Business & IT short courses
Business & IT short courses
Short courses in Business, Management
& IT at Bedford College are designed to give your staff
training in areas directly relevant to their role. Our courses are
designed to improve performance by speeding up everyday tasks and
processes whilst also teaching industry best practice and offering
advice from trainers who have a wealth of experience in a business
environment.
Bedford College Training
Services has helped over 700 organisations improve their
performance and productivity by
training their staff using flexible
delivery methods and techniques. Your organisation can take
advantage of the benefits of our in-house training service:
• Reduce costs: Save
money with our in-house delivery by training multiple staff
together
• Save time: Our
dedicated trainers can deliver their expertise at a time and place
most convenient to your work schedule, and there’s no need to worry
about time-consuming logistics like travel
• Improve teamwork:
Our in-house training sessions also work as highly effective team
building exercises
• No equipment? Use
ours: If you’re worried about not having the equipment for your
in-house IT session, we can bring our laptops to
you.
Our short courses

Planning ahead is designed to give you the tools to help you
look forward to and enjoy your retirement by answering questions
like, how you will manage your time and your finances? Will you be
bored? How can you help yourself to make the most of your
retirement with the money that you have available?
Managing People & Performance will enable you to master
managing different team members to help motivate and develop the
overall performance of the team.
Minute taking is designed to ensure that you will learn
the skills and knowledge needed to effectively carry out
behind-the-scenes activities, support the chairperson, and ensure
that all meetings deliver their objectives in a timely and
efficient manner.

Our Microsoft Office system courses are designed to give you a
great overall awareness of the packages, focusing on the
differences between older versions and their updated
equivalents.
The introductory, intermediate and advanced courses in
specific Microsoft Office packages such as Access and Excel are
designed to hone your skills, allowing you to complete processes
easier and helping you make the most of these powerfull
tools.
To find out more or book onto any of these popular courses,
call 0300 011 2344 or email training@bedford.ac.uk