Certifications Guide

Upgrade your Excel skills and become a spreadsheet pro with this specialization. Start with the essentials, like navigating the Excel interface, perform basic calculations, and format professionally and move to more advanced skills such as automation and conditional formatting that help forecast and model data.

This U of T course teaches you the basics of programming using Python. Learn about core concepts such as variables, mathematical expressions, and functions, and move into more complicated concepts such as Booleans, loops, tuples and dictionaries. No prior programming experience necessary.

Develop your project management skills with this beginner level specialization. The 4 courses will teach you the basics of project management such as managing a project scope, creating a plan and budget, allocating resources and more. Put your new skills to the test at the end with a capstone project.

Diversity can be a tricky topic - we need to be able to recognize the differences among people, but recognizing these difference may at the same time contribute to discrimination. This course will help you understand this inherent paradox at the heart of diversity in the workplace, understand the dynamics this paradox creates, and ways to manage it in order to foster innovation.

Learn how to build your team, improve teamwork and collaboration, and sustain team performance. This course covers best practices around composing a team and aligning goals, as well as managing conflict and building trust.

Communicating in a virtual medium brings different challenges than in-person communication. This U of T School of Continuing Studies course will teach you how to apply communication techniques and principles for in-person and virtual teams and refine your communication style to better persuade and influence others.

This course aims to equip students with the communication skills necessary to succeed in the workplace, taking into account how rapidly workplaces are changing in the 21st century. Topics covered include: the process and functions of communication, behavioural patterns, verbal and nonverbal cues, conflict resolution, communicating more effectively with technology, and more.

Learn how to organize a presentation, ways to make it memorable, how to communicate your message clearly, and general tips and tricks for producing effective speeches and delivering them well.

A refresher course on the mechanics of good writing. Consisting of short video lectures, practice exercises, and discussion, this course will help you remember how to identify the correct verb tenses, use commas effectively, use different sentence types, and write more effectively in English.

Get a hands-on introduction with this course, in which you will create an original infographic to visually represent data from your chosen field to explain a trend or theme of your choosing. In creating an infographic, you will also learn: what makes a good infographic, why they are effective, steps for planning an effective infographic, and more.