Time Management: Avoiding Procrastination & Maintaining Motivation

This workshop will to help you to identify priorities, become motivated, avoid procrastination, and schedule time effectively. Learn practical tools and ideas to manage projects, meet deadlines, and achieve both long-term and short-term goals.

Learning Strategies

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Managing the Stresses of Grad School and Life

Developing effective ways to manage stress in academia, private life, and the workplace is essential to maintaining a healthy personal and professional life. The challenges of balancing multiple and competing demands will be addressed in discussion and workshop format. There will be an emphasis on learning practical mind/body stress reduction techniques, based on cognitive and behavioural research

Learning Strategies 

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Foundations of Project Management I 

Learn to plan and work with others to get things done! Experience firsthand the power of effective project management; from academia to industry to your personal life, these skills will help you succeed. At this two-day workshop,  participants will learn to fine-tune your ability to organize and complete your work and research.

Foundations of Project Management II 

Prerequisite: Foundations of Project Management I. This workshop focuses on implementation of the project plan and understanding of the status of a project, resource allocation and wrapping.

Team Building Excellence

More than ever, in today’s world, organizational success depends on people working together - effectively. The pressure to communicate productively, quickly turn ideas into profitable action and consistently deliver results never decreases. People working from a clear understanding of personal strengths and an appreciation of the differences in others will be the foundation of success in the future.

This full day workshop is a fun, interactive, and productive way to not only focus a team on a common goal, but also inspire the very skills needed to be a part of a successful team. For some reason, most of us tend to think we work in isolation.  In this high-energy experience, teams compete for points and prizes (optional). This challenge combines the aspects of risk versus reward forcing teams to make decisions that affect their ability to produce results with ease. This experience increases our awareness to the downstream impact of our communication and decisions, and the way those decisions get amplified by the structure of the organization. Get ready to test the strength of our lines of communication and teamwork.

Personality Theory & Communication

No matter what work you do or what you study, your success is influenced by your personality. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is one of the most valued self-assessment tools in use today for understanding our behaviour in relation to others. Using the MBTI, you'll learn how one’s personality impacts on communication, negotiation, team performance and the capacity to positively influence others. Participants in this workshop will be given a MBTI to complete and submit one week beforehand.

Discovering the Entrepreneur within

Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? Have you ever wondered how to even start a business plan? Have you ever wondered if science and business could really mix?

This full day workshop will introduce you to:

• What makes an entrepreneur; different types of entrepreneurship
• Managing your career
• Science and business do mix
• Pitching to an investor
• Angel and Venture Investors
• Start-up mentoring
• Basics of a business plan
• Evaluating business plans: Peer exercise
• The ins and outs of seeking venture funding
• Understanding the business process