University of Alberta School of Business
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://execed.bus.ualberta.ca/

The Energy Sector Leadership

The Alberta School of Business is offering a specialized leadership development program with a focus on the Energy sector, The Energy Sector Leadership Development Program. Great leaders are one of your most important assets. You can hire great leaders or you seize the opportunity to develop from within. In an ever shrinking talent market, providing relevant leadership programs to develop......
 

Within this course you will examine the creation and delivery of goods and services. Relevant topics include forecasting demand for products and/or services, developing efficient production and service delivery processes, planning and controlling inventories, scheduling employees, and designing and managing distribution and transportation networks. Local examples will be used to support theory ......
 

This course offers you an examination of current Information Technology (IT) strategies technologies and the impact of the Web on business processes. Discussion will centre on current technologies and how they fit into an organization�overall IT strategy. Communication technologies will play an important role within this discussion....
 

Effective communication is a key factor in achieving and sustaining positive working relationships in all levels of your organization. This course provides you with an overview of the strategies, skills, and knowledge required for effective organizational communications. You will be engaged in an interactive, lively approach to communication in this course....
 

In this course you will benefit from a blend of experiential and theoretical learning designed to make you a more effective manager in all types of negotiation. A study of positive theories on improving negotiation skills will be combined with models of the theoretic structure of bargaining. This mix of theories, case studies, and bargaining exercises will help you to discern opportunities for ......
 

As a manager you negotiate to seal an important contract, to procure a scarce part from another division, to build support for internal reorganization, or to obtain a more attractive share of next year�budget. This course will focus on a wide range of bargaining environments that go beyond the traditional labour-management scenario. The skills and techniques covered will strengthen your positi......
 

Strategic management requires a dynamically oriented analysis of markets, industries and the companies within those industries. Effective strategic management is proactive and results in creating and sustaining competitive advantage. This course will provide you with the principles of strategic management. You will gain an understanding of what strategy is, how it is constrained, formulated, de......
 

This session focuses on organizational design. Organizational design refers, of course, to the ways that organizational leaders structure an organization to accomplish work results that lead to performance, and organizational redesign is the process of changing organizational structure, sometimes associated with reorganization....
 

How does your organization establish an effective succession management system? Each organization is unique, and this course provides the groundwork for you to assess the needs of your own organization and align principles learned in order to implement a succession management system that will help strengthen your company’s organizational structure....
 

You will be introduced to the theories of organization development and change management. You will explore the practical applications and strategies for building a willingness to change, as well as management support for change at all levels. You will also learn about new developments in organizational development and change management. You will learn how to gain entry to organizations needing ......
 

Explore the traditional versus emerging model of HR and the changing role of human resources. Discuss the implications of major business and societal trends on the current state of the HR function. This course will include an HR strategy model and case study to identify and drive out HR implications and challenges from the business and organization. Following this exploratory discussion, yo......
 

Diversity is here to stay in today’s workplace. More and more organizations are coming to understand that not only must they understand and embrace diversity to better serve its employee and clients, but they do themselves a disservice if they don’t. This program is designed to provide an overview of diversity issues, present the latest statistics on diversity in Alberta and Canada, examine sp......
 

This course will provide you with an overview of cost behaviour and the use of costs in decision making. The course covers a range of accounting concepts used by management in planning, and includes application of relevant costs for decision making, with particular emphasis on the relationships of cost, volume, and profit. Cases are used to provide the context within which accounting informatio......
 

Successful organizations demonstrate quality financial accounting to better portray earnings, financial strength, and risk. You will cover these issues and gain an understanding of financial statements in the context of your business and in evaluating your personal investments. Using examples from real companies, you will learn how to read and analyze the many elements of a typical financial st......
 

Understand the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EI) and its role in creating effective leadership within your organization. Learn how you can positively influence others, and the organization itself, by using EI and effective leadership in your own work and role as an HR leader. You will also explore how to use and leverage the process of positive influence in order to help facilitate change ......
 

The Leading People for Results program is specifically designed to meet the needs of two specific supervisory groups within the City of Edmonton. With participants exclusively from the City of Edmonton, each course deals with the issues and management challenges specific to City employees and providing an open environment in which participants may discuss changes, concerns and ideas. This p......
 

This module will provide hands-on grounding in the essentials of finance and budgets ?demystifying financial statements, providing essential tools, measures, and concepts in a clear business context for the following: Cost Behaviours in effective management Financial Statement Analysis Budgeting: Operating and Capital Variance and Capital Investment Analysis Break Even Analysis...
 

The first part of this course discusses how information technology is reshaping industry structure and competition, and encourages participants to: Examine the role of the general manager in aligning business and IT strategies. Recognize and assess how leading edge organizations are implementing IT-enabled business models and the subsequent impact on industry. Examine the concepts an......
 

This course will explore the difference between managing time and mastering time by: Assessing your own time mastery habits, using a Time Mastery Profile, and developing strategies to minimize bad habits and capitalize on good ones. Determining how to foster effective time use by people you manage. Developing strategies for bringing together successful project teams and creating buy-......
 

This course will examine your preferred learning style, how that style impacts your leadership approach, and your ability to confidently lead by: Determining your natural and developed leadership approach using the MBTI® Step II report, including leading when under stress. Assessing your preferred Situational Leadership Style and discussing how to lead people in teams who are in various ......
 

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