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Learn advanced skills in Microsoft Excel through Blackboard Collaborate. Topics may include financial functions, table creating and manipulation, PivotTables and PivotCharts, custom formatting, and consolidating data. Contact the instructor at Courtney.Boisvert@ufv.ca by November 22th. if you have specific topics you’d like covered. Date & Time: November 24th, 2021 – 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Location: … Read more
An overview of privacy legislation in British Columbia. Topics to be discussed will include freedom of information requests, protection of privacy and a consideration of privacy issues that arise in a remote-work environment. Date & Time: October 5th, 2021 – 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Location: Abbotsford, Room A203B Facilitators: Stephen Gaspar Register: Online through … Read more
What will it take to navigate this crisis, now that our traditional metrics and assumptions have been rendered irrelevant? More simply put, it’s our turn to answer a question that many of us once asked of our grandparents: What did you do during the war? Our answer is a call to act across five stages, … Read more
Resilience training is the journey towards knowledge and mastery of the body, heart, mind, and spirit. This session will help you break negative thought patterns and find healthier ways of thinking and behaving, by drawing on a series of effective practical strategies in the areas of looking after your physical health, respecting your mental/ emotional … Read more
Change is a fact of life, but letting go of the familiar can be challenging. When we understand the need for change, and are resourced to manage it, we transition with greater ease. Participants in this half-day workshop explore strategies, frameworks, self-care tools and resources to navigate the change process successfully. Participants will also get … Read more
This workshop has been designed specifically for managers and supervisors to build on their knowledge and skills to support an employee when they are struggling with what may be a mental health challenge, or with a situation that is affecting their mental health. – CMHBC Date: October 4, 2021 (max 24 participants) Time: 1:00 Pm … Read more
Date: October 7th, October 13th, October 20th Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Location: Room A225 (Abbotsford Campus) Facilitators: Sundeep Hans, Director, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Register: October 7th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unconscious-bias-in-the-selection-process-tickets-164660689555 October 13th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unconscious-bias-in-the-selection-process-tickets-164660761771 October 20th: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unconscious-bias-in-the-selection-process-tickets-164660874107 – – For more information, contact Debra Fehr at debra.fehr@ufv.ca 10/20/2021
*Pre-requisite – Must have completed either the initial Beginning the Journey Workshop, or have a completed Insights Discovery Profile* Objectives: To enable you to master the practicalities of giving and receiving feedback. To present the ‘D4’ Insights feedback model. To increase the effectiveness of your feedback. To reflect on what there is for you to … Read more
Emotional intelligence involves understanding yourself –goals, intentions, emotions, and responses plus recognizing others and their feelings. This involves a level of self-mastery (self-awareness and self-regulation), plus social intelligence (empathy and social skill). Managing your own feelings so they are expressed appropriately and effectively plus enabling people to work together smoothly toward their common goals is … Read more
“Get Organized” workshop was developed and honed through coaching hundreds of business people on how to be more effective with one of their most important commodities – time. Paradoxically, poor organizational habits are often encouraged by the same technology that was designed to make us more effective: it is not uncommon for business people to … Read more
*Pre-requisite – Must have completed either the initial Beginning the Journey Workshop, or have a completed Insights Discovery Profile* Objectives: To build relationships that can transform our own level of effectiveness. To learn practical steps on how to adapt and connect to a variety of styles. To approach interactions and relationships from a new point … Read more
Overview: This workshop explores the best practices in hiring and is designed to help employees be effective SAC Chairs or members. Topics covered are: purpose of the interview, legal considerations in hiring, job descriptions and competencies, developing interview questions, and deliberation and decision making. Date: October 27th, 2021 Time: 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Location: … Read more
*Pre-requisite – Must have completed either the initial Beginning the Journey Workshop, or have a completed Insights Discovery Profile* Increase awareness of your blind spots – those elements of your personality of which you are unaware, but others see. To improve your performance through consciously working on your blind spots. To deepen understanding of the … Read more
This interactive course includes: • increases understanding what is a respectful workplace • provides definitions of discrimination, harassment, and bullying • increases awareness of behaviours that constitute discrimination, harassment, bullying, or disrespect • provides information about what employees can do if they have a complaint or a concern • provide tools on how to speak … Read more
Are you a UFV Employee who’s thinking about earning a BIS or GSD credential? Do you have questions and want more information? Please join us on Wed, Sept 22 at this virtual information session and learn how: – a BIS degree or GS diploma credential could ladder and prepare you for career advancement within UFV … Read more