Professional Development Courses
Ontario Tech University is proud to offer professional development workshops to all employees.
By participating in the professional development opportunities that are available, you can enhance your professional skills, make new contacts through networking, connect with colleagues, stay up-to-date, gain new perspectives... and so much more!
We encourage you to explore the various courses we have to offer and discuss participation with your supervisor. Regardless of your personal or professional goals, we are confident that you will find a program that will provide you with the tools you need to grow your career at the university.
"Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching." - Unknown
- Sign up is available as sessions become published
- Please provide 48 hours notice if you are not able to attend a session for which you have registered by emailing hrtraining@ontariotechu.ca
- There is an internal charge of $50 for all no-shows
How to Register
Are you seeking to sharpen your skills, to deepen your knowledge, or to explore new career opportunities? Whatever your training objectives, HR's Learning Catalogues will help you meet your professional goals.
- Complete the registration form
- You will receive calendar invitations with links to your chosen session after completing the registration form.
In person workshops are hosted in SHA018 unless otherwise indicated.
Online workshops are delivered via an online platform like Google Meet or Zoom.
The University will accommodate employees with disabilities when providing professional development opportunities. For further support with accessibility needs and accommodation, please contact Health and Disability Management Specialist, Julie Day.
Crucial Conversations Training
Wellness Events, Initiatives and Training
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September 2025
Workplace Skills : Agile Productivity on the World of Work
Most people, when faced with change and pressure to go faster, plan less. Yet the agile, productive response is to stop, think and plan more. This two-part program will provide you with highly practical strategies, incorporating Agile methodologies, to help you manage your projects, time and energy. Content of this two part program includes:
- An introduction to Agile Methodology (with an emphasise on the Scrum framework) providing you with an understanding of what the Agile approach is all about - key principles, ceremonies, artifacts, etc.
- Highly practical, specific best practices to help you apply Agile, and other core productivity practices, to help you better manage your projects and workloads.
- How to apply smart time-blocking strategies for proactively carving out time for your key deadlines and priorities. (instead of waiting for a “good time” when there’s nothing else to do, and no more change or uncertainty)
- An opportunity to share and discuss tools that are available and how they might be used even better and with more consistency to support Agile productivity practices. We’ll also provide you with a simple, yet highly effective tool to help you plan out and manage multiple priorities/projects simultaneously.
- Agile productivity is all about helping people & teams adjust to change so we’ll provide you with powerful, solution-focused strategies to help you explore and negotiate priorities as change happens and multiple requests come at you.
- How to “resist the noise” of technology (email, IM ) and create small windows of high quality, undistracted focus time to do quality, focused work.
Date: Tuesday September 30, 2025Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pmLocation: Inperson -TBDANDDate: Tuesday November 4, 2025Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pmLocation: Virtual