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PROFESSIONAL ADVANCEMENT
Strategic Business Initiatives:
Business Finance for Non- Financial Staff
This one-day course is a journey through
the world of business nance. Building on
a foundation of corporate structure, agency theory and accounting, the course will examine the debt and equity markets, capital budgeting, capital structure, costs of capital and dividend policy. The course concludes with an examination of behavioural nance and its in uence on all aspects of nance.
Facilitator: Deb Linehan Length: 1 day
Date: Wed, Nov 15, 2017 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $325 + applicable taxes
Strategic Business Initiatives:
Business Issues and Economics with a Global Eye
Although most trade theories conclude that the net welfare impact of trade is positive, those welfare bene ts are not distributed equally – giving rise to somewhat predictable patterns of resistance and support for trade policy. Whereas, at the most simplistic level, economics predicts trade patterns on the basis of which country can produce which good most inexpensively, political economics recognizes the constraints to trade arising from these coalitions of resistance and support and their interaction with political decision-making.
Facilitator: Todd Thexton Length: 1 day
Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $325 + applicable taxes
Strategic Business Initiatives:
Corporate Strategy
This one-day course will develop participants’ strengths and competencies in performing a ‘size up’ – a detailed situation assessment and comprehensive review of strategic growth options for SMEs (small medium-size enterprises) engaged in the B.C. export sector. During the course, participants will work in teams and learn an innovative approach to SME situation assessments (using the business diagnostics ‘size up’ methodology) along with an evaluation model to map optimal strategic directions.
Facilitator: Mike Thompson Length: 1 day
Date: Tue, Oct 10, 2017 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $325 + applicable taxes
Strategic Business Initiatives:
International Business
and Culture
This course presents the opportunity
to discuss the implications of
globalization forces and intercultural leadership amid polarizing shifts in political and ideological perspectives.
We will introduce intercultural theories, models and tools to develop intercultural competences for professional life in international business. Participants will be engaged in self-assessments, discussions, presentations and the examination of critical incidents/case studies to experience practical dilemmas presented by various intercultural scenarios. Participants
will explore their own unconscious and conscious culturally-based behavioural norms, expectations and assumptions to consider the perspectives of others. Finally, participants will develop strategies and methods for intercultural development.
Facilitator: Deb Linehan Length: 1 day
Date: Wed, Jun 20, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $325 + applicable taxes
Strategic Business Initiatives:
International Marketing – Public and Private Sector Perspectives
During this one-day course participants develop a common language and shared understanding of the marketing concept – and the similarities and differences between domestic and international marketing. Mapping a Canadian SME’s (small medium- sized enterprise) journey to international expansion, and introducing the strategic international marketing planning framework, the course will strengthen your capabilities to cohesively support and advise SMEs
in this journey. While the course focuses
on international marketing from a SME perspective, the planning framework and tools are equally applicable to international government marketing initiatives.
Facilitator: Kim Moller Length: 1 day
Date: Wed, Jan 17, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $325 + applicable taxes
Strategic Business Initiatives: Organizational Transformation
This one-day course will develop participants’ strengths and competencies in performing a high-level assessment
of the impact of strategy and change on an organization and its employees; and forecasting the likelihood of implementing wide-scale change successfully. During the course, participants will work in teams and learn an innovative approach to assessing the probability of implementing organizational change successfully.
Facilitator: Teri McEachern Length: 1 day
Date: Wed, May 16, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $325 + applicable taxes Social Media
Crafting Compelling Stories through Digital Storytelling This one-day workshop will provide hands- on learning about crafting digital stories. Digital storytelling focuses on learning, creating and sharing experiences through supportive technology. Here, a topic of interest is explored, articulated and
shared through photographs, narration and music. How individual stories can align with wider group actions through discursive activities and advocacy initiatives will
also be highlighted. Participants will leave the workshop with their own digital story to share.
Facilitator: Robyn Cox Length: 1 day
Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2018 Time: 9am-4:30pm
Cost: $325 + applicable taxes
Digital Design
This is an intensive introduction to the principles of design using digital tools
and content management systems to create and distribute the product. Students will
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