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  1. Speaking Clearly in English

    Course

    Learn to communicate with clarity and confidence in a variety of workplace, professional and personal settings. Understand how native English speakers handle conversations at work fluently and effectively by using appropriate words and vocabulary, implied meanings and non-verbal communication.

  2. Speaking Clearly in English Part 2

    Course

    Address more complex workplace communication scenarios. Gain more advanced skills and fluency for negotiating, interviewing and leading meetings and teams. Practise your presentation and public speaking skills, and acquire the language and business vocabulary you need for leading others, teambuilding and training or teaching.

  3. Storytelling for Organizations

    Course

    Tap into your organization's origins, mission and values, and personal stories of employees and management, to explore the building blocks of compelling stories, and how they are applied and communicated in organizational settings. Gain the tactics and tools to communicate your organization's stories clearly and convincingly.

  4. Structural Editing: The Basics

    Course

    This course introduces the basics of structural editing and is appropriate for people interested in editing as a career as well as those looking to improve their own documents.

  5. Student Well-Being, Mental Health and Resiliency

    Course

    This is a condensed version of a popular full-semester credit course offered at Queen's University. It was developed by Dr. Anne Duffy, MSc, MD, FRCPC, an academic psychiatrist in the Department of Psychiatry, Division of Student Mental Health at Queen’s University as a resource to help high school students preparare for university life.

  6. The Data Science Toolbox

    Course

    Learn how to install, maintain and use the core tools in the data scientist's toolbox. Get an overview of the data science tool ecosystem, as well as hands-on, practical experience working with tools like code sharing and versioning software, reproducible electronic reports and presentation software, as well as professional interactive development environments for writing code. This course is part of the UBC Certificate in Key Capabilities in Data Science.

  7. Radical Minds: The Psychology of Political Change

    Course

    This course is part of the UBC Future Global Leaders On-Campus program for high school students ages 15-18. Explore the motivations and processes behind political radicalization through the lens of individual and social psychology.

  8. Thriving in Diverse Teams

    Course

    Learn tools to build culturally diverse and inclusive teams. Enhance your skills to establish, motivate and lead your existing group toward inclusion. Develop strategies for transforming conflict and understand the influence of culture on teamwork.

  9. Transforming Intercultural Conflict

    Course

    Achieve success in conflict resolution through negotiation strategies that cut through misunderstanding, miscommunication, impasse, and implicit bias. Tap into your intercultural intelligence skills to negotiate conflict effectively.

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