How do you want to enhance your skills?

Led by UBC Sauder faculty, this 5-week program provides a big-picture view of business. Expand your knowledge and skills in strategy, finance, operations, HR and marketing. Gain cross-functional insight and connect the dots to move your career forward.

Learn a transformative framework for adapting effectively to disruption and for activating the potential in people. Practice collaborative methods for designing innovative solutions that deliver on strategic goals and ensure organizational impact.

Practice effective persuasion tactics under a variety of situations. Build trust with your audience, communicate clearly to strengthen your message, and appeal to people’s emotional and intellectual sides. Exercise constructive influence throughout the organization.

Investigate practical ways to bring the full power of your authentic self to your leadership role. Stand out as “being real” by connecting with your true purpose and passion. Forge genuine relationships that inspire people to go above and beyond.

Build competencies in project management and complete 3 of the 5 required courses in the UBC Certificate in Project Management program within one term:

Feeling overwhelmed by tasks and deadlines? Use project management techniques to plan and manage your project workloads with less stress and better results. Direct your time, energy, and resources wisely. Communicate and work effectively with others.

Organizations large and small and in every industry recognize that well planned, well-managed projects solve problems and delivers value.

Practice techniques for making better strategic decisions in the face of complexity and uncertainty. Identify the most critical strategic dimensions on which to ground your decisions. Evaluate your options, predict consequences, and select your best next move.

Practice strategies and skills for negotiating under a variety of situations: competitive, collaborative, complex and online. Find ways to change adversaries into partners. Build power to become a proficient, principled and persuasive negotiator.

This course integrates strategic thinking, planning and execution into a fully aligned game plan. Convert strategic vision into real-world actions that create long-term value. Pinpoint where you need to go, and develop doable options for getting there.

Gain insight into the project management processes that forms the backbone of the Project Management Institute’s (PMI) recommended practices.

Learn techniques of improvisation and integrate them into your managerial skill set. Face uncertainty with equanimity, make well-calibrated decisions on the fly, and develop a confident “ready for anything” mindset that enables you to adapt instantly to change.