Spending more time at home can be an excellent opportunity to gain knowledge and develop skills. Explore free online courses for leadership development. The following are available from OpenLearn by The Open University:

• An introduction to business cultures
• Business communication: writing a SWOT analysis
• Business organisations and their environments: Culture
• Commercial awareness
• Communication, management and your own context
• Conversations and interviews
• Developing career resilience
• Developing high trust work relationships
• Developing your skills as an HR professional
• Difference and challenge in teams
• Different types of business
• Employee engagement
• Employment relations and employee engagement
• Exploring career mentoring and coaching
• Facilitating group discussions
• How teams work
• How to frame a business case
• Human resources: recruitment and selection
• Influences on corporate governance
• International management: An institutional perspective
• Introducing a framework for strategy
• Leadership and followership
• Leadership challenges in turbulent times
• Making decisions
• Management: perspective and practice
• Managing and managing people
• Managing local practices in global contexts
• Managing projects through people
• Personal branding for career success
• Strategic view of performance
• Succeed in the workplace
• Sustainable innovations in enterprises
• The importance of interpersonal skills
• Three principles of a coaching approach
• Understanding your sector
• What is strategic human resource management?
• What is strategy?
• Working in diverse teams
• Working in groups and teams
• Working life and learning
• Working with dilemmas
• Workplace learning with coaching and mentoring

There are many more free online courses for leadership development available, including from the following:

• Alison
• Coursera
• edX
• FutureLearn
• OpenLearn