
Managing Matters is an Accenture-led initiative for our People Leads to strengthen and position you for success at a time of unprecedented business transformation and opportunity.
In partnership with Hardskills, a 100% virtual training solution designed for busy professionals, we offer you 'Global Business Skills'.
Global Business Skills (GBS) is a behavioural skills course that equips managers with a full set of modern operating behaviours, mindsets and skills to perform better and lead with confidence. It gives you practical tips and tools you can apply immediately to be more effective, influential and productive.This programme uses proven cognitive science to make learning exciting, engaging and most importantly, make it Stick so new skills get formed.
Unlock your leadership potential. Join Managing Matters today and elevate your career as a People Lead.
Global Business Skills is a course proven to develop modern behavioural skills for high-performance and increased personal effectiveness. More than 40 skills packaged as a set of 10 modules that are 100% digital video.
Experience the joy of learning with our cinematic, Netflix-quality videos based on real life scenarios that are easy to connect with. No more boring online learning that you click ‘next’ ‘next’, waiting for the end. Instead, get hooked on learning new skills that are practical, easy to implement and deliver amazing instant impact your colleagues and clients will notice.
Hardskills’ approach is based on the proven science of learning for adults to learn new behaviours, skills and shift mindsets. Learning techniques, video scenarios, storytelling and assessments are designed to engage with your brain’s neural pathways to connect what’s taught with your own experience. This helps you remember what you learn and enables retrieving memory to make new habits stick.


GBS is rolled out in Cohorts so teams can learn and upskill together in new and effective ways to communicate and collaborate, make meetings productive and work with agility for maximum impact and outcomes.
Managers across more than 50 countries are now GBS-certified and are seeing successful career trajectories and hitting people management milestones. GBS is an integral part of Accenture’s Managing Matters leader development and is designed to deliver productivity gains for individual contributors, team leads and managers alike. Enjoy your journey!