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Project management skills are essential as they enable organizations to adapt, innovate, and solve business challenges, aligning with their strategic goals and delivering value to customers. In today's dynamic business environment, employers seek proficient project team members and leaders who combine business acumen with practical project management methodologies. This includes a blend of traditional and contemporary approaches such as agile, iterative, incremental, and waterfall, allowing for flexible adaptation to each unique project. Integrating AI into project management, this course offers practical exercises and collaborative opportunities to master key strategies, processes, and tools. Participants will learn to leverage AI technologies to enhance project planning, execution, and monitoring, ensuring more efficient and effective project outcomes. By understanding the fundamentals of project management, along with AI applications, you'll gain the skills necessary to drive success and achieve excellence in your projects. Whether aspiring to become a professional project manager or enhancing your current role with these critical skills, this course is your starting point towards mastering the art of project management in the digital age. •    Evaluate the advantages of different approaches (agile, traditional, hybrid) to implement projects •    Design initiation documents that include all necessary elements •    Create project scope, schedule, cost baselines, and product and sprint backlog with a release plan •    Identify and analyze project stakeholders and their communication needs •    Identify, analyze, and formulate responses to project risks •    Manage project quality, change, and close projects successfully •    Apply key project management tools, techniques, and processes, including AI 

This graduate-level workshop is more than the final step in the short fiction stream - it's an opportunity to work with a respected short fiction writer and discover a community immersed in the genre. This is where you can hone your short stories with the goal of eventual publication. Class time will be divided between analyses of texts, and workshopping students' work. Students should come to this course with one or two short stories-in-progress (early/rough drafts, 3000 words each, max) that they are ready to receive feedback on.    • Trust and follow your own instincts for how to write short stories that excite and compel you.    • Exchange encouraging, constructive feedback with other writers, and incorporate constructive criticism into your own work.    • Engage in writing exercises to create new material, and participate in discussions around aspects of craft.    • Build your knowledge of short fiction markets and publications, and honour your own unique writing path.    • Complete two short fiction pieces, and gain confidence about the revision process.

Learn the fundamentals of writing for television. You'll work individually and in groups to explore the essential building blocks of the one-hour dramatic television series, structure, story and character, as you develop your own series concept. You'll learn how to pitch a plot synopsis with a strong emotional hook, construct a story, develop a beat sheet that highlights major dramatic moments, and write compelling scenes for the small screen. Understand the essential building blocks of television drama. Collaborate on scripts the way story departments do. See what's involved in moving an idea through the industry into production. Create a logline - a plot synopsis and emotional hook - as well as a beat sheet and an outline. Write scenes for your own episodic series.

This course is designed to help you refine your communication skills and develop greater confidence in a variety of speaking situations. You will gain practical strategies to express yourself clearly and effectively, whether in casual conversations, formal presentations, or professional settings.   Develop effective speaking strategies to communicate confidently and effectively in a variety of settings, such as social, academic, and professional settings. Build small talk skills to initiate and maintain conversations, creating a natural flow in discussions. Gain self-confidence in your communication abilities by addressing common speaking challenges and hesitations. Learn to facilitate and sustain engaging conversations using active listening and thoughtful responses while leading discussions and presentations. Improve speaking intonation and rhythm as native speakers to and to adapt to diverse audiences. Engage in meaningful conversations using strategies tailored to different situations. Deliver clear and persuasive messages while maintaining a confident demeanor. Demonstrate adaptability by participating in role-play exercises that mirror real-life scenarios.

What’s the most important quality Canadian employers look for in employees? If you said “The ability to communicate clearly and effectively,” you’re ready for this ten-week course. Lectures, discussions, e-learning tools and assignments will help you develop the communication skills you’ll need in today’s business environment. You’ll learn to anticipate and meet your audience’s needs. You’ll write letters, emails, memos and reports that are precise, clear and effective. You’ll emerge better able to inform, persuade, and seek information with confidence. Plan and write all major types of business communications. Know what different audiences need and use the right tone for each. Write messages that go beyond information to persuasion. Edit and proofread your own work to avoid embarrassing mistakes. Format better documents such as cover letters and resumes.

This course focuses on making you a more effective project leader. Project management is a combination of art and science. The focus is on your leadership style – working with project teams, managing stakeholder politics, resolving team conflict and embracing change management. Leadership can be a huge factor between project success and failure and this course covers the relevant leadership elements required to succeed in the art of project management. The course will provide students with a thorough understanding and how you as a leader can transform yourself and reach a greater level of project management maturity. Build, lead, and manage project teams effectively and ethically Analyze the project and organization characteristics, culture and maturity to achieve project success Design and implement approaches to effectively communicate with and engage stakeholders Understand implications and manage organizational change in connection with your project Apply insights about leadership practices gained from industry practitioners through a team project

This course focuses on making you a more effective project leader. Project management is a combination of art and science. In this course, you’ll delve into the art of leadership and your leadership style – working with project teams, managing stakeholder politics, resolving team conflict, and embracing change management. Leadership can be a huge contributor to project success or failure, and this course covers the relevant leadership elements required to succeed in the art of project management. The course will provide you with a thorough understanding of how you, as a leader, can transform yourself and reach a greater level of project management maturity. Note: 1952A and 1952 B together are equivalent to 1952 Leading Projects in Organizations 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: Construct, manage, and lead project teams effectively and ethically Apply ethical decision-making in project situations, including conflict resolution Evaluate the impact of a project on organizational change and culture and implement the appropriate approach to managing organizational change Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Emotional Intelligence Team Leadership Managing conflicts Leading change Decision-making

This course focuses on making you a more effective project manager through communications. Communication is the number one reason why projects fail. In this course will focus on key project communication artifacts, presentation skills and how to engagement stakeholders. To communicate effectively to stakeholders, you need to understand how the project supports the organization’s strategy, the benefits the project is delivering to the organization and what is project success. This course will provide an overview of strategy, how to realize benefits, and how to effectively close a project. Note: 1952A Project Leadership and 1952B Project Communication and Strategy together are equivalent to 1952 Leading Projects in Organizations 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: Assess the benefits and value of a project Assess the current level of — and construct approaches for—stakeholder engagement Design and implement approaches for effective project communications Competencies/skills developed in this micro course include: Project Management Thinking Strategically Presentation Fostering Communication

To compete today, organizations must constantly learn and improve. In this course, you'll learn how effective training and development can help you achieve organizational goals. Learn how to analyze training needs and design and evaluate effective programs that address performance problems. Explore innovative approaches like team task-analysis, just-in-time learning and rapid elearning. You'll develop a well-rounded approach to training and development that can lead to a career in human resources and other areas of management. Understand learning theories and the principles of effective training programs. Identify training needs and match objectives to performance problems. Learn how to design and implement a training program. Evaluate training programs to ensure they are effective.

Get a basic working knowledge of workplace health and safety issues, legislation and major programs in this 13-week course. You'll learn how to develop, manage and maintain policies and programs that fit changing needs in occupational health and safety. You'll learn basic managerial issues, including the employer's legal, ethical and strategic reasons for ensuring employee health and safety. Other topics include accident/incident prevention, physical and mental health policies, employee assistance programs (EAPs) and wellness programs. Interpret the regulatory framework surrounding occupational health and safety. Communicate the duties of the major stakeholders under occupational health and safety legislation. Distinguish ways to systematically assess and examine workplace hazards and risks. Articulate common physical, chemical, biological, psychosocial and workplace violence hazards. Plan for and control hazards within the workplace. Address emerging trends such as: psychological health and safety, workplace violence, bullying.