Upcoming 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:
Your Energy Currency: Enhancing and Improving Your Emotional Self-Awareness
Your energy is your currency, both personally and professionally. Do you know what your energy is saying? 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: February 21, 2023
- Time: 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. ET
- Course Code: ESS 912
- Instructor: Lesley Calvin
In an environment in which 40% of the workforce is comprised of Millennials, and disruption of industry, product, and process is constant and unrelenting, understanding and learning how to lead this generation has become an integral part of organizations’ people strategy. Leadership that understands how to attract, recruit and retain top talent for the future is essential for thriving in a culture of disruption and change.
- Date: March 1, 2023
- Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
- Course Code: ESS 821
- Instructor: Jennifer Hagen
Leadership Foundations – Focus on the 3 C’S
Learn about and test specific tools and techniques for improving your leadership impact. Provide a backdrop to challenge prevailing assumptions about why and how some leaders gain the trust and respect of employees while many others do not.
- Date: March 7-8, 2023
- Time: 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. ET
- Course Code: ESS 811
- 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
“My experience with McMaster Continuing Education was nothing short of excellent. I took a course titled, ESS 813 Personal Leadership: Building from Our Strengths led by Lesley Calvin. Lesley provides great knowledge and dialogue that makes the group of students constantly think about ourselves and about how we interact with others. The course is designed to help us grow as leaders in the professional world, but I feel that it also helped me grow as a leader in my personal world. Right from the time the class started on day one, up to the end of class on day two, Lesley held the class’s attention and not only did she teach, but she took time to stop and listen and answer every question as the class progressed along. That is a rare quality in people nowadays. I was able to take some many excellent points away from this course and incorporate them into my everyday business life and personal life.”
– Richard Cupido, President, Burlington Paving Company Limited, Ancaster Court Services Incorporated
Learn more about the Personal Leadership: Building From Our Strength course
“The students show a willingness to dig deep, be vulnerable, reflect on their strengths, identify their blind spots, and develop their leadership strengths. I am so inspired by them all. Thank you to the encouraging, motivational, and uber professional McMaster Continuing Education team for allowing me to serve as an instructor in the leadership essentials programming. I am truly grateful and honoured to be a part of the McMaster family.”
– Lesley Calvin, McMaster Continuing Education Essentials Programs Instructor
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