TOPICS: Whether in the workplace or your day-to-day life, conflict is inevitable. It occurs between individuals who care about a particular matter but have opposing views. As professionals, caring about your team, research, budget, and job prospects is critical to your livelihood. It is understandable that when one encounters opposition, your immediate reaction may be one of anxiety, anger or frustration. Instead of backing away from the conflict, or attacking, this workshop aims to have you engage, strategically! Tools and techniques will be provided on how to control your reaction, get to the root cause of the problem and determine an acceptable solution go forward. To avoid conflict is to fail.
*Limited to 30 participants. If this number has been reached upon your registration, you will be automatically added to the waitlist, and we will notify you.

WHEN: October 5^th  12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Joanna Shea (The Negotiations Collective, Managing Partner)

TOPICS: Design of assessments; effective strategies to coordinate TA roles; managing courses with team-based work 

WHEN: October 11th, 1-3pm (In Person only) *new rescheduled date*

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Warren Code (Interim Director, Skylight (Science Centre for Learning and Teaching)
• Claudia Krebs (Professor of Teaching, Department of Cellular & Physiological Sciences)

TOPICS: Building a strong student-supervisor relationship

WHEN: **TO BE RESCHEDULED**

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Carol Naylor (Director, UBC Centre for Student Involvement and Careers)
• Michael Hunt (Associate Dean, Graduate and Postdoctoral Education, FoM)

TOPICS: Developing your personal authentic leadership style by discovering your values. This session will prepare you to view subsequent SBME Propels leadership sessions through your own personalized lens, informing how you can apply the concepts conveyed through the sessions to your own leadership style.

WHEN: November 30^th   12-1:00pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Anne-Marie Sorrenti (Leadership Consultant and Executive Coach; Lecturer at University of Toronto’s Faculty of Engineering)

TOPICS: Crafting and sharing a vision

WHEN: January 18^th  12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Pamela Potts (Starfish Medical, Director of People and Culture)

TOPICS: This session will provide faculty the skills and techniques necessary to facilitate and manage controversial conversations in the classroom. Participants will learn how to recognize the warning signs that learning centred dialogue is at risk and practice the skills required to restore conversational safety. 

WHEN: January 23^rd  12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Erin Thorp (Leadership Mentor)

TOPICS: Practical strategies to help manage impostor feelings so that participants can pursue their career goals with more ease

WHEN: February 7^th  12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

•  Isabeau Iqbal (ICF Certified Career Coach)