Our Courses

Business Communications

Learn how to communicate effectively in a business setting: understand diverse audiences and build sound arguments.

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Competencies for seeking, keeping and advancing in a job

Improve your employability by learning communication, social and emotional competencies with this accessible, inclusive course.

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Women's Leadership: Boost your skills and drive change

Build your individual personal development plan, strengthen your intrapersonal and communication skills and enhance your leadership competencies.

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Leadership in a Virtual World

Learn project management and team communication in a virtual world.

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Managing Conflicts on Projects with Cultural and Emotional Intelligence

Great program managers understand and heal bad communication habits and conflicts that arise within project teams and stakeholders. Learn how by leveraging emotional and cultural intelligence using the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM).

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• 21
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Persuasion and Presence for Program and Project Managers

Logic is not enough. Program managers need presence and to move stakeholders emotionally. Project professionals only follow people they both respect and trust. Learn to apply Aristotle’s persuasion triad to create successful communication that persuades.

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Effective Communication for Program and Project Stakeholders and Teams

Go beyond the communication methods you learned in the project management training. Learn how to structure your program and project communications for the most effective understanding by your stakeholders, project managers, and project teams.

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• 14
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Strategic Communication for Sustainability Leaders

Communicating science effectively is a critical skill for anyone involved in environmental policy or sustainability. Learn how to integrate effective visualizations into compelling narratives to clearly explain complex ecosystem processes.

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• 32
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Stakeholder Outreach: Effective Communication of Complex Environmental Threats

Learn how to engage communities through powerful storytelling, data visualization, and persuasive presence to motivate action on complex environmental projects.

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• 10
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Human Resources: Acquiring and Managing Talent in the 21st Century

As organizations strive to remain competitive, strategic talent management remains at the forefront to develop its culture and drive business success. HR professionals and organizational leaders are charged with prioritizing the recruitment and retention of dynamic people in alignment with the organization’s mission, vision, and goals, all the while engaging, developing, and empowering employees to invest in the org’s success – creating an exponential return on investment.

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Business Communication

Learn how to effectively communicate and build professional relationships through face-to-face, written, and non-verbal communication.

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• 30
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Visual Presentation

Learn how impactful images can enhance your presentation, communication and messaging to impress your audience.

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• 30
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Mandarin Chinese Level 2

Develop practical Mandarin skillswith extensive vocabulary, phrases and sentence structures used in daily communication and business environments.

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• 35
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CSR Reporting and Communication

Learn how to report and communicate credibly on your company CSR activities. Decode the “responsible” ads, labels and certifications of the products around you.

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• 42
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Introduction to Service Mesh with Linkerd

Learn the basics of the service mesh and get hands-on practical experience with Linkerd, the open source, open governance, ultralight CNCF service mesh for Kubernetes, including transparent mTLS, golden metrics, traffic shifting, and multi-cluster communication.

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• 30
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People Management

Learn to be a better manager by developing leadership and communication skills designed to turn first time managers into great team leaders.

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A System View of Communications: From Signals to Packets (Part 3)

Explore the tradeoffs in designing communication systems like mobile phones, and the engineering tools to handle them.

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A System View of Communications: From Signals to Packets (Part 2)

Explore the tradeoffs in designing communication systems like mobile phones, and the engineering tools to handle them.

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A System View of Communications: From Signals to Packets (Part 1)

Explore the tradeoffs in designing communication systems like mobile phones, and the engineering tools to handle them.

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• 48
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Communication Skills and Teamwork

Effective writing and presentation skills are essential for career success. Learn how to create and deliver high-impact communications, improve your soft skills, and effectively lead and collaborate on teams.

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Italian Language around the world

Learn the history and evolution of the Italian language over time, as a language of communication and culture

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• 11
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Business Writing Techniques

Business Writing Techniques, will expand on the different communication styles and discuss the best practices of business writing by providing real-world scenarios and applications. Learners will examine how to use the 6 C's to enhance their business messages. Learners will also discuss the proper etiquette of business writing and examine the use of emoji in business communications.

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Business Communications - The Basics

In this course, learners will engage with the fundamentals of business communication. Learners will discover different communication styles and how to address them in a business setting. Learners will also assess their listening styles and emotional intelligence, and both can affect their communication skills.

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Volcanology field science and society

In this introductory course, you will use interactive technologies to learn the science of how volcanoes work and the skills of a field volcanologist. You will explore the intersection of field volcanology and society, by looking into cultural perspectives of volcanoes, hazard mapping and communication using examples in Aotearoa New Zealand and drawing on Mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge).

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Epidemics IV

Explore the science, prevention and control of epidemics in this free online course. In addition to lectures by leading scientists in this field from HKU, this course will feature a supplementary module on COVID-19 and panel discussions with world-leading experts in epidemics.

This is the last (communication of infectious diseases) of the four courses, covers these topics:

• Risk Communication in Disease Outbreaks
• Communicating Infectious Diseases

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• English