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Getting Your IDP Started (2 hours)

This workshop will help you kickstart your Individual Development Plan (IDP). It will help you focus on three foundational aspects of the IDP:

1. Idea Generation: Reflect on your interests, aspirations and societal contributions.
2. Self-Assessment: Evaluate your technical, transferable and personal skills.
3. Career Exploration: Define your values and what career success means to you, then research potential paths.

Students who have taken the virtual workshop Part 2: Getting Your IDP Started: Exploring Career Values and Success cannot use the self-directed online course for their professional development hours.

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Succeeding in the Workplace: Intercultural Competencies for Employment (2 hours)

This three-module course examines Canadian workplace culture with a focus on Alberta. It will help you explore factors that shape the workplace. It offers guidance around the unspoken, unwritten rules of workplace conduct. Each module has activities that will help you to better understand the concepts explored and reflect on your own ideas about the workplace.

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Package Your Research to Build Your Brand (2 hours)

This remote course is designed to help you think outside the box when promoting and presenting a talk for a wide range of different audiences.

Topics will include branding yourself and your research expertise, as well as identifying unique ways of presenting your work based on an intended public group.

(Developed by GTL-4 scholar Erin Ratelle.)

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For a wealth of other learning opportunities that count toward your PD Requirement, visit our PD Workshops page.

Additional º£½ÇÉçÇø Online Courses for PD consideration:

• Access, Community and Belonging
• Indigenous Canada MOOC
• Intellectual Property and Commercialization

External online training opportunities for PD consideration:

• Mitacs

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Contact Us

If you have any questions about the PD Requirement for graduate students, contact:

Professional Development Team
Faculty of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies
Email: gradpd@ualberta.ca