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DARC Presents: Everyday Digital Accessibility Best Practices

With the ever-increasing hybrid work environment, it's important to keep accessibility in mind during our everyday tasks. Whether it's writing an email, hosting a Teams meeting, or creating a presentation, this webinar will share easy ways to make this digital environment a more inclusive and accessible space.  Register through the Digital Accessibility Resource Centre

Equity Essentials: Intersectional Allyship

In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how tangible and successful allyship happens on the ground. First, participants will reconnect with baseline knowledge about power, privilege, identity, and intersectionality. Then, participants will explore what allyship means on the ground and how they can become more effective allies. What does it mean to be an ally? When should an ally step in, and when should an ally defer to someone else? We will discuss all these strategies and more.

Improving Workplace Communication

Effective communication in the workplace serves to improve team collaboration and cooperation as well as boost employee morale, engagement and productivity. This results in positive outcomes for individuals, teams and organizations. This session will review the key factors that enhance our ability to work well with others by providing information on creating a supportive communication climate, listening effectively, asking clear questions and building confidence and assertiveness. Facilitator Trainers from Homewood Health

DHR Presents: Equity Essentials- Intersectional Allyship

Building Community Workshop Wednesday series In this hands-on workshop, participants will explore how tangible and successful allyship happens on the ground. First, participants will reconnect with baseline knowledge about power, privilege, identity, and intersectionality. Then, participants will explore what allyship means on the ground and how they can become more effective allies. What does it mean to be an ally? When should an ally step in, and when should an ally defer to someone else? We will discuss all these strategies and more.

Trauma-informed Care

This two-hour, in-person training is designed to help all staff and faculty increase their knowledge and awareness about trauma and its impacts.  The training provides strategies for implementing the Six Principles of Trauma-Informed Care, including self-regulation and self-care practices, to improve competency in working with and supporting students who have experienced trauma. This training consists of four modules:

Digital Document Management - Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive

You can store and share files using SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. They each can be used in their own ways to accelerate collaboration and efficiency in different situations. Participants will

Communicating with Power for Women

Communicating with Power - Mastering Communication Habits for More Impact & Influence for Women This International Women's Month, join this women-only workshop to: Identify common undermining speech habits that can weaken perceived authority Explore the challenges of the “Likeability-Competence Double Bind” and how it uniquely impacts the way women leaders are evaluated

Contributing to Psychological Safety as a Team Member

Audience: All Staff & Faculty Are you able to bring up problems and tough issues in your team? Is it difficult to ask your team members for help or bring forward a new idea? Is it safe to take a risk?

DARC Presents: PDF Tags & Form fields

This webinar will walk through proper tagging structure when it comes to PDFs and how to create accessible form fields. After the demo there will be time to ask any questions you may have regarding these topics.  Register through the Digital Accessibility Resource Centre

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