7 Course Programs in Ottawa Ontario Canada

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Picture your financially successful practice with continuous profitability and stable cash flow. You’re able to attract and retain great employees and confidently pursue work to keep doing what you love ⁠— architecture. The Financial Management for Architects course is for professionals in the architecture industry who want to learn how to improve and efficiently manage their firm’s finances and profitability, make sound financial decisions and achieve their business goals. This includes owners, managers, architects, intern architects, engineers and designers. This two-day course will lay a framework for understanding the financial and accounting operations, processes and concepts, needed to run and lead a sustainable architecture business.

Architects are seldom trained in business, but often find themselves running small enterprises in a highly competitive environment. This webinar qualifies for a 2 hour certificate of completion, and is tailored to the new professional in architecture.

The Directors Education Program (DEP), jointly developed by the Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD) and the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, is offered nationally at Canada’s top business schools. Directors are continually challenged by information gaps, time squeezes and the behavioural dynamics that can be encountered in the boardroom. The ICD-Rotman DEP has been specifically designed to help experienced directors overcome these challenges by introducing activities and processes that assist them in fulfilling their role.

This program is part of the Certificate in Complex Project & Procurement Leadership and may be taken as part of the certificate program or on a stand-alone basis. Please visit the main page for the Certificate in Complex Project & Procurement Leadership for more information. This three-day program is designed to radically alter how you view complex project management and give you strategies and methodologies for thriving in the face of increasing uncertainty and change.

Following a popular 2018 schedule, the RAIC is pleased to announce that the Project Management for Architects course, for those interested in the PMP®® Certification, will be taking place in additional cities across the country in 2019. Upcoming cities include: Montreal and Victoria. This two-part course will provide both project management knowledge in the context of architectural practice as well as prepare participants for the Project Management Institute’s PMP® certification exam. The course is divided over two sessions, two weeks apart, with each session running from the Thursday evening to Saturday afternoon (41 hours total).

This program is part of the Certificate in Complex Project & Procurement Leadership and may be taken as part of the certificate program or on a stand-alone basis. Please visit the main page for the Certificate in Complex Project & Procurement Leadership for more information. This session begins with an exploration of traditional approaches to contracting. Armed with an understanding of the benefits and limitations of traditional contracting, a framework for relational contracting is presented. Key elements are discussed, including incentivization, joint governance, etc.