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This workshop is intended for anyone looking to sharpen their playwriting skills in a workshop setting. Participants are encouraged to explore their writing through ten-minute plays, one-acts, or full-length plays. The focus of the workshop will be on reading and responding to each other’s work using feedback strategies outlined by the instructor....

Today’s technology has made everyone in the workplace a writer — leaving your reputation and success increasingly dependent on how well you communicate. In this training course, you gain foundational knowledge in business writing, and leverage effective writing tools to create contract proposals, business plans, executive summaries, recommendation...

Settling an Estate (MCC) This 90-minute presentation will walk you through the laws and the procedures that govern the estate settlement process. Topics include: marshalling and classifying assets; gathering information about the executor, trustee and beneficiaries; filing claims for life insurance, annuities and retirement accounts; when to go to...

Mental Fitness for Business: How to Leverage Your Strengths “Mental health is defined as a state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential.” World Health Organisation Understanding and ‘playing to your strengths’ has been shown to improve mental and physical health leading to enhanced performance, stronger...

Business Analysts provide an essential function by assessing and analyzing the business environment, defining the scope of business problems, capturing project requirements, designing high-value solution approaches, and ensuring that the defined scope meets the customer's needs, goals, objectives, and expectations. This practical workshop will provide...

For more than 20 years, we offered a TOEFL® preparation program that helps students achieve a satisfactory score on the Next Generation TOEFL® iBT exam. Class time is spent learning specific skill-building exercises, reviewing test-taking strategies, and practicing with simulated TOEFL® test problems.  Prerequisite: High Intermediate to Advanced...

Most human beings tend to avoid conflict…have you noticed? Workplace conflict and tension are inevitable; when working closely with others, we often face tricky conversations on a range of topics, be it mental health, performance, burnout, promotion or bad management. Research in the UK has found that more than 51% of workers have to deal with...

This training will provide you with the knowledge you need to develop and implement a successful online marketing plan. Learn the ins and outs of online marketing, including email marketing, SEO, and Google Ads. Note: Please bring a laptop.

The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) is a framework for enterprise architecture that provides an approach for designing, planning, implementing, and governing an enterprise information technology architecture. The Vanguard EA course is a hands-on “applied” training course specifically designed for TOGAF® practitioners to ensure...

Join us to learn the critical components to a successful PAC plan going into 2018 and beyond, including an in-depth discussion which strategic elements can take your PAC to the next level. We’ll focus on how to build a structure that is not only doable but sustainable.  Hear about:   - Assessing what you’ve done in the past to...

This course will provide you the skills and competencies needed to structure a PMO — including how to analyze portfolio and project success, implement a governance model, and conduct and apply lessons learned. You learn how to standardize project management methodologies, processes and templates. A PMO will provide a means of centralization, standardization,...

Overview of the CAPM® Certification The CAPM® certification offers recognition to practitioners who are starting a career in project management as well as project team members who wish to demonstrate their project management knowledge. This certification denotes that the individual possesses the knowledge in the principles and terminology...

The Language of Justice is the first national three-day program. The curriculum was designed to train community and court interpreters in how to interpret for legal services in community settings. The particular focus is to guide legal interpreters and prepare them for attorney-client interviews in nonprofit legal services. Based on a curriculum developed...

Ethics by Design Series: Democracy, Privacy & Technology This workshop will be hosted online (Livestream) due to safety considerations, please check out the "Preparation" section on the bottom of this page. Registered participants will be notified in advance of this program with information on how to log in to the workshop. Western democracies...

These are exciting times to be a screenwriter. With more shows and television channels than ever, the opportunities for inventive ways of storytelling increase daily. This hands-on workshop will guide beginning and intermediate screenwriters through the process of crafting a professional-grade screenplay and/or TV pilot.  Participants will examine...