Goal-setting
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New Years - or any milestone like a change of season or personal anniversary - is a great time to make goals and resolutions. Making a list of the things you want to do, learn, change, and grow in each year can provide perspective on what is achievable, help to prioritize and organize your time and energy toward what is important to you, and allow you to be accountable to yourself for your efforts. This session looks at various approaches for establishing achievable goals and resolutions and considers some tools for developing meaningful and sustainable objectives.
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Cultivating strengths
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We tend to ignore our strengths, taking them for granted instead of nurturing and cultivating them. Our strengths need attention and training to keep them that way. We also need to acknowledge our “least strengths” and see them as opportunities to learn and improve. This session focuses on identifying and working with your strengths as part of ongoing growth and development.
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Purposeful networking
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The act of networking typically causes negative feelings such as fear or anxiety and can seem superficial and meaningless. Purposeful networking helps you to create a true community, a lifelong resource with real, meaningful, and mutually beneficial connections. This session explores how to establish and maintain a purposeful network, as well as practical ways to get started.
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introduction to project management workshop
(half-day)
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This workshop covers basic principles of project management, elements of project planning, stakeholder identification and risk assessment, scope and quality concepts, change management and project close-out. No prior experience required – for to those new to research or management, or who are looking to learn or update their PM knowledge. This workshop is delivered as a single ~3.5-hour session (morning or afternoon), with 3 hours of materials plus time for breaks.
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project budgeting basics workshop
(half-day)
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This workshop covers project budget development, and goes into detail on expense categorization and some templates to get started in preparing a project budget. No prior experience required – Introduction workshop recommended but not required. Note that a “refresher” of introductory principles can be included in this session, but would not cover those topics in depth. This workshop is delivered as a single ~3-hour session (morning or afternoon), with 2.5 hours of materials plus time for breaks. To include the "refresher" section, an additional 30 minutes is required
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project team management workshop
(half-day)
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This workshop covers project team development and people management. Topics include team building and development, team decision-making, conflict resolution and workload management. The workshop is open to everyone who works in or leads project teams. This workshop is delivered as a single ~3.5-hour session (morning or afternoon), with 3 hours of materials plus time for breaks.
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cost proposal development
(1-hour)
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This presentation aims to introduce knowledge and understanding of concepts to enable the development of realistic costing and pricing for a project proposal in a research environment, being responsive to a funding opportunity while maintaining sound project cost management. Topics covered include principles of cost management, approaches to budgeting, and key consideration in cost proposal development.
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project financial management
(1-hour)
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This presentation covers topics to develop knowledge and understanding of concepts for sound financial management within a research project (with examples from the Canadian academic and public funding environment). Topics include project launch and set-up, controlling and monitoring, close-out reporting and audit preparation.
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effective communications
(1-hour)
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This presentation covers the three essential characteristics of communication. Learn about establishing a key message, listening and questioning techniques to improve understanding, and important tools for being heard and understood.
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managing in all directions
(1-hour)
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This presentation addresses the three main types of work relationships - up, across and down - and some essential skills for making those relationships more effectively. The material would be of interest to anyone experiencing challenges in work relationships, or looking for a refresher on these core skills. This session will also touch on challenges of micromanagement and the overarching theme of respectful interactions at work.
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responsible conduct of research
(1-hour)
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This presentation covers what it means to create and participate in an environment that supports the responsible conduct of research. Topics include definition of responsible conduct, comparison of Canada and US approaches, and the role of the research administration and management professional in the building a sustainable culture of responsibility.
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leadership lessons
(60-90 minutes)
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This presentation covers leadership lessons that can be learned through a review of Earnest Shackleton’s Endurance expedition, as described in Shackleton's Way. Learn about the leadership model of this great explorer, while exploring this exciting tale of adventure in Antarctica.
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cv-to-resume clinic: making the leap from academia
(90-minutes)
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This 90-minute session aims to facilitate the transition of a standard academic curriculum vitae into a two-page resume suitable for job applications outside of academia. Participants will learn about the differences between CVs and resumes, and translating their current skill set from their academic work into language appropriate for industry, management or other non-academic-track roles. Other topics include using LinkedIn, networking, developing a cover letter, and the basic recruitment process from both within a hiring group and from the candidate's perspective.
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The sessions listed here are available for immediate delivery (subject to presenter and facility availability).