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
In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how tangible and successful allyship happens on the ground. First, participants will reconnect with baseline knowledge about power, privilege, identity, and intersectionality. Then, participants will explore what allyship means on the ground and how they can become more effective allies. What does it mean to be an ally? When should an ally step in, and when should an ally defer to someone else? We will discuss all these strategies and more.
When introducing change in the workplace, managers are likely to encounter employees that have difficulty with that change. The level of our discomfort and how we handle it varies, as does the effectiveness of the change strategies being used. There are a number of things that need to be taken into consideration to help people navigate the challenge of change. This session aims to equip managers with the knowledge, skills, and effective mindset to help them manage through change.
Learning Focus:
This half-day workshop, equips employees with practical strategies and tools to handle challenging conversations with confidence. Using approaches grounded in empathy, effective communication, and relationship-building, participants will learn how to navigate uncomfortable conversations, preserve trust, and maintain positive working relationships. Through hands-on practice and scenarios, you’ll build skills to communicate effectively and respond thoughtfully in any situation.
Learning Objectives:
Learn the 5 principles of successful investing, including how they can mold your financial future while positively impacting your finances today.
Instructor
Advisors from RBC and their community partners
Event Registration
Register through Qualtrics!
Contact
Phone: 56800
Email: landd@uoguelph.ca
Microsoft Excel is used to create and format spreadsheets, and analyze and share information.
This hands-on seminar will introduce employees to the flexibility and the features of Microsoft Excel.
Join us for an engaging workshop where attendees will be guided through the principles of Design Thinking—a human-centered, iterative method proven to tackle complex, “wicked” challenges effectively. Drawing from the Innovation Toolkit—a set of entrepreneurship and innovation tools - this session will empower you to redefine problems, spark creative ideas, and prototype impactful solutions. Participants are encouraged to explore the Innovation Toolkit ahead of time.
This program is designed to support employees who have recently been promoted into a supervisory or management role or someone who has been identified as moving into that role. You will learn what it means to be a new supervisor/manager, everyday concerns and pitfalls you may experience, and strategies for addressing them. The program will introduce you to tools that will help you make effective decisions with respect to your employees, and will define the knowledge, skills and aptitudes that are vital to a new supervisor/manager's success.
Agenda:
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.
This course supports university employees in moving from awareness to meaningful action. Participants will explore Indigenous ways of knowing and teaching, how they differ from settler knowledge systems, and how they can be respectfully integrated into classrooms, programs, and daily work - so practices like Land Acknowledgements are actionable rather than performative.
