understand customs. The course will cover the role of HMRC and practicalities such as goods wholly produced in the UK, use of documentation including the EUR1, free circulation, AEO, VAT responsibilities, and the impact of Incoterms®. The course also provides an introduction to customs entries, classification of goods, valuation of goods on import duties, taxes and the Union Customs Code (UCC).