Fall Professional Development Courses
Professional Development Courses
Don’t miss the opportunity to take FREE short online workshops
Grow your professional skills and apply them in the workplace right away! McMaster University employees can take McMaster Continuing Education’s highly concentrated Essentials Workshops to gain career insights in areas of leadership, communication, productivity, teamwork, and innovation at no cost. Check out our featured Essentials Program courses below.
If this is your first time enrolling, please submit an Employee Tuition Assistance application to HR to confirm your eligibility. Once approved, you can enrol online at continuing.mcmaster.ca (make sure that you are logged out of Mosaic).
Once you select your Essentials Program courses and check out, you will log in with your MAC ID and password and the fees will be adjusted. Limited university-funded spots are available. If fees are not adjusted or if you have any questions about eligibility, please email HR at hr.mcmaster@mcmaster.ca.
Featured Workshops:
Unconscious Bias: How We Make Decisions
Learn the importance of being aware of how our biases can influence the way in which we communicate, how we approach and resolve conflict, how we make decisions and ultimately how we lead. This course presents an introduction to unconscious bias, its impacts, and ways to mitigate it.
Date: October 14, 2022
Time: 9 AM -12 PM EST
Course Code: ESS 805
Instructor: Heather MacNeil
Unconscious Bias: Moving from Bystander to Advocate
Unconscious bias impacts the way we think, the way we make decisions and the way we interact with people in our personal and professional lives. Designed to move us from bystander to advocate, this course will provide opportunities to challenge our thinking and in turn, help us identify and improve policies and practices consistent with an inclusive workplace and world.
Date: October 27, 2022
Time: 6 PM – 9PM EST
Course Code: ESS 908
Instructor: Heather MacNeil
Your Energy Currency: Enhancing and Improving Emotional Self-Awareness
Your energy is your currency, both personally and professionally. This interactive and dynamic workshop provides an understanding of your current emotional Energy and a framework for developing your emotional self-awareness and improving your emotional self-management in ‘normal’ conditions and under stress.
Date: November 4, 2022
Time: 9 AM -12 PM EST
Course Code: ESS 912
Instructor: Lesley Calvin
Personal Leadership: Building from Our Strengths
In this workshop, participants will establish a new vision for the way they wish to provide leadership, a vision that draws from their individual strengths and preferences to maximize their efficiency & effectiveness. And then participants will develop individual action plans to support bringing their vision to fruition.
Date: November 17 and 18, 2022
Time: 9 AM -12 PM EST
Course Code: ESS 813
Instructor: Lesley Calvin
What Our Students Are Saying
“The Creative and Critical Thinking course was incredibly enlightening, opening my mind up to seeing situations in a completely different light. I am now able to analyze an issue with a set of steps designed to define the actual issue (often not at all what I THOUGHT it was!) and consider it from multiple angles, all leading towards effective and efficient solutions. This is one of the most valuable courses I have taken and the instructor was enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and really invested in helping his students understand and then put into effect their new skills. We used a work issue that we pulled from our own jobs to work through the course and that has changed the way I do my job. I never expected to have so many tools given to me out of a single course. And the instructor was entertaining while he taught, which is something rare. I learned while laughing at his examples. I would love to take another course with him, he was that good.”
– Sue Graci, McMaster University Financial Affairs Account Payable Associate
Learn more about the Creative & Critical Thinking course
“Leading Millennials is an amazing course that is offered to every generation. This makes the course interesting to hear each generation’s view and insight. Highly recommend it.”
– Doris McGuire, Project Manager, Strategic Implementations, McMaster University Technology Services (UTS)
Learn more about the Leading Millennials course
