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Commercial & Public Sector
Fistral courses improve individual and team work efficiency. A sharp focus on project management, communication and leadership skills supports individuals in creative, technical, professional, administrative, and highly-specialised roles.
Fistral offers professional skills training to staff in existing roles, as well as career progression. We empower people with all levels of experience from interns to senior management.
Fistral courses can be tailored for specific sectors and teams. Get in touch to find out more and to see our catalogue.
Examples of our most popular courses for the Commercial & Public Sector
Project Management in the Real World
An introduction to key project management concepts. Includes extended practice embedding and applying the techniques, and planning a full project lifecycle.
Techniques for Confident Professional Communication
Communicate effectively in a range of professional settings. Explore confident verbal, psychological and non-verbal communication.
Masterclasses in Project Management or Risk
A bespoke and challenging workshop aimed at senior or aspiring management-level staff. A real-life project makes it directly relevant and highly interactive.
Space
Fistral's onsite and online space sector training courses delivered globally, use real-life contextualised examples and scenarios. Courses are underpinned by professional standards such as ECSS, APM, PMI and Scrum.
Fistral has up-skilled, re-trained and equipped thousands of staff working on missions for 20 years. We deliver skills for work in project management, risk and other training with space agencies, in Europe and the UK as well as multi-site space, aerospace and space-adjacent companies.
Fistral courses can be tailored for specific sectors and teams. Get in touch to find out more and to see our full catalogue.
Examples of our most popular courses for the Space Sector
Project Management Principles Level 1
Fistral's flagship space course establishes a foundation of project management best practice. Influenced by ESA, ECSS and industry, learn techniques you can apply to any project regardless of size and shape.
Developing High-Performing Teams
Create well-functioning teams that pull together even in situations of stress. Avoid obstacles to effective teamworking and ways to optimise team performance.
Agile Product Delivery: An Introduction using Scrum
An overview of Scrum and agile product management. A hands-on opportunity to experience agile development techniques and skills.
Postgraduate Researchers
Fistral transferable skills training courses empower research degree students postgraduate journey and future careers. Expertise gained from training thousands of PhD students informs course design. Fistral courses reflect the real challenges faced by PGRs and HDRs and support the delivery of excellent research.
Fistral PGR courses focus on the practical skills required to complete postgraduate research and target key stages such as Kick-Off and Viva Preparation. Professional project management accreditation provides a USP when working with industry partners and competing for highly-sought research funding.
Fistral courses can be tailored for specific sectors and teams. Get in touch to find out more and to see our catalogue.
Examples of our most popular courses for Postgraduate Researchers
Project Management for Researchers
An intense and compact course that provides a high-level overview of key project management techniques. Apply concepts to support you through the entire PGR/HDR journey.
Creating a Good Supervisory Relationship
Empowers PGRs and HDRs to become active partners in their supervisory team. Establish clear expectations which form the foundations of a mutually respectful relationship.
Keeping on Top of Your PhD: Personal Time Management Strategies
Manage your time and energy more productively during your research degree. Apply practical tools and techniques to your current calendar and prioritise your work.
Early Career Researchers
Fistral offers practical training courses aimed at research-active staff in the early stages of their career. Training provides essential skills for individuals and multi-disciplinary teams, to improve planning and delivery of work packages and research projects. Sessions support successful funding proposals, career development, and collaboration internationally and with industry.
Our training courses are contextualised for the HEI landscape. Training is delivered by experienced practitioners who understand the research skills needed and know what works.
Fistral courses can be tailored for your research organisation or university. Get in touch to find out more and to see our catalogue.
Examples of our most popular courses for Early Career Researchers
Project Management Techniques for Aspiring Research Leaders
A comprehensive toolset to assist in planning and tracking progress. Helps ECRs to manage any research or academic project without 'management' becoming burdensome.
Establishing Successful Teams in a Research Environment
Practical guidance to establish and maintain a team that can collaborate effectively to deliver its research objectives. Takes account of the culture and requirements of real research teams.
Handling Academic Rejection
Practical strategies to help researchers build a positive approach to dealing with setbacks. Embrace academic rejection as part of the path to professional and research excellence.
Academics
Fistral offers practical training courses aimed at senior academic staff contextualised specifically for the changing university and academic landscapes. Our project management tools and techniques, leadership skills, communication skills, collaboration, and time management training can all make an immediate difference to confidence, capability and work efficiency.
Bringing over two decades of experience working with universities around the globe, we understand the pressures on busy academics to manage multiple priorities and demands.
Fistral courses can be tailored for your research organisation or university. Get in touch to find out more and to see our catalogue.
Examples of our most popular courses for Academics
Project Management Essentials
An introduction to good practice and key techniques for managing any research project. Aimed at research-active staff in the early stages of their careers.
Collaborating Effectively with Others
This course draws on DISC, the widely used teamworking tool. Identify your own DISC style and its implications for how you and your colleagues prefer to collaborate.
Assertive Communication in an Academic Environment
Practical techniques to develop productive perspectives on challenging interactions. Manage communication in order to increase assertiveness regardless of circumstances, personalities or status.
Professional Service Staff (HEIs)
Fistral offers practical training courses tailored for professional service staff working in higher education, from interns to senior management. Our courses can be embedded in university staff training and development programmes.
We have over two decades experience successfully delivering training for: creative, technical, professional, administrative, IT, library, estates and buildings, student services, senior management, and highly-specialised project teams.
Fistral courses can be tailored for specific institutions. Get in touch to find out more and to see our catalogue.
Examples of our most popular courses for Professional Service Staff (HEIs)
Introduction to Project Management
How to apply project management techniques and concepts to projects of different shapes and sizes. Become better equipped to support the delivery of day-to-day work and key university objectives.
Recognise and Release Your Leadership Power
Learn how to get the best out of yourself as a leader using the DISC behavioural framework. Aimed at new and prospective leaders.
The Effective Teamworker
How to be a better teamworker and draw on team strengths. A toolbox of practical techniques to ensure teamworking is easier and more effective.