Past Events

Registration for the in-person celebration is now closed. View this page for more ways to participate virtually! Celebrating the People Who Shape Our University Community GREAT at U of G invites you to join colleagues from across our university to celebrate our staff and faculty, who each day make a meaningful difference for each other, the students, and the communities we serve.

Building Community Workshop Wednesday series This scenario-based workshop is designed for faculty members in search committees at the University of Guelph. Through case studies and facilitated discussion, participants will deepen their understanding of how to embed Indigenization, equity, diversity, and inclusion (IEDI) principles into each stage of the hiring process.

When we’re hooked by praise and criticism, it can gently pull us into playing it safe—quieting our voices, softening our boundaries, and stepping back from visibility and meaningful action. Grounded in the work of Tara Mohr, author of Playing Big, this workshop offers practical tools to help you show up more fully and move forward with greater confidence toward the goals that matter most to you. This International Women's Month, join this women-only workshop to:

NEW Days is designed to welcome and connect new employees to the University environment and give them a positive start.

Designed by Living Works, safeTALK is a 3.5-hour alertness training and certification that prepares anyone, regardless of prior experience or training, to become a suicide-alert helper. This training includes understanding of the importance of suicide alertness, learning to identify ways people invite help, and how to connect those who need help with resources when they are at risk.

Building Community Workshop Wednesday series

As a leader, ask yourself: Are you able to surface tough issues or challenges with your team? Do you encourage your team members to bring forward new ideas or ask for help? Do you create an environment where it feels safe to take risks?

PAC is a globally used, free PDF accessibility checking tool that reviews PDF/UA and WCAG requirements. This webinar will walk through how to use this tool to help improve your PDF remediation workflow. Register through the Digital Accessibility Resource Centre

This interactive workshop encourages participants to move beyond the text of Ontario's human rights legislation to understand how legal requirements affect our day-to-day work. How do we identify when behaviour is harassment or discrimination? How do we know when behaviour rises to the level of a human rights violation? What is a reasonable response to a complaint in the circumstances? How do we prevent human rights violations from occurring in the first place? This workshop provides tools and strategies to respond to each of these questions.

Part 1: Developing Effective Standard Operating Procedures February 18, 2026, 10 am - 11 am Discover how to seamlessly transition from routine checklists to SOPs that enhance efficiency, reduce errors, promote consistency and elevate overall performance. Explore how to write clear and unambiguous SOPs, learn about different process documentation formats, understand how to implement SOPs into your current workflow, and discuss how to regularly review SOPs to ensure they become living documents that adapt and evolve with your business needs.