Business Skills: Northern Kentucky University, Greater Cincinnati Region

Business skills courses address the foundations of day-to-day business work. From business writing and presentation skills to networking, practicing appropriate business etiquette, and communicating effectively, you'll prepare to start your career or take it to the next level.

This curation includes NKU Select courses, which provide a more in-depth series of professional development and separate pricing structure, as detailed on the description page.

Accounting: Principles of Financial Accounting
Learn accounting essentials and be able to read and interpret financial statements for business diagnosis and decision-making.

Advertising with Meta
Structure campaigns in Ads Manager by selecting ad objectives, target audience, budget, and placement that fit your unique goals.

Channel Management and Retailing
Understand how channel management and retailing can improve performance in your business.

Conflict Transformation
This course introduces you to the concept of conflict transformation and how it differs from conflict resolution, management, and prevention.

Critical Thinking Skills for the Professional
With massive changes in our world, your skills as a critical thinker and problem solver need to be further developed now more than ever.

Developing a Winning Marketing Strategy
Examine the process by which Marketing builds on a comprehensive understanding of buyer behavior to create value.

Digital Media and Marketing Strategies
Gain a deeper understanding of core processes of planning a digital marketing campaign and the role of various digital channels in integrated marketing communication.

Economics of Money and Banking
Begin the process of new economic thinking by reviving and updating some forgotten traditions in monetary thought that have become newly relevant.

High Performance Collaboration: Leadership, Teamwork, and Negotiation
In this course you will engage in self-assessments to analyze their leadership style, develop team charters to optimize their groups, and develop a game plan for effective negotiation.

International Leadership and Organizational Behavior
In this course – together with a team of Bocconi expert faculty and Bocconi alumni – we’ll explore the theory and practice of international and intercultural leadership and organizational behavior.

Introduction to Public Speaking
If you’re a beginner, this course will help you quickly master the fundamentals of speaking. If you’re a seasoned speaker, this course will help you better understand public speaking and push you to the next level.

Introduction to Social Media Marketing
Discover how to select a social media channel that fits your needs, set goals and success metrics, and determine who your target audience is.

Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
In this course, you’ll learn the different components of emotional intelligence at work.

Leadership and Management Courses
Quickly master modern tools and techniques to become a more successful leader. Sharpen your leadership skills in just one month!

Model Thinking
The models covered in this class provide a foundation for future social science classes, whether they be in economics, political science, business, or sociology.

Modern Supervisor Skills
Gain the essential skills and knowledge that you will need to understand and communicate effectively with employees and customers from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Procurement Basics
Gain basic knowledge of the importance of the procurement organization and its role in the organization.

Sales Training: Inbound Business Strategy
Learn about inbound and get a big-picture view of everything you need for a successful inbound strategy.

Storytelling and Influencing: Communicate with Impact
This course will develop your capacity to communicate appropriately in different situational and cultural contexts, making you a highly influential leader.