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.

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Customer Retention, Customer Acquisition Management, Customer experience improvement, Responsible AI, Customer Service, Customer experience strategy (CX), Customer Success Management, Customer Engagement, Generative AI, Customer Support, Customer Analysis, AI Personalization, ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude, Artificial Intelligence, Business Process Automation, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Automation, Predictive Analytics
Intermediate · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

ESSEC Business School
Skills you'll gain: Meeting Facilitation, Collaboration, Organizational Skills, Cooperation, Discussion Facilitation, Team Building, Drive Engagement, Teamwork, Innovation, Conflict Management, Knowledge Transfer, Decision Making
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Lausanne
Skills you'll gain: Business Ethics, Decision Making, Ethical Standards And Conduct, Social Sciences, Business Management, Research, Sociology, Compliance Management, Psychology, Case Studies, Mindfulness
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

ESSEC Business School
Skills you'll gain: Mediation, Negotiation, Conflict Management, Intercultural Competence, Cultural Diversity, Case Studies, Analysis, Value Propositions, Peer Review, Process Design
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months
University of Pennsylvania
Skills you'll gain: Social Impact, Philanthropy, Sustainable Business, Return On Investment, Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG), Corporate Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Strategic Leadership, Business Strategies, Business Leadership, Business Strategy, Case Studies, Business Metrics, Decision Making, Leadership Studies, Business Ethics, Investment Management, Organizational Leadership, Investments, Program Evaluation
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Interactive Brokers
Skills you'll gain: Derivatives, Futures Exchange, Financial Trading, Financial Market, Risk Management, Market Analysis, Capital Markets, Risk Analysis, Investments, Equities, Market Dynamics, Profit and Loss (P&L) Management, Decision Making
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Project Schedules, Engineering Management, Project Risk Management, Scheduling, Quality Management, Engineering Practices, Project Controls, Risk Management, Project Planning, Project Implementation, Risk Analysis, Risk Management Framework, Cost Management, Quality Monitoring, Project Management, Risk Mitigation, Quality Management Systems, Quality Assurance, Budget Management, Purchasing
Build toward a degree
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Universidade de São Paulo
Skills you'll gain: Stakeholder Engagement, Conflict Management, Stakeholder Management, Project Planning, Project Documentation, Project Management, Organizational Structure, Stakeholder Analysis, Project Scoping, Team Management, Project Management Life Cycle, Stakeholder Communications, Influencing
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months
Skills you'll gain: People Management, Team Leadership, Team Management, Management Training And Development, Team Building, Leadership and Management, Organizational Leadership, Teamwork, People Development, Professional Development, Leadership, Culture Transformation, Relationship Building, Collaboration, Internal Communications, Communication Strategies, Drive Engagement, Willingness To Learn, Lifelong Learning, AI Enablement
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

University of Michigan
Skills you'll gain: Responsible AI, Generative AI, Governance, Data Governance, Data Management, Data Ethics, Compliance Management, Consumer Behaviour, AI literacy, Governance Risk Management and Compliance, AI powered creativity, AI Enablement, Social Impact, Business Risk Management, Law, Regulation, and Compliance, Stakeholder Analysis, Decision Intelligence, Risking, Leadership and Management, Risk Management
Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

University at Buffalo
Skills you'll gain: Process Mapping, Performance Improvement, Data Collection, Process Improvement, Process Improvement and Optimization, Business Process, Business Process Improvement, Process Design, Data Strategy, Process Analysis, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Performance Measurement, Process Flow Diagrams, Business Priorities, Data Validation, Business Process Modeling, Plan Execution, Data Capture, Operational Performance Management, Performance Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Feature Engineering, Model Deployment, Data Ethics, Exploratory Data Analysis, Model Evaluation, Unsupervised Learning, Data Presentation, Tensorflow, Application Deployment, Dimensionality Reduction, MLOps (Machine Learning Operations), Model Training, Probability Distribution, Apache Spark, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Design Thinking, Market Opportunities, Data Science, Machine Learning, Python Programming
Advanced · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months