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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July 2025
Adult Moccasins Workshop
Date: July 28 and 29 2025Time: half day minimum each day 9am - 4pmLocation: OCIS Conference Room at the Farm - 285 Britannia Ave W., Oshawa -
September 2025
Rookie to Ridgeback - Employee Orientation
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:
Date: Tuesday September 16, 2025Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm(non-mandatory)This session is for all new employees at the University.The goals of the program are to:
- Welcome you to Ontario Tech University
- Highlight resources, benefits and perks available to you
- Provide you with context and tools to help you navigate your new environment
Learn about:
- Our history, leadership, mission, vision, values, priorities
- Our faculties and departments
- Understand how you fit into the organization
- Our socials
- Our policies
- Compliance
- EDI
- Campus Services
- How to engage on campus
- Pension and benefits
- Organizational development
- Employee and Labour Relations
- Health and Safety
- Health and Disability Management
- Wellness at Work
- Recruitment and Compensation
- Parking
- Security
- Booking Spaces
- Service Desk
- IT Services
- Employee Perks
- Food Services
- And so much more
Orientation to HR for ManagersMost 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:
Date: Tuesday September 23, 2025Time: 10:00 am to 12:00 pmLocation: GoogleMeetLocation: Virtual(non-mandatory)
This course is for newly hired and existing Ontario Tech managers.
This session will provide an overview of:Health and Disability Management
- identify and list the goals and objectives of the Attendance Management Program and the Disability Support Program
- understand the processes around employee sick leaves, accommodation and workplace injuries;
- identify your role and responsibilities in assisting your employees to record, improve and manage their attendance; and
- discuss key areas of concern and opportunities related to supporting time and attendance
Wellness at Work
- identify the benefits of a Healthy Workplace
- discuss the role you play in supporting your employee's health and well-being
- learn where to access resources to support your health and the health of your team
Job Evaluation
- an overview of key concepts in job evaluation;
- documents and tools in how jobs are evaluated;
Recruitment and Compensation
- an overview of the Compensation Program and supporting salary administration guidelines
- an understanding of the process to initiate a position to Recruitment for posting; and
- Effectively plan and prepare for an interview by selecting the appropriate style and structure;
- Compose behavioural and competency-based interview questions and identify prohibited interview questions;
- Appropriately assess and select candidates while remaining compliant with legislation and collective agreements
Performance Development
- The Performance Development Cycle
- Timelines for Goal Setting, Check-Ins, and year-end performance reviews
- My HR Connection and Limited-Term Processes
- What’s in the collective agreement
Leadership Development
- Available programs, succession planning, and employee development
Professional Development
- How learning catalogues are developed
- Why your input is important
Workplace Skills : Agile Productivity on the World of WorkMost 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
