Tax Law Online Short Course

University of Cape Town

Gain the confidence and skills to effectively manage your personal or corporate tax affairs.

 

As tax is an inescapable part of life, it’s critical that individuals, business owners, and finance professionals have a solid grasp of the principles of taxation and their related obligations.

 

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Tax Law online short course seeks to demystify the world of tax administration by improving your understanding of the latest South African tax laws and their implications for you or your company. Guided by local tax law experts, you’ll learn how to navigate personal income tax, business income tax, capital gains tax, donations tax, and the taxation of trusts. The course is designed to equip you with the practical skills you need to calculate tax payable and file your returns.

 

Is this course for you?

Due to its focus on both personal and corporate tax, this course is suitable for individuals, entrepreneurs, and finance and legal professionals. Independent citizens can empower themselves with the skills to manage their own tax affairs, eliminating the need for costly external help. Business owners and consultants can learn how to run legally compliant, tax-efficient enterprises, and accountants, bookkeepers, and lawyers can refine their understanding of current tax legislation so that they’re better positioned to offer clients advice and assistance.

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Change Management Online Short Course

University of Cape Town

Learn to plan, implement, and drive sustainable change within your organization.

 

With change being the only constant, businesses find themselves either becoming the drivers of that change or being driven by it. Learning to manage and adapt in a conscious, ethical, and sustainable way will be the differentiating factor among professionals and organizations in the future.

 

The Change Management online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) equips you with a comprehensive toolkit for solution design in the form of sustainable change management. This eight-week course offers a theoretical and practical focus that ensures change becomes embedded at every level in your organization. You’ll be exposed to a number of industry change management models, diagnostic tools, and real-world case studies. By the end of this course, you’ll walk away with the skills to successfully anticipate, articulate, and act with the goal of building your organization’s competency for change.

 

Is this course for you?

This course is ideal for professionals responsible for leading and implementing change in their organization or team. Those within a managerial role will gain practical strategies for driving change and aligning an organization’s culture and people toward adaptability. The models and tools taught can be applied to various contexts, businesses, and industries, ensuring a structured and planned approach to renewing an organization’s systems, infrastructure and operations. Professionals committed to their career development will be able to validate their experience and skills with a certificate from Africa’s leading university.

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Strategic Business Management

University of Cape Town

Drive business success with a dynamic and competitive strategy.

 

South Africa’s current economic climate is characterized by change and competition. This environment has created the need for managers with solid theoretical knowledge and practical skills in business management. In order to succeed, organizations need to remain competitive, adaptable, and resilient through accurate planning, implementation and forward-thinking strategies.

 

The Strategic Business Management online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) aims to equip you with these critical business skills, enabling you to thrive in an increasingly competitive business world. You’ll apply innovative and analytical thinking to various market analyses, such as SWOT analysis, STEEPLE analysis, Porter’s five-force model, and the SELECT framework. In applying strategic management processes to a hypothetical business environment, you’ll walk away with a business strategy, ready for implementation, that is aligned with your long-term organizational objectives.

 

Is this course for you?

This course is designed for professionals aiming to pursue a career in business management. Aspiring business managers will become empowered to move to the next tier of management with theoretical and practical business skills from this online short course. Existing managers will benefit by advancing and updating their skill set – better equipping them to navigate the contemporary South African business environment. It’s also relevant to organization stakeholders who need the skills to enable greater strategic direction within their business.

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Business Development Management

University of Cape Town

Gain the tools needed for successful business development and learn to create long-term value for your organization.

 

Business development varies from company to company. As a discipline, it has a wide-ranging scope of skills and focuses, but irrespective of the kind of industry or product, driving development impacts the growth and ultimately, the success of any business.

 

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Business Development Management online short course explores the creation of long-term value over the three stages of business development: pre-sales, pitch, and post-sales. By engaging with case studies and focusing on practical outcomes, you’ll gain hard and soft skills and develop strategies to drive and sustain growth.

 

Ultimately, by understanding the impact that business development holds for your business, you’ll become equipped to pursue long-term value creation for new and existing customers, products, and relationships.

 

Is this course for you?

This course has been created for professionals working in a business development, account management, or relationship management position. The content will also be helpful for anyone who wants to improve their negotiation and pitching skills, especially those responsible for achieving sales targets. Individuals aspiring to move into a business development role will also benefit by gaining formal university recognition. As a far-reaching discipline that covers a range of business areas, this course is fitting for all professionals regardless of their specific company or market.

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Executive Support Online Short Course

University of Cape Town

Learn to provide high-level administrative support to members of the C-suite, and assist with the execution of your business’s strategy.

 

Executive assistants are the glue that holds an organization together. They play a vital role in supporting the productivity and effectiveness of senior staff and, by extension, of a company’s entire team. As a result, they can have a significant impact on the overall functioning of a business.

 

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Executive Support online short course is designed to prepare you to take on all the strategic and administrative duties of a professional in this role. You’ll discover key leadership, people management, business communication, and problem-solving techniques. You’ll also learn how to plan meetings, prepare reports, and manage staff training.

 

Acquire sought-after transferable skills, applicable to any industry, and invest in your executive administration career with this course from Africa’s leading university.

 

Is this course for you?

This course is suitable for administrative assistants, personal assistants, and office managers, as well as those in unrelated fields, who aspire to develop the competencies needed to become a high-level executive assistant. It’s also ideal for established executive support personnel who want to update their skills, gain formal recognition of their expertise, and boost the value they can add to a company.

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Public Management and Governance

University of Cape Town

Address the values, ethics, and competencies related to public administration in developing countries.

 

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Public Management and Governance online short course is practically focused, addressing the need for ethics training while still teaching you the theory and skills essential to impactful government service. In this course, you’ll learn to lead teams and effectively manage situations unique to the context of the public sector. Develop your policy and evaluation expertise, and explore real-world case studies and practical applications, while networking with a cohort of peers.

 

Under the guidance of a leading public management expert, and with personalized support, you’ll improve your ability to influence others toward positive change. Meet the increasing demand for well-qualified, public-oriented officials who can manage service delivery ethically and earn the university certificate you need to compete for a management or leadership role in the public sector and contribute to a healthier administration that best serves the country.

 

Is this course for you?

This course is aimed at busy senior government professionals looking to improve their performance in their current leadership role, or those working towards their next promotion by adding to their capabilities. It’s particularly valuable if you want to develop expertise in human resource, policy, and decentralized service management, or are aiming to advance into a management position. The course will also benefit private sector professionals with business ties to the government or the public sector looking to refocus their service to deliver what the public really requires.

 

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Marketing Analytics: Strategy and Decision-Making

University of Cape Town

Enhance your digital marketing efforts by learning to harness data analytics and manage long-term, profitable customer relationships.

 

The digital age provides businesses with a wealth of data about consumer choices. A major challenge organizations face, however, is an evident skills gap among marketing professionals to translate that information into meaningful and actionable insights. As a result, marketers are increasingly looking to engage, measure, adapt, and optimize every touchpoint of the customer experience. They need a strategy for their customer and performance data that moves in real-time and at scale.

 

The Marketing Analytics: Strategy and Decision-Making online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) addresses the why, where, and what of marketing analytics: Why is it needed, where are the main touchpoints, and what analytical techniques can be leveraged to drive marketing efficacy? Over eight weeks, you’ll answer these questions by exploring the current state of marketing analytics, including key challenges that restrict strategic choices. You’ll discover why big data has transformed marketing and learn how to design an analytics framework that leverages big data for marketing decision-making. Using a variety of real-world scenarios, you’ll engage with concepts and techniques to better understand your customers and create data-driven outcomes that optimize return on marketing investment. Finally, you’ll explore existing and proposed privacy frameworks, and the impact that emerging trends will have on the future of marketing.

 

Is this course for you?

This course is designed for anyone working in the field of marketing or aspiring towards a career in marketing analytics. It will also be beneficial to business leaders and C-suite professionals looking to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of their marketing departments to boost their bottom lines and stay ahead of competitors. Middle to senior managers looking to update their knowledge and move their careers in a new direction will benefit from the real-world marketing scenarios discussed in the course. Newly qualified and existing marketing professionals who want to deepen their understanding of technologies, tools, and tactics will gain an expert-led skill set.

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Business Analytics Online Short Course

University of Cape Town

Learn how to apply data analysis techniques to make sense of number sets and drive better business decisions.

 

The transformative power of data and analytics has never been more important than it is today. Companies increasingly need to deliver insights on customer experience and business trends in order to remain competitive in the market.

 

The Business Analytics online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) aims to equip you with advanced data analysis techniques to support business decision-making and critical thinking in times of ambiguity and uncertainty.

 

This course focuses on practical business application by showing you how to harness data visualization and storytelling to interpret number sets, identify patterns, and uncover business trends critical to driving growth in your organization.

 

By practically engaging with various analytical tools (such as SQL and Tableau, as well as Python on an introductory level), this course will empower you to tap into the power of business intelligence to transform your data and deliver actionable insights.

 

Is this course for you?

As this is an advanced course, it’s ideal for practicing analysts who want to update their knowledge, grow their careers, and improve their ability to impact business decisions with data insights. It’s also designed for those who aspire to become data scientists, and for managers and senior decision-makers who want to learn how to leverage data to make informed choices and add more value to their organization. While there are no prerequisites for this course, it’s recommended that students have a basic understanding of statistics and analytics before registering. Notably, students will engage with and run code via an IDE notebook, but won’t have to write code themselves.

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Agile Project Management

University of Cape Town

Explore the principles of the Agile approach, and discover strategies to continuously improve products, processes, and teams.

 

More and more, organizations are adopting an Agile Project Management strategy that prioritizes frequent reassessment and adaptation of plans, in order to improve project efficiency and respond to the dynamic complexities of modern business. Accordingly, it can be hugely beneficial for project management practitioners to have a firm grasp of the core principles, values, and methods of this approach.

 

The University of Cape Town (UCT) Agile Project Management online short course aims to equip you with the knowledge and practical tools you need to function effectively in Agile business environments. You’ll gain skills applicable to your current role, and learn to develop an Agile Project Management framework, including appropriate implementation methods, an adaptive plan, and a risk-monitoring strategy.

 

Is this course for you?

This course is suited to work professionals who want to harness the benefits of the Agile approach to enhance project efficiency and adaptability. It is ideal for existing project managers who are eager to develop relevant skills and acquire up-to-date knowledge that will help them perform optimally in current and future roles. Similarly, it may be beneficial for managers seeking to understand the business contexts that are best suited to the Agile methodology. While there are no formal prerequisites for this course, some knowledge of, or prior experience in project management is recommended.

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Facilities Management Online Short Course

University of Cape Town

Learn to design a helpdesk process and recommend strategies for optimal facilities management. 

 

A once dislocated industry of isolated services, facilities management has transformed into a fully-fledged market and profession, targeting the entire value chain. Today, it plays a critical and integrated role within an organization’s strategy, structure, and processes.

 

The Facilities Management online short course from the University of Cape Town (UCT) explores the context of this core component of management and establishes its place within strategic and operational business matters. You’ll explore the role of projects and maintenance, and the relationship between strategy, budgeting, processes, policies, and the environment. You’ll be introduced to the facilities management life cycle and will learn to design a helpdesk procedure for unplanned maintenance. Contract and tender management, alongside the role of technology in facilities management, will also be explored, equipping you with holistic and comprehensive skills for an in-demand and critical business role.

 

Is this course for you?

This course is beneficial to those already established within the industry, as well as anyone looking to start a career in facilities management. As an industry lacking formalized training, this online course provides professionals the opportunity to validate their skills and differentiate themselves within the market. Current facilities management employees will be able to advance their existing skill set while aspiring professionals will gain a solid foundation of the skills required. Upon completion, students will walk away with a certificate, as proof of their expertise, from Africa’s leading university.

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