Past Events

Every Tuesday and Thursday at Noon Everyone – faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees – Welcome No experience required. Join Zoom Meeting Please contact ljairath@uoguelph.ca to register and access the meeting link.

Join Dr. Andrew Papadopoulos for a brief talk on the current COVID-19 pandemic.  He will provide details about the state of current pandemic both locally and across Canada as well as review the latest science on prevention. The talk will provide some perspective about the potential path of the pandemic over the coming weeks and months. This brief talk will be followed by Q & A.

Every Tuesday and Thursday at Noon Everyone – faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees – Welcome No experience required. Join Zoom Meeting Please contact ljairath@uoguelph.ca to register and access the meeting link.

For Senior Leaders, Chairs, Directors, People Managers

Homewood Health has partnered with Occupational Health and Wellness to host this webinar. Description: When stressors overwhelm us, effective techniques can help to bring us back to equilibrium. This session will explore all aspects of the stress response, focusing on practical tips and tools to bring us to optimal stress levels, thereby helping us to maximize our energy and performance. Registration details will be shared shortly. 

The Wellness Education Centre is hosting virtual Mood Routes walks for students and employees. Online Location Instructions Join the Teams group called "Mood Routes". The link for the video call will be shared in this group each week.

For Senior Leaders, Chairs, Directors, People Managers Scientific research shows that practicing improvisation can foster our uncertainty tolerance. This is because practicing improvisation strengthens our relationship with change by exposing us to unpredictability in a lighthearted context. Additionally, improv offers us practical principles and tools for navigating the great unknown. This session is for those wishing to strengthen their relationship with uncertainty and have tons of fun along the way. This is a highly interactive learn-by-doing experience not a data-dump.

Every Tuesday and Thursday at Noon Everyone – faculty, staff, students, alumni and retirees – Welcome No experience required. Join Zoom Meeting Please contact ljairath@uoguelph.ca to register and access the meeting link.

Whether it's registering new students, supporting technology, or checking out workout equipment, customer service is one of the most common, important and challenging roles on campus. It takes perseverance and commitment to meet with staff, faculty, and students all day, every day to keep the wheels turning. The role can be very rewarding, but the daily interactions can also have a shadow side – dwindling positivity, stress, and anxiety.

“To get to the next level of greatness depends on the quality of the culture, which depends on the quality of relationships, which depends on the quality of conversations. Everything happens through conversations.” ~ Judith E. Glaser GOAL 2.0 is the UofG’s modernized and evidence-based performance success framework. The foundation of GOAL 2.0 is two-way quality conversations between managers and employees that rely on three core practices: Connect, Adapt, and Align.