FREE online workshops for McMaster employees through Continuing Education!
Don’t miss out on 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. If fees are not adjusted or if you have any questions about eligibility, please email HR at hr.mcmaster@mcmaster.ca.
Once approved, you can enrol online at mcmastercce.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.
Featured Workshops
Learn how to focus on enhancing your own ability to provide leadership that drives success. Change theory and methodologies will be introduced to better understand the varying perspectives of different stakeholders and to demonstrate how best to bring each stakeholder group onboard the change journey.
Date: May 19-20, 2022
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Course code: ESS 812
Instructor: Laura Cole
Learn the importance of active listening and effective listening strategies using listener-centered communication (putting yourself in the speaker’s shoes and understanding things from the other person’s perspective). You will also learn how to shape your message to the needs and styles of the speaker to dramatically increase communication effectiveness.
Date: May 25, 2022
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Course code: ESS 797
Instructor: Lori Stephenson
Build self-awareness of your own reactions to change and learn how to navigate change from a positive and affirming perspective. Establish a new way to approach change and develop strategies to navigate change more effectively for success, resulting in a healthier, more balanced, and productive attitude that can be applied in both work and personal situations.
Date: May 26-27, 2022
Time: 1-4 p.m.
Course code: ESS 810
Instructor: Nitin Deckha
Learn how to write in a way that gets attention and makes your correspondence ‘reader-friendly’. Discover how to prepare better-written communication in your work environment, whether it’s a letter, report, or e-mail. Explore actual examples of workplace writing to learn strategies for improvement.
Date: May 31 or June 1, 2022
Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Course code: ESS 895
Instructor: Lori Stephenson
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
“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, MAC University Technology Services (UTS)
