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Founded in 2019, Proactive Ideas is an eLearning company dedicated to making knowledge fun, accessible, and engaging for learners everywhere. With a focus on business and personal development, we create courses that combine clarity with storytelling, breaking down complex topics into lessons that are easy to follow and practical to apply. To date, over 500,000 learners worldwide have enrolled in our courses on Alison, and many of these learners have earned certificates, advanced their careers, started new ventures, and built skills that directly improved their personal and professional lives. Their testimonials continue to inspire our work and affirm our impact.

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Practical Lessons on Personal Finance
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Practical Lessons on Personal Finance
1.5-3 hrs 19,575 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Define ‘personal finances’
  • Explain the significance of financial literacy
  • State the relevance of career choice to financial planning
  • List the steps of the financial-planning process
  • Discuss the importance of budgeting
  • Outline the fundamentals of monetary asset management
  • Summarize the principles of wise spending
  • Compare savings and investments
  • List the advantages of insurance
  • Describe major investment strategies
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Investment
Practical Lessons on Personal Finance
1.5-3 hrs
19575 enrolled
How to Launch a Successful Career
3-4 hrs 2,105 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain how to do research to find a new job or role
  • Explain why having a good resume is important to find a good job
  • Summarise and evaluate your career goals
  • Identify your passions and align them to your career goals
  • State the importance of building a professional network
  • Discuss how to make the most of networking events
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Beginner Level
Personal Branding
How to Launch a Successful Career
3-4 hrs
2105 enrolled
Fundamentals of Business Money Management
1.5-3 hrs 8,201 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Evaluate operating costs and sales numbers
  • Distinguish between cash flow, profit, revenue and expenses
  • Outline how to manage inventory and pricing
  • Identify how Quickbooks, Xero and FreshBooks can help you sync business accounts and credit cards
  • Compute business finances in order to clearly identify profits, losses and taxes due
  • Recognize how and when to reinvest in your business and how much reinvestment to make
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Accounting
Fundamentals of Business Money Management
1.5-3 hrs
8201 enrolled
Developing Strategy to Solve Business Problems
1.5-3 hrs 2,491 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify the major factors that cause the problems facing your business
  • Indicate business issues and place them into a problem statement
  • Define your business objectives and key results
  • Recognise potent strategies to solve business problems
  • Analyse all necessary data before a brainstorming session to decide on the right strategy
  • Evaluate the progress of your problem-solving plan by means of an action tracker
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Beginner Level
Business Development
Developing Strategy to Solve Business Problems
1.5-3 hrs
2491 enrolled
Fundamentals of Fundraising: How to Secure Funds for Your Business
1.5-3 hrs 2,076 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the concept of ‘bootstrapping’
  • Draw up the financial records of your business
  • Distinguish between crowdfunding, microloans, traditional loans and investment
  • List the major components of a loan package
  • Outline the different sections of a presentation deck
  • Recognise the risks involved in running a company and how they may be addressed
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Beginner Level
Fundraising
Fundamentals of Fundraising: How to Secure Funds for Your Business
1.5-3 hrs
2076 enrolled
Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace Culture
1.5-3 hrs 6,082 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Define workplace ‘diversity’, ‘equity’ and ‘inclusiveness’
  • Evaluate your workplace culture with respect to diversity, equity and inclusiveness
  • Identify the importance of precise language within a workplace
  • Outline the benefits of overcoming unconscious bias in the workplace
  • Discuss gender bias and its professional effect 
  • Recognise the benefits of being inclusive when holding team meetings
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Beginner Level
Diversity
Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Workplace Culture
1.5-3 hrs
6082 enrolled
Employee Management for Business Managers
1.5-3 hrs 10,963 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Distinguish between ‘hearing ‘and ‘listening’
  • Discuss the value of ‘reflective listening' and how it can be applied
  • Describe how and why one-on-one meetings are set up
  • Outline the various features of the ‘GROW’ model
  • Explain the pitfalls of micromanaging employees
  • Identify ways to build trust among team members
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Beginner Level
Management
Employee Management for Business Managers
1.5-3 hrs
10963 enrolled
Basics of eCommerce: How to Sell Online
1.5-3 hrs 17,764 learners
By Proactive Ideas
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Calculate the different costs involved in shipping and distribution
  • Outline how to package your products effectively before shipment
  • Select the appropriate shipping partner 
  • Describe the marketing concepts that should shape your brand packaging strategies
  • Recognise when you should hire a manufacturer and find the right one
  • Define ‘payment service provider’ (PSP) and explain how to set one up for online payments
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Beginner Level
E-Commerce
Basics of eCommerce: How to Sell Online
1.5-3 hrs
17764 enrolled
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