Level Up Your Skills with FREE Online Workshops for McMaster Employees!
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
Featured Workshops:
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. Unconscious bias is powerful, resulting in assumptions that exist in our subconscious and influence our behaviour and attitude. Designed to move us from bystander to advocate, gain opportunities to challenge our thinking and in turn, help us identify and improve policies and practices consistent with an inclusive workplace and world.
- Date: March 21, 2023
- Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
- Course Code: ESS 908
- Instructor: Heather MacNeil
Finance For Non-Financial Managers
Discover basic financial principles and financial management tools necessary for decision-making. Learning is achieved via examples that reinforce the basic concepts taught in the workshop. The connection between strategy and budgets will be explored, and the importance of time value of money in project planning will be discussed while developing pro-forma statements.
- Date: April 4-12, 2023 (Tuesday and Wednesday)
- Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
- Course Code: ESS 874
- Instructor: Francesco Tristani
How to Pick Up the Pieces – Leadership, Motivation and Gratitude in Action
Designed to support those with the responsibility to inspire others through unforeseen change, crisis or disruptive transitions in their personal or professional work environment. Re-centre yourself and define how you will show up to lead others, how to hit the mark on what truly motivates people, and how to better understand the power of gratitude to inspire continuous improvement and growth.
- Date: April 27-28, 2023
- Time: 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
- Course Code: ESS 906
- Instructor: Jennifer Hagen
Employee Learning and Funding Options
If this is your first time enrolling, please submit an McMaster Continuing Education 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 MacID 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.
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Complete one of the Essentials Programs streams and earn a Microcredential
Get practical knowledge and skills in an efficient and timely manner that you can apply immediately. Upon successfully completing one of the Essentials Programs streams, you will receive a microcredential recognizing your learning achievement.
What Our Students and Instructors 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.”
– Sue Graci, McMaster University Financial Affairs Account Payable Associate
Learn more about the Creative & Critical Thinking course
“The course that I teach is called Gender-Inclusive Communication & Collaboration. I’m finding it’s very useful for the learners who are there, for me as well actually, because these days, in the community, gender has become a bit more of a complex issue. And so learning how to navigate people’s identities, learning how to be respectful, learning how to communicate across the gender divide is going to be useful for everyone and is going to enhance the community.”
– Cole Gately, McMaster Continuing Education Essentials Programs Instructor
Learn more about the Gender-Inclusive Communication & Collaboration course
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