Level up your skills with Connemara
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- Online Harvard ManageMentor® courses
- Learn in your own time while you work, study or chase your side hustle
- Recognised certificates that strengthen your CV, LinkedIn profile and career prospects
Harvard ManageMentor® online short courses give individuals, career professionals, entrepreneurs and freelancers a chance to build world-class skills at a low cost – and they’re available across Africa.

Reduced rates
All courses are priced at affordable rates, giving you exceptional value for internationally recognised learning.

Practical tools
Whether you’re working full time, starting a business or freelancing, these courses fit into a busy schedule and give you practical tools you can use straight away.

International recognition
Each programme is internationally recognised and designed to help you grow your confidence, sharpen your thinking and accelerate your career in a way that is both substantial and achievable.
Harvard ManageMentor® courses are brought to you by Connemara, one of South Africa’s leading learning and development providers.
For 30 years we’ve been helping organisations in Africa and beyond build skills, grow talent and strengthen the way their people work. Our programmes have supported thousands of managers, young professionals and teams across industries, giving them practical tools to think clearly, communicate well and lead with confidence.
Now we’re opening this experience for individuals with an appetite to learn. You don’t need to be part of a big company to access high-quality development. Through this opportunity, you can tap into the same world-class learning used by leading organisations.
Whether you want to sharpen your writing, boost your career prospects or prepare for leadership, these courses give you the structure and skills to move forward. Connemara’s experience sits behind every step, making sure you get practical, relevant learning that helps you grow your career on your own terms.
Courses
These courses have been hand-picked from a huge range of Harvard ManageMentor® programmes and packaged especially for the African market. Each one gives you practical, work-ready skills at a rate that will suit your pocket. Every course costs R1 250 giving you an easy way to grow your career without putting pressure on your budget.
Here are a list of courses for you to choose from:
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Attracting and Cultivating Talent
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 16 Minutes
If you want to learn more about talent management and retention you’re not alone. Harvard ManageMentor’s Attracting and Cultivating Talent course will help you learn how to create a positive employee experience from interview to exit by covering all the skills you need to attract and cultivate talent on your teams.
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Budgeting
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 42 Minutes
Budgeting isn’t just for finance teams. Each decision a manager makes needs to take into account the resources that are available to them. Learning to budget ensures you can allocate resources wisely, communicate financial expectations, and keep teams on track with their budgets.
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Business Case Development
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 50 Minutes
You recognize a great opportunity to help your organization, but how do you communicate it? Learn how to create and present a compelling business case that aligns with your company’s strategic priorities.
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Business Plan Development
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 46 Minutes
A business plan takes the abstract goals of an organization or team and makes them concrete and actionable. Learn how to create a living document that will showcase an opportunity or idea and outline how your organization can make it a reality.
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Career Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 26 Minutes
Want a fulfilling career path? While others can help, it’s up to you to make it happen. Learn how by getting to know yourself, finding opportunities in career setbacks, and making learning a habit.
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Change Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 21 Minutes
In today’s organizations, change may be the only constant. By learning to navigate change, you can turn uncertainty into opportunity-and that benefits you, your team, and your organization.
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Coaching
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 9 Minutes
How can you become an effective and inspiring leader? Begin by defining your values and vision, and deepening your self-management skills.
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Crisis Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 22 Minutes
Crises arrive when you least expect and can radically reshape your business. Discover practices for preventing avoidable crises, containing and managing crises, and handling future crises more effectively.
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Customer Focus
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 51 Minutes
Only by putting customers front and center can companies pull ahead-and stay ahead-of their rivals. Learn how to identify your key customers, their changing needs, and the actions you can take to improve their experience.
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Decision Making
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 38 Minutes
Smart decisions are a key to business success. Boost your decision-making skills by learning how to avoid common pitfalls and use an effective process to spark innovative thinking. Discover strategies to get the most out of group decisions and apply data to answer important questions and evaluate your options.
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Delegating
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 27 Minutes
You can’t accomplish all your assignments on your own. The ability to delegate well is critical to your-and your team’s-success. Discover how to decide what to delegate, effectively communicate assignments, and support delegated work.
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Developing Employees
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 10 Minutes
If you don’t make developing your employees a priority, your team and organization will fall behind. Learn how to help people grow when your day is already full, promote rich learning experiences, and create development plans that have a lasting impact.
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Difficult Interactions
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 29 Minutes
How can you become an effective and inspiring leader? Begin by defining your values and vision, and deepening your self-management skills.
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Digital Intelligence
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 24 Minutes
No matter your role, technology continues to transform how you do your work. With access to a dizzying array of new tools, customer insights, and data, how do you keep up? Discover practices you and your team can put into action to thrive in the digital age.
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Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 50 Minutes
As a manager, you are in a powerful position to create an environment where people can thrive, knowing that they truly belong and the differences they bring are welcome.
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Ethics at Work
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 50 Minutes
These right-versus-right dilemmas—where there’s no one “correct” solution—are part of the landscape of workplace ethics.
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Feedback Essentials
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour
Feedback fosters learning and leads to stronger relationships and higher performance. Discover how to give and receive meaningful feedback that can help you-and your team-succeed.
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Finance Essentials
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours 9 Minutes
Let’s face it-money is the fuel that keeps your organization running. No matter your role, by understanding the fundamentals of finance, you ensure your team will make the most of its resources. Learn how to interpret financial statements, create a budget, and invest wisely to produce the desired returns.
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Global Collaboration
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours 1 Minute
In today’s connected world, learning how to collaborate across cultures and languages is more essential than ever. Cultivate your cultural intelligence and build trust between global team members by establishing shared purpose and developing strategies to get back on track if misalignment occurs.
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Goal Setting
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 39 Minutes
Goal setting is crucial to personal and professional success. By knowing how to set the right goals, you can boost both your team’s results and your own. Learn why goals matter, the different types of goals, and how to align your goals with your organization’s key objectives.
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Innovation and Creativity
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 21 Minutes
Teams that flex their creativity and innovate regularly are simply more successful than others. Learn how to unleash your curiosity, overcome barriers to innovation, take smart risks, and collaborate with others so your organization can continuously improve.
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Innovation Implementation
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 47 Minutes
No matter how good your product or service is, the way you communicate with your customers can determine its success.
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Leading People
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 41 Minutes
Conflict is inevitable, but it doesn’t have to be unmanageable. Discover how to effectively handle-and coach members of your team in handling-disagreements through careful preparation, good communication, and a focus on solutions that work for all parties.
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Leading with Generative AI
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 50 Minutes
Guide your team to unlock the potential of Gen AI. Get the most out of Gen AI by exploring how it can transform your team’s work
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Leveraging Your Networks
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 3 Hours 1 Minute
Networking isn’t “just political game-playing”-it’s a crucial skill for all managers. By learning to create an effective network, you can improve your interpersonal skills, access new information, and connect with important organizational stakeholders.
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Managing Your Boss
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours 39 Minutes
Having a positive, healthy relationship with your manager is key to your success. Learn how to resolve differences without losing focus on business priorities.
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Marketing Essentials
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours
No matter how good your product or service is, the way you communicate with your customers can determine its success.
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Meeting Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 36 Minutes
Plan and manage meetings that use everyone’s time effectively. Learn how to create an agenda, keep people on point, and ensure everyone walks away understanding what’s expected of them.
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Negotiating
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours
Negotiation is an essential management skill that will serve you every day in ways big and small. By learning to effectively prepare for and conduct a negotiation, you can maintain relationships, resolve conflict, and balance competing interests.
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Performance Appraisal
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 29 Minutes
Discover how to prepare for, conduct, and follow up on performance evaluations for your employees, so their on-the-job achievements support your own, your group’s, and the company’s goals.
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Performance Measurement
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours 28 Minutes
Performance measurement gives you a way to gauge progress against goals. Learn to set targets, collect and analyze data, and use measurement to better manage performance.
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Persuading Others
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
Boost your ability to persuade others to get the buy-in you need to accomplish your goals. By learning the art and science of effective persuasion, you build credibility, earn trust, and increase your influence.
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Presentation Skills
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours 4 Minutes
Effective presentations pay big dividends-for your team and your career-by inspiring, informing, or persuading your audience. By knowing how to craft a clear and compelling message, design engaging slides, and deliver with confidence, you’ll give a top-notch presentation time and again.
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Process Improvement
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours 2 Minutes
Your organization creates value for customers through a series of activities. Ensure you and your team are at your most productive by understanding the processes you are part of and redesigning them to enhance your organization’s performance.
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Project Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 2 Hours 2 Minutes
Effective project management can take an organization to new and greater heights. By managing projects well, you can achieve strategic goals, minimize company costs, and ensure tasks get completed on time.
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Sharpening Your Business Acumen
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 15 Minutes
How can you best help your organization thrive? By developing your business acumen-knowledge of how organizations operate, create value, and gain competitive advantage.
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Strategic Thinking
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour
As a manager, you have many responsibilities, including planning, executing, and leading your team.
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Strategy Planning and Execution
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 6 Minutes
To be successful, your organization needs to come up with and execute a clear, sound strategic plan. Understand how your organization sets itself apart from its competitors and your role in carrying out your organization’s strategy.
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Stress Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 10 Minutes
Do you have a healthy relationship with stress? It’s time to make it work for-not against-you. By understanding your boundaries, embracing positive pressure, and prioritizing your health, you can learn to deal with stress in a more productive way.
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Team Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 57 Minutes
Organizations are powered by teams: groups of people with a shared identity, complementary skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively. As a leader, you can create immense value by knowing how to build and lead teams in ways that maximize their creativity and performance.
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Time Management
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 17 Minutes
To help you get control of your schedule and priorities, take advantage of Time Management course from Harvard ManageMentor.
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Writing Skills
R1,250.00Add to basketCourse Duration: 1 Hour 48 Minutes
How you communicate with others is essential to your success, so don’t let your writing skills be an afterthought. Learn how to communicate clearly and concisely, connect with diverse audiences, and develop the ideas you want to share.
Frequently asked questions
What is Harvard ManageMentor®?
Harvard ManageMentor® is a collection of practical online courses developed by Harvard Business Publishing. The content is used by companies around the world to build skills in leadership, communication, decision making and more.
Why are these courses available through Connemara?
Connemara has spent the past 30 years helping organisations in South Africa and beyond build capability. Through our partnership with Harvard ManageMentor®, we’re able to offer selected courses directly to individuals at rates set for the local market.
How much does each course cost?
Each course costs R1 250. You can pay it in full or split it over three months at no interest.
Who are these courses for?
They’re ideal for students, young professionals, entrepreneurs, freelancers and anyone looking to improve their skills or move their career forward.
Do I need any previous experience?
No. The courses are designed for people at different stages of their working life, including those just starting out.
How long does a course take to complete?
Most people finish a course within a few hours. You can move through the lessons at your own pace and revisit them anytime during your access period.
Is the learning fully online?
Yes. You can complete everything online from your phone, tablet or laptop.
Will I get a certificate?
Yes. When you finish a course you’ll receive a Harvard ManageMentor® certificate that you can add to your CV and LinkedIn profile.
Are the courses recognised internationally?
Harvard ManageMentor® is used globally by leading companies and universities. The certificates are well regarded and show that you’ve completed structured learning from a reputable source.
Can I do more than one course?
Absolutely. You can take as many courses as you like, either one at a time or in any order that suits your goals.
What support do I get?
You’ll receive guidance on how to access your course and track your progress. If you have any issues, Connemara’s support team is available to help you get back on track.
How do I sign up?
Choose your course on the site, click Book Now, complete the short form and make payment in South African Rands. You’ll get access details once your enrollment is processed.
Can my employer pay for my course?
Yes. Many employers support professional development. You can request an invoice or share your booking details with them.
Can I upgrade to more courses later?
Yes. You can return at any time and enroll in additional courses using the same simple process.

