UBC Continuing Studies
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Investing Basics for Women Workshop

Whether you are builing up your RSP or saving for a house, this hands-on workshop for women presents the fundamentals of investing and helps you determine how to invest your money. Suitable for those with little to moderate experience in investing, the workshop gives you practical tips to help you work with investment advisors. Not intended for the do-it-yourself stock market investor. Thro......
 

Self-esteem is central to our psychological well-being, the quality of our relationships and our capacity for personal achievement and satisfaction. Yet many of us feel cornered by an inner critic that demands perfection. This program offers practical, action-oriented strategies for building personal strength, resiliency and self-confidence. In a positive learning environment, you learn to: ......
 

To be assertive is to communicate effectively, a vital skill given today’s emphasis on collaboration and teamwork at home and at work. Focus on four key areas of communication: - making requests of colleagues, family and friends - saying no when necessary - giving and receiving feedback - negotiating for positive change. This course is appropriate for those seeking to modi......
 

Strangely enough, fighting against stress, pain, anxiety, or the blues can trap us in cycles of unwanted feelings and thoughts. Acceptance and Commitment Training (ACT), an increasingly popular self-help model, builds psychological skills for accepting thoughts and feelings, reconnecting with core values, and taking effective action in our lives. Applying these practical skills can free up e......
 

Are you feeling uncertain about the next steps in your career or personal life? Become more aware of your career and personal options by booking an individual session with one of our experienced life and career counsellors. They can assist you to: - clarify goals - establish priorities - uncover unknown options - identify action steps....
 

Wherever you are in relation to career success, there comes a time when you reach a plateau. Should you change careers? How can you navigate current challenges and opportunities without sacrificing what you care about most? Explore key questions and identify what you need to put in place before making your next career move, including clarifying personal values, identifying constraints that ......
 

Your emotions provide you with important information about yourself and others. Emotional intelligence is the ability to access and use that information to increase your effectiveness and success in the workplace and at home. Build your understanding of emotional intelligence (EQ) and the key skills that demonstrate it: - develop "emotional literacy" to manage your emotions and in......
 

Few skills are as vital to career success as the ability to stand up in front of a group to communicate ideas effectively. This highly interactive workshop assists you to improve your presentation skills through strategies and techniques for preparing and delivering a successful presentation. Learn to: - plan and organize your content including best ways to open and close - overcome prese......
 

This one-day intensive is designed to provide practical strategies and tools to support you in the pursuit of your goals and career by exploring key questions that engage your sense of purpose and guide you in future direction. - explore a framework for career development and decision-making - identify your key values and their career relevance - begin charting your strengths and work st......
 

This popular one-day workshop teaches you how to be "hard on the problem, yet soft on the people." Examine the roots and patterns of conflict situations and discover how to turn conflicts into creative problem-solving. ...
 

Imagine a career, retirement or personal life that reflects what matters to you most. This popular program uses a variety of tools, resources and instructional techniques to help you gather information, make decisions and manage the emotional roller-coaster of change and growth. The benefits are greater clarity, direction and the confidence that comes with specific action steps that support you......
 

To improve the way we develop software, we need to start by understanding the software team itself and what each participant brings to the table. Explore personal motives, attitudes, skills and interpersonal relationships, and how they affect project decision-making. Understand the costs associated with accidental team evolution and learn to create an effective team agreement. Gain team skills ......
 

User interface design plays a critical role in the success of a software product. Designing an effective user interface is a non-intuitive combination of both creative and scientific principles. This introductory course examines the principles of user-centred design through the use of user profiling, task analysis, information architecting, prototyping, interface design and usability testing on......
 

Software Quality Assurance (SQA) involves implementing standards, processes and tools to help improve the way a software company develops software. In this overview, learn about the role of QA and the problems of assessing software quality. Discover the challenges faced in the field, and understand the need for, costs of and benefits of quality assurance. This course also examines ways to inclu......
 

Project management best practices are essential for organizations in meeting their software development goals and objectives on time and on budget. Many best practices exist that can lower risk, improve the quality of deliverables, and create and support satisfied teams and sponsors. In many organizations, the difficulty lies in determining how to implement these best practices. This course rev......
 

Software developers face a simple choice: find the problems now or let customers find them later. This course is aimed at demystifying the software testing process and focuses on its role as an integral part of the software development cycle. In sessions that blend theory and practical case studies, this course examines issues faced when software development is a subset of an integrated system.......
 

The architectural design of a system serves as a bridge between requirements and implementation. This course examines the role of architectural design in the system development life cycle and reviews underlying principles, concepts and methodologies. Topics include architectural representation, desirable qualities of a software architecture, the role of architecture in managing risk, common arc......
 

Learn how requirements management techniques and best practices are used to build a product on time and on budget that meets your stakeholders’ real needs. Discover effective methods for eliciting and managing the changing requirements of a project: analyzing the problem, understanding stakeholders’ needs, defining the vision and feature requirements, identifying software requirements......
 

Develop a strong foundation in software engineering with this exploration of key development processes. Topics include process definition and maturity; the system development life cycle; software life cycles and methodologies; requirements analysis and specification; architectural design, integration and testing; software sizing and quality metrics; and software quality engineering and reviews....
 

Successful organizations are able to align the right resources with the right projects to produce positive results for mission critical projects. The challenge lies in determining what the right projects are and how to determine the benefits they provide. The new UBC Certificate in Program Management provides a set of skills and the knowledge for those whose daily tasks go beyond project ma......
 

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