Business plan courses can help you learn market analysis, financial forecasting, operational planning, and effective pitching techniques. You can build skills in identifying target audiences, crafting value propositions, and developing marketing strategies. Many courses introduce tools like SWOT analysis, business model canvases, and financial modeling software, which can enhance your ability to create comprehensive and persuasive business plans.

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Technical Management, Engineering Management, Meeting Facilitation, Decision Making, Team Leadership, Team Building, Team Management, Leadership, Goal Setting, Discussion Facilitation, Delegation Skills, People Development, Communication, Recruitment
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Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks
Skills you'll gain: Financial Statement Analysis, Credit Risk, Financial Analysis, Portfolio Risk, Market Data, Risk Analysis, Securities (Finance), Financial Data, Portfolio Management, Analysis, Risk Management, Derivatives, Business Valuation, Balance Sheet, Financial Market, Investment Management, Market Analysis, Analytics, Real Time Data, Decision Making
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

SkillUp
Skills you'll gain: Data Migration, Data Integration, Enterprise Architecture, Data Management, Data Infrastructure, Data Pipelines, Data Integrity, Data Storage
Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Illinois Tech
Skills you'll gain: Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Job Analysis, Talent Management, Team Building, Leadership, Human Resources, Human Resources Management and Planning, Diversity and Inclusion, Occupational Safety And Health, Employee Performance Management, Organizational Development, Employee Engagement, Stress First Aid, Performance Management, Research, Social Justice, Scientific Methods, Employee Training, Psychological Evaluations, Cultural Diversity
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

AI Business School
Skills you'll gain: Agentic Workflows, AI Workflows, No-Code Development, Generative AI Agents, AI Enablement, Digital Transformation, AI Orchestration, AI Product Strategy, Business Process Automation, Business Technologies, AI Personalization, Automation, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Application Design, Productivity Software, Application Development
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Video Editing, Video Production, Marketing Materials, Content Creation, Marketing Design, Marketing, Storytelling, Multimedia, Branding, Generative AI, Artificial Intelligence
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Pivot Tables And Charts, Microsoft Excel, Spreadsheet Software, Excel Macros, Data Analysis, Data Visualization Software, Data Security, Data Integrity, Automation
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Alfaisal University | KLD
Skills you'll gain: Market Share, Market Analysis, Market Opportunities, Market Intelligence, Market Dynamics, Strategic Marketing, Competitive Analysis, Market Research, Market Trend, Market Data, Customer Demand Planning, Performance Measurement, Consumer Behaviour, Business Metrics, Revenue Forecasting, Performance Metric, Product Lifecycle Management
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Alfaisal University | KLD
Skills you'll gain: Equities, Balance Sheet, Securities (Finance), Financial Accounting, Accounting, Investments, Financial Statements, Financial Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Simplilearn
Skills you'll gain: Supervised Learning, Data Modeling, Unsupervised Learning, Applied Machine Learning, Data Analysis, Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), Model Deployment, Reinforcement Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Classification Algorithms, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Tensorflow, Machine Learning Algorithms, Keras (Neural Network Library), Artificial Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Decision Tree Learning, Predictive Analytics, Regression Analysis
Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Financial Analysis, Financial Market, Investment Management, Investments, Finance
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skills you'll gain: Salesforce, Customer Relationship Management, AI Enablement, Responsible AI, Data Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Customer Data Management, Business Process Automation, Automation, Analytics, Predictive Modeling
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks