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.

Skills you'll gain: Video Editing, Adobe Premiere, Storytelling, Post-Production, Content Creation, TikTok, Timelines, Color Matching, File Management
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

Corporate Finance Institute
Skills you'll gain: Microsoft Excel, Pivot Tables And Charts, Spreadsheet Software, Dashboard, Data Transformation, Data Analysis, Excel Formulas, Data Visualization Software, Data Presentation, Data Manipulation, Business Intelligence, Data Cleansing
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Skills you'll gain: Power Apps Component Framework, Document Management, Microsoft Power Platform, Data Entry, Data Sharing, Excel Formulas, Microsoft 365, Application Development
Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

SkillUp
Skills you'll gain: Dashboard, Data Storytelling, Data Visualization Software, Tableau Software, Data Visualization, Interactive Data Visualization, Real Time Data, Data Manipulation, Data Import/Export, Data Transformation, Data Cleansing, Data Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Coursera
Skills you'll gain: Financial Modeling, Financial Forecasting, Real Estate, Cash Flow Forecasting, Commercial Real Estate, Risk Management, Property and Real Estate, Investment Management, Predictive Modeling, Risk Analysis, Investments, Financial Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Generative AI, Agentic systems, OpenAI, ChatGPT, AI Workflows, AI Product Strategy, Large Language Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, Model Evaluation, Responsible AI, AI Security, Decision Making
Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Columbia University
Skills you'll gain: Portfolio Management, Investment Management, Portfolio Risk, Asset Management, Market Liquidity, Risk Management, Financial Market, Equities, Risk Analysis, Transaction Processing, Securities Trading, Financial Analysis, Statistical Analysis
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of Colorado Boulder
Skills you'll gain: Design Reviews, Simulation and Simulation Software, Teaching, Mathematics Education, Design Strategies, Chemistry, Physics, Biology
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

Tecnológico de Monterrey
Skills you'll gain: Brand Management, Branding, Brand Strategy, Brand Awareness, Brand Loyalty, Marketing Management, Consumer Behaviour, Internal Communications, Performance Measurement, Target Audience, Market Analysis
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Fractal Analytics
Skills you'll gain: Power BI, Data Analysis Expressions (DAX), Data Modeling, Data Visualization Software, Data Visualization, Data Transformation, Data Cleansing, Business Intelligence, Data Storytelling, Dashboard, Data Analysis, Business Reporting, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

Google Cloud
Skills you'll gain: Looker (Software), SQL, Big Data, Data Warehousing, Data Visualization Software, Data Analysis, Extract, Transform, Load, Google Sheets, Jupyter, Data Transformation, Data Cleansing, Data Pipelines, Data Processing, Google Cloud Platform, Data Integrity, Workflow Management
Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

University of California, Irvine
Skills you'll gain: Month End Closing, Financial Accounting, Financial Statements, Ledgers (Accounting), Accounting, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Accounting Records
Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks