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Project management is critical for organizations looking to stay competitive, profitable and forward-facing. In this accelerated micro course you’ll learn how to successfully plan projects to deliver value to your organization and its stakeholder, regardless of your industry. You’ll come away knowing the fundamental practices needed to get results and achieve excellence in project planning. 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: Evaluate the advantages of different approaches (agile, traditional, hybrid) to implement projects. Design initiation documents that include all necessary elements. Create project scope and schedule baselines, and product backlog with a release plan. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Project Selection Methods  Project Planning and Defining Scope of Work  Basics for Project Scheduling and Budgeting 

In today’s highly competitive world, organizations are using project management to implement strategy and deliver value to their stakeholders. In this accelerated micro course you’ll learn how to execute a project plan, communicate change, and how to monitor and control a project to successful completion. You’ll come away knowing the fundamental practices needed to get results and achieve excellence in project execution. 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: Develop a relevant project change control process. Create project status reports to ensure stakeholder engagement. Understand the stages of team development and approaches for conflict resolution. Develop an earn value model for the project. Understand the key approaches to closing projects. Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Team Leadership Project Execution Project Monitoring Delivering Presentations

Over the course of three months, take a 12-step journey with the Roman Stoic Emperor Marcus Aurelius' Meditations and Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way as your guide. Accomplish your creative goals through this 12-week journey of intensive writing and meditation practices. Unblock your creative energy by drawing on the traditions of Hinduism, Stoicism, Buddhism, Sufism, mystic Christianity and Taoism. Connect to the work of creative and spiritual visionaries such as Lama Tsultrim Allione, Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Angeles Arrien, Sue Monk Kidd, Richard Rohr, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, and Thich Nhat Hanh. For this 12-week Master class, you will commit to a daily practice of journaling and meditation and find support in “live” weekly meetings and a robust online board for community gatherings and course content. Wednesday webinars will include a blend of meditation, guided contemplation, generative writing, teachings and discussion. Weeks 5 and 10 will include writing workshop of longer submissions. In the interim between our “live” Wednesday meetings (all recorded for later viewing). you will delve deep into your creative soul through the power of faith traditions, Stoic philosophy, meditations, readings and writings.  This multi-genre Master’s class welcomes poets, fiction and nonfiction writers. You will have the opportunity to generate new material and receive support for a longer creative work. Experience the magic of walking the 12-step journey of philosophy, faith and creative joy. Explore and commit to a daily practice of meditation and writing for a period of three months thereby instilling powerful new habits. Make substantial headway on the first draft/revision of your creative project be it poetry, fiction or nonfiction. Engage with teachings, stories, music & poetry from faith traditions and the ancient Greco-Roman philosophy of Stoicism as a way of life. Apply mindfulness to emotional habits that sabotage your creative and life aspirations. Build a sustained genuine, disciplined and compassionate foundation over 12-weeks for your creative and personal endeavors and enjoy the support of a like-minded community.

This course is designed for those who have obtained competency in accounting principles. You will delve deeper into the concepts of financial reporting and analysis. You will examine topics including cash and receivables, inventory investments, property, as well as intangible assets and goodwill.   This fourteen-week online course features both synchronous learning activities, such as weekly webinars, and asynchronous learning components, such as practice questions and assignments.   This course is recognized by the CPA Ontario. You can find more details here. Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; concepts, assumptions and guidelines; recording and interpretation of financial statements. Acquire knowledge of the use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial information.

This course is ideal for learners with a foundational understanding of accounting who are ready to deepen their knowledge and strengthen their practical skills. Through hands-on learning and applied analysis, learners will gain experience preparing financial reports and interpreting key financial data, including financial statements and their underlying components. Building on prior coursework in the accounting program, this course completes the intermediate-level foundation and prepares learners for roles in financial reporting and analysis. Key topics include liabilities, equity, taxable income, leases, and pension accounting—critical areas for those pursuing a career in accounting or finance. Understand Generally Accepted Accounting Principles; concepts, assumptions and guidelines; recording and interpretation of financial statements. Acquire knowledge of the use of analytical tools such as financial-ratio analysis, and the interpretation of financial information.

This online self-study course is your starting point for the Certificate in Translation in order to work as a full or part-time translator. Using modern translation theory, you'll acquire essential tools and develop a strong awareness of the issues that Arabic translators face. You'll learn how to preserve the meaning, style, syntax and tone of the original text, without being literal, and become proficient in analyzing, understanding and correctly translating complex real-world documents. Learn translation in the fields of law, commerce and literature. All course materials are available electronically. You communicate with your instructor electronically and share at least three webinars with the whole class.  Acquire introductory tools for translation. Understand the principles and goals of a high-quality translation. Prepare for upper-level translation courses.  

Learn how to translate English into Arabic, whether in the fields of law, commerce or literature. Gain skills that will help you critically analyze and accurately translate more complex documents, preserving the essence and integrity of the written word. All course materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email and webinar.  Handle common translations of language structures. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Translate subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Translate complex material.

To work as an English-Arabic translator, you must be able to handle complex business and cultural demands. With this self-study Level III course, you're well on your way. Continue to build your analysis and translation skills and qualifications. Get supportive feedback on your oral and written translations. All materials are provided in PDF format and you communicate with your instructor by email.  Handle common yet difficult translations. Avoid anglicisms and awkward syntax. Render subtle and nuanced thoughts into written form. Translate more complex material.

There are many strategies of care within the scaffolding of end of life care counseling. This includes grief and bereavement theory, narrative work, brief solution focused therapy, dignity therapy, expressive arts, and existential counseling to name a few. In this course you will explore the integration of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation into these traditional therapeutic modalities. The new sciences of quantum physics and neuroscience are challenging scientific materialism, which is a new way of approaching health care and health care systems. As a part of this,  you will also explore how the new sciences are supporting a shift towards holism. Consider how the new sciences can inform our practices in health and end of life care, Identify the four foundational philosophies that support mindfulness meditation practices Explore ways to integrate mindfulness meditation into traditional models of counseling in end of life care Identify the shift from scientific materialism to holism Reflect on a new model of end of life counseling which is based on personhood and is existential by nature of its subjective practices and inquiry

This workshop will build and broaden upon the use of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation as a means of beginning to prepare for our dying. The “practice of dying” can be used daily in our living and our dying.  It can also be used as a decision- making model to determine our plans for health and end of life care. We will explore how mindfulness can inform the subjective experience of dying which can present as altered states of consciousness or as the dying brain. We will consider what the life after death, out of body and resuscitation literatures suggest about the nature of personhood and consciousness. In our final session, we will also explore how to embody mindfulness and mindful awareness so as to become what a mindful leader means to you.  To explore “a practice of dying” and its application in life and end of life care To practice three mindful ways of knowing (Siegel) that cultivating mindful awareness and can be helpful in decision making in end of life care To identify the concept and experience of altered states of consciousness and how they can inform end of life care. To encourage embodied mindfulness as behaviors or qualities of mind applied to leadership, community and organizational roles