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: Promotional Materials, Marketing Materials, Design Software, Presentations, Advertising, Design, Graphic Design, Marketing, User Accounts
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Skillshare
Skills you'll gain: Canva (Software), Typography, Creative Design, Logo Design, Style Guides, Graphic and Visual Design, Marketing Design, Color Theory, Brand Strategy, Branding, Design, Graphic Design, Digital Design, Competitive Analysis, Design Elements And Principles, Content Creation, Photo Editing, Social Media Content, Layout Design, Image Quality
Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Performance Review, Smart Goals, Performance Appraisal, Employee Performance Management, Performance Management, Performance Metric, Goal Setting, Internal Communications, Staff Management
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours
Skills you'll gain: AI Product Strategy, Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Product Management, Generative AI, AI Enablement, Agile Product Development, Microsoft Copilot, Market Intelligence, Competitive Analysis, Market Research, User Story, Product Strategy, Prompt Engineering, Competitive Intelligence, Business Strategy, Business Modeling
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks
University of Michigan
Skills you'll gain: Employee Engagement, Organizational Leadership, Leadership, Team Motivation, Culture Transformation, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Personal Development, Goal Setting, Self-Awareness, Stress Management
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Data Visualization, Data-Driven Decision-Making, Data Visualization Software, Data Literacy, Interactive Data Visualization, Business Intelligence, Data Storytelling, Data Presentation, Dashboard
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Skills you'll gain: Customer experience improvement, Information Technology Infrastructure Library, IT Service Management, Service Management, Continuous Improvement Process, Service Design, Agile Methodology, Governance, IT Management, Innovation, Process Improvement and Optimization, Automation
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Arizona State University
Skills you'll gain: Hotels and Accommodations, Travel Arrangements, Business Communication, Language Learning, Oral Expression, Hospitality, Oral Comprehension, Verbal Communication Skills, Vocabulary, Cultural Sensitivity, Food and Beverage
Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Rice University
Skills you'll gain: Business Economics, Market Dynamics, Economics, Game Theory, Supply And Demand, Operating Cost, Cost Benefit Analysis, Market Analysis, Consumer Behaviour, Policty Analysis, Research, and Development, Decision Making
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Relational Databases, Data Visualization, Data Modeling, Cloud Security, Databases, Database Management, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Advanced Analytics, Data Management, Data Governance, Data Preprocessing, Microsoft Excel, Amazon Web Services, Data Integration, Data Security, Cost Control, Cloud Computing, Spreadsheet Software, Excel Formulas, Predictive Modeling
Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

Skills you'll gain: Shiny (R Package), Data Visualization, Interactive Data Visualization, Dashboard, Data Visualization Software, R Programming, Data Wrangling, User Interface (UI) Design, Ggplot2, Data Manipulation, Data Integration, Data Import/Export
Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

O.P. Jindal Global University
Skills you'll gain: Anomaly Detection, Dimensionality Reduction, Unsupervised Learning, Customer Analysis, Marketing Analytics, Data Mining, Feature Engineering, Autoencoders, Applied Machine Learning, Machine Learning Algorithms, Machine Learning Methods, Marketing, Statistical Machine Learning, Target Audience, Python Programming, Market Analysis, Exploratory Data Analysis, Model Evaluation, Algorithms
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months