Upcoming Professional Development Workshops: September-October 2018
If you’re planning ahead for your professional development, or want to have some suggestions for professional development opportunities to share with your staff, we have some new workshops coming to UBC’s Vancouver campus this fall:
- Sept. 18: Time Management: Planning, Prioritizing & Productivity (Cost: $300)
- Sept. 24: Building Resilient Teams (Cost: $200)
- Oct. 12: Appreciative Inquiry: A Way to Generate and Nurture Effective Work Environments (Cost: $300)
- Oct. 16: Selection Interviewing: Ensuring Equity (Cost: $25)
- Oct. 24: Practical Project Management (2-Day) (Cost: $550)
- Oct. 29: Thriving in Change (Cost: $200)
These courses are eligible for professional development funding – visit the PD funding page for your employee group to learn more.
Learning with Lynda.com: How to Build Team Performance
This summer, we’re revisiting some great lynda.com posts from the past. Please check out this week’s offering, and see all of our posts at http://lynda.ubc.ca/news/.
Are you familiar with the four common qualities of teams? Watch this week’s Learning with Lynda.com video on “Increasing Team Performance” to learn more about teams and discover a strategy for setting teams up for success. Be sure to download the exercise files attached to the course for a sample framework!
Read more at our lynda.ubc.ca site to learn more about this subject and to find associated resources.
Troubleshooting with lynda.com
Having trouble with lynda.com? Can’t login? Email lynda.support@ubc.ca and we will assist you.
Community Leadership Program Applications Due Aug. 10, 2018
Applications for the 2018/19 Community Leadership Program are due by Friday, Aug. 10.
This is a great program for emerging leaders at UBC, and one that you may want to recommend to employees in your department as a professional development program.
Staff from all employee groups, as well as graduate students, are welcome to apply for this program. There is no cost to participants.
Visit clp.ubc.ca for more information and to apply. If you have questions about the program, please contact Stephanie Thorpe, Workplace Learning Facilitator.
Learning with Lynda.com: Insert video into a PowerPoint slide
Lynda.com offers a selection of courses that are updated weekly with new tips to enhance your abilities. These courses focus on specific software, like Excel or Word, and topics such as Communication or Time Management. This Learning with Lynda.com installment features a recent PowerPoint weekly tip which highlights how to easily “insert a video into a PowerPoint slide” from a variety of sources, and includes instructions to set up a video so it plays automatically during your presentation.
Visit our lynda.ubc.ca site to learn more about this subject and to find associated resources.
Four spaces left in Navigating Today’s Communication Challenges: July 24
We have four spaces left in our July 24, 2018, session on Navigating Today’s Communication Challenges. Register ASAP to sharpen your communication skills.
About this workshop
Have you ever wondered why your communication efforts click with some people and not with others? Or how others perceive you when you interact with them? Whether working with other people in your department, on a team, or just having a social conversation over lunch, it is quickly evident that some relationships are more productive than others.
As the need to work collectively increases, good discussion skills, effective listening and positive modeling are essential. In this insightful workshop you will learn to assess the communication needs of others and see how you can make simple adjustments in order to communicate more effectively. It will help you develop methods of communicating that will build on your strengths and the strengths of others.
This session is designed for anyone that wants to proactively improve and fine tune their interpersonal and communication skills at work.
Course Information
July 24, 2018, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Tech Enterprise Facilities III, Room 610, 6190 Agronomy Road [map]
Cost: $350
Register online
You may be able to use your professional development funding towards this course. Visit the PD funding page for your employee group to learn more, or contact pd.workshops@ubc.ca with questions.
Reminder: Community Leadership Program 2018-19 Information Sessions: July 23
If you or anyone on your team might be interested in an experiential leadership opportunity for emerging leaders to enhance their leadership skills and give back to community organizations, we invite you to attend out UBC Community Leadership Program information session on July 23 at 12:00 p.m.
Staff from all employee groups, as well as graduate students, are welcome to apply for this program. There is no cost to participants.
Session information
UBC Community Leadership Program Information Sessions
July 23, 2018, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Tech Enterprise Facilities III, Room 610, 6190 Agronomy Road [map]
RSVP through our program catalog
Visit clp.ubc.ca for more information and to learn about the impact of last year’s program. If you can’t attend one of the information sessions and have questions about the program, please email Stephanie Thorpe, Workplace Learning Facilitator.
Community Leadership Program 2018-19 Information Sessions: July 12 & 23
CLP 2017 Reading Week Kick-Off (Photo credit: Justin Lee)
Do you know someone on your team who might be interested in an experiential leadership opportunity?
The UBC Community Leadership Program is an opportunity for emerging leaders to explore what leadership means to them by enhancing leadership skills, partnering with UBC student leaders, and giving back to community organizations.
Staff from all employee groups, as well as graduate students, are welcome to apply for this program. There is no cost to participants.
Join us at one of our upcoming information sessions to learn more:
UBC Community Leadership Program Information Sessions
July 12 or July 23, 12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Tech Enterprise Facilities III, Room 610
RSVP through our program catalog
Visit clp.ubc.ca for more information and to learn about the impact of last year’s program. If you can’t attend one of the information sessions and have questions about the program, please email Stephanie Thorpe, Workplace Learning Facilitator.
2018 Coaching Internship Award Recipients
The 2018 recipients of the UBC Coaching Internship Awards are:
- Elisabeth Chin, Manager, Student Experience, Sauder School of Business
- Justine Cochrane, Curriculum Materials Coordinator, Faculty of Medicine
- Savanah Knockwood, Indigenous Student Programs Coordinator, School of Population & Public Health
- Mina Phaisaltantiwongs, Business Development Assistant (Computer Science), UBC Science Co-op
- Raina Reddecliff, Associate Director, Campus Internationalization at UBCO
- Shannon Remillong, Coordinator, Civil Engineering
We will open applications for the next round of the Coaching Internship Awards in October. To learn more about the program, visit http://www.hr.ubc.ca/coaching/become-a-coach/coaching-internship/.
Professional Development Opportunity: Navigating Today’s Communication Challenges: July 24, 2018
Have you ever wondered why your communication efforts click with some people and not with others? Or how others perceive you when you interact with them? Whether working with other people in your department, on a team, or just having a social conversation over lunch, it is quickly evident that some relationships are more productive than others.
As the need to work collectively increases, good discussion skills, effective listening and positive modeling are essential. In this insightful workshop you will learn to assess the communication needs of others and see how you can make simple adjustments in order to communicate more effectively. It will help you develop methods of communicating that will build on your strengths and the strengths of others.
This session is designed for anyone that wants to proactively improve and fine tune their interpersonal and communication skills at work.
Learning Outcomes
- Determine the key attributes of the most effective communicators;
- Identify four distinct communication styles;
- Practice a few simple steps to improving your listening skills;
- Assess their preferred communication style and the pro¿s and con¿s;
- Quickly recognize the communication preferences of others;
- Give and receive positive and corrective feedback;
- Identify the most common communication challenges;
- Determine how to make discussions more effective; and
- State how body language can be used as an effective communication tool
Course Information
Date: July 24, 2018, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: TEF III, Room 610
Cost: $350
Register online
You may be able to use your professional development funding towards this course. Visit the PD funding page for your employee group to learn more, or contact pd.workshops@ubc.ca with questions.
Upcoming Professional Development Workshops: Fall 2018
If you’re planning ahead for your professional development, or want to have some suggestions for professional development opportunities to share with your staff, we have some new workshops coming to UBC’s Vancouver campus this fall:
- Aug. 22: Difficult Conversations: Strategies for Dealing with Challenging Situations (Cost: $350)
- Sept. 18: Time Management: Planning, Prioritizing & Productivity (Cost: $300)
- Oct. 12: Appreciative Inquiry: A Way to Generate and Nurture Effective Work Environments (Cost: $300)
- Oct. 16: Selection Interviewing: Ensuring Equity (Cost: $25)
- Oct. 24: Practical Project Management (2-Day) (Cost: $550)
These courses are eligible for professional development funding – visit the PD funding page for your employee group to learn more.
Learning with Lynda.com: Enhance Your Writing with Four Essential Edits
Would you like to discover ways to create writing that is purposeful, concise, and pleasurable to read? In the short lynda.com video “Proof the secret sauce works”, Shani Raja, former editor for the Wall Street Journal, shares insights and techniques to transform even the most basic of sentences to exceptional writing.
Visit our lynda.ubc.ca site to learn more about this subject and to find associated resources.
Rehearsing Conflict Summer Intensive Performance: June 21, 2018
UBC staff and faculty are invited to watch Rehearsing Conflict’s free workshop performance on Thursday, June 21, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Dorothy Somerset Studio (6361 University Blvd). Please RSVP online.
Rehearsing Conflict is theatre with a mission: supporting constructive conflict engagement on UBC campus. To do this, we use forum theatre techniques to explore and perform real stories of conflict from our community to find new solutions, challenge assumptions, and build understanding. In this theatre performance put on by participants in the Summer Intensive workshop, audience members are welcome to watch and can volunteer to join us on stage and take part in the conversation. Everyone is welcome.
Rehearsing Conflict is produced by the Conflict Theatre@UBC program.
Learning with Lynda: What makes a compelling presentation?
Knowing how to deliver a compelling presentation that leaves your audience fulfilled, informed and inspired to take action is one key way to increase your credibility and influence at work.
In this short Lynda.com video “what makes a compelling presentation”, you’ll be introduced to 7 steps you can take to make your next presentation a success.
Visit our lynda.ubc.ca website to learn more.
Last Call to Register for Conflict Theatre – Deadline Extended to June 14
Every team faces conflict, and as a leader it’s important to know how to guide your team through these trying times. Conflict Theatre just might be the edge you are looking for to bring your conflict management skills to the next level.
Learning Outcomes
As a participant you can expect to walk away with the following skills:
- Acquisition of new options and strategies for approaching conflict in a different way
- Increased understanding of the hidden systemic and interpersonal structures that drive conflict
- Development of communicative strategies and awareness of possibilities within situations of conflict
- Practice in creating a sense of community and support, and collective a-ha moments
The deadline to apply has been extended to June 14. Sign-up today through the online application.
Visit the Conflict Theatre website for more information.
Call for UBC-V QPR Instructors: Application Deadline – June 13, 2018
The Suicide Awareness Working Group is recruiting staff and faculty members who are interested in becoming QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) instructors at the Vancouver campus. This is a volunteer role and full training is provided.
As a QPR instructor, you will:
- Provide training
- Promote QPR within your department
- Receive ongoing support from the QPR instructor community of practice and QPR Institute
- Have the opportunity to contribute to UBC Vancouver’s suicide awareness strategy
If you are interested in becoming a QPR instructor, please read this Info Sheet and complete a brief online application by Wednesday, June 13, 2018. Training will take place on June 27 and 28, 2018.
If you know a staff or faculty member who may be interested, and you are supportive of their use of time toward this initiative, please encourage them to apply or share the Info Sheet with them.
Questions about the QPR instructor training program? Contact the Co-chairs of the Suicide Awareness Working Group: Tam Uden or Kelly Eaton.
Last Call to Register for “The Working Mind” Session on June 20
We have a few spots still available for “The Working Mind”, a new training session being previewed by Miranda Massie (Health Promotions).
This evidence-based workplace training program aims to increase mental health literacy for employees. Anyone in HR is welcome to register for this free session.
Visit the post from May 17 for more information about the training session.
Registration open for Presentations that Work: Optimize Your Influence with Colleagues & Decision-Makers (July 4)
You have 20 seconds to hook your audience. You have 2 minutes to hold them. Learn how to do just that in this fast-moving, interactive, practical learning experience on July 4, 2018.
Designed for both new and experienced presenters, this workshop is for anyone who wants to learn to deliver a forceful presentation that will educate, motivate and persuade their audience.
Learning outcomes
You will gain strategies, tools and practice:
- using your voice & body language to enhance your credibility
- eliminating your distracting behaviors
- being responsive to the changing needs of your audience
- transforming your anxiety into enthusiasm – and more!
For more information and to register, visit the HR Catalog.
New HR Training Opportunity: Preview “The Working Mind” Session on June 20
Miranda Massie (Health Promotions) is holding a preview of her new training session, “The Working Mind”, on June 20 and invites anyone in HR who is interested to attend. The session will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at TEF III (Room 610) and only 25 spaces are available. Please email her by May 31 to save your spot.
About the new training
The Working Mind is a Mental Health Commission of Canada, evidence-based workplace training program aimed at increasing mental health literacy for both supervisors/managers and employees. In advance of rolling out this program to the campus community, all HR staff are invited to preview the training to ensure that it aligns with current UBC policies and procedures.
The manager/supervisor version of the training includes information related to duty to enquire, accommodations, return to work, along with the other program elements.
Please note: Miranda will be presenting the manager/supervisor version on June 20, but all HR staff are welcome to attend. Read on for more info about the program, including details about the employee and manager/supervisor course content.
To register, please email Miranda Massie.
Program goals:
• To reduce stigma and negative attitudes towards those struggling with poor mental health
• To provide learners with a broad understanding of mental health and wellness
• Help participants maintain mental health and improve resilience
• To promote mental health and wellness in the workplace
• To provide managers with the confidence, tools and resources to manage and support employees who may be experiencing mental health problems or illness
Objectives
To give employees/managers the practical knowledge of mental health and mental illness so they can:
• Use the mental health continuum to recognize changes in their mental health and that of others
• Be prepared to use skills to improve their coping and resiliency
• Reduce both public and self-stigma
• Be willing to be a part of a supportive workplace
The employee version includes:
• A focus on dispelling the myths of mental health problems and mental illnesses, aiming to reduce associated stigma
• An overview of the Mental Health Continuum Model
• Self-assessment of one’s own mental health along the continuum
• Strategies one can apply at each point along the continuum
The managers’ version includes additional course content, such as:
• Workplace accommodations and return to work
• How to observe changes in employees along the continuum
• Appropriate actions to take
• How to communicate with employees about mental health illness in a workplace context
Questions? Ask Miranda Massie.
PD Workshop: Practical Project Management June 4 & 5
We have an upcoming two-day workshop on June 4 & 5 – Practical Project Management. This workshop is for anyone who is involved in projects, as either a team member or project manager, and wants to learn the core basics and proven tools to help achieve more consistent project outcomes.
Learning Outcomes
- Establish effective communication lines from the start;
- Develop concise intended outcomes and deliverables;
- Build a Project Charter that is simple, yet effective in getting your projects off to the right start;
- Use the most common tools used in Project Management including Network Diagram Dependency Charts, Gantt Charts and Work Breakdown Structures;
- Sequence tasks to determine start dates, finish dates and milestones;
- Use Critical Path Methodology to ensure projects are completed on time;
- Recognize and prevent common Project Management mistakes;
- Use criteria to measure and track your project;
- Identify and evaluate risks and develop contingency plans
- Effectively determine resource requirements
Course Information
Date: June 4 & 5, 2018, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: TEF III, Room 610
Cost: $550
Register online
You may be able to use your professional development funding towards this course. Visit the PD funding page for your employee group to learn more, or contact pd.workshops@ubc.ca with questions.
PD Opportunity: Selection Interviewing: May 11, 2018 – 4 Spaces Left
We have four spaces left in our May 11, 2018, session on Selection Interviewing: Ensuring Equity. Register ASAP to sharpen your interview and recruitment skills.
Note that this workshop is designed for UBC managers/administrators who have responsibility for the recruitment of staff.
About this workshop
The interview is a vital step in the hiring process, so you want it to be as effective as possible. This workshop will focus on the essential skills of behavioural interviewing so that you can more effectively get to know your candidates and find the best fit for your team.
Learning Outcomes
Through group exercises, discussions and role-play within this workshop, participants will:
- Develop questions and practice behavioural interviewing skills
- Develop tools to select the best candidate for the position
- Understand basic concepts of human rights, employment equity, and the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy legislation
Participants will also review current Human Rights and Employment Equity legislation and discuss the objectives of UBC’s policy on employment equity.
Facilitation Team and Presenters
- Lani McGill, Human Resources Advisor
- Kathryn Stagg, Human Resources Advisor
- Lindi Frost, Director of Employee Relations
- Jude Tate, Director of Equity and Inclusion
Course information
Selection Interviewing: Ensuring Equity
May 11, 2018, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Cost: $25.00
Room 610, TEF III, 6190 Agronomy Road [map]
Register online until May 7; afterwards contact pd.workshops@ubc.ca
If you are interested in this course, you may be able to use your professional development funding. Please visit the page for your employee group to learn more.