Online and Remote Learning

If you have already passed the CFA Level I and Level II exams, you know preparation and confidence are the keys to passing Level III. This course was designed by CFA Charterholder Michael Hlinka to position you for success. If you don't pass Level III after taking this course, you can attend the next session at no charge for tuition (a $500 fee will be applied for materials and administrative costs).* Some conditions apply - ask your instructor for details.   Master the learning outcome statements established by the CFA Institute. Better understand the material relevant to succeeding in the Level III exam. Refine your exam-writing skills. Increase your knowledge of investment options. Improve your portfolio management skills.

If you're in business or a professional in any field, you need good negotiation skills to drive your agenda with peers, customers, senior management and stakeholders. If you're a manager, emerging leader or anyone seeking greater success, this interactive course will teach you how to make offers, counter-offers and agreements to achieve more win-wins. Gain the insight, skill and experience you need to uncover the real interests of the other party, and practical tools and techniques to create more value with less conflict during any negotiation process. Understand the secret to being an effective negotiator, key dynamics in negotiation, and different negotiation styles Understand the negotiation process, how to prepare and manage a 4-step process for effective negotiations Move a “competitive” negotiation to one more focused on mutual interests, how to deal with difficult personalities or situations Use communication “Tools” to build trust and collaboration to maximize negotiation value Develop personal skills and strategies for ensuring effective negotiations with solid outcomes

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 Japanese 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.

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.

Budgets are the bedrock of business plans. This course will introduce you to the basic principles, processes and concepts involved in budgeting. Week by week, you'll build knowledge and skills in a friendly, supportive environment. Even without prior experience in accounting or finance, you'll come away with a deep understanding of the various types of budgets and their components, and the critical decisions and choices businesses must make when preparing them. Understand the importance and purpose of budgets.Acquire the confidence and skill to create different types of budgets. Recognize some of the practical and analytical aspects of budget preparation. Understand how different types of budgets relate to each other.Learn how to analyze, document and explain variances.

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.