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Courses Not To Miss

Creativity and Innovation for Leaders 
This course will help leaders navigate inward to their vulnerable selves, expose their creative and innovative brilliance, and project it outward.  Time commitment: 36 learning hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Strategic Communications
This course examines the foundational elements of communication and its many facets. You'll cover everything from employee communication to media relations, to the changing nature of communication in a digital landscape. Time commitment: 36 learning hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Law Essentials for Business
This course is designed to provide participants with practical knowledge that can be used in the business world. It covers topics such as: contract law, negligence, legislation applicable to the workplace, employment law, setting up a business, intellectual property and electronic commerce. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Coaching Skills for Leaders 
Throughout your learning journey in this course, you will gain knowledge of theory, will be asked to apply that knowledge in a specific leadership context, and be offered the opportunity to practice. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Critical Thinking, Decision-Making and Problem-Solving for Leaders
The 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. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Ethics in Action
This highly interactive course includes journaling, teamwork, and online discussions to enable active learning. It requires deep thinking in order to help you become consciously aware of and articulate clearly about ethics. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Finance Essentials for Business
This course is designed for non-finance or accounting executives involved in a small/medium-sized enterprise that is subject to ASPE Standards (Accounting Standards for Private Enterprises). Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Finance Essentials for Public Sector Leaders
The course will teach you to interpret and apply financial information for short, medium and long-term decisions. The course is practical, using case studies to explore the financial information of different types of real organizations. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Human Resources Management
This course will introduce contemporary human resources (HR) practices. Human resources have become critical to organizational, team and individual successes. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Intercultural Communication in a Higher Education Context
This self-paced, 12-hour course will introduce you to the concepts of culture and intercultural communication, examine common challenges and provide some effective language use strategies for intercultural contexts. | Cost: $575

Interpersonal and Intercultural Communication
This 12-week course brings together the best theories and practices of communication between people in society. Time Commitment: 36 learning over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Leadership Dynamics
This course will challenge you to question your fundamental assumptions, beliefs, and values regarding leading people. You will be asked to look closely at who you are as a leader today and who you would like to become in the future. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Mastering Strategy
This course has been designed to have you learn both about strategy and how to be strategic, providing learners with the knowledge needed to understand strategy as well as the opportunity to build the skills and competencies required to leverage this understanding. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Microeconomics for Business
This course is designed for non-economics majors to learn about fundamental economic principles through thoughtful and engaging scenarios that we encounter every day. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095

Organizational Behaviour 
In this course, students explore frameworks used to study and predict what people think, feel and do in and around organizations. Time Commitment: 36 hours over 12 weeks | Cost: $1,095