Small business courses can help you learn financial management, marketing strategies, customer service techniques, and operational efficiency. You can build skills in budgeting, social media marketing, and effective communication with clients and suppliers. Many courses introduce tools like QuickBooks for accounting, Canva for marketing materials, and CRM software for managing customer relationships, showing how these skills can streamline operations and enhance business growth.

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Systems Thinking, Needs Assessment, Sustainable Systems, Community Development, Business Transformation, Sustainable Development, Corporate Sustainability, Social Impact, Diversity and Inclusion, Organizational Change, Strategic Thinking, Initiative and Leadership, Environmental Issue, Stakeholder Engagement, Project Management, Relationship Building, Communication Strategies, Decision Making
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Fundação Instituto de Administração
Skills you'll gain: Operations Management, Process Improvement, Operations, Revenue Management, Quality Improvement, Process Improvement and Optimization, Process Analysis, Business Operations, Lean Six Sigma, Lean Methodologies, Operational Efficiency, Performance Improvement, Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement Process, Operational Excellence, Process Optimization, Organizational Strategy, Service Management, Service Level, Quality Management
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Duke University
Skills you'll gain: Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG), Strategic Prioritization, Prioritization, Business Priorities, Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Business, Stakeholder Analysis, Needs Assessment, Social Impact, Stakeholder Management, Stakeholder Engagement, Organizational Strategy, Strategic Planning, Strategic Decision-Making, Professional Networking
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

John Wiley & Sons
Skills you'll gain: Healthcare Industry Knowledge, Clinical Documentation, Clinical Informatics, Health Systems, Healthcare Project Management, Health Care, Health Care Procedure and Regulation, Health Informatics, Precision Medicine, Health Care Administration, Medical Devices, Health Technology, AI Enablement, Medical Privacy, Healthcare Ethics, Decision Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, AI Product Strategy, Machine Learning, AI Workflows
Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

Pragmatic AI Labs
Skills you'll gain: Amazon Bedrock, AI Security, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Docker (Software), Prompt Engineering, GitHub Copilot, Token Optimization, Agentic Workflows, AI Orchestration, LLM Application, Debugging, Serverless Computing, Software As A Service, Model Context Protocol, Amazon Web Services, Large Language Modeling, Rust (Programming Language), Code Review, Natural Language Processing, GitHub
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Relational Databases, Database Architecture and Administration, Database Systems, Database Development, Dependency Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Erasmus University Rotterdam
Skills you'll gain: Economic Development, Community Development, Entrepreneurship, Economics, Project Design, Sustainable Development, Socioeconomics, International Relations, Competitive Analysis, New Business Development, Case Studies, Social Studies, Innovation, Policy Development, Governance, Natural Resource Management
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Accrual Accounting, Accruals, Financial Reporting, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Financial Statement Analysis, Peer Review, Accounting, Balance Sheet, Income Statement, Equities, Inventory Accounting, Investments
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Yunus Social Business Fund Bengaluru
Skills you'll gain: Financial Market, Decision Making, Finance, Business Valuation, Capital Markets, Return On Investment, Financial Acumen, Equities, Securities (Finance), Corporate Finance, Financial Analysis, Financial Management, Market Data, General Finance, Investments, Risk Analysis, Financial Data, Social Impact, Cash Flows
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months
UNSW Sydney (The University of New South Wales)
Skills you'll gain: Storytelling, Experience Design, Game Design, User Experience, User Experience Design, Ideation, Driving engagement, Content Creation, Storyboarding, Multimedia, Visual Storytelling, Animation and Game Design, Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), Virtual Reality, Design Strategies, Human Centered Design, Emerging Technologies, Qualitative Research
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: iOS Development, Mobile Development, Apple iOS, User Interface (UI), Apple Xcode, Swift Programming, Unit Testing, User Interface (UI) Design, Objective-C (Programming Language), UI Components, Mobile Development Tools, Data Structures, Application Development, Interactive Design, Programming Principles, Development Testing, Authorization (Computing), Test Case, Cross Platform Development, Prototyping
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Skills you'll gain: Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Data Mining, Unstructured Data, Applied Machine Learning, Web Scraping, Model Evaluation, Machine Learning Algorithms, Web Analytics and SEO, Machine Learning, Model Optimization, Network Analysis, Statistical Modeling, Probability & Statistics
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months