Grown your career with our effective personal development training courses

Build your professional toolkit with our personal development courses designed to advance your PR and communication skills. Covering essential areas such as resilience, creative thinking, public speaking, and time management. Build the skills to create lasting impact, foster positive influence, and achieve balanced, consistent success.

Perfect for PR professionals looking to strengthen their long-term career performance and adaptability.

Personal development training courses

Building resilience 

Recognise the nature of stress and resilience,  understand how you currently respond and develop a new psychological toolkit for facing stress, change and challenge.

Creative thinking in PR and Communication

Come up with creative ideas more easily, discover the value of creativity, and learn to run better brainstorms and sell creative ideas.

Pitching for Business - Full Series (On-Demand)

A guide to effectively pitching for new business, covering the entire process from brief to the final review. Learn how to craft and deliver a compelling, memorable pitch.

Negotiating and influencing skills

Master negotiation for win-win results through effective communication. Learn the principles of effective negotiating and influencing, see them in action, and gain the skills to navigate challenging dynamics.

Public speaking & presentation skills

Boost your public speaking confidence by practising new techniques in a supportive setting and receiving professional coaching and feedback.

Time management & personal effectiveness

Cultivate a positive and effective approach to time and workload management. Acquire skills to eliminate, delegate and streamline tasks. Dive into understanding the causes of procrastination and discover actionable solutions.

Ethics (On-demand)

Explore the role of an ethical PR practitioner and discover tools and techniques for ethical decision making in this three-module course.

Save 10% when you book three or more places

Plan ahead and save 10% when you book any three course places for you or your colleagues at one time. 

Join us for member savings of up to £200

CIPR members pay less for training, with discounts of up £200 on each training course. Discover the full benefits of membership and join today.

"So many elements learnt today I will be taking back to my job and putting into practice. This was the most amazing course. An incredible teacher and really makes everything seem so simple and attainable. I came away with so many key takeaways and thoroughly enjoyed my day. The trainer created a warm, welcome and safe space for us all and certainly made me feel like I could openly be myself."

Jo Bennett, Public speaking & presentation skills delegate