University of Alberta - Alberta School of Business - Executive Education

Learn the lan­guage of ana­lyt­ics and its many acronyms as a means to mea­sure where your web traf­fic is com­ing from, how much web traf­fic you are receiv­ing, which mes­sages are most effec­tive and how to report on these mea­sures.

The respon­si­bil­i­ty of lead­ing a team pro­vides a leader with the oppor­tu­ni­ty to coach and men­tor indi­vid­ual team mem­bers, as well as the team as whole.

In this course you will learn the fun­da­men­tals of esti­mat­ing con­struc­tion projects costs from con­cept to com­ple­tion, includ­ing types of cost esti­mates, the ten­der­ing process, cost­ing site over­heads, and final assem­bly of ten­der.

Lead­er­ship at all lev­els depends upon com­mu­ni­ca­tion.

Top­ics in this course will include scope of work, bid­ding, start up, con­trol sys­tem require­ments, role of con­sul­tants and orga­ni­za­tion­al struc­ture.

Effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion is essen­tial to suc­cess­ful change.

Expand your knowl­edge of run­ning a busi­ness, includ­ing learn­ing the dif­fer­ence between a sole pro­pri­etor­ship and a cor­po­ra­tion.

A core skill set for super­vi­sors includes being able to under­stand the Cana­di­an work­place, trends around labour and man­age­ment, rights of employer/​employee and the respon­si­bil­i­ties of the super­vi­sors as they relate to their staff.

Glob­al logis­tics con­nects crit­i­cal com­po­nents of the sup­ply chain from a product¿s point of ori­gin to its point of con­sump­tion.

This sem­i­nar has been designed to give new and expe­ri­enced project man­agers and project team mem­bers the essen­tial tools they need to deliv­er suc­cess­ful projects.

Man­ag­ing risk is a crit­i­cal func­tion to ensure suc­cess­ful con­struc­tion projects.

This course pro­vides a basic under­stand­ing of pub­lic and local gov­ern­ment finance.

Exam­ines the­o­ries of indi­vid­ual behav­iour and lead­er­ship with­in local gov­ern­ment orga­ni­za­tions.

Pro­vides an intro­duc­tion to the pro­fes­sion of pub­lic admin­is­tra­tion with the empha­sis on the local lev­el.

Pro­vides a brief intro­duc­tion to land use plan­ning the­o­ry, law, and process­es.

Cad II is an exten­sion of the lessons learned in CAD I.

Build­ing on core mate­r­i­al cov­ered in Munic­i­pal Plan­ning I, stu­dents will learn about con­tem­po­rary top­ics in plan­ning through a com­bi­na­tion of online mod­ules, read­ings, and activ­i­ties.

This course will pro­vide an intro­duc­tion to the Cana­di­an legal sys­tem with empha­sis on legal prob­lems affect­ing the admin­is­tra­tion of busi­ness enter­pris­es.

This course will explore finan­cial resources and how these resources can best be man­aged.

This course exam­ines the con­cep­tu­al frame­work for the evo­lu­tion and deliv­ery of con­tem­po­rary human resource man­age­ment.

In this course, you will be chal­lenged to devel­op opti­mal solu­tions to the key busi­ness prob­lems and/​or oppor­tu­ni­ties fac­ing orga­ni­za­tions.

This course will focus on the human ele­ments of the con­struc­tion indus­try is the focus.

Lead­ing an orga­ni­za­tion towards a goal or an intend­ed out­come requires a plan — and a plan to imple­ment that plan.

This inter­ac­tive sem­i­nar will help you under­stand and inter­pret con­struc­tion draw­ings and project spec­i­fi­ca­tions.