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Business Management

Explore the key components of business management.

By the end of these courses, you will have a solid understanding of how to effectively manage contracts, supply chains, and risks in a business context, and be equipped with practical tools and strategies to apply in your own work.

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Micro-credentials are short, concentrated groups of courses that are really flexible. You can take as many as you like, in any order, and because they are asynchronous you can take them at any time it suits you. You will be awarded a badge for each individual course, once you have completed all four courses you will gain your micro-credential.

The cost for each individual course listed below is $60. For more Information email: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course Listing

Course ID: 

Name: Contract Management

Course Outcomes:

  • Identify contract elements.
  • Describe ethical contract management.
  • Calculate value.
  • Negotiate contracts.
  • Create basic amendments.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Supply Chain Management

Course Outcomes:

  • Identify how supply chain management relates to customer satisfaction, improving performance, lowering costs, and product development.
  • Describe the levels of supply chain management and their effects.
  • Identify the flows of supply chain management and data warehouses.
  • Describe inventory management.
  • Study supply chain groups.
  • Review tracking and monitoring methods.
  • Examine supply chain event management.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Change Management

Course Outcomes:

  • List the steps necessary for preparing a change strategy and building support for the change.
  • Describe the WIFM – the individual motivators for change.
  • Use needed components to develop change management and communications plans, and to list implementation strategies.
  • Employ strategies for gathering data, addressing concerns and issues, evaluating options, and adapting a change direction.
  • Utilize methods for leading change project status meetings, celebrating a successful change implementation, and sharing the results and benefits.
  • Describe the four states of Appreciative Inquiry and their purposes.
  • Use strategies for aligning people with a change, appealing to emotions and facts.
  • Describe the importance of resiliency in the context of change, and employ strategies the change leader and individual change participant can use to foster resiliency.
  • Explain the importance of flexibility in the context of change, and demonstrate methods the change leader and individual change participant can use to promote flexibility.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

Course ID: 

Name: Risk Assessment and Management

Course Outcomes:

  • Identify hazards and risks.
  • Update control measures.
  • Explain the fundamentals of accident reports.
  • Identify risk management techniques.
  • Outline a disaster recovery plan.
  • Communicate to the organization.

Hours: 6

Credits: N/A

Delivery: Asynchronous Online Micro-credential

Cost: $60

Micro-credential Badge: Upon completion of this course you will be awarded a Portage College Micro-credential badge.

Timelines: End of the academic year, June 30th

Register for this course: training@portagecollege.ca or call 780-623-5631 or toll-free at 1-888-745-0719.

We acknowledge that Portage College’s service region is on the traditional lands of First Nation Peoples, the owners of Treaty 6, 8 and 10, which are also homelands to the Métis people. We honour the history and culture of all people who first lived and gathered in these lands.
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