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In today's dynamic professional landscape, where the world of work is rapidly changing, organizations are on the lookout for modern leaders who can guide them through these changes. Having strong leadership skills is a must for tackling new challenges, bringing out the best in teams and fostering innovation to stay ahead in the constantly evolving market.
At Dalhousie University, we're here to help new and experienced leaders develop crucial leadership skills through our wide range of engaging and effective courses. Browse our certificates and courses below to grow your leadership and your career.
Business Leadership
Business Analysis
Description: In this certificate, leaders will gain hands-on experience in mapping, modelling, analyzing and improving processes and build business cases plus so much more. Learn to analyze data in order to make more informed decisions.
Business Management
Description: This certificate will help leaders develop a knowledge base and a range of strategies and skills to lead effectively and successfully in complex, dynamic organizational contexts. Gain the knowledge to make effecive short, medium and long-term decisions.
Data Management for Professionals
Description: This certificate offers a comprehensive overview of data management challenges within enterprise organizations, aiming to enhance participants' data literacy by bridging the gap between business practices and technology. Leaders will be empowered to make informed decisions on software and business technqiues.
Finance and Risk Management
Description: This certificate is designed to help leaders in public and private sector organizations navigate the complexities of financial, technological, and organizational management and risk in order to make informed decisions.
Human Resource Leadership
Building Positive Workplace Cultures
Description: This certificate will develop leadership skills in building a positive workplace environment. It will empower managers to uncover ways to enhance their workplace relationships using insights pulled from research. The tactics learned will be meaningful, easy to apply, and most importantly, impactful.
Ergonomic Program Management
Description: This certificate provides ergonomic program management training for individuals in leadership roles. It showcases the need for accident and injury prevention while demonstrating the finanical benefits for the organization in establishing an ergonomics program.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Description: This certificate explores the struggles leaders face in achieving equity, inclusion, and harmonious environments. Leaders will explore ways to create safe spaces to engage in real dialogue, policies around fairness, respect and civility, and strategies for navigating sensitive issues related to diversity and inclusion.
Human Resource Leadership
Description: This certificate provides an additional set of skills focusing on: coaching employees to get the best possible results, employee and media communications to maintain meaningful relationships, and effectively resolving conflict in the workplace. Grow as an effective leader to build a positive organizational culture based on continuous improvement.
Human Resource Management
Description: This certificate is designed to equip human resource practitioners or business owners with the necessary skills to navigate the complexities of today's dynamic organizational environment. Understand the different facets of managing the people in an organization.
Leadership
Change Management
Description: This certificate provides practical knowledge of change management techniques and models that can be effectively implemented within your organization. This structured approach will help you understand how to navigate change as an individual, as a member of a team and as a leader.
Creative and Critical Leadership
Description: This certificate is designed to help leaders enhance their critical thinking, creative, and analytical skills for solving problems in the complex workplaces of today.
Leadership Excellence
Description: This certificate provides a robust foundation for current and aspiring leaders to develop an authentic, flexible and adaptable leadership style for today's complex, dynamic organizations.
Professional Communication
Description: This certificate will teach leaders how to communicate complex ideas clearly with finesse and confidence. As a leader, communication is critical in conveying messages clearly and concisely so employees understand their responsibilites, especially in a virtual/hybrid work environment.
Project Management
Description: This certificate is designed in consultation with the PMBOK 7. It appeals to a wide audience from a broad mix of industries. Develop best practices in project management, how to prepare project documents and how to manage a project from beginning to end.
Trade & Service Leadership
Construction Management
Description: This certificate provides leadership training for construction projects. You will learn to manage construction contracts, project planning and scheduling, manage time, costs and quality as well as quality control of projects. Advance your construction leadership skills in communication, risk, resource allocation, procurement, project closing and labour relations.
Fire Service Leadership
Description: This certificate provides fire service officers with opportunities to expand their knowledge of the fire service and add leadership education to their technical training.
Maintenance Management
Description: This certificate offers comprehensive leadership development for maintenance professionals. It is designed to help participants evaluate their operation, plan, coordinate, and schedule maintenance, and properly use preventive and predictive maintenance.
Police Leadership
Description: This certificate helps leaders develop a range of current, theory-based strategies and skills to lead effectively and successfully in high-pressure, high-stakes, publicly visible and rapidly evolving situations while holding true to your organization’s foundational principles.
Police Supervisory Skills
Description: This certificate helps you develop strategies and skills for leading people in the unpredictability of a high-pressure, high-stakes police work context.
Public Safety Communicator Leadership
Description: This certificate helps you develop a range of crucial strategies and skills to lead authentically and successfully in the high-pressure public safety communicator context, including emergency dispatching.
Agile Bootcamp
Description: In this course, leaders will discover the Agile mindset, fostering innovative thinking, and understanding how agile teams enhance performance through openness, collaboration, and group reflection. Key topics encompass agile philosophy, lean principles, cultivating team culture within an agile context, and achieving performance improvements through rapid, iterative reflection and growth.
Course: Agile Bootcamp
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 3 days
Cost: $750
Being Agile and Choosing the Right Approach
Description: In this course, learn about the agile mindset, how to start thinking in innovative ways and how agile teams use openness, transparency and collaboration to improve team performance.
Course: Being Agile and Choosing the Right Approach
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Change Management Foundation
Description: In this course, leaders will examine various change management techniques and explore change management models that could be effectively implemented in your organization. You will understand how you deal with change as an individual, as a member of a team or organization and as a leader.
Course: Change Management Foundation
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 5 days
Cost: $1,165
Change Management Practitioner
Description: This course builds upon the foundational knowledge of change management gained in the Change Management Foundation course, delving into the importance of learning and designing effective training methods for change initiatives. It also provides insights into applying diverse change management techniques across various contexts, emphasizing customization for organizational change scenarios and its integration within the project management framework.
Course: Change Management Practitioner
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 3 days
Cost: $750
Cybersecurity
Description: This course offers an introductory overview of cybersecurity for organizations, covering privacy laws, information protection methods, cybersecurity threats, data safeguarding best practices, ethical and legal considerations, and emerging trends in the field.
Course: Cybersecurity
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Design Thinking
Description: In this course, leaders will explore and learn about the design thinking process and how this systematic approach to analyzing problems and generating solutions can be applied to various domains.
Course: Design Thinking
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Finance Essentials for Business
Description: This course provides leaders with an understanding of the language of accounting and the information presented in the financial statements, and how to critically interpret from a high level what is being presented. An introduction of the budgeting process, financial ratios and key performance indicators (KPIs) will also be discussed.
Course: Finance Essentials for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Influencing Without Authority
Description: This course will show leaders some of the common effective methods and pitfalls encountered when influencing others. We will establish a framework that leaders can use to increase their influence. By walking through scenarios, we will demonstrate how to effectively move your ideas into action.
Course: Influencing Without Authority
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Interrupting Unconscious Bias
Description: This course will have leaders looking inwards and digging deep into their beliefs, bringing them to the forefront so they can explore the ways in which their biases impact how they interact with others.
Course: Interrupting Unconscious Bias
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $575
Law Essentials for Business
Description: This course covers topics such as: contract law, negligence, legislation applicable to the workplace, employment law, setting up a business, intellectual property and electronic commerce. It will highlight some key areas of the law that will help participants recognize when legal professions should be consulted.
Course: Law Essentials for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Managing Uncertainty & Opportunities: Project Risk Management
Description: This course is designed to look at risk identification, qualitative, and quantitative techniques to identify the likelihood of a risk occurring and the impact if it does. A variety of risk response strategies are discussed and practiced during workshop exercises.
Course: Managing Uncertainty & Opportunities: Project Risk Management
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Marketing Essentials for Business
Description: In this course you will learn what makes marketing a critical activity in business growth, exploring the broad principles and practices of marketing from a practical perspective.
Course: Marketing Essentials for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Microeconomics for Business
Description: This course is designed for non-economics majors to learn about fundamental economic principles through thoughtful and engaging scenarios that we encounter every day
Course: Microeconomics for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Description: In this course leaders will develop, practice, and enhance their negotiation skills. Learn effective conflict resolution strategies by examining theories of negotiation, participating in discussions, and completing analytical and reflection assignments.
Course: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Persuasive Writing
Description: This course will teach leaders how to write persuasively to move readers to action, which requires a strategic approach, particularly when you are creating complex documents, such as formal proposals.
Course: Persuasive Writing
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $495
Power of Collaboration
Description: In this course, leaders will learn how to harness the power of collaboration to build highly effective teams an improve relationships.
Course: The Power of Collaboration
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Strategies for Effectively Leading Through Change
Description: This course is designed to assist leaders with how to identify, address the typical questions and concerns that people raise during times of uncertainty, as well as how to appropriate change strategies and corresponding behaviours to address responses to change.
Course: Strategies for Effectively Leading Through Change
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Risk Assessment and Management
Description: This course will help leaders understand the fundamentals of risk assessment and risk management. Leaders will explore various types of potential risk including financial, technological, operational, and reputational. The course will also look at risk remedies, risk mitigation, and risk auditing.
Course: Risk Assessment and Management
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Writing Emails that Get Results
Description: In this course, leaders will learn how to craft messages that rise above inbox clutter and get results, exploring techniques to grab audience’s attention, clearly express key messages, and motivate readers to respond as you want them to do.
Course: Writing Emails that Get Results
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $495
Workplace Diversity and Inclusion
Description: In this course, leaders will explore the concepts of diversity and inclusion, reflect on their own lived experience, and draw connections between diversity and inclusion and the success of businesses and their employees.
Course: Workplace Diversity and Inclusion
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $795
Adaptation of Positive Psychology Principles in Organizations and Teams
Description: In this course, leaders will examine a variety of strategies to influence positive workplace culture. They will reflect on their context by applying specific methodologies to understand the positive traits and characteristics of their workplace.
Microcredential Earned: Positive Culture Planning
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 5 weeks
Cost: $795
Coaching Skills for Leaders
Description: This course specifically examines the coaching leadership style. Coaching is comprised of a set of skills and a series of steps that help others become better at their jobs. There are many leadership styles that experts cite and describe.
Microcredential Earned: Performance Coaching
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Corporate Social Responsibility
Description: This course will build knowledge for leaders on how to improve an organization’s environmental footprint, employee engagement, transparency, waste management, human rights performance, community investment and responsible supply chain management.
Microcredential Earned: Assessing Corporate Social Responsibility
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 42 hours
Cost: $899
Creativity and Innovation for Leaders
Description: This course will help leaders navigate that maze inward to their vulnerable self, expose their creative and innovative brilliance, and project it outward.
Microcredential Earned: Utilizing Creativity for Personal and Team Development
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Critical Thinking, Decision-Making and Problem-Solving for Leaders
Description: This course is a practical introduction to critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving as needed for leaders in today’s complex and rapidly changing contexts. It will teach leaders the frameworks, strategies and skills with which to navigate the decisions, issues and challenges they encounter as leaders today.
Microcredential Earned: Critical Thinking for Decision-Making
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Ethics in Action
Description: This course requires deep thinking in order to help leadership to become consciously aware of and articulate clearly about ethics, as well as about their personal ethics and values, ethical dilemmas, and ethical decision-making models.
Microcredential Earned: Ethical Decison-Making
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Foundations of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Description: This course will show leaders how to get EDIA conversations to stick and keep teams talking about these important topics in new and courageous ways long after the course is done.
Microcredential Earned: Inclusive Communication Strategies
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $497
Finance Essentials for Public Sector Leaders
Description: This course is a practical introduction to financial and accounting concepts that will equip leaders to make decisions based on financial information. The course will teach leaders to interpret and apply financial information for short, medium and long-term decisions.
Microcredential Earned: Financial Decision-Making
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Human Resource Management
Description: This course will introduce contemporary human resources (HR) practices.
Microcredential Earned: Talent Acquisition
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication
Description: This course offers a comprehensive exploration of communication theories and practices, beginning with an examination of culture, identity, and perception's impact on human interaction. It covers communication models, effective strategies, verbal and nonverbal behavior analysis, persuasion skills, emotion management, negotiation, overcoming communication barriers, and conflict resolution in everyday interpersonal and intercultural contexts, aiming to enhance confidence and success in communication.
Microcredential Earned: Interpersonal and Intercultural Conflict Management Resolution
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Leadership Dynamics
Description: This course will teach leaders about themselves, develop their leadership skills. The course also helps leaders contextualize learning through exercises in their workplace to enable them build on their learning at work and throughout their career.
Microcredential Earned: Effective Leadership
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Mastering Strategy
Description: This course will provide leaders with a robust foundation of strategic knowledge by exploring strategy in several domains. It has been designed to have leaders learn both about strategy and how to be strategic.
Course: Mastering Strategy
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Marketing Essentials for Business
Description: In this course leaders will learn what makes marketing a critical activity in business growth, exploring the broad principles and practices of marketing from a practical perspective. Topics will cover basic marketing concepts, product and service development, strategic marketing planning, and how to keep pace in today's competitive market.
Microcredential Earned: Developing an Objective-based Marketing Plan
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Navigating Information Access and Privacy Protection
Description: This course will examine key legislated Information Access and Privacy (IAP) requirements, as well as best practices and how to apply them.
Microcredential Earned: Information Access and Privacy Problem Solving
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 10 weeks
Cost: $150
Optimizing Diverse Team Performance
Description: This course supports leaders as they gain insights into their own contributions to their team’s effectiveness. Leaders will foster a deeper understanding of the ways they can optimize diverse teams contributions to organizational success.
Microcredential Earned: Business Case for Diverse Teams
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $650
Organizational Behaviour
Description: In this course, leaders explore frameworks used to study and predict what people think, feel and do in and around organizations.
Microcredential Earned: Organizational Design
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Strategies for Implementing EDI Initiatives
Description: This course provides a framework for building a diversity and inclusion strategy from the start to finish. This is particularly important as changing demographics, talent shortages, equity disparities and a variety of economic challenges have underscored equity, diversity and inclusion as business and service imperatives.
Microcredential Earned: EDIA Strategy Implementation
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 3 weeks
Cost: $650
Strategic Public Communications: Building Impact and Influence
Description: This course will examine how strategic public communications enables an organization to create and maintain meaningful relationships with its ‘public,’ safeguard its reputation, and communicate effectively in an information-laden society.
Microcredential Earned: Strategic Public Communication Planning for Leaders
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Understanding EDI: An Organization Imperative
Description: This course will take a deep dive into the subjects of diversity and inclusion. It will provide leaders with an increased understanding and confidence in engaging in conversations that highlight the urgency for advancing diversity and inclusion in this moment.
Microcredential Earned: Organizational Inclusion Strategies
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 3 weeks
Cost: $650
Certificates
Business Leadership
Business Analysis
Description: In this certificate, leaders will gain hands-on experience in mapping, modelling, analyzing and improving processes and build business cases plus so much more. Learn to analyze data in order to make more informed decisions.
Business Management
Description: This certificate will help leaders develop a knowledge base and a range of strategies and skills to lead effectively and successfully in complex, dynamic organizational contexts. Gain the knowledge to make effecive short, medium and long-term decisions.
Data Management for Professionals
Description: This certificate offers a comprehensive overview of data management challenges within enterprise organizations, aiming to enhance participants' data literacy by bridging the gap between business practices and technology. Leaders will be empowered to make informed decisions on software and business technqiues.
Finance and Risk Management
Description: This certificate is designed to help leaders in public and private sector organizations navigate the complexities of financial, technological, and organizational management and risk in order to make informed decisions.
Human Resource Leadership
Building Positive Workplace Cultures
Description: This certificate will develop leadership skills in building a positive workplace environment. It will empower managers to uncover ways to enhance their workplace relationships using insights pulled from research. The tactics learned will be meaningful, easy to apply, and most importantly, impactful.
Ergonomic Program Management
Description: This certificate provides ergonomic program management training for individuals in leadership roles. It showcases the need for accident and injury prevention while demonstrating the finanical benefits for the organization in establishing an ergonomics program.
Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Description: This certificate explores the struggles leaders face in achieving equity, inclusion, and harmonious environments. Leaders will explore ways to create safe spaces to engage in real dialogue, policies around fairness, respect and civility, and strategies for navigating sensitive issues related to diversity and inclusion.
Human Resource Leadership
Description: This certificate provides an additional set of skills focusing on: coaching employees to get the best possible results, employee and media communications to maintain meaningful relationships, and effectively resolving conflict in the workplace. Grow as an effective leader to build a positive organizational culture based on continuous improvement.
Human Resource Management
Description: This certificate is designed to equip human resource practitioners or business owners with the necessary skills to navigate the complexities of today's dynamic organizational environment. Understand the different facets of managing the people in an organization.
Leadership
Change Management
Description: This certificate provides practical knowledge of change management techniques and models that can be effectively implemented within your organization. This structured approach will help you understand how to navigate change as an individual, as a member of a team and as a leader.
Creative and Critical Leadership
Description: This certificate is designed to help leaders enhance their critical thinking, creative, and analytical skills for solving problems in the complex workplaces of today.
Leadership Excellence
Description: This certificate provides a robust foundation for current and aspiring leaders to develop an authentic, flexible and adaptable leadership style for today's complex, dynamic organizations.
Professional Communication
Description: This certificate will teach leaders how to communicate complex ideas clearly with finesse and confidence. As a leader, communication is critical in conveying messages clearly and concisely so employees understand their responsibilites, especially in a virtual/hybrid work environment.
Project Management
Description: This certificate is designed in consultation with the PMBOK 7. It appeals to a wide audience from a broad mix of industries. Develop best practices in project management, how to prepare project documents and how to manage a project from beginning to end.
Trade & Service Leadership
Construction Management
Description: This certificate provides leadership training for construction projects. You will learn to manage construction contracts, project planning and scheduling, manage time, costs and quality as well as quality control of projects. Advance your construction leadership skills in communication, risk, resource allocation, procurement, project closing and labour relations.
Fire Service Leadership
Description: This certificate provides fire service officers with opportunities to expand their knowledge of the fire service and add leadership education to their technical training.
Maintenance Management
Description: This certificate offers comprehensive leadership development for maintenance professionals. It is designed to help participants evaluate their operation, plan, coordinate, and schedule maintenance, and properly use preventive and predictive maintenance.
Police Leadership
Description: This certificate helps leaders develop a range of current, theory-based strategies and skills to lead effectively and successfully in high-pressure, high-stakes, publicly visible and rapidly evolving situations while holding true to your organization’s foundational principles.
Police Supervisory Skills
Description: This certificate helps you develop strategies and skills for leading people in the unpredictability of a high-pressure, high-stakes police work context.
Public Safety Communicator Leadership
Description: This certificate helps you develop a range of crucial strategies and skills to lead authentically and successfully in the high-pressure public safety communicator context, including emergency dispatching.
Standalone Courses
Agile Bootcamp
Description: In this course, leaders will discover the Agile mindset, fostering innovative thinking, and understanding how agile teams enhance performance through openness, collaboration, and group reflection. Key topics encompass agile philosophy, lean principles, cultivating team culture within an agile context, and achieving performance improvements through rapid, iterative reflection and growth.
Course: Agile Bootcamp
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 3 days
Cost: $750
Being Agile and Choosing the Right Approach
Description: In this course, learn about the agile mindset, how to start thinking in innovative ways and how agile teams use openness, transparency and collaboration to improve team performance.
Course: Being Agile and Choosing the Right Approach
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Change Management Foundation
Description: In this course, leaders will examine various change management techniques and explore change management models that could be effectively implemented in your organization. You will understand how you deal with change as an individual, as a member of a team or organization and as a leader.
Course: Change Management Foundation
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 5 days
Cost: $1,165
Change Management Practitioner
Description: This course builds upon the foundational knowledge of change management gained in the Change Management Foundation course, delving into the importance of learning and designing effective training methods for change initiatives. It also provides insights into applying diverse change management techniques across various contexts, emphasizing customization for organizational change scenarios and its integration within the project management framework.
Course: Change Management Practitioner
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 3 days
Cost: $750
Cybersecurity
Description: This course offers an introductory overview of cybersecurity for organizations, covering privacy laws, information protection methods, cybersecurity threats, data safeguarding best practices, ethical and legal considerations, and emerging trends in the field.
Course: Cybersecurity
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Design Thinking
Description: In this course, leaders will explore and learn about the design thinking process and how this systematic approach to analyzing problems and generating solutions can be applied to various domains.
Course: Design Thinking
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Finance Essentials for Business
Description: This course provides leaders with an understanding of the language of accounting and the information presented in the financial statements, and how to critically interpret from a high level what is being presented. An introduction of the budgeting process, financial ratios and key performance indicators (KPIs) will also be discussed.
Course: Finance Essentials for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Influencing Without Authority
Description: This course will show leaders some of the common effective methods and pitfalls encountered when influencing others. We will establish a framework that leaders can use to increase their influence. By walking through scenarios, we will demonstrate how to effectively move your ideas into action.
Course: Influencing Without Authority
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Interrupting Unconscious Bias
Description: This course will have leaders looking inwards and digging deep into their beliefs, bringing them to the forefront so they can explore the ways in which their biases impact how they interact with others.
Course: Interrupting Unconscious Bias
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $575
Law Essentials for Business
Description: This course covers topics such as: contract law, negligence, legislation applicable to the workplace, employment law, setting up a business, intellectual property and electronic commerce. It will highlight some key areas of the law that will help participants recognize when legal professions should be consulted.
Course: Law Essentials for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Managing Uncertainty & Opportunities: Project Risk Management
Description: This course is designed to look at risk identification, qualitative, and quantitative techniques to identify the likelihood of a risk occurring and the impact if it does. A variety of risk response strategies are discussed and practiced during workshop exercises.
Course: Managing Uncertainty & Opportunities: Project Risk Management
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Marketing Essentials for Business
Description: In this course you will learn what makes marketing a critical activity in business growth, exploring the broad principles and practices of marketing from a practical perspective.
Course: Marketing Essentials for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Microeconomics for Business
Description: This course is designed for non-economics majors to learn about fundamental economic principles through thoughtful and engaging scenarios that we encounter every day
Course: Microeconomics for Business
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Description: In this course leaders will develop, practice, and enhance their negotiation skills. Learn effective conflict resolution strategies by examining theories of negotiation, participating in discussions, and completing analytical and reflection assignments.
Course: Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Persuasive Writing
Description: This course will teach leaders how to write persuasively to move readers to action, which requires a strategic approach, particularly when you are creating complex documents, such as formal proposals.
Course: Persuasive Writing
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $495
Power of Collaboration
Description: In this course, leaders will learn how to harness the power of collaboration to build highly effective teams an improve relationships.
Course: The Power of Collaboration
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Strategies for Effectively Leading Through Change
Description: This course is designed to assist leaders with how to identify, address the typical questions and concerns that people raise during times of uncertainty, as well as how to appropriate change strategies and corresponding behaviours to address responses to change.
Course: Strategies for Effectively Leading Through Change
Delivery Method: Scheduled
Length: 2 days
Cost: $550
Risk Assessment and Management
Description: This course will help leaders understand the fundamentals of risk assessment and risk management. Leaders will explore various types of potential risk including financial, technological, operational, and reputational. The course will also look at risk remedies, risk mitigation, and risk auditing.
Course: Risk Assessment and Management
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Writing Emails that Get Results
Description: In this course, leaders will learn how to craft messages that rise above inbox clutter and get results, exploring techniques to grab audience’s attention, clearly express key messages, and motivate readers to respond as you want them to do.
Course: Writing Emails that Get Results
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $495
Workplace Diversity and Inclusion
Description: In this course, leaders will explore the concepts of diversity and inclusion, reflect on their own lived experience, and draw connections between diversity and inclusion and the success of businesses and their employees.
Course: Workplace Diversity and Inclusion
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $795
Microcredentials
Adaptation of Positive Psychology Principles in Organizations and Teams
Description: In this course, leaders will examine a variety of strategies to influence positive workplace culture. They will reflect on their context by applying specific methodologies to understand the positive traits and characteristics of their workplace.
Microcredential Earned: Positive Culture Planning
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 5 weeks
Cost: $795
Coaching Skills for Leaders
Description: This course specifically examines the coaching leadership style. Coaching is comprised of a set of skills and a series of steps that help others become better at their jobs. There are many leadership styles that experts cite and describe.
Microcredential Earned: Performance Coaching
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Corporate Social Responsibility
Description: This course will build knowledge for leaders on how to improve an organization’s environmental footprint, employee engagement, transparency, waste management, human rights performance, community investment and responsible supply chain management.
Microcredential Earned: Assessing Corporate Social Responsibility
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 42 hours
Cost: $899
Creativity and Innovation for Leaders
Description: This course will help leaders navigate that maze inward to their vulnerable self, expose their creative and innovative brilliance, and project it outward.
Microcredential Earned: Utilizing Creativity for Personal and Team Development
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Critical Thinking, Decision-Making and Problem-Solving for Leaders
Description: This course is a practical introduction to critical thinking, decision-making and problem-solving as needed for leaders in today’s complex and rapidly changing contexts. It will teach leaders the frameworks, strategies and skills with which to navigate the decisions, issues and challenges they encounter as leaders today.
Microcredential Earned: Critical Thinking for Decision-Making
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Ethics in Action
Description: This course requires deep thinking in order to help leadership to become consciously aware of and articulate clearly about ethics, as well as about their personal ethics and values, ethical dilemmas, and ethical decision-making models.
Microcredential Earned: Ethical Decison-Making
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Foundations of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace
Description: This course will show leaders how to get EDIA conversations to stick and keep teams talking about these important topics in new and courageous ways long after the course is done.
Microcredential Earned: Inclusive Communication Strategies
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $497
Finance Essentials for Public Sector Leaders
Description: This course is a practical introduction to financial and accounting concepts that will equip leaders to make decisions based on financial information. The course will teach leaders to interpret and apply financial information for short, medium and long-term decisions.
Microcredential Earned: Financial Decision-Making
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Human Resource Management
Description: This course will introduce contemporary human resources (HR) practices.
Microcredential Earned: Talent Acquisition
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication
Description: This course offers a comprehensive exploration of communication theories and practices, beginning with an examination of culture, identity, and perception's impact on human interaction. It covers communication models, effective strategies, verbal and nonverbal behavior analysis, persuasion skills, emotion management, negotiation, overcoming communication barriers, and conflict resolution in everyday interpersonal and intercultural contexts, aiming to enhance confidence and success in communication.
Microcredential Earned: Interpersonal and Intercultural Conflict Management Resolution
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Leadership Dynamics
Description: This course will teach leaders about themselves, develop their leadership skills. The course also helps leaders contextualize learning through exercises in their workplace to enable them build on their learning at work and throughout their career.
Microcredential Earned: Effective Leadership
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Mastering Strategy
Description: This course will provide leaders with a robust foundation of strategic knowledge by exploring strategy in several domains. It has been designed to have leaders learn both about strategy and how to be strategic.
Course: Mastering Strategy
Delivery Method: Self-Paced
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Marketing Essentials for Business
Description: In this course leaders will learn what makes marketing a critical activity in business growth, exploring the broad principles and practices of marketing from a practical perspective. Topics will cover basic marketing concepts, product and service development, strategic marketing planning, and how to keep pace in today's competitive market.
Microcredential Earned: Developing an Objective-based Marketing Plan
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Navigating Information Access and Privacy Protection
Description: This course will examine key legislated Information Access and Privacy (IAP) requirements, as well as best practices and how to apply them.
Microcredential Earned: Information Access and Privacy Problem Solving
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 10 weeks
Cost: $150
Optimizing Diverse Team Performance
Description: This course supports leaders as they gain insights into their own contributions to their team’s effectiveness. Leaders will foster a deeper understanding of the ways they can optimize diverse teams contributions to organizational success.
Microcredential Earned: Business Case for Diverse Teams
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 4 weeks
Cost: $650
Organizational Behaviour
Description: In this course, leaders explore frameworks used to study and predict what people think, feel and do in and around organizations.
Microcredential Earned: Organizational Design
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Strategies for Implementing EDI Initiatives
Description: This course provides a framework for building a diversity and inclusion strategy from the start to finish. This is particularly important as changing demographics, talent shortages, equity disparities and a variety of economic challenges have underscored equity, diversity and inclusion as business and service imperatives.
Microcredential Earned: EDIA Strategy Implementation
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 3 weeks
Cost: $650
Strategic Public Communications: Building Impact and Influence
Description: This course will examine how strategic public communications enables an organization to create and maintain meaningful relationships with its ‘public,’ safeguard its reputation, and communicate effectively in an information-laden society.
Microcredential Earned: Strategic Public Communication Planning for Leaders
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 12 weeks
Cost: $1,045
Understanding EDI: An Organization Imperative
Description: This course will take a deep dive into the subjects of diversity and inclusion. It will provide leaders with an increased understanding and confidence in engaging in conversations that highlight the urgency for advancing diversity and inclusion in this moment.
Microcredential Earned: Organizational Inclusion Strategies
Delivery Method: Blended (Self-Paced & Scheduled)
Length: 3 weeks
Cost: $650
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