The only micro-credential for current and aspiring leaders in post-secondary co-op, experiential learning, and career development.

Your work is multifaceted and involves many interests competing for time, funding, and people resources. In this workshop you’ll conduct a brief “audit” of your office and its functions on a wide variety of measures using the Career Leaders' Scorecard. This evaluation process will help you identify priorities for both your energy and your learning as you consider questions such as:

• How clear is the focus of your work?
• How are student priorities balanced with employer priorities?
• How effective is communication within your office?
• Do you have clearly documented and easily repeated processes?
• Do you have the tools and resources to work effectively?
• How do you balance reaching the most students with having greater impacts on individuals?
• Are you able to “create space” for new initiatives?
• Are you using internal partnerships to increase your reach and get more done?

This “audit” will provide you both a context to work during the program and a helpful perspective as you join in discussions with peers and seek the input of others.

Hear from a panel of experts about the challenges they face as university and college career leaders, and find out:

• What are the main challenges that take up time (and probably shouldn’t)?
• How do they manage change during these constantly evolving times?
• What are the biggest challenges they foresee in the future?

For diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives to be successful, they require organizational commitment, cultural change and time. Ideally DEI should be more than lip service or a last thought. DEI is a process, not a destination and evidence shows that workplaces that genuinely embrace DEI foster increased productivity and innovation as well as higher levels of meaningful engagement by employees and clients. In this workshop, you will learn how to integrate DEI into your daily work as a leader by exploring:

• How to build a diverse team that contributes to an inclusive work culture
• How you can support an equitable and inclusive work culture
• How to create and review programs and services using a DEI lens

You can’t meet all of your goals on your own. Across your campus, there are potential partners with greater access to students, more influence with administration, bigger budgets, or more people resources than you have. Fortunately, you also have some assets and expertise that are needed by others. This can create great opportunities for mutually beneficial partnerships.

In this workshop, we’ll discuss what challenges can be met through partnerships; how to evaluate potential partnerships against your priorities; and, what outcomes you can look forward to.

You’ll also have the opportunity to discuss your own partnerships – current or anticipated – with peers to gain some objective perspective and ideas.

Leading teams is complex. Your ability to effectively lead, manage, motivate and engage your team will be critical to your success as a leader. There are many strategies to how one can lead a team – but it is important for you to find your leadership style and how you will deal with various situations and stages of team development. Come learn alongside other high potential colleagues about key strategies on leadership and how you can unlock your potential as a leader as you navigate the next steps of your career.

1. Learn how discovering your strengths empowers you as a leader.
2. Discover why having a mission, vision, values statement and purpose is key to your success as a leader.
3. Find out how to empower and engage your team during times of change.

Whether large or small, growing or not, a career office (and really any office) will always have finite resources. Understanding how to make the most of whatever resources you have will give you greater control over productivity, will free time for strategic projects, and can increase your, and your staff’s, satisfaction and engagement. Learn how to review and improve your processes in order to maximize your productivity and impact.

• Leave with a better understanding of how processes impact productivity.
• Assess challenges and opportunities in your own setting.
• Leave with two actions for process improvements.

Writing a “to do” list is easy, but finding the time and resources to meet your strategic objectives is impossible without a “stop doing” list. One of every leader’s greatest challenges is knowing when to say “no”. Even more difficult than that is the decision to stop doing something that works well to make room for an even higher priority. How do you put an end to a team member’s favourite program? How do you explain to project partners that you’re pulling out?

In this workshop, the focus will be on developing objective ways to measure your programs and services and evaluate them against your strategic priorities. You’ll discuss ways to engage your team in the process to support change management. Participants will also benefit from discussions with peers who face similar challenges or have managed similar changes.