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Training for every part of the job.

Training for wherever you want to take your practice next. More than 50 IOIC CPD-certified courses across every area of internal communication, delivered online by expert trainers. Find them by topic, by career stage, or both.

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Find training by topic.

Eight areas of practice. Open the one closest to the work in front of you for the courses and where to begin.

Strategy and leadership communication

Get into the room where strategy is set, and be useful once you are there.

Where to start: Strategic Communication, then build from there.

  • Strategic Communication
  • The Language of Leadership
  • Communicating Business Strategy
  • Building and Maintaining Trust
  • Becoming a Trusted Business Partner
  • Executive Presence Workshop
  • Scenario Planning
  • Activating People Managers as Communicators 

Data and measurement

Stop reporting activity. Start answering the question your stakeholders actually asked.

Where to start: Data for Internal Communication Professionals.

  • Data for Internal Communicators
  • Measurement and Evaluation

AI in internal communication

A range of courses with different starting points. Take the one that matches where you actually are.

Where to start: The beginner's guide if you are new to it. AI Evolved assumes you already use AI regularly.

  • AI for Internal Communicators: A Beginner's Practical Guide
  • AI Writing Skills
  • AI Evolved: From Tool to Teammate

Culture, inclusion and experience

Culture is hard to see and harder to shift. These courses give you something concrete to work with.

Where to start: Culture is hard to see and harder to shift. These courses give you something concrete to work with.

  • Culture Change and Culture Management
  • Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for Communicators
  • Accessible Communication
  • Neuroinclusion for Internal Communicators
  • Communicating with Hard to Reach Colleagues

Change and transformation

Change communication is mostly done under pressure. These courses give you a method so you are not improvising.

Where to start: Communicating Change. Advanced Change Communication assumes you have the basics.

  • Communicating Change
  • Advanced Change Communication
  • Landing Great Communication for Technology Change
  • Driving Successful People-Centred Change
  • Crisis Communication

Storytelling, writing and campaigns

The craft end of the profession. Writing that lands, and stories people repeat without being asked.

Where to start: Communicating Change. the Writing Skills and Power of Storytelling then move onto the advanced.

  • Communication Planning
  • The Power of Storytelling
  • Strategic Storytelling 
  • Writing Skills for the Internal Communication Professional
  • Advanced Writing 
  • The Clear Communicator
  • AI Writing Skills

Behavioural insight and influence

Understand why people respond the way they do, then build the standing to act on it.

Where to start: Introduction to Behavioural Economics.

  • Introduction to Behavioural Economics
  • Influence 360 for Communicators 
  • Neuroscience: The Science Behind Effective Communication 

Channels and platforms

Make the tools your organisation already pays for work harder.
  • Channel Management 
  • Introduction to Microsoft 365
  • Accessible Communication

Dates and booking are in the training calendar. You can filter it by topic, career stage and date. Courses are added throughout the year, so if one here has no date yet, it will appear when scheduling opens.

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Find training for your career stage.  

Four to start you off at each stage, with the full list a click away.

Building your career
 
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Building your career

Foundations that go beyond the basics. Courses at this stage include:

Introduction to Internal Communication
Introduction to Behavioural Economics
AI for Internal Communicators: A Beginner's Practical Guide
 The Power of Storytelling
Writing Skills for the Internal Communication Professional 
Accessible Communication for Internal Communicators
Communication Planning 
Communicating Change
AI Writing Skills
Established practitioner
 
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Established practitioner 

Move from delivering communication to shaping it. Courses at this stage include:

Strategic Communication
Communicating Business Strategy 
Data for Internal Communicators: Demonstrating Value and Impact
Culture Change and Culture Management 
Activating People Managers as Communicators
Influence 360 for Communicators
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for Communicators 
Becoming a Trusted Business Partner
 AI Evolved: From Tool to Teammate
Senior leadership
 
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Senior leadership

Lead at the level the profession needs. Courses at this stage include:

 
Executive Presence Workshop
Building and Maintaining Trust With Internal Communication
The Language of Leadership
Advanced Change Communication
Scenario Planning for Internal Communicators 
AI Confident Leaders Programme

Filter the calendar by career stage to see every course at yours, not just the examples above.

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What comes with every course.

CPD certification

Every course is CPD-certified. You leave with a certificate you can log against your IOIC CPD record and use as evidence of your development.

Mapped to the Profession Map

Every course is mapped to the IOIC Profession Map, so you can see exactly what it builds and where it takes you next.

Expert Trainers 

Courses are delivered by subject matter experts and experienced internal communication professionals.

Members save on every course

Join IOIC and your training budget goes further from day one with 20% discount on all training courses. 

Upcoming training. 

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Development programmes.

Intensive programmes designed to shift how you think, work and lead in internal communication. 

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IC Leadership Programme

Designed specifically for internal communication professionals who want to increase their impact and strengthen their leadership capabilities. 

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Empowered Communicator

Build confidence, deepen capability and accelerate your impact. A specialist programme for internal communication professionals ready to step up.

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AI Confident Leaders Programme

Harness AI as a strategic capability. For internal communication leaders ready to lead the conversation and not just join it.

 

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Thrive Well Programme

Grounded in neuroscience and positive psychology, this programme builds the resilience, self-awareness and strength needed to thrive professionally and personally. 

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Training for your team.

Everything on this page can be delivered privately to your team, at a time and in a format that suits you. Or we can build something from scratch around your team's objectives and career levels.

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