Summer is an ideal time to recharge, reflect, renew and engage in professional learning. Where do you want to focus your learning? At TDSB, there are a variety of ways staff can continue their learning over the summer months. Engage in a Community of Learning and Practice (CoLP), lead your team with a Team Check-in or register for a professional learning opportunity. You decide and enjoy your summer learning!
Community of Learning and Practice (CoLP)
Join your colleagues in a Community of Learning and Practice, grounded in shared leadership, inquiry, and collaboration across business units. As a leader, you will have the opportunity to tackle problems of practice, network with colleagues (as a community of learners), engage in the sharing of best practices and enhance your leadership effectiveness. Contact the Professional Learning Unit for more details.
Team Check-In
A team check-in allows Managers to reflect on the team’s strengths and challenges and create conditions that foster a positive workplace culture, shared leadership and continuous improvements. Contact the Professional Learning Unit for more details.
Audience: Business Managers/Supervisors
WEBINARS
Building Resilience in Times of Change (Self-directed - 1 Hour)
Leaders today are experiencing high levels of stress in the workplace from a variety of constant organizational changes and initiatives such as implementing new corporate strategies, going through mergers and acquisitions, improving on operational systems and processes, organizational restructuring, globalization and key top leadership changes to name a few. And organizations are trying to do more with less, further increasing employee workloads. With no end in sight, leaders are discovering the impact of pushing themselves and their teams harder than ever. Leaders need to learn how to ensure both high performance AND sustainable well-being. Click to register.
Emotional Intelligence: How to Develop Skills for Success (Self-directed - 1 Hour)
Research shows that when people are emotionally intelligent- that is, they are aware of their feelings and are able to manager their emotions- they are better equipped to confront challenging issues and manage change. But did you know emotional intelligence can also lead to greater success in the workplace? The good news is it’s a skill that can be improved - that is, with the proper training and practice.
Join us for an hour-long webinar that will show you how to develop emotional intelligence in individuals. We’ll explore the four vital components, including intrapersonal skills, interpersonal skills, adaptability, and resilience. Click to register.
WORKSHOPS
Leadership & Learning Series
Start your learning journey with the LEADERSHIP & LEARNING SERIES, relevant and practical learning opportunities for staff, focused on enhancing personal growth and development and building leaders at every level. Areas of focus include communication, interpersonal relationships, influence, decision making and problem solving, as well as an in-depth look at leadership competencies and skills to support your ongoing learning journey. Audience: Central Support Staff (CUPE) and Schedule II Staff
August 22, 2019 9:00 am - 11:30 am Click to Register
Power of Personal Insight - Gain a Deeper Understanding of Self at Work
The Power of Personal Insight is about identifying and appreciating your own behavioural style, and learning how to adapt those behaviours to create superior effectiveness in your role. This program will help provide better insight into ‘self’ by creating an awareness of your drives and needs as it pertains to an individual’s strengths, leadership, and influencing style. Being in control of your behaviours, mindset, and learning can contribute to creating positive conditions to achieve both individual and team goals.
August 27, 2019 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Click to Register
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
This learning opportunity is based on proven process of personal and interpersonal growth that can have an immediate and lasting impact. It sets the foundation for professional effectiveness - increasing productivity, restoring balance, and developing greater maturity and responsibility.
Managers Leadership Series
The MANAGERS LEADERSHIP SERIES is a compilation of learning initiatives that enable Business and Operations staff (Schedule II 7-12) to delve deeper into a number of leadership topics, including critical thinking, coaching and mentoring, developing and engaging talent, and leading with an equitable and anti-oppressive stance. For Business and Operations staff (Schedule II 1-6) with supervisory responsibilities interested in registering for these learning opportunities, please contact the Professional Learning Unit.
August 21, 2019 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Click to Register
The Working Mind: Mental Health First Aid for Leaders
This Working Mind workshop is an education-based program designed specifically for leaders to address and promote mental health, and reduce the stigma of mental illness in a workplace setting. You learn how to recognize changes in behaviour that could indicate mental health issues - either in yourself or others.
August 28, 2019 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Click to Register
Leading at the Speed of Trust
Leading at the Speed of Trust is designed to engage leaders at all levels in the strategic work of identifying and closing the trust gaps that exist in the organization. Participants will learn why trust is important to building relationships, how to identify trust relationships that impede team progress and strategies for building trust with others.
READ TO LEAD
The Speed of Trust - Download Article
The simple, often overlooked fact is this: work gets done with and through people. There’s nothing more impactful on people, their work, and their performance, than trust. This summary will cover the structure for understanding and making trust actionable, including a look at the Four Cores of credibility and the 13 behaviours of high-trust leaders. The summary concludes with a section on restoring lost trust on the societal, organizational, relationship and personal level.
What you will learn in this summary:
-The economics of trust and its effects on speed and cost in relationships and organizations.
-How you can assess your credibility based on character and competence.
-The 13 Behaviours common in people with high-trust relationships.
-The taxes and dividends that flow from organizational trust.
-How to be an effective leader by inspiring and extending trust.
-How to restore lost trust.
Build a Core of Resilience - Download Article
Everyone has faced adversity and has failed at least once in life. Personal resilience is your ability to bounce back, to pick yourself up and try again and again, until you either succeed, or decide on a more productive direction. Learn more about developing Personal Resilience, Team Resilience, Build Workplace Civility and unlearn to Turn Pressure Into Stress.
Working with Emotional Intelligence - Download Article
The secret of success is not what they taught you in school. What matters most is not academic excellence, not a business school degree, not even technical know-how or years of experience. What distinguishes star performers from the mediocre is emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is actually a set of skills that anyone can acquire, and in this practical guide, renowned researcher and author Daniel Goleman identifies them, explains their importance and shows how they can be fostered.
