Managing conflict and difficult situations can be challenging for many. Conflicting situations are filled with emotion, uncomfortable, and often very frustrating. Most people would prefer not to have to deal with conflict, and yet it happens. People are people. Each of us has different needs, opinions, and perspectives, and when combined together, disagreements can occur. Sometimes these discrepancies are easy to resolve, others times they are not. This course will help you introduce the topic of conflict management, sharing why it’s important and how improving the ability to manage conflict with others will benefit the team. You will talk about what’s going on in the team or company that creates the need to strengthen each person’s ability to manage difficult and challenging situations. By completing this course, you will know how to create a conflict management agenda item to create a conflict management culture. Course Result: Create a conflict management agenda item to create a conflict management culture. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute). This course is part of Vado’s Conflict Management Skills course bundle which has been approved for 1.5 hours of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) Professional Development Credits (PDCs).
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Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
- Year-round access to well-motivated, qualified employees.
- Access to potential full-time staff in a controlled environment, reducing your costs and risks.
- Access to a cost-effective source of temporary employees for peak periods or special projects.
- A say in what students learn by working with the university.
- Promotion of your organization as one that believes in developing the potential of young people.
- Access to a great pool of French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual students.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.
Internships offer usually one discipline-specific, supervised, structured paid or unpaid, and for academic credit work experience or practice placement.
Work Experience intersperses one or two work terms (typically full-time) into an academic program, where work terms provide experience in a workplace setting related to the student’s field of study and/or career goals.
Community Service Learning (CSL) integrates meaningful community service with classroom instruction and critical reflection to enrich the learning experience and strengthen communities. In practice, students work in partnership with a community-based organization to apply their disciplinary knowledge to a challenge identified by the community.
Field Placement provides students with an intensive part-time/short term intensive hands-on practical experience in a setting relevant to their subject of study. Field placements may not require supervision of a registered or licensed professional and the completed work experience hours are not required for professional certification. Field placements account for work-integrated educational experiences not encompassed by other forms, such as co-op, clinic, practicum, and internship.
