News Category: Bridging-Transitions
Enhancing Essential Professional Skills workshops
Enhancing Essential Professional Skills
The goal of the program Enhancing Essential Professional Skills is to equip women with the necessary skills to effectively and creatively manage their teams just before they begin their independent careers.
Enhancing Essential Professional Skills aims to deliver skills training to prepare scientists to meet the interpersonal challenges they will encounter throughout their postdoctoral experience and beyond.
Critical to success in the postdoctoral experience and beyond is a researcher’s ability to communicate and manage complex issues and concerns among multiple levels of people and roles within an academic or an industry setting. A series of three workshops will lay the foundation for the kind of interpersonal awareness and skills required to promote satisfying work relationships and functional work teams. The interactive workshops will introduce basic communication concepts such as active listening, open questioning, and giving and receiving feedback, and build on that foundation to introduce the theory and skills linked to group dynamics and leadership. Such skills will be appropriate to effectively interact with or facilitate groups and teams of people, whether the goal is to brainstorm ideas, solve problems or make group decisions.
Three interactive workshops will be offered throughout the 2009-10 academic year. Two will be half day sessions facilitated by Sally Halliday, and one will be a half day facilitated by Julie Stitt. Workshops will be offered in November 2009 and February 2010.
Workshop One: Basic Communication Skills: Enhancing Interpersonal Communication (Facilitator: Sally Halliday)
• Outline workshop objectives
• Introduction of basic communication theory
• Skill introduction and practice: active listening, clarifying, paraphrasing
• Using questions to understand and clarify
• Giving and receiving feedback
• Action Plan: linking knowledge to action
Workshop Two: Team Dynamics & Skills (Facilitator: Sally Halliday)
• Overview of group dynamics theory
• The role of Leader/Facilitator: can it ever be neutral?
• What makes a good group Facilitator?
• Basic skills for leading work teams
• Dealing with challenging situations
• Action Plan: linking knowledge to practice
Workshop Three: Salary Negotiation (Facilitator: Julie Stitt)
• What is salary negotiation?
• What will you negotiate for? (What factors do you need to consider? What information do you need to have at your fingertips?)
• What do you want in your work experience?
• How will you use your budget, your financial goals and the “going rate” for a position in your negotiations?
• What strategy do you use when having the “Negotiation” conversation?
Specific details on dates, location and registration to follow.
Funding generously provided by the JADE Project.
Facilitator bios:
Sally Halliday, M.A. RCC (Counselling Psychology) is principal of Sally Halliday Counselling and Consulting Services. In addition to counselling individuals and couples in her private practice and Employee Assistance work, Sally develops and teaches courses at UBC Life and Career Centre. Sally combines her academic research on transitions with her practical experience as a teacher, counsellor and former journalist to help others who are making decisions during times of change. Sally teaches skiing in her spare time.
Julie Stitt is an organisational development specialist at the University of British Columbia. Julie spent a decade working in all facets of career development from directing UBC’s Career Services to writing curriculum for Women in Trades programs. As Manager of Organisational Development and Training (UBC Land and Building Services) Julie combines her facilitation skills with her passion for organizational development in a role that focuses on increasing the organisational effectiveness of one of UBC’s largest divisions. She has a B.A. from Queen’s, post-baccalaureate certificates in Human Resources and Internet Marketing, and an M.A. in Leadership and Training. She has served on the boards of a number of not-for-profit organisations and has trained not-for-profit board directors through Volunteer Vancouver. She lives in Vancouver with her partner and two sons.
Tools for Transition Workshop - April 18, 2009
A full-day workshop for grad students and post-docs led by our experienced facilitator Sally Halliday, on how to navigate the many transitions experienced as a woman in science.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
Registration: 8:30
Workshop 9:00-4:00
YWCA – Weldwood Room (4th floor)
535 Hornby St.
Vancouver
Come at 8:30 am to sign in. Please bring your own lunch or money to buy lunch during the lunch break. Snacks will be available during the day.
Advanced registration only. Seating is limited. Please click here to register.
Funding generously provided by the JADE Project
Sally Halliday, M.A. RCC (Counselling Psychology) is principal of Sally Halliday Counselling and Consulting Services. In addition to counselling individuals and couples in her private practice and Employee Assistance work, Sally develops and teaches courses at UBC Life and Career Centre. Sally combines her academic research on transitions with her practical experience as a teacher, counsellor and former journalist to help others who are making decisions during times of change. Sally teaches skiing in her spare time.
Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions - January & February 2008
Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions
January and February 2008
SCWIST Workshop for Women Graduate Students and Postdocs
If you are a woman graduate student or postdoc in science or applied science who is making decisions about what to do next…
Mark your 2008 calendar for Tools for Transition: Navigating Change and Making Life-Shaping Decisions (see http://www.scwist.ca)
The first workshop of this 4-part series is a FULL DAY, and you will need to attend the first workshop in order to participate in the other three.
Space is very LIMITED. Register early. (Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address))
NO registration at the door. You must be pre-register
Dates/Times/Costs:
| Title | Date | Time | Cost (SCWIST member) | Cost (SCWIST non-member) | SFU Harbour Centre Room |
| Looking Back to the Future* | Saturday January 12th | 9:00 to 4:00 FULL day | $20 | $30 | 2245 |
| Decision-Making during Transitions | Saturday January 26th | 9:00 to 1:00 | $10 | $15 | 2945 |
| Values: Anchor Yourself during Storms of Change | Saturday February 9th | 9:00 to 1:00 | $10 | $15 | 2245 |
| Your Future Career Story | Saturday February 23rd | 9:00 to 1:00 | $10 | $15 | 1315 |
*To register for the half-day sessions, you must attend the first session. Must be pre-registered.
***ONLY $40 for SCWIST Members who attend all four workshops
Where: SFU Harbour Centre (room number indicated)
Who: Women Graduate Students / Post docs in Science and Applied Science at SFU and UBC
Registration: Contact .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Looking Back to the Future (Saturday, January 12th FULL DAY 9:00 to 4:00)
• Map key events that have shaped your career
• Introduce a model for navigating through change
• Apply a model of decision-making to your transition point
Decision-Making during Transitions (Saturday, January 26th 9:00 to 1:00)
• Explore key influences that help or hinder you during times of change & decision-making
• Re-defining Success and Visioning an Ideal Work Day
• Your Career Story: identify key interests, skills, values and themes that have shaped your career so far
Values: Anchor Yourself during Storms of Change (Saturday, February 9th 9:00 to 1:00)
• Clarify and update your key work values, for life
• Explore the role money plays in career & life decisions
• Identify key themes about success as you prepare to make future decisions
Your Future Career Story (Saturday, February 23rd 9:00 to 1:00)
• Visioning Your Story of Success
• Clarifying the gaps between now and your future career story
• Review of Goals
• Creating an Action Plan
Note: There will be some reflective writing assignments between workshops
These workshops are sponsored by JADE and SCWIST with in-kind support from SFU.
Tools for Transitions: Navigating Change and Making Life-Changing Decisions
How can we use change as an opportunity to make meaningful decisions about our lives and careers? We are often called upon to make important choices during times of change, yet many of us resist moving forward because the experience of change – the transition – is confusing and uncomfortable. Transitioning from post graduate education to professional life may be unsettling yet this change may also hold potential to identify what is most important while letting go of beliefs and values that may not work for you anymore.
During these interactive sessions, you will have a chance to apply a practical model of transition to your own life and career changes in order to deepen your exploration of key career and life questions and to clarify what is important as you make decisions for the future.
During this series of 4 workshops you will have an opportunity to reflect, discuss and actively engage with other women in science and technology. The goal is to learn to identify what you need to put in place before making your next career.
During this series, you will:
• Review past decisions and influences as a way to clarify skills and interests for the future
• Clarify personal and work values
• Explore specific themes such as Money and Success
• Identify constraints that may limit new plans
• Create a grounded action plan for the future
Join us for this series of lively workshops that include discussion, activity, reflection and an opportunity to sort out what is important now, with other women in science and technology. Drawing from her popular career transition course called Working on Purpose Sally will engage you in a way of thinking about change and decision-making, so that you can experience them creatively and with purpose.
Sally Halliday, M.A. RCC (Counselling Psychology) is principal of Sally Halliday Counselling and Consulting Services. In addition to counselling individuals and couples in her private practice and Employee Assistance work, Sally develops and teaches courses at UBC Life and Career Centre. Sally combines her academic research on transitions with her practical experience as a teacher, counsellor and former journalist to help others who are making decisions during times of change. Sally teaches skiing in her spare time.
Workshops for Women - Making Life Shaping Decisions
Women graduate students and postdocs explore how to make meaningful career and personal decisions during their school-to-career transitions. A series of four 1/2-day workshops will be facilitated by counsellor and consultant, Sally Halliday.
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