AEE COURSE PATHWAY
Start Date
Evergreen: 23rd Mar 2022
Price
£550GBP
understanding the user
The focus of this course is on enabling you to see your user clearly. Until you have a clear picture of who they are and their journey, you can’t clearly articulate the value you will provide. In this course, we will walk you through effective ways to understand them and talk to them.
Course Duration
Self-Study (6 Month Access)
Language
English
Effort
30 Hours
The Accreditations
The Accreditations
The Course pathway is one of only a few programs run by academics, for industry, outside of higher-education. We provide a practical approach to helping you equip your workforce with skills needed to sustain in industry. Moreover, all AEE courses are accredited by CPD -ensuring credibility and confidence, and providing a trusted space both for personal development and practical, impactful training.
The Core Value
Market analytics, user analytics, consumer behaviour, segmentation of the market, profiling and journey mapping, project management, and problem solving. –
The Understanding The User Course
Knowing your user is critical to the success of your business. The most common complaint we hear in the small business sector relates to the struggle of finding more clients and increasing sales. Yet, the key mistake many of these SMEs make is not having a clear idea of who their ideal customer is. The reality is that you can’t be all things to all people – you have to be clear about your customer base. This isn’t something multinational businesses have to worry about as they have a team of people assessing the market, segmenting the population, profiling them, and mapping the end-to-end user journey. This helps them to find innovative solutions, and new ways of serving the targeted population. No-one knew they needed social media or smartphones until they were launched, did they? Being able to stay ahead of your game means knowing more about the user than ever before. This course has been carefully designed to demystify the user and paint a clear and telling picture of who your users are, and how you can help them.
The Ideal Student
This pathway is designed for businesses looking to focus in on how they provide value for the user. It will also be useful for those starting out on the journey of self-employment for the first time. It is designed to help you to get really clear on who your business serves, why, and how best to reach these users. During the course, you will explore a rich combination of innovative solutions, success, and user analytics strategies. This will help you achieve clarity on who you serve, and to conceptualise and devise products and services that solve and meet their key problems and needs. More than that, we provide a practical toolkit, along with the understanding of how to use it, where to use it, and how to start, with someone to show you the way.
ECA Outline
Key Outcomes
- Understanding of the fundamentals of marketing
- User analytics and journey mapping
- Acquire and utilise key skills and tools needed to understand the user
- Tangible experience of segmentation, profiling, mapping
- The development of skills through both formative virtual classroom-based work and summative assessment
What You’ll Get
- 12 Hours Credentialled Track
- Online Training
- Self-Study Hours
- Practical Toolkit
- 30 Minute Session with Pathway Director
- AEE Student Network
- AEE VIP Clubhouse for Members
What Makes This Different
At AEE, we are focused on maximising the tangible benefits that our comprehensive programs and courses provide. We will help you to leverage the skills and strategies gained from your course to grow a sustainable, profitable business. Upon completion of the course, you’ll walk away with:
- The ability to identify, segment and profile your users effectively
- The frameworks and skills needed to effectively map the user journey effectively
- Strategies for understanding user needs and developing commercially viable solutions
- Guidance from AEE contributors, leading industry experts and access to the AEE Student Network
Course Curriculum Pathway Breakdown
Topic 1: Introduction To User Analytics
Topic 2: Identifying The User
Topic 3: Knowing The User
Topic 4: Understanding The User
Topic 5: Positioning The Value
Topic 6: Selling The Value
Testimonials
Our Clients
I had the pleasure of meeting Julie in my first year at Strathclyde as she was the lecturer for one of my classes. A major thing that stood out to me was her dedication to making classes as engaging and enjoyable as possible. It truly made a huge difference, and gave me an opportunity to interact with and meet countless students. Thanks to Julie’s hard work, every student was able to work their hardest and look forward to each class, and always be able to say, “I learned something new today!” I particularly recall Dr McFarlane’s acknowledgment of reflecting the reality of corporate affairs, society, and modern entrepreneurship in her work. For me, and many other students, this helped to establish the reality and importance of turning academia into practical, ‘real-life’ application. This inspired confidence and trust, to know that I would be able to apply this wealth of knowledge, and experience to any professional or personal situation. However, this commitment extended on from University. As Dr McFarlane, progressed from her role as the Director of Learning, she became Julie: the approachable, kind, and considerate person that I was delighted to form a lasting, meaningful, professional relationship with. Without question, Julie has exceeded the idealistic expectations of an educator. Her ambition and influential personality shone through, beyond her role at my University, by providing me with continuous support, encouragement, and drive to empower students, like myself. I would strongly testify to Julie’s experience as an educator, support, and entrepreneur.
Programme Director
The User Analytics course was designed to help businesses who are looking for creative ways to solve meaty problems, find a new perspective, or identify a new approach to tackle change. As an academic in entrepreneurship, Dr McFarlane has spent over 15 years developing higher education programs in enterprise for students all over the world. During that time, she has identified a need for a more practical approach to enterprise education that still benefits from the research of leading academics. AEE bridges that gap to provide small business with practical and impactful training.
Dr Julie McFarlane
Director of Learning, Academy of Enterprise Education
Course Enquiry
Course Enquiry
To enquire about User Analytics please fill out the form and one of
our course advisors will be in contact.
The Accreditations
Getting Certified
Students completing the 30-hour Course pathways, which include all taught content as well as assessment will meet the requisite training hours necessary to be awarded CPD Certification.
More Questions
The Academy of Enterprise Education (AEE) is an online enterprise re-education provider developing high-quality, fully accredited programs benefitting from the research experience of world-class academic staff from some of the world’s leading universities. AEE aims to be the bridge between theory and practice by providing, promoting, and supporting enterprise education for clients and students from across the world. Through a market-driven approach, we analyse future skills gaps in the small business sector so that all our accredited/certified academies, schools, and courses address this need. Our longstanding academic expertise in the design, development, and delivery of high quality education programs, along with insightful market research, data analysis, and cutting-edge industry insights, ensures that AEE provides highly relevant pathways optimized to fit individual needs. At AEE, we use the same materials as those taught in many of the world’s leading institutions, academically tried and tested approaches that add value in the coaching context. Only our team of have collated them to make the journey even more practical for you. That’s why we’re different – all our experts have worked in academia and industry, and are fully qualified to offer our insights, support, and expertise to help you get the best out of the learning journey. AEE offers working professionals the skills, knowledge and strategies they need to re-educate themselves in a number of different ways. All our academies, schools and courses are certified by globally recognized bodies – ensuring credibility and confidence, and providing a trusted space both for personal development and practical, impactful training. AEE aims to provide a fast-track route to a new career, business or skill set.
AEE fees can be paid before prior to the commencement of the selected pathway, or you may opt for a three-part payment plan for courses 12 weeks and longer. To find out more about payment options please visit our Payment and Financing page, or contact us, to find out which option you qualify for. In addition, AEE is also pleased to offer a 20% discount on all pathways to former NHS workers, public servants, military or police. For more information, contact us info@individuals.aoee.co.uk.
AEE is designed to fit around your life as a working professional, add to your knowledge, improve your skills and provide you with strategies without compromising on your work-life balance. Each of the pathways offers three varied and flexible learning options. The materials are all online and downloadable, course work is broken up into manageable bite-sized modules, with practical exercises and incremental deadlines, designed to help you pace the learning journey to suit your needs. With our expert guidance on how to master these techniques, drawn from a rich combination of specialist fields, you will have the ability to craft a role in the coaching industry that both fits your needs, and your lifestyle. Each pathway has a detailed student handbook to guide you through the learning journey and you will have access to your student advisor who will support you with any administrative or technical queries you might have.
It is critical to business success that employees continually look for ways to improve their skill set and industry knowledge. In fact, a number of organisations encourage it, often funding professional development programs in the hope of the impacts it generates. So it may be worthwhile reaching out to ask what policies are in place for this, if it’s going to have an impact on the way you do business and you can outline this, what have you got to loose? Worse case scenario, your boss realises you are looking to develop. Make sure you; 1. Do your research on training programs 2. Identify the BEST fit for you and the business 3. Highlight the cost-benefit of the program 4. Articulate the value of this program and the impact it will have on the business to your boss. Here is a guide to show you how to request financial assistance from your employer.
If you are a Learning & Development (L&D) manager, or involved in training and upskilling for an organization, you can request information regarding our upskilling courses page Course Pathway – AEE (aoee.co.uk).
Adult learners can also apply for grants and bursaries to help pay for courses and training. Usually, you do not have to pay this money back. For most grants and bursaries you apply directly to the organisation that gives them out. They’ll have an application form and will be able to tell you if you qualify. If you’re a parent, you might also be able to get help with childcare costs while you study. In the UK there are also a number of routes to funding further-education. Contact Us – Gov Grants Hub UK/ Scotland’s national skills agency | Skills Development Scotland/ Grants and bursaries for adult learners – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
As part of our commitment to your professional development, AEE offer a 14 day period to change your pathway, start date or request your money back.
To qualify for a deferral of your course start date, or to cancel your enrolment please contact support@individuals.aoee.co.uk. For more information, please read our Terms and Conditions.
The AEE Platform will be your Virtual Campus for the duration of your time with us. Through its user-friendly interface you’ll have access to all pathway materials from: in-person sessions (not for Course Pathway), video presentations, module notes, workbooks, toolkits practice quizzes, assignment briefs, and additional reading materials. On the Virtual Campus, you’ll be able to interact with your peers, ask questions as well as track your progress.
