Maybe you know your job inside out but freeze in the meeting. This course covers writing, speaking, presenting and the styles people use, so what you know gets across. Study online, at your own pace.
You know the work. This gives you the rest: how to write it clearly, say it in a meeting and present it without losing people. Good ideas get ignored when they land badly.
Some roles are built entirely around this. You cover professional writing, visual communication and the tools teams use, and the career centre helps with your CV and your interviews.
Public speaking and presentation skills get a whole topic. You learn how to build one, how to open it, and how to hold a room that would rather be somewhere else.
These skills are wanted in every office, and some roles are built entirely around them. The work is easy to picture: writing the update everyone reads, running the meeting, and putting the presentation together.
Keeping the messages moving inside a business. Writing and meetings fill most of the day.
Supporting the team that speaks for the business. Professional writing is covered across two topics here.
Writing what customers read. Clear, plain writing is the whole job.
Running the office and the messages that come with it, from emails to meeting notes.
Keeping everyone informed before and during an event, where the tools topic earns its place.
Roles where these skills are useful, not promised outcomes. Every role is different, and some need more study or experience.
Eight topics, from the fundamentals through to presenting, meetings and the tools teams use.
Here is what stands out in this course.
Professional writing skills, then advanced professional writing techniques. Most of what your workplace reads from you is written, so it earns the extra topic.
A topic on public speaking and presentation skills in the workplace. It is the part people avoid, and avoiding it is what holds them back.
Effective workplace meetings and decision-making is its own topic. You learn how a meeting is run and how a decision comes out the other end.
Communication styles for professional interactions, plus visual communication. The same message needs saying differently depending on who is hearing it.
Certificate of Achievement · The Career Academy
Awarded when you finish the course, ready to go on your CV.
You earn Continuing Professional Development credits on completion, so the study counts on your record.
CV templates, a CV review, interview coaching and a LinkedIn profile review from the day you enrol.
Send an enquiry and a course advisor gets back to you with the course guide and straight answers on whether it fits.
Start anytime. Pay on a flexible weekly plan, or pay upfront in one payment.
Work through the eight topics online, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours.
Complete the course and receive your Certificate of Achievement, with CPD credits on your record.
None. It opens with the fundamentals of workplace communication, so you can come to it cold.
From $29 a week on a flexible payment plan. You can also pay upfront in one payment. Enquire for the full options.
Around 100 hours at your own pace, with 6 months of access. There are no set class times, so it fits around work and family.
It has a topic of its own. You work through how a presentation is built, how to open it and how to keep a room with you. The practice is still on you, but you go in with a method instead of nerves alone.
It gives you the part that often decides it: writing people read, meetings you can run and presentations that land. Promotions come down to your workplace and your record, so nobody can promise you one. What you walk away with is the skill and a certificate that shows you went and got it.
There are none, ever. You are assessed on what you understand, with tutor support behind you.
It is accredited by ICOES and the CPD Standards Office, which is accreditation for professional development. It is not NZQA accredited, so it is not a national qualification. That is a different thing. For office and communications work, what counts is whether people understand you, and that is what this covers.
Yes. There is a 10-day money back guarantee. If it is not right, you get your money back.
This course is delivered by The Career Academy, an online course provider in New Zealand.
The college has been running for over 15 years and works with more than 25,000 students a year. Courses are online and self paced, with unlimited tutor support by phone and email in business hours. Career coaching opens as soon as you enrol, including CV help and a LinkedIn profile review.
Picture the meeting where you say the thing everyone was circling, and the room goes quiet for the right reason.