Welcome to BEAU's free online training course programme.
Spend 10 hours working through a training course or 10 minutes dipping in to refresh your memory or pick up some quick tips, it’s up to you. We’ll be developing more online courses in the coming year, so look out for updates.
Acting for Equality and Diversity
This course provides you with an introduction to equality and diversity including what the terms mean, how the law protects individuals and groups, why equality and diversity are so important in the workplace and wider society and how your unions play a crucial role in achieving equality of opportunity for all. You will also find out how you can get more involved in the movement towards equality.
Blogging for Freelances
This course explains how to start and keep running a blog that works for you because it works for your audience. It’s about the technical decisions you’ll make and the existing creative freelance skills you’ll exploit to make a blog work to meet your objectives.
Building your Brand
This course is for those who wish to find out more about creating a brand that will help raise awareness of what they do.
Building your Web Presence
This course is for those of you who want to understand more about developing a web presence that helps you showcase your work and make it easier for clients to locate you online.
Business Skills for Freelances
This course is for creative freelances from Equity, the MU, the NUJ and the Writers’ Guild who want to get to grips with the business skills that help to gain more work and create work continuity.
Creative Productivity
This course shows you how to stop your business chores taking time from your creative work looking at how to get started and how to beat distractions.
Diversifying your Portfolio
This course is for anyone who would like to expand their earning potential by diversifying their portfolio and creatively utilising their existing skills and experience in new ways.
Ethics, Regulation and Law
Appreciating the ethical expectations and the rules of your chosen industry, and how national law can restrict and protect your professional activities.
Finance for Freelances
This course will help you get to grips with managing your finances from completing your expenses to understanding laws and regulations.
Negotiation for Freelances
This online training course will help you become a better negotiator and can be applied to all areas of your life.
Marketing for Freelances
This course will help you to extend the group of people who know you professionally and let them know what your work is all about.
Overcoming Freelance Challenges
This course considers some of the main challenges of working as a freelance, things like isolation, confidence, resilience, boundaries and motivation.
Running a Social Media Campaign
This online course will show you, step by step, how social media can become a powerful ally in achieving your goal.
Social Media for Freelances
This online training course helps you to use social media to get better jobs and engage with like-minded professionals.
Stress Busting for Freelances
Online training course to help you to pinpoint negative stress and help you get your life back in control.
