Edmonton Short Courses
Leadership
This session enables you to take a strategic look at leadership and assist in the formation of a strategy to get the most out of yourself and those you interact with.
Dates: November 15-16, 2011
Leading From Self
Do you seek a leadership edge? Is it time to re-examine your leadership skills and approach? The world of leading others, including diverse teams and clients, has become increasingly complex. Clearly understanding your leadership contribution and style is essential. This experiential session will involve a deep level of leadership self-analysis, and will provide you with conceptual knowledge and practical leadership skills through self-discovery. As a result, you will be able to confidently articulate the leadership strengths you bring to your role. You will leave with the tools to develop a customized leadership plan.
Fall Series: November 17, 2011
Spring Series: March 28, 2012
Individual Session Fee: $650 CAD (plus GST)
Strategic Management
You will leave this session with a clear understanding of what strategy is, how it is constrained, formulated, developed and implemented and what that can mean for your organization.
Date: November 17, 2011 (Lunch Speaker)
Leading Others
It is important to your organization that you attract and retain the best talent possible. People have a choice about where and why they work – even in a tight economy, good peopleare highly valued. The “command and control” leadership style no longer works with today’s generations, and as a result a new coaching leadership style is required. Coaching is defined as a way to “convey a valued person from where he or she is, to where they want to be”. This experiential session will provide a framework for you to examine current best practices around leading, coaching and engaging others, and will provide key insights about how to coach and develop others for success. A stimulating combination of theory, experiential exercises, self-discovery and skills practice will ensure that you take away the practical skills, knowledge, and confidence to apply this new learning immediately.
Fall Series: December 12, 2011
Spring Series: May 1, 2012
Individual Session Fee: $650 CAD (plus GST)
Leading Organizations
Do you envision a culture where people thrive and bottom lines are met? But in reality your well-developed change efforts seem to fall on deaf ears? Despite your best strategies, do you find that change is slow and progress seems stifled? IBM’s Lou V. Gerstner said it best: “Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game. It is the game.” In this session, you will be introduced to best practice culture research thatilluminates a new path and identifies a missing link in leadership development. You will be provided with the theory, assessment tools and skills, and practice opportunities to help your team, project or organization define a constructive and results-based culture.
Fall Series: January 12, 2012
Spring Series: May 29, 2012
Individual Session Fee: $650 CAD (plus GST)
Business Economics
Within this session you will discuss basic economic principles and put them in context of the practical business world.
Date: January 16, 2012
Understanding Financial Statements
As a user of the financial statements, how do you make sense of the balance sheet, income statement, and statement of cash flow for developing business strategy? You will analyze the financial statements of real companies, and explore the relationships that exist between the statements.
Date: January 17, 2012
Understanding Capital Markets
The focus of this course is to introduce various aspects of capital markets as these relate to raising capital for companies in public and private markets.
Date: January 18, 2012
Leading Through Conflict
While it is an inevitable aspect of leadership, many people avoid conflict. Sometimes this is a healthy choice, but at other times avoidance only prolongs the issue or concern, or it forces issues underground. Learn your natural conflict resolution style and how to celebrate your positive approaches. Learn how to modify and mitigate those methods that are not working for you. You will complete a personal inventory to help you understand your natural conflict style and your underlying values when in conflict situations. You will experience firsthand a number of practical tools and approaches for dealing effectively with conflict, as you work through real issues.
Fall Series: February 8, 2012
Spring Series: June 12, 2012
Individual Session Fee: $650 CAD (plus GST)
Information Systems Management
This session examines how the strategic use of technology can help an organization reach its business objectives.
Date: February 28, 2012
Managerial Decision Making
This session will deliver a decision making framework that you can use to avoid common biases in order to arrive at and implement decisions that are both effective and ethical.
Date: February 29, 2012
Marketing
The objectives of this session are to develop a working knowledge of marketing as it relates to the establishment of a sustainable differential advantage in a competitive market. The session ends with a panel discussion from experts in technology, decision making and marketing, giving participants an opportunity to integrate the topics learned throughout the third module.
Date: March 1, 2012 (Panel discussion after session)
Canada and The Global Economy
Within this session you will examine the changing global business environment and how it impacts business
decision-making.
Date: April 23, 2012
Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Examine how ethics and business are fundamentally connected. In this session you will be introduced to the
emerging importance and complexity of CSR and begin to explore stakeholder responsibility. Case studies will be used.
Date: April 24, 2012
Negotiations
This intensive session aims to improve your skill set and understanding of the process of negotiation, both within an organization and between organizations.
Date: April 25, 2012
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