TOPICS: Leading vs. managing a team; leadership best practices

WHEN: September 17^th | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Joshua Myers (BC Centre for Ability, Executive Director)

TOPICS: What is excellent graduate supervision?

WHEN: October 1^st | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Brianne Howard and Theresa Rogers (UBC’s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies)

TOPICS: Building a strong student-supervisor relationship

WHEN: October 15^th | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Brianne Howard and Theresa Rogers (UBC’s Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies)

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: October 29^th | 12-1:30pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

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

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: November 5^th | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Joanna Shea (The Negotiations Collective, Managing Partner)

TOPICS: Personalizing your management style for each member of your team

WHEN: November 26^th | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

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

TOPICS: What an effective culture actually looks like. Why a properly articulated vision isn’t just marketing (and how to make one). Why the language we use matters. How to build values that inspire and the danger of incentivizing result. The importance of consistency.

WHEN: December 3^th | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Miguel Eichelberger (SBME Communications and Engagement)

TOPICS: Essentials of productive teams; project management basics; prioritizing and time management; running effective lab meetings

WHEN: January 21^st | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Dee Dee Sung (UBC’s ALDP Program Director and Executive Coach)

TOPICS: Join us in this interactive session addressing impostor syndrome and perfectionism. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to help manage impostor feelings so that you can pursue your career goals with more ease.

WHEN: February 4^th | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Isabeau Iqbal (ICF Certified Career Coach)

TOPICS: Supporting diverse career aspirations and paths; encouraging professional development and extracurriculars; leveraging your network to support your team

WHEN: March 4^th | 12-1pm PT

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

• Leonard Foster (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Professor & Head; Killam Award Winner for Excellence in Mentoring)