BCS Practitioner Collaborating with Business Teams certification

Overview

This accelerated BCS Practitioner in Collaborating with Business Teams course, is a practitioner level award encourages individuals in digital and technical roles to enhance their skills by exploring different techniques, formats, and tools to communicate and understand the impact of their communication choices. Enhance your career by building upon your personal and business skills with a holistic, industry-driven qualification.

In just 2 days, you’ll learn understand how to lead effectively, manage driven digital teams that enact solutions, and increase digital productivity across your organisation. You’ll also learn how to:

Develop skills and knowledge to support successful business change programmes within your organisation.
Identify and understand your audience
Understand the process of requirements gathering
Identify and utilise effective methods of communication
Communication planning and how to enact effective communication

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the BCS exam, and achieve your BCS: Practitioner in Collaborating with Business Teams certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

Digital professionals looking to enhance their soft skills in target areas.
IT business partners
Business analysts and Business managers and members of their team
Business change managers
Project managers

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Benefits

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need:

Intensive group instruction
One-on-one instruction attention
Hands-on labs
Lab partner and group exercises
Question and answer drills
Independent study

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Curriculum

Module 1: Purpose and Need for Collaboration (30%)

Explain the purpose and intention of communication
Analyse the required level of information and modify information to fit your audience
Analyse the suitability of communication methods and collaboration tools
Demonstrate how to select the appropriate format to present data and information
Interpret information provided to you in a range of formats

Module 2: Your Own Collaboration Style (30%)

Analyse your own collaboration skills
Explain the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) when collaborating
Analyse the importance and use of personal branding
Explain the impact of a positive attitude when collaborating with others

Module 3: Skills for Successful Collaboration (25%)

Demonstrate active listening skills
Analyse the purpose and benefits of storytelling in communication
Explain the skills used in business networking
Analyse the need to adapt your collaboration and communication styles

Module 4: The Value of Feedback (15%)

Explain the need to seek clarity in communications.
Analyse the suitability and effectiveness of methods of gathering feedback Interpret feedback to select a suitable response.

Exam Track

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

BCS Practitioner in Collaborating with Business Teams exam

Duration: 45-minute
Format: ‘closed book’ exam format
Number of questions: 20 multiple choice 1- and 2-mark questions
Passing score: 70% (21/30)

What's Included

Your accelerated course includes:

Accommodation *
Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
On-site exams **
Exam vouchers **
Practice tests **
Certification Guarantee ***
Courseware
Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
24-hour lab access
Digital courseware **

* For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
*** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites to attend this accelerated course.

Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites? Don’t worry. Your training consultant will discuss your background with you to understand if this course is right for you.

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Course Dates

Start	Finish	Status	Location
27/5/2024 (Monday)	28/5/2024 (Tuesday)	Finished - Leave feedback	-
30/9/2024 (Monday)	1/10/2024 (Tuesday)	Wait list	Nationwide
11/11/2024 (Monday)	12/11/2024 (Tuesday)	Limited availability	Nationwide

3/2/2025 (Monday)	4/2/2025 (Tuesday)	Open	Nationwide
17/3/2025 (Monday)	18/3/2025 (Tuesday)	Open	Nationwide

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BCS - Practitioner in Collaborating with Business Teams