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Relationships are built one conversation at a time but some conversations are more difficult than others. Conversations that involve strong emotions, differing perspectives, and delicate topics can be challenging. This interactive workshop will prepare you with practical strategies and skills to approach these conversation with curiosity, clarity, and compassion.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 3 hours

Respectful conduct is a critical component of developing a healthy, energetic and productive campus community. This workshop focuses on competencies and strategies to enhance the personal and leadership effectiveness of employees and workplace culture. This session is very interactive, practical and supportive.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 3 hours

This foundational overview of EDI explores the concepts of equity, diversity, inclusion, and their application in the institutional setting. The interactive session will examine the impact of EDI issues on equity-deserving faculty and staff and on the culture and climate of the university. Participants will also learn critical perspectives on equity, diversity, and inclusion and develop an understanding of commitments to and measures towards applying equity and inclusion principles in their roles and responsibilities.

The workshop will explore the application of these concepts in practice within the context of the university's mission and commitments. Participants will also discuss applying EDI foundations and principles in their roles and their units' functions.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 2 hours

The campus climate, the behaviors, attitudes, and perceptions that impact the institutional environment, is foundational to the students, faculty and staff experience and sense of belonging. Campus climate can influence whether an individual feels personally safe, listened to, valued, and treated fairly and with respect. Examining and assessing the campus climate is important for an institution's faculty, students, and staff to better understand the attitudes, feelings, and beliefs of the campus populations. Understanding the campus climate also helps the institution to take measures to create a welcoming and inclusive environment. A welcoming campus climate means an acceptance of the diversity and the varied perspectives, experiences, attitudes, and styles that positively affect the mission of the institution.

In this workshop, participants will explore campus climate and examine the issues and the interplay of perceptions among people, processes, and institutional cultures that represent important aspects of the institution's climate. The workshop will explore ways in which the campus climate that impact inclusion such as perceptions and expectations of the people in the community.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 1.5 hours

By the end of this workshop, participants will have a comprehensive understanding of culture and its influence. They will become culturally aware, sensitive, and competent, and gain an understanding of intercultural competence. Participants will develop skills to engage in mindful, reflexive, and accountable cross-cultural dialogue, recognizing the influence of culture on communication. The workshop will also cover intercultural communication in an educational context, equipping participants with the necessary skills to effectively engage in intercultural communication.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 1.5 hours

The influence of unconscious bias on our actions, behaviors, and the decisions we make can significantly contribute to some of the lasting inequalities that are evident today. Unconscious (or implicit) biases (UB) can negatively impact our behaviour and decision making. Unconscious bias is identified by psychologists as part of everyone's social identity. Research suggests that we all, without exception, have unconscious biases which may influence our decision-making in favour of or against someone else or ourselves. This workshop aims at increasing awareness of unconscious bias and its impact on equity and inclusion practices.

The workshop will provide a context on how unconscious bias works; how it affects decision-making and its impacts on underrepresented groups. Participants will learn about ways in which their preferences and biases influence their decision-making that they may be unaware of.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 1.5 hours

Microaggressions take place in different contexts and are hostile behaviors targeting victims based on their membership in certain groups. Microaggressions are often xenophobic reactions directed at persons from underrepresented identity groups. Microaggressions are defined as "...brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral and environmental indignities, intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative slights and insults to the target person or group". Microaggressions considerably harms the targeted persons and may create an unwelcoming environment for students, staff, or faculty at an institution.

This workshop focuses on what microaggressions are, common categories, reactions to acts of microaggression, and strategies for responding to microaggressions.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 1.5 hours

This workshop is designed to equip participants with resources and strategies to improve health and wellbeing in the workplace. Explore connections between health and wellbeing and our work and discuss what UCalgary employees can do to improve wellbeing at an individual level and a community/organizational culture levels. Additionally, this course will support employees in becoming familiar with Staff Wellness, the Campus Mental Health Strategy and other resources at UCalgary.

Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 1.5 hours

As the U of C continues to focus on a healthy campus and workplace, this workshop aims to increase awareness of mental health, reduce the stigma of mental illness and offer resources to maintain positive mental health. In this course, we will explore mental health, the stigmas associated with it and how to maintain your own mental health and improve your resilience.

Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 4.5 hours

At the University of Calgary we have evolved our performance management framework to focus on development and growth, connect individual efforts to the success of the faculty/unit, and enable individuals to perform to the best of their abilities. Intended for all employees and managers, this course includes five 25-30 minute eLearning modules. Each module explores a different topic and includes examples of how you can practice what you have learned. We recommend completing the course in order, but you may also choose a specific module to complete at any time.

Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Asynchronous 

Time Commitment: 2.5 hours

This 15-minute narrated online resource introduces managers at the University of Calgary to the probationary period for support staff and MaPs. It covers the purpose and value of probation, setting expectations for new hires, identifying training needs, conducting mid-probationary and probationary reviews, and key check-in points. Additionally, this course provides resources to support effective performance management.

Intended audience: UCalgary Managers

Delivery Mode: Asynchronous 

Time Commitment: 15 minutes

The completion of the eProcurement Certification Training is necessary in order to be granted access to the eProcurement system in PeopleSoft (PSAR - Roleset: PO_PURCHASE_REQ_INITIATOR). After completing this course, you will be able to request a new supplier, procure goods or services using eProcurement and manage your requisitions.

Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Asynchronous 

Time Commitment: 30 minutes

This course describes an overview of the e-procurement process and includes entering, submitting, workflow approvals, procurement rules, receiving & centralized receiving and finally payment. This course will walk you through how to enter different types of requisitions in the PeopleSoft system.

Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 2 hours

Learn about expense claims from start to finish: entering, submitting (electronically and hard copy), workflow approvals and finally payment. This course will walk you through how to enter different types of expense claims in the PeopleSoft system.

Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees

Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous 

Time Commitment: 2 hours