UGrow
Grow your career at UCalgary with UGrow's open enrollment courses and resources available to all employees. This program provides various learning opportunities to explore.
UGrow provides open enrollment courses and resources available to all employees. Whether you’re seeking to deepen your knowledge and understanding of a specific topic, or you want to enhance your skills, explore these sessions and grow your career your way.
UGrow is suited for all employees at any stage of their career
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Development Courses
Relationships are built one conversation at a time but some conversations are more difficult than others. Conversations that involve strong emotions, differing perspectives, and delicate topics can be challenging. This interactive workshop will prepare you with practical strategies and skills to approach these conversation with curiosity, clarity, and compassion.
Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous
Time Commitment: 3 hours
Respectful conduct is a critical component of developing a healthy, energetic and productive campus community. This workshop focuses on competencies and strategies to enhance the personal and leadership effectiveness of employees and workplace culture. This session is very interactive, practical and supportive.
Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous
Time Commitment: 3 hours
More details on this course will be available shortly, with the launch planned for Winter 2025.
More details on this course will be available shortly.
More details on this course will be available shortly.
Health & Wellbeing Courses
This workshop is designed to equip participants with resources and strategies to improve health and wellbeing in the workplace. Explore connections between health and wellbeing and our work and discuss what UCalgary employees can do to improve wellbeing at an individual level and a community/organizational culture levels. Additionally, this course will support employees in becoming familiar with Staff Wellness, the Campus Mental Health Strategy and other resources at UCalgary.
Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous
Time Commitment: 1.5 hours
As the U of C continues to focus on a healthy campus and workplace, this workshop aims to increase awareness of mental health, reduce the stigma of mental illness and offer resources to maintain positive mental health. In this course, we will explore mental health, the stigmas associated with it and how to maintain your own mental health and improve your resilience.
Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: In-person or Virtual Synchronous
Time Commitment: 4.5 hours
Connect to Perform Courses
At the University of Calgary we have evolved our performance management framework to focus on development and growth, connect individual efforts to the success of the faculty/unit, and enable individuals to perform to the best of their abilities. Intended for all employees and managers, this course includes five 25-30 minute eLearning modules. Each module explores a different topic and includes examples of how you can practice what you have learned. We recommend completing the course in order, but you may also choose a specific module to complete at any time.
Intended audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: Asynchronous
Time Commitment: 2.5 hours
PeopleSoft and Process Courses
The completion of the eProcurement Certification Training is necessary in order to be granted access to the eProcurement system in PeopleSoft (PSAR - Roleset: PO_PURCHASE_REQ_INITIATOR). After completing this course, you will be able to request a new supplier, procure goods or services using eProcurement and manage your requisitions.
Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: Asynchronous
Time Commitment: 30 minutes
This course describes an overview of the e-procurement process and includes entering, submitting, workflow approvals, procurement rules, receiving & centralized receiving and finally payment. This course will walk you through how to enter different types of requisitions in the PeopleSoft system.
Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous
Time Commitment: 2 hours
Learn about expense claims from start to finish: entering, submitting (electronically and hard copy), workflow approvals and finally payment. This course will walk you through how to enter different types of expense claims in the PeopleSoft system.
Intended Audience: All UCalgary Employees
Delivery Mode: Virtual Synchronous
Time Commitment: 2 hours
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Connect to Perform
Real conversations, better results. Connect to Perform is the university's refined approach to performance management.