What to consider when planning for your retirement, regardless of the life stage you’re in. You’ll gain valuable insights on how to maximize your employee benefits while managing your finances effectively.
Cancellation Policy
Please cancel no later than 2 days in advance to ensure we can give your spot to someone on the waiting list.
Presenter
Advisors from RBC and their community partners
This workshop will go through best practices on creating accessible documents in Word, PowerPoint and looking at converting them to accessible PDFs. During the workshop you'll be given files to remediate as you go through the topics and software. Bring your own laptop to the event.
Max # of participants: 18
Instructor
Aleshia Armstrong, Digital Accessibility, Analyst II, Digital Accessibility Resource Centre (DARC)
Effective communication in the workplace serves to improve team collaboration and cooperation as well as boost employee morale, engagement and productivity. This results in positive outcomes for individuals, teams and organizations. This session will review the key factors that enhance our ability to work well with others by providing information on creating a supportive communication climate, listening effectively, asking clear questions and building confidence and assertiveness.
Facilitator
Trainers from Homewood Health
This session will explore how to engage critically in anti-oppression and anti-racism and provide frameworks for engaging in equitable and inclusive decision-making at the University. Anti-oppressive leadership involves both critical and practical examinations of individual, interpersonal, systemic, and cultural barriers to full participation for equity-deserving groups. Applying an anti-oppressive lens to our work is essential to cultivating an inclusive campus where every individual experiences a sense of belonging.
Learning Objectives:
You can store and share files using SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. They each can be used in their own ways to accelerate collaboration and efficiency in different situations.
Participants will
Beyond the Books is a training that will provide participants with general information on the prevalence of mental challenges and illness, help participants to identify signs of troubling behaviour, and give them skills to engage in a preliminary discussion to determine if referral to a professional is necessary, all within the U of G context.
Audience: All Staff, Faculty, and Leaders
Are you able to bring up problems and tough issues in your team? Is it difficult to ask your team members for help or bring forward a new idea? Is it safe to take a risk?
Employee Essentials - Personal Management
Most people, when faced with change, uncertainty and pressure to go faster, plan less. Yet the productive, agile response is to stop, think and plan more. This highly interactive session will provide you with immensely practical workload management strategies to help you manage your priorities, time and energy.
Developed by the Mental Health Commission Canada, this 1-day certification course focuses on the four most common mental health disorders including substance-related, mood-related, anxiety and trauma-related, and psychotic disorders.
Course Objectives
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) is the support provided to a person who may be experiencing a decline in their mental well-being or a mental health crisis.
Course participants will learn how to:
This interactive workshop encourages participants to move beyond the text of Ontario's human rights legislation to understand how legal requirements affect our day-to-day work. How do we identify when behaviour is harassment or discrimination? How do we know when behaviour rises to the level of a human rights violation? What is a reasonable response to a complaint in the circumstances? How do we prevent human rights violations from occurring in the first place? This workshop provides tools and strategies to respond to each of these questions.
Essential to effective leadership is understanding that conflict is a natural part of working with others; different people have different ideas, values, beliefs and viewpoints. All leaders will inevitably need to deal with a conflict between two or more people.
