How to Reason and Argue – Skills for Film Commissioners

Reasoning is important. This course will teach you how to do it well. You will learn some simple but vital rules to follow in thinking about any topic at all and some common and tempting mistakes to avoid in reasoning. We will discuss how to identify, analyze, and evaluate arguments by other people (including politicians,…

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Operations Management – Skills for Film Commissioners

An Introduction to Operations Management is a free, generic online course that teaches how to analyze and improve business processes. For Film Commissioners, it will assist with improving productivity, reducing response times, and improve service quality.by teaching how to analyze business processes and how to improve them. Along the way, you will also learn about…

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Social Network Analysis – Skills for Film Commissioners

Social Networks are invaluable for cost effective marketing of jurisdiction. Everything is connected: people, information, events and places, all the more so with the advent of online social media. A practical way of making sense of the tangle of connections is to analyze them as networks. In this course you will learn about the structure…

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Organizational Analysis – Skills For Film Commissioners

Film Commissions come in all shapes and sizes. The ubiquity and variability of organizations means there is ample room for complexity and confusion in the organizational challenges we regularly face. Every week, you’ll learn a different organizational theory, and it will become a lens through which you can interpret concrete organizational situations. Armed with a…

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Basics of Financial Management – Film Commissioner Skills

An online course at the University of Cape Town on the Basics of Financial Management; The course in a nutshell: 9-week part-time course presented online Understand the world of finance and its technical jargon Develop practical skills in budgeting, reading financial statements, cash-flow analysis, cutting costs and investing Learn how to maintain a department or…

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Leadership – Skills for Film Commissioners

We see “un-leaderlike” moments all the time in public life, in our own work lives, and yes, often in our personal relationships. Even the best leaders among us have been guilty of cutting corners for expediency, being emotionally insensitive, not speaking up when it was the right thing to do, or being self-centered at one…

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