Mohawk College- (Tools for Business Series)

The Fall Calendar is now available online

Creative Problem Solving – September 16 – Hamilton

This one-day workshop considers two key factors in problem solving: flexibility and creativity. Participants will use these factors to examine key problem-solving techniques, such as examining assumptions, modeling, shifting paradigms and drilling down.

Work Smarter – Time Management Mastery – September 17 – Hamilton

This one-day workshop is designed to help you improve your performance at work by introducing time-management techniques and giving you an opportunity to try them out in a safe environment. You will assess your personal challenges and learn how to stop procrastinating and wasting time.

Communicating with Confidence – September 18 – Hamilton

This one-day workshop helps you discover your assertiveness style and its impact on your relationships and effectiveness. You will also address your communication style and the part it plays in learning to speak with confidence.

Fundamentals of Performance Management – September 23 – Hamilton

This one-day workshop guides you through employee motivation and goal-setting, coaching and performance feedback. You will have the opportunity to practice coaching and employee feedback in a non-threatening environment.

NEW!!! Professional Facilitation Skills – September 24 – Hamilton

This one-day workshop is designed to improve your ability to deliver your message through a powerful presentation method and developing your own personal style. You will learn to engage your audience, leave a lasting impression and influence their actions.

The Multi- Generational Workplace – Making it Work – September 25 – Hamilton

If you are managing more than one generation of workers, this one-day workshop is for you! You will learn to effectively motivate and inspire all of the generations and distinguish between managing and leading to help all your team members work together effectively.

Creating Amazing Customer Service – September 29 – Hamilton

This one-day workshop is designed to improve customer service skills by focusing on areas such as projecting a professional image and understanding the negative impact of providing poor customer service. You will learn techniques to optimize the customer’s experience.

Cope with Change – September 30 – Hamilton

This half-day workshop helps employees look at change and its impact both personally and professionally. Topics include approaches to change, resisting change, benefits of accepting change and the skills required for change.

Stress in the Workplace – September 30 – Hamilton

This half-day workshop increases your ability to cope with stress as a key component in leading a more successful business and personal life. Through individual and group activities, you will learn to use practical tools to understand what stress is, how it affects us, and how to create resiliency in today’s world.

Tips

Variety In Your Work

1. Take on projects in areas you have never worked before.
2. Say yes when your customer asks you to do something out of the ordinary.
3. Initiate new areas of work in your industry.
4. Change departments and/or the kind of work you do every 18-24 months.
5. Find new ways of looking at your job or business.
6. Create new business from your new perspective.
7. Reinvent yourself and your business to stay competitive.
8. Learn something new as often as you can.
9. Willingly challenge your own thinking and the status quo.
10. Keep yourself fresh and find joy in everything new that you try.

“Variety is the spice of life”

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