Are you as efficient and productive in your day-to-day work as you’d like to be? 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 these upcoming courses:

Coaching and Mentoring (ESS 902) – start Jan. 29

Understand the value of mentoring and more importantly, develop skills to create and manage mentoring relationships, both as mentors and mentees.

Flexible Work as a Catalyst for Organizational Agility & Well-being (ESS 913) – start Feb. 1

Explore successful practices that support a productive, flexible workplace strategy that benefits both the individual’s growth potential and the organization’s success.

Personal Leadership: Building From Our Strength (ESS 813) – start Feb. 8

Focus on leadership by first looking inward through self-awareness in terms of their own strengths and preferences.

Tactical Humour: Leveraging the funny to build connections, camaraderie, and community (ESS 914) – start Feb. 27

Examine humour and how it is used tactically in healthcare, education, business negotiations and cross-cultural communications.

Exploring Modern-day Work and the Benefits of the Multi-Generational Workplace (ESS 821) – start Feb. 28

Learn practices that support exploring modern-day work and embrace the challenges and benefits of the multi-generational workplace.

Employee Learning and Funding Options

If this is your first time enrolling, please submit an Employee Tuition Assistance application to HR to confirm your eligibility BEFORE registering for the course. 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