Special arrangements for members of Professional Bodies and OU Alumni
Some Professional Bodies and other organisations have negotiated a special course fee with the OU which allows their members to study our short web-based CPD courses at a professional body discount of 10% off the published course fee.
If you belong to one of the Professional Bodies listed on this page or the OU Alumni and are interested in any of the following courses please click on the relevant link for information about the course and how to register. Please note: The course fees shown through these links already include the professional body discount.
To secure the professional body discount, you will be asked to provide as part of the registration process the name of your Professional Body or organisation and your current membership or staff number (for OU Alumni, use your existing OU Computer Username).
Strategy and leadership
Advancing your personal leadership
Applying strategic thinking
Effective decision-making skills
Effective leadership skills
Discover and apply your creative skills
How to be effective on a governing body
Influencing strategic thinking for finance professionals *Developed in conjunction with ACCA
Innovation for business results
Leadership for professionals *Developed in conjunction with ACCA
Successful team working
What you need to know about marketing
Managing people
Effective virtual teams
How to use coaching at work
Interviewing skills for successful selection
Managing conflict
Managing diversity
Managing performance through people
Mentoring at Work
Recruiting the best people
Managing organisations
Corporate social responsibility in practice
Effective collaboration in construction
Effective decision-making skills
Leading organisational change
Managing a professional practice
Managing diversity
Managing organisational performance
Managing organisational politics
Practical leadership in construction
Successful team working
Sustainability at work: how to go green
The evolving information professional
Professional skills
Becoming an effective project manager
Creative problem solving
Discover and apply your creative skills
Effective decision making skills
Ethics at work: professional ethics in the 21st century
Managing complexity: a toolkit approach
Respecting religious diversity at work
Time management for you and your team
Successful team working
Sustainability at work: how to go green
Teaching reading: linguistic phonetics
The evolving information professional
Understanding finance and budgets
Understanding stress at work
Communication and negotiation
Getting it right: consulting and communication inside organisations
How well do you communicate? Interpersonal communication at work
Improving your negotiation skills
Successful team working
Teaching reading: linguistic phonetics
Working across cultures
Working together across professional boundaries
Finance, marketing and operations
Finance for non-financial managers
How can supply chain ideas help you?
Marketing in practice
Social marketing: how to influence behaviour
Understanding finance and budgets
What you need to know about marketing
Computing and technology
Foundations of software testing
Implementing successful ICT systems
Integrating software systems for IT professionals
Foundation and intermediate software testing
Sustainability at work: how to go green
The evolving information professional
Travel planning
How to design and analyse surveys
Introduction to travel planning
Social marketing
Travel plan development
Food Science
Developing Food Science Skills: Food Composition and Analysis
Developing Food Science Skills: Food Microbiology and Hygiene
Developing Food Science Skills: Preservation and Packaging
Food: From farm to fork (An overview of food production)
