Documentation:Orientation for New Hires(Archive)/201/Personal and Professional Development Opportunities

Personal and Professional Development

UBC is committed to supporting staff in their ongoing learning and development. If you are interested in gaining new skills, perspectives, or approaches to doing your job--at any level of the organization--you might want to explore a few of the following programs and resources.

Workshops

A wide variety of professional development workshops are available to UBC staff and faculty at both the Okanagan and Vancouver campuses. These workshops are hosted by the respective Human Resources departments and are designed to promote knowledge and skills development and enhance understanding of self.

Some of these workshops are offered at no cost, whilst others have fees attached to them. We suggest speaking to your manager/supervisor to find out if your unit has professional development funds available to cover these charges. As well, you can read the 'Professional Development Funding at UBC' section in this module to find out if there is job-specific funds that you can access.

For Vancouver campus workshops: To view the online catalogue of current offerings or to register for a workshop, please go to: http://webapps.hr.ubc.ca/hrcatalog/catalog_search.action?subcategory=MOST

For Okanagan campus workshops: To view the current offerings or to register for a workshop, please go to:http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/facultystaff/hr/upcoming.html

Also, you can see a current listing of lecture series and other learning-related events at http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/events.html

Suggestion box!

Is there a workshop topic that you would like to see offered that isn't currently available at your campus? Take a minute and send an email to the workshop coordinators (mostreg@hr.ubc.ca for UBC Vancouver and nicole.udzenija@ubc.ca for UBC Okanangan) about what you would like to learn about. Ideas are always welcome!