Professional Development Workshops and Self-Directed Learning

Whether you are a professional looking to upskill and advance in your career or you are responsible for the talent development of your team, our skill-building workshops and self-paced courses are designed to meet your professional learning needs.

Designed and delivered by expert instructors who are knowledgeable about current realities and future trends, all workshops are also available on-demand and can be adapted to address specific needs and challenges of your team.

Preferential rates are available for corporate groups, 海外直播b站 students, alumni, employees (see 鈥榩otential discounts鈥� section when registering).

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Workshops	Delivery	Date	Time	Language
This course has been approved for the听听program funding (grant code: 海外直播b站-004)	Virtual	Jan 24, 31 Feb 7, 14	9 a.m. - 12 p.m.	English
	In-person	Feb 17 - 18, 2025	9 a.m. 鈥� 5听p.m.	English
	In-person	Feb 11 - 12, 2025	9 a.m. 鈥� 5 p.m.	English
This course has been approved for the program funding (grant code: 海外直播b站-005)	Virtual	Feb 14, 21, 28 Mar 7	3:30 - 5 p.m.	English
	Virtual	Feb 20, 2025	9 a.m 鈥� 4 p.m.	English
	In-person	Feb 27 - 28, 2025	9 a.m. 鈥� 4 p.m.	English
	In-person	Mar 13 - 14, 2025	10 a.m. 鈥� 1听p.m.	English
	In-person	Mar 18 - 19, 2025	9 a.m. 鈥� 4 p.m.	English
	Virtual	Feb 4, 11, 18, 25	12 - 2:15 p.m.	English

翱迟丑别谤听罢谤补颈苍颈苍驳蝉	Delivery	Date	Time	Language
	In-person	TBD	TBD	English
	In-person	TBD	TBD	English

Unique programs/courses	Delivery	Date	Type	Language
	Online	-	Blended	English

Self-Directed Learning	Delivery	Type	Language
Offered in collaboration with the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)	Online	Asynchronous, self-paced	English
	Online	Asynchronous, self-paced	English
	Online	Asynchronous, self-paced	English
	Online	Asynchronous, self-paced	English

Delivery	Type	Language
Online	Asynchronous, self-paced	English
Virtual	Synchronous	English
Virtual	Synchronous	English

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Technology and Data Analytics

	Ramp Up Your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) Discover how to maximize traffic to your website(s) by understanding and effectively applying established and evolving SEO techniques. Your website is only as successful as your SEO strategy, and this workshop is your gateway to realizing the potential of your personal or professional website(s).
	Data Protection: Is your Organization Data Compliant This workshop will provide a comprehensive overview of various data protection compliance obligations and suggest strategies that companies and organizations can adopt to implement a compliance program.
	Exploratory Data Analysis with Alteryx This hands-on workshop addresses the challenge of analysing different data sets and summarizing their main characteristics using tables and graphs. Using the Alteryx Data Analytics Platform, participants learn the iterative process and techniques to perform an exploratory data analysis.
	Introduction to Python This practical workshop introduces the fundamental programming concepts and skills needed to get started in programming with Python. The workshop culminates with an interactive hands-on assignment in which participants will write code using a popular data science library.听
	Mobile 5G: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges Mobile 5G is the next generation mobile standard following in the footsteps of 4G technology, which was launched across the globe about 10 years ago. Early 5G deployments have begun in the USA and parts of Asia and Europe. Canadian deployments are starting in 2020/2021. Download the Q&A PDF
	Understanding Blockchain: Beyond the Hype This workshop will provide a comprehensive 360掳 overview of the origins, evolution, building blocks and technologies of Blockchain. Practical use cases, benefits and challenges across various industries will be explored.

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

	Accelerated Disruption: Innovating in a Rapidly Changing World The convergence of disruptive technologies and the rapid pace of change are pressuring businesses to innovate more than ever. Businesses and organizations need to take a proactive approach to innovation before they become irrelevant.
	Agile Product Development This practical workshop will help you acquire skills and tools required to develop and manage innovative digital products using Design Thinking and Agile techniques. Learn how to accelerate product development and deliver exceptional products. Prepare to take SAFe庐 Agile Product Manager certification exam.
	Brand and Business Storytelling: Insights from a Former Walt Disney Imagineer Learn the critical elements of all winning stories, discover how to choose the right style or voice for your story and explore tools and techniques needed to blend creativity with facts for maximum impact. (This workshop is not affiliated in any way with The Walt Disney Company or any of its subsidiaries, including Walt Disney Imagineering.)
	Continuous Transformation: Beyond Change Management This workshop explores the shortcomings and the root causes of failures, as well as introducing the Continuous Transformation Model, which can be applied to increase the success rate in an organization鈥檚 transformation journey.
	Creative Business Transformation: Turning Crisis into Opportunity - Slingshot Certification Course Ideal for business leaders, managers, coaches, consultants, trainers and entrepreneurs, this course covers the key insights and tools offered by the Slingshot Framework to distill the complexity of successfully navigating the current environment, and enable participants to continuously transform their business for growth and relevance.
	Customer Journey Mapping By using a combination of empathy and data, we will identify methods to optimize the experience. Case studies, exercises, and lecture may be used to assist all participants to sharpen their skills and apply best practices. This is an active workshop!
	Selling in a Virtual Environment This practical training will prepare you to thrive in the new normal by helping you gain the knowledge and skills needed to understand, connect with, inspire and influence others through digital channels.
	Start-Up Entrepreneurship Fundamentals This practical workshop will equip participants who wish to make the leap to entrepreneurship with proven entrepreneurial tools, frameworks and methodologies that they can deploy when building or joining an early stage start-up company. These tools can also be applied within an existing company or organization to build and support an intrapreneurial culture.
	User and Customer Experience Design This hands-on workshop offers an overview of User and Customer Experience design principles and the methodologies used to design products that enhance product value. This workshop aims to help participants develop the empathetic mindset that underpins the UX and CX methodologies, and provides a practical toolkit as well as an opportunity to practice new skills through interactive activities.
	The Human Dimension of Business Transformation: Change Management The workshop will demonstrate how to effectively integrate key change management activities and milestones within the overall business transformation initiatives to achieve maximum results.

Productivity and Project Management

Agile Project Management: Practice and Certification

This course provides a comprehensive and interactive online learning experience to help you discover and apply Agile concepts, principles, practices and techniques in project management.

Project Management: From Principles to Practice

Whether you need to understand the fundamentals or intend to choose a career in project management, this online course, developed by experienced 海外直播b站 instructors, is a great place to start!

Leadership and Communication

	Toward Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Divides This workshop is based on the work of Dr. Terri E. Givens, a leading expert on racism and an internationally recognized author. Inspired by her personal story and her latest book, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides, this workshop takes learners on a powerful journey through the landscape of discrimination, racism, and injustice.
	Coaching: the Key to Managing Performance Success This workshop combines learning about coaching with applied, hands-on practice in a range of communication practices, from feedback to motivation, and, of course, coaching itself.
	Getting Ready to Lead: Starting off on the Right Path This workshop aims to help you think differently about leadership, and how you can develop into the leader you are capable of becoming. It focuses on helping you learn and leverage specific competencies gained from best-practices in order to first lead yourself, and then lead others.
	Leadership and Emotional Agility This workshop will help participants understand why emotional agility is a critical skill set and mindset, as well as why it is crucial for leaders to understand their personal values and how they impact their emotions.
	Making Teamwork Work This workshop is designed to help people become better team members or leaders through the development of their awareness and teamwork skills.

Accounting and Finance

	Financial Accounting Essentials This practical course aims to introduce fundamental accounting principles that govern the financial accounting system. Participants will be introduced to various practical accounting concepts such as the income statement, balance sheets, conditions of transactions and Information Technology accounting systems, which they will encounter in a real-world business setting.
	海外直播b站's Level I CFA庐 Program Exam Preparation Workshop This coaching workshop provides a lean and well-thought out CFA庐 Level I exam preparation program that will 鈥渇ire up鈥� your motivation to keep you on top of your study schedule, thereby significantly increasing your chances of passing the exam.
	海外直播b站's Level II CFA庐 Program Exam Preparation Workshop This series of coaching workshops provides a lean and coherent approach to CFA庐 Level II exam preparation that will keep you motivated and on track, and provide strategies for increasing your chances of passing the exam.
	海外直播b站's Level III CFA庐 Program Exam Preparation Workshop This series of coaching workshops provides a lean and coherent approach to CFA庐 Level III exam preparation that will keep you motivated and on track, and provide strategies for increasing your chances of passing the exam.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual Property Summer Program

Offered in partnership with the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC), this program offers a comprehensive suite of pragmatic courses to help practitioners in the legal, business and government sectors keep up to date on the latest in intellectual property.

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Intellectual Property Strategy for Business

This practical course delivered by experienced intellectual property professionals and business strategists, provides an opportunity to learn how to cultivate and manage your organization鈥檚 intellectual property portfolio as a powerful corporate asset.

Essential Workplace Skills

Introduction to Business Analytics using Excel

The objective of this practical hands-on workshop is to demonstrate to participants how they can use various Excel functions and tools to perform sophisticated data analyses and transform data into valuable business insights.

Project Management Essentials

This skill-based workshop offers a practical 鈥榮tarter kit鈥� for participants in the form of tools and insights. Participants have the chance to delve not only into the solid principles of project management, but to put these principles into practice.

海外直播b站 SCS Workshop - Time Management: Making Time Work for You

Effective Time Management in a Complex World

Learn proven time management tools, techniques, and tips that will help you to reduce personal stress and increase productivity and efficiency in your workplace and personal lives.

	Conflict Resolution The purpose of this workshop is to engage participants in a process of seeing conflict as an opportunity for growth, development, and enhancing business and other relationships, rather than approaching conflict with fear or simply avoiding it altogether.
	Persuasive Communication Improving communication skills can lead to increases in work or life satisfaction, as well as to the attainment of professional or personal goals.
	Direct Thyself: Self-Management Skills for Self-Leadership This workshop will help you to identify various challenges in managing time. It will allow you to learn and practice techniques to help you attain more effective time management skills, in order to be able to direct your focus and energy towards activities that will allow you to achieve professional and personal goals.
	Contract Negotiation Skills This workshop is for any professional who wants to learn the essential techniques of negotiating a contract, including individuals who have no experience but want to learn the fundamentals of contract negotiations, as well as those who have or will have a job that directly involves negotiating contracts.
	Write Better - Speak Better This workshop introduces participants to fundamental theories and practices of communication in today鈥檚 demanding and ever-changing workplace. It is designed to help participants develop stronger written, verbal and presentation skills to excel in the workplace.
	Contract Law for Non-Lawyers Designed for professionals who work with or concern themselves with contracts on a regular basis, this workshop focuses on the 鈥渘uts and bolts鈥� of the law and will walk you through the process of reasoning through different contractual scenarios.

Budgeting and Forecasting: Understanding your Numbers

This course covers core budgeting concepts: costing methods, budget process, capital budgeting, revenue forecasting, cost accounting, budget analysis and the balanced scorecard.

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