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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: Understand what makes a conversation difficult, including perceptions,...

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. Program Focus: Introduction to the Ribbon The application’s workbooks and worksheets Working with columns and rows Data entry, navigation, and formatting Creating formulas and functions Creating Charts This workshop is for employees who are new to Excel and who are interested in learning more about...

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: What is the role...

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. Content includes how to: Create a Priority Map and use it to help you better execute on your most important projects & other strategic priorities. Apply smart time blocking techniques to carve...

This workshop 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. The session will address how staff and faculty can contribute to reconciliation within their units, including practical ways to act on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action. The course will...

NEW Days is the kick-off to the NEW @ the U program at the University of Guelph. One day at the beginning of each month of the year (excluding January, April, July, August, and December) has been dedicated to welcoming and connecting new employees to the University environment and giving them a positive start. Various activities and representatives from across campus will share perspectives and important information that will introduce the new employee to the university culture, history, facilities, and various services. Links to required online training elements from A.O.D.A. (...

Connect, Adapt and Align are three practices that are the foundation of U of G’s performance success framework, GOAL 2.0. The skills, behaviours and attitudes that form the practices are also an integral part of effective leadership the promotes engagement and retention. All people managers are strongly encouraged to attend this session to deepen their understanding of the core practices and what is expected of them as U of G people leaders. The core practices are based on research that promotes quality conversations underpinning the development and maintenance of a supporting,...

In both our personal and professional lives, we regularly negotiate our needs with those of others. Choices often need to be made when competing values, goals and priorities exist. When appropriate boundaries are set using assertive communication techniques, cooperative relationships can be formed and maintained. This session will explore the benefits of setting and maintaining healthy boundaries and outline practical strategies for doing so with confidence, empathy and self-compassion. Facilitator Trainers from Homewood Health Registration ...