Online and Remote Learning

Do you want to manage international projects with a worldwide range of stakeholders? This course will help you become a qualified project manager who knows the fundamentals of planning and executing international projects. You'll learn cross-cultural communication skills, how to manage virtual teams and the implications of international legislation and regulation for their projects. The course will also cover the relevant risks, logistics and challenges of managing international projects. 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. For more information, please visit: https://learn.utoronto.ca/programs-courses/unique/micro-courses. By the end of this micro course, you'll be able to: Explain the challenges of international projects Analyze organizational culture Assess the principles of sustainability relative to social good projects Critique the impact of globalization on projects Analyze decision making in an ethical context Evaluate leadership on international projects Competencies developed and assessed in this course include: Intercultural skills in a project context Evaluation of international project context Ethical decision making

Learn how to make a good team great through performance system design and management. This course will teach you how to create better performance systems in which individuals and teams can excel. You'll learn how to coach and give feedback, and encourage employees to build their skills and take on new challenges. You'll also learn how to engage employees, build their commitment, develop their skills, appraise their performance and keep them motivated to achieve more and stay with the organization longer. Set team performance goals and expectations. Link individual performance to that of the business unit and organization. Coach employees to improve their performance. Use feedback in a constructive way. Prepare development plans for team members.

If it’s time to put your personal narratives on paper, this collegial yet challenging workshop will help you craft true stories that are rich in emotional depth and compelling to read. Working with a community of fellow memoir writers, you’ll learn how to dig deep for personal material and write with power, clarity and skill. Understand the importance of structure, voice, courage and editing. Identify and explore your most vital life stories. Get detailed feedback on your work every week. Create a portfolio of at least seven stories.

Join a community of writers from around the globe to deepen your skills in life writing. This online course explores the nature of memoir and many related genres. Whether you're writing for personal satisfaction or publication, you'll learn how to channel your life experiences and memories into your own voice and style. Discover your emotional truth and hone your craft through course readings, exercises and the thought-provoking participation of a guest writer. Understand how to turn your life experiences into engaging stories. Unlock personal memories as material for essays, memoirs and fiction. Find your own storytelling voice, style and point of view. Emerge with a few pieces of finished writing - and dozens of ideas for future stories.

If you are a Spanish-speaking aspiring creative writer, this course will help you work on a narrative project at any level. You'll learn about basic elements of fiction writing, such as plot and character, and meet a wider community of writers working in Spanish. The course is taught in Spanish by award-winning Mexican-Canadian author Martha Bátiz, whose work has been published in Canada, Mexico, Spain, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Peru. Este curso se ofrece en exclusiva en la Universidad de Toronto para brindar a los interesados la oportunidad de aprender y poner en práctica las diferentes herramientas y elementos necesarios para la creación de un texto literario. Se tendrá la oportunidad de realizar ejercicios enfocados hacia los diferentes temas a tratar durante cada clase, a la vez que se leerán y analizarán los textos que forman parte del proyecto individual de cada estudiante, proporcionando así al autor una experiencia integral de “taller literario,” con crítica siempre constructiva, seria y profesional. No es necesario tener experiencia previa como escritor para participar en el curso. Requisitos: Escribir y hablar español con fluidez. Presentar como proyecto un texto a desarrollar a lo largo del curso (novela o cuentos). Understand the fundamental elements of writing fiction, such as plot and character. Acquire techniques for developing a range of narrative styles.

Find out what it takes to be funny and learn the techniques used by successful literary and popular comic writers. Combining lectures with in-class exercises and workshops, this course will examine the types of comedy suited to the printed page: slapstick, satire, absurdity, verbal humour, surprise, transgression and non-sequiturs. Understand the techniques used in writing humour. Emerge with one or two pieces of comic writing. Join a community of like-minded writers.

If you've completed Life Stories I, here's your opportunity to begin developing a manuscript, building on the strengths you've gained and the discoveries you've made. Delve into the art and craft of revision and focus on longer pieces. Go deeper into the emotional truth of your stories with the possible goal of creating a book or collection of stories. Appreciate the discipline and importance of self-editing and revision. Generate polished foundation material for a book or collection of stories.

When you recommend an idea to an organization you need to back it up with logic. If you're a manager or emerging leader with inspiring ideas, you need persuasive, fact-based arguments to address any questions, rational or emotional, that might arise when you present your ideas. This course will help you sell your strategic and operational recommendations to management, using persuasive and compelling communications including business cases, risk assessments and cost-benefit analyses. Determine and convey the real underlying purpose of a recommendation. Demonstrate the cost-benefit advantages of your recommendation over other options. Use risk assessment to confirm your recommendation. Link your business case to the strategic direction of your organization. Communicate and sell your recommendations effectively.

This course will teach you how to analyze the inner workings of any enterprise and present an unbiased and independent evaluation of its financial statements. You'll learn about the concept, theory and practice of auditing, its scope and planning, decision-making, legal and ethical requirements, the evaluation of internal controls, risk and materiality. The course also covers audit-test documentation, business-cycle audits, statistical and non-statistical sampling of evidence, the application of audit judgment against available evidence and auditing in an electronic environment. Learn audit procedures for revenue, receivables and collection, payment and investment cycles.Discover how to define, discuss and resolve ethical dilemmas in accounting.Understand professional practice and quality-control standards. Become familiar with the audit-risk model and its importance in developing an audit strategy. Learn about internal controls and how to evaluate them.Enhance your professional judgment when completing audits and issuing final audit reports.

Internal auditing is independent, objective assurance designed to improve and add value to an organization's operations. It helps an organization accomplish its objectives by bringing a systematic, disciplined approach to evaluating and improving the effectiveness of risk management, control and governance. This course teaches how to apply the phases of internal auditing methodology - annual universe, planning, execution, reporting and follow-up. It also highlights the soft skills required to meet and exceed multiple stakeholder expectations - communication, presentation and negotiation skills. Understand the internal audit function, its roles and responsibilities and the value auditing services provide to senior management and the audit committee. Know how internal audit relates to the other pillars of corporate governance. Be introduced to the Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA), its code of ethics and other authoritative guidance. Improve your prospects for success when taking the IIA Certification exam.