BCS Practitioner Award in Collaborating with Business Teams

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

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.

There are no prerequisites to attend this accelerated course.

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: ‚Äòclosed book‚Äô exam format
• Number of questions: 20 multiple choice 1- and 2-mark questions
• Passing score: 70% (21/30)