People Leader Learning Journey
Learning and practicing leadership in ways that help teams thrive
Featured Learning for People Leaders
Explore courses that support confident leadership and practical habits, from guiding teams through change to strengthening communication and creating supportive team environments.
LinkedIn Learning
Leadership Skills Course Library
Leadership skills are essential for anyone who wants to inspire, motivate, and empower others to achieve their goals. Learn how to develop your leadership style, communicate more effectively, manage conflict, delegate tasks, and foster a positive culture. These courses can help you grow as a leader and enhance your career prospects.
Continuing Education
Certificate in Professional Management
Are you hoping to move into management, enhance your business knowledge and skills, change employment, or build on your degree? You will examine key principles of business and their interrelationships in local, national and global world settings. Learn key management skills that foster communication, teamwork and problem solving in the workplace. Become more effective in your workplace today.
Workshop
The Art of Giving & Receiving Feedback
Giving feedback can be both productive and challenging. Sometimes, those conversations don't always go as we anticipated. This course is designed specifically for employees seeking to enhance their feedback effectiveness and delivery.
Foundations of Everyday Leadership
Learn the core skills that support clear communication, consistent actions, and purposeful leadership in day‑to‑day work.
The Art of Giving & Receiving Feedback
Build confidence in giving effective feedback with practical tools focused on psychological safety, emotional regulation, and team dynamics. Strengthen relationships and optimize performance.
Essentials of Change Leadership
Build the fundamentals that help you lead with clarity, consistency, and purpose — and create the conditions your team needs to succeed.
Fostering a Culture of Respect through Leadership
Learn how to model and reinforce everyday behaviours that build trust, strengthen team relationships, and support a respectful workplace.
Strengthen Everyday Leadership Skills
Build skills that support effective leadership, including communicating through challenges, thinking beyond the immediate, and making well‑informed decisions.
Navigating Challenging Conversations for Leaders
Some conversations are harder than others, especially when emotions or differing views are involved. Learn how to approach them with curiosity, clarity, and compassion.
Critical Thinking for Better Judgement and Decision-Making
Learn practical tools to strengthen critical thinking, avoid fallacies and biases, and make clearer, more confident decisions in everyday work and leadership situations
Strategic Thinking
Learn to think strategically by examining the big picture, anticipating future needs, and creating informed plans that guide clearer decisions and stronger team direction.
Business Intelligence Program Area
Develop skills to analyze data, uncover insights, and support smarter decision‑making. Explore tools, best practices, and BI strategies used to drive performance across modern organizations.
Writing Courses
Build your writing skills for work, creativity, or personal growth. Explore courses in business, creative, and workplace writing, with options that count toward professional certificates.
AI for Business Analysis
Improve your skills in areas like predictive analytics, data visualization, and natural language processing. Harness AI to streamline your decision-making processes and drive business growth.
LinkedIn Learning for People Leaders
Access on‑demand courses that help you sharpen your leadership approach — whether you’re supporting team wellbeing, guiding change, or building stronger collaboration.
Develop Your Skills as a New Manager
Learn the core skills new managers need—from transitioning into leadership to coaching, delegation, onboarding, and performance management—to build strong, motivated, and effective teams.
Becoming a Manager Professional Certificate by LinkedIn Learning
Build essential management skills from communication and emotional intelligence to strategic problem‑solving to prepare for your first leadership role and earn a professional certificate.
Building Emotional Intelligence Skills in the Age of AI
Build emotional intelligence for an AI‑driven workplace by strengthening empathy, trust, self‑awareness, and relationship‑building skills to enhance communication and team effectiveness.
Leadership Skills Library
Learn how to develop your leadership style, communicate more effectively, manage conflict, delegate tasks, and foster a positive culture.
Management Skills Library
Whether you're a first-time manager or an experienced leader, you can find courses here to help you grow in your role.
Team and Collaboration Library
Optimize your team's performance through collaboration and communication strategies. Learn about team dynamics, conflict resolution, and project management.
Cohort‑Based Leadership Learning
Learn alongside a community of UCalgary leaders through shared experiences, peer coaching, and practical application. These cohort programs support growth at different leadership stages while building connection, confidence, and real‑world leadership skills.
Managing People and Processes
Courses and resources that support people leaders in understanding key responsibilities, policies, and processes at UCalgary. Learn how to navigate people management, hiring, labour relations, wellbeing, and transitions with clarity, care, and confidence.
People Management 101 for Managers
An introduction to your role and accountabilities as a people manager at UCalgary. Access key resources to support your leadership journey. Approximately 30 minutes of self-paced learning.
Timely Terminations: Processing Voluntary Departures at UCalgary
An introduction to processing timely terminations and voluntary departures at UCalgary. Designed for leaders and designated administrators. Approximately 20 minutes of self-paced learning.
Introduction to Managing in a Unionized Environment
Designed for leaders with AUPE reports. Build understanding of labour relations framework, collective agreements, and corrective action processes. Approximately 1.5 hours of learning.
Equitable and Inclusive Hiring for Managers
An interactive workshop introducing equity and inclusion principles in hiring practices. Learn how to apply an equity lens to hiring processes and address barriers to inclusive recruitment.
The Working Mind for Managers
Build awareness of mental health, reduce stigma, and explore a leader's role in supporting workplace wellbeing. Learn when and how to accommodate employees while balancing organizational needs.
Equitable and Inclusive Hiring for Academic Selection
Required every two years for academic selection committee members. Covers equitable hiring, applying an EDI lens, and tools to mitigate implicit bias.
Upcoming Learning Opportunities
View upcoming courses, workshops, lectures to help strengthen your teams, enhance your professional skills, and connect with colleagues across campus.
What You Can Explore Next
Explore additional resources that help you strengthen your leadership approach, support your team, and navigate UCalgary’s academic and operational environment with confidence.
Contact & Support
Our programs are managed by a range of faculties, departments, and external partners, each with their own dedicated team. Connecting directly with the right contact is the quickest way to get the help you need. For more specific support, see the resources below.