The University of Auckland Business School
Christchurch, New Zealand
http://www.uco.canterbury.ac.nz/

Project Management

Project management has evolved over the past four decades as a method by which one can manage complex multidisciplinary efforts of a technical or non-technical nature. This course introduces this extremely useful technique to novices and to seasoned practitioners in a structured manner. The key tasks of the project manager, namely planning the project and controlling the execution of the work, ......
 

This course provides an overview of financial accounting and the analysis of financial statements. The objectives of the course are to enable you to understand and use financial statements, to appreciate their limitations and to understand the forces that influence their content. Who should attend? Non-accountants who seek to improve their understanding of accounting information. The course......
 

Competing in today’s marketplace is becoming more difficult. Customers are more demanding, market conditions change rapidly and growing competition often squeezes profit margins and makes differentiation difficult, yet some companies are doing phenomenally well and are outstripping the competition with better products, services and processes. Some put this down to skill and talent, but this is ......
 

The discipline of attracting and retaining the most profitable customers is increasingly recognised as being a driver of financial outcomes. Acquiring and growing ’key customers’ is now being recognised as a vital activity for organisations. These assets require strategic planning, maintenance and sales development in order for their true value to be realised. This course provides str......
 

This course enables engineers, scientists and technologists to enhance the power of Excel by writing VBA programs to process data. It is based on practical examples and concentrates on applications likely to be of use in technical applications. The course consists of a mix of instruction and hands-on time on PCs. A purpose-written course book assists participants to work through the capabilitie......
 

As individuals we are all adopting, either through coercion or choice, more complex environments. This increased complexity is occurring in personal, social and vocational spheres. The way we react to, and interpret, our environment is largely governed by our perceptual process. A common response to increased complexity is stress. Stress leads to emotional responses, which in turn impair ration......
 

In four days, you’ll learn and practise leading edge professional and personal precision skills for building relationships that work and then you will take these skills successfully into your professional environment. Transforming Communication is founded on the use of leading edge skills to create co-operation and resolve conflict. The four day seminar was developed by Dr Richard Bolstad ......
 

- What keeps a business alive? - How can an organisation mobilise ideas to remain competitive and thereby survive? - What is corporate survival through venturing; how can it generate new ideas from within the organisation? - How can these ideas gain an advantage and successfully be brought to market? Organisations can only survive if they deliver competitive products or services. In order......
 

The term ’strategy’ is one which has become frequently used (and abused) in management. Application of the term to a variety of business activities at a variety of organisational levels has created some confusion about its true meaning. Strategy is important for all managers - to differing degrees - and it is obviously preferable to develop expertise in strategy before, rather than af......
 

SPSS provides a powerful statistical analysis and data management system in a graphical environment. This session introduces you to the basic functions of SPSS and teaches the skills necessary to perform a variety of statistical functions. Who should attend? Anyone involved in research or evaluation who needs a user-friendly and powerful statistical package to analyse their statistical data......
 

Our ability to have successful work relationships is often influenced by our own self-awareness and management of our emotions. This introductory course will help you to develop a greater level of self-awareness and an inner sense of how you react to differing ’people’ situations in the workplace. Self-awareness is the key to enhancing your personal and professional relationships. Acc......
 

Risk management has become ever more important to all aspects of business and management. Compliance issues have been growing and breaches can be very costly. The issue of business and investment risk has also come to prominence over the last two decades. This course introduces risk management principles and skills to novices and to seasoned practitioners in a structured manner. It provides a g......
 

Databases have become ubiquitous. Many people use databases every day, sometimes without even noticing them, in libraries, on the Web, or when shopping. Others would have to query databases explicitly, or even develop their own databases. This course introduces the basics of relational databases and the SQL query language. The course includes theoretical and practical sessions. You have the opp......
 

Presenters today compete with media-savvy and visually articulate audiences. It is crucial that presenters recognise that in order to communicate effectively to stakeholders, they must employ a vital and energetic style which builds rapport and truly connects with the target audience! This course uses practical and interactive techniques to deliver ’audience-centred’ messages that com......
 

This series of Practical Leadership Skills courses is designed to provide you with the concepts, tools and techniques to enable you to be a more effective leader of your team. The programme takes an experiential approach to learning - a variety of learning methods including self-assessment, interactive exercises, videos, case studies, and simulations are used throughout. This series provides an......
 

Organisations need a workforce with commitment, clarity and focus to stay one step ahead of the competition that’s nipping at their heels. This course provides an array of comprehensive, integrated solutions for performance management to assist in this regard. It is designed to help HR professionals and senior executives create a high performance workplace where employees have the skills a......
 

This course builds on the basic functions learnt in NVivo: Working with Data. This interactive workshop looks at the additional NVivo 8 tools available and discusses the various means of extending and simplifying NVivo qualitative analyses. Who should attend? Anyone involved in research or evaluation who needs to deal with the complexities of qualitative data such as interview/focus group t......
 

This course draws on the latest negotiation research, and uses your own experience, to build your skill and confidence as a highly effective negotiator. In a safe environment, you have the opportunity to practise, and receive feedback on, the use of different approaches to negotiation in the context of both individual case studies, and of a multi-party team negotiation. The practical implicatio......
 

This course aims to extend the skills of engineers, scientists and technologists so you can carry out calculations and process data more effectively using Microsoft Excel. It is based on practical examples and concentrates on applications likely to be of use in technical situations. Most of the course is hands-on time on PCs, exploring a series of examples with guidance from experienced users. ......
 

The demands of an increasingly complex global business environment require managers to be more resilient, creative and productive than ever before. To flourish in today’s crisis, we are required to reach a new level of understanding and practice including the way our businesses are run, the way we think, and the way we relate to others." Positive Psychology is a new field pioneered by......
 

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