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If you're a manager, entrepreneur or professional who has already seen how strong negotiation skills can advance your career, this course is for you. Picking up where 2072 Be an Effective Negotiator left off, it shows how to achieve more win-wins in internal and external negotiations. This hands-on experiential course will give you the tools and techniques for success in any negotiation, personal or professional. Develop, strengthen and refine your skills to confidently handle ever more challenging negotiations. Recognize and respond to common barriers to negotiation Use “breakthrough strategies” to overcome barriers Identify negotiating power and interests – yours and your counterpart's. Learn how to deal with power-based strategies. Learn how to change adversaries into partners.

If you aspire to success as a manager and leader, you'll need good people-management skills. This micro course gives you those, and the insight you need to understand, manage and affect human performance. You'll see how your role as a manager is to achieve results through others. You'll review human-performance systems and learn how their component parts affect productivity. Learn how to uncover performance problems, determine their causes and improve performance to get the results you want. Within 4-6 weeks of successfully completing this course, you will receive your micro-credential indicating achievement of the outlined learning outcomes and competencies/skills. Micro-credentials are tamper proof, verifiable, blockchain-based and 100% digital. They can be shared on social media, including LinkedIn and Facebook, embedded in websites or downloaded as PDFs. By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to: Describe the role of a manager. Use a human-performance model to diagnose performance problems. Identify performance gaps. Troubleshoot problems to determine why they occur and how to fix them. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Performance Management Performance Planning Performance Monitoring Problem Solving

This course provides a more conscious process for making decisions, whether operational, tactical or strategic, and for communicating with others in your organization. Einstein stated, and we paraphrase, “You cannot resolve an issue using the same thinking that got you here in the first place!”  We must learn how to think our way through decision opportunities and make them work more effectively for us. Better, more creative decisions will improve your organization’s success: The only sustainable competitive advantage is your ability to innovate and implement faster than your competitors can imitate. Over the six sessions you will understand how you currently make, communicate and implement decisions and learn how to do it even better. Determine your decision-making style and the styles of others Discover the pitfalls of some decision making “processes” Determine what stakeholders want to achieve Generate better solutions through the creativity and innovation of the team Evaluate solutions to choose the best possible solution (benefits, costs and risks) Build commitment for the best possible solution Consider how to get the buy-in of others in and outside the organization Implement flawlessly

We continue to follow the characters and story line of the famous Cambridge Latin Course.  The action moves to the city of Rome, and new tenses and uses of cases met in the stories will enable you to read original Latin. We'll have a  brief introduction to a variety of Roman authors, and during each class we'll devote some time to the reading of unadapted Latin.  Understand the ancient Romans in their own words. Build on the grammar components of the prerequisite courses Translate quotations from many sources, such as Roman wisdom in aphorisms, maxims, mottoes, proverbs, and lines attributed to famous Romans such as Caesar, Cicero and Juvenal Translate excerpts from Martial, Petronius, Ovid, Catullus, Vergil and Horace. We will read some passages in English translation in order to get a more complete sample of each author Read poetry aloud with an appreciation for metre Continue to explore the rich influence of Latin vocabulary on the English language

Learn about the exciting field of operations and supply chain management (OSCM) from the ground up. This foundational course introduces such key topics as strategy, Six Sigma quality and lean supply chains. You'll learn key elements of project management, facilities layout, logistics and forecasting. Your instructor and guest speakers, all practising professionals, will keep you up to date on careers, certification and current trends in the field. Know about operations and supply chain management (OSCM) and how it developed over time. List the parameters of a sustainable supply chain strategy. Identify features of Total Quality Management, Six Sigma and lean supply chains. Know the tools and techniques used in forecasting, capacity management, logistics and facilities layout.

Once you've completed 2121 Principles of Operations & Supply Chain Management, this course will teach you advanced concepts and topics such as sustainable strategy, ISO 9000 and 14000 certification, value-stream mapping and lean services. You'll learn about location, process design and analysis, strategic capacity management, logistics and forecasting. Your instructor and guest speakers, all practising professionals, will keep you up to date on careers, certification and current trends in the field. Explain operations and supply chain management strategy implementation, sustainability and associated risks. Describe project management information systems and apply appropriate techniques. Know the Six Sigma approach and the International Standards in Total Quality Management (ISO 9000 and 14000). Use basic techniques and models in logistics, capacity management and distribution. Apply sales and operations planning, inventory control, forecasting and process design and analysis.

Organizations need employees who know how operations and supply chain management (OSCM) works right across the business. This high-level course gives you that knowledge. Advance your career in OSCM by adding global sourcing and procurement, material requirement planning and enterprise resource planning to your skills. You'll learn the theory of constraints as well as advanced applications in inventory management, risk pooling and distribution strategies. Understand the rationale for strategic sourcing and outsourcing. See how an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system is used to integrate business units. Know about material requirement planning and the theory of constraints. See how risks in the supply chain can be managed and controlled through distribution strategies.

Writing about nature, for any genre, involves deep engagement with our relationship with what Scott Russell Sanders calls "the great realities": seasons, landscapes, animals, and cosmos. Writers focusing on nature are motivated by many personal, political, and aesthetic interests. This course will consider different approaches to nature writing and how to avoid clichés of nature. We will also explore our responsibility as writers (and humans) to nature, particularly in the post-colonial context and under the pressing urgency of climate change. The class will consist of meaningful discussion, close readings, nature walks/observations, and workshopping.   Gain a deeper understanding of our responsibility to and relationship with nature, and how it impacts our writing. Study nature writers from a variety of genres and approaches to further develop our writing styles.  Develop our observational skills through the practice of nature journaling.  Workshop our writing in a supportive environment with fellow writers who also share a reverence for nature.  Work on a piece of nature writing in any genre, with the intention of completing it by the end of the course.

This is a foundation course for the certificate in Leadership Essentials. You'll learn to distill today's barrage of information and come to logical, strategic decisions. You'll see why jumping to conclusions is the greatest pitfall in business and personal thinking. You'll explore four key questions that will help you make the right changes in your organization. Learn how to find the root of a problem and resolve it, ask better questions and make better decisions. Assess and prioritize action on business or personal issues. Determine the root cause of a problem and resolve it. Make better, more informed decisions. Build greater commitment to getting things done. Develop action plans to deliver the required results on time and on budget.

The content of the course is equivalent to the University of Toronto courses (PSL200 and PSL201). This is a survey course designed to provide a general coverage of all major areas of human physiology. This course is taught by the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and administered through the School of Continuing Studies, University of Toronto. It is intended for any students who require a credit-equivalent course in Human Physiology as a prerequisite for entrance into Health Science professional programs (including medicine, nursing, dentistry, speech and language pathology, occupational and physical therapy, etc...Our online physiology course also counts as one of the two life sciences pre-requisites for admission into Medicine at UofT) and Individuals who simply have an interest in understanding how the body works will also benefit from the course as it provides a working knowledge of various systems in the human body. At the completion of the course, students receive an official Grade Report from the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Before registering, students should inquire of the institution to which they are applying whether this credit-equivalent course meets the prerequisites of their intended degree program. This course cannot be applied towards any university’s undergraduate bachelor degree, or any degree at the University of Toronto. Although there are no prerequisites for this course, it is recommended that you have successfully completed a first-year university or college level general biology course. This physiology course will introduce the function of the human body according to physiological systems: Cell Physiology and Homeostasis Describe the principles of homeostasis Nervous System Describe nerve impulses and action potentials Describe the mechanism of synaptic transmission Describe the function of the central nervous system Describe the mechanism of sensory systems Endocrine System Describe hormone actions and their receptors Describe the functions of hormones secreted by the glands Describe hormonal regulation and reproduction Musculoskeletal System Describe the generalized functions of skeletal muscle tissue Cardiovascular System Describe the function (and related anatomy) of the cardiovascular system Describe nervous and hormonal control of cardiac function Describe the factors involved in the regulation of arterial blood pressure Blood and Immunity Describe blood composition and function Describe non-specific Immunity Describe specific Immunity and transfusion reactions Respiratory System Describe the principles of gas exchange in the alveoli Describe respiration and exercise Renal System Describe the functions (and related anatomy) of the kidney Describe filtration, reabsorption, and secretion Describe the regulation of fluid and acid-base balance in the body Digestive System Describe the absorption of nutrients from the GI tract Describe the nervous and hormonal regulation of digestion Integrative Physiology Describe integration of various physiological systems