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Work-Based Microcredentials in Business Management

King’s is excited to announce an opportunity for liberal arts graduates from any institution in Nova Scotia to enhance their knowledge, skills and experience with four microcredentials in entry-level business management.

Choose from these four self-directed modules:

Business Administration and Management
Financial Management
Business Strategy
Managerial Communications

Arts graduates are highly flexible, creative and adaptable in how and where they learn. Through work-based, on-the-job learning they gain a wide range of business skills and often become ‘accidental’ managers – even if their work and learning experiences are not in business environments. What’s more, that ‘evidence’ of the knowledge, skills and abilities gained through work exists in a variety of forms; this evidence can be demonstrated, validated and recognized through a microcredential.

This short-term, independent, online learning program, Work-Based Microcredentials in Business Management is a self-directed opportunity provided with funding from the Province of Nova Scotia. It offers liberal arts graduates a path to identify acquired business management skills by evidencing and credentialing through a recognition of prior learning (RPL) approach.

WHAT is RPL?

The Canadian Association of Prior Learning Assessment defines RPL as ‘processes that allow individuals to identify, document, have assessed and gain recognition for their prior learning’

In this Microcredentials program, RPL creates a pathway for participants who have prior learning, knowledge, skills and abilities from a range of environments to have learned skills recognized.  Participants may source evidence from a variety of lived-experience or areas such as: part-time work, volunteerism, cultural events, full time work, education or recreational experiences.  

In this Microcredentials program, you will use a structured approach to submit and provide your evidence for assessment.

Using Evidence to earn a Microcredential

There are two steps to completing a Module to earn the associated Microcredential.

Step 1: Submit evidence proving your knowledge of each training item within the module.

Step 2: Submit evidence that demonstrates your cumulative knowledge, skills and abilities for the module as a whole.

This Evidence Submission Guide <load PDF> describes what ‘evidence’ is and how it is to be submitted. We recommend that you download and print this guide, and use it as collect 

WHO is eligible?

Eligibility requirements are:

  • Any Nova Scotia Arts or Liberal Arts graduate, from any N.S institution
  • Currently living in Nova Scotia
  • Currently employed

Read About the Microcredential Modules

Business Administration and Management

This microcredential has 4 training items focused on the knowledge, skills and behaviours needed to demonstrate mastery in the primary disciplines used by business managers around the world, and the activities associated with organizing the knowledge, skills and efforts of people to accomplish defined organizational goals and objectives. Since successful organizations need people with business management skills to achieve their goals and objectives, it is important to confirm awareness of current management trends, business structures, planning, work processes and practices within Canadian and international settings and how real-world businesses operate in constantly changing environments.

Training Items

You will verify pre-existing knowledge skills and abilities against the following 4 training items of this Module:

  1. the identification of key business structures and processes, including the production of goods and services.
  2. basic knowledge of supply chain, management information and accounting systems
  3. the ability to anticipate and respond to marketing, economic and financial issues
  4. the identification of human resources issues as they relate to management

Successful completion of this module is a two-step process, please review the Evidence Submission Guide.

*This module is designed and aligned with the Business Administration and Management Course offered by the Chartered Institute of Management 

Managerial Communications (coming soon)

This microcredential has 6  training items and focuses on business writing deliverables for managers, grounding participants in the writing process. Participants will provide evidence of knowledge of strategies to capture the attention of a perpetually distracted audience, the ability to persuade others through written and verbal communications, to negotiate strategically, and learned skill in making pitches, proposals and technical presentations 

Training Items

You will verify pre-existing knowledge skills and abilities against the following 6 training items of this Module:

  1. The writing process and how to plan, draft, edit, and format a business communication
  2. Principles of good writing for business communications, including narrative and corporate storytelling techniques
  3. Influencing others through written and verbal communications
  4. Isolating problems and desired outcomes
  5. Building strong, well-supported arguments
  6. Negotiating strategically to achieve your goals.  

Successful completion of this module is a two-step process, please review the Evidence Submission Guide.

*This module is designed and aligned with the Business Administration and Management Course offered by the Chartered Institute of Management 

Financial Management (coming soon)

This microcredential has 4 training items to focus the participant on providing evidence associated with the principles of finance. Participants will provide evidence supporting knowledge, skills, abilities and behaviors in knowing the value of money, valuation of financial securities including bonds and stocks, capital budgeting, determining appropriate discount rates and short- and long-term financing. 

Training Items

You will verify pre-existing knowledge skills and abilities against the following 4 training items of this Module:

  1. The financial planning process
  2. Familiarization with financial-ratio analysis, budgeting and forecasting policy
  3. Short- and long-term financing
  4. Knowing the cost and risk factors of capital budgeting. 

Successful completion of this module is a two-step process, please review the Evidence Submission Guide.

*This module is designed and aligned with the Business Administration and Management Course offered by the Chartered Institute of Management 

Business Strategy (coming soon)

This microcredential has 4  training items relevant to business strategy and essential business management principles. The participant will show evidence of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or behaviours related to planning processes and taking long-term action planning toward the realization of business goals and objectives. The participant will prove learning related to practical and focused strategic-planning expertise, exploring and integrating functional business activities such as production, finance and marketing. 

Training Items

You will verify pre-existing knowledge skills and abilities against the following 4 training items of this Module:

  1. Organizing, developing and applying a professional business strategy and plan.
  2. Understanding corporate and functional theories of strategy, including their development and application
  3. Approaches essential to policy formulation and implementation
  4. Identifying how societal values and trends affect strategic policy.

Successful completion of this module is a two-step process, please review the Evidence Submission Guide.

*This module is designed and aligned with the Business Administration and Management Course offered by the Chartered Institute of Management 

application process

HOW does the application process work?

Applications for this opportunity are managed by our collaborative partner, Council Advancing Work Based Learning (CAWBL)

Interested individuals will:

  1. Submit an application to CAWBL
  2. Receive an automated email receipt with codes and instructions
  3. Use codes to begin process

 

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Collaborative partnerships have provided the funding and the system processes that allow this program to exist. Partnerships include The Province of Nova Scotia, Council Advancing Work-Based Learning, and the University of King’s College.