EPSB Staff Professional Development

Transform the way you create, collaborate and share with Google Drive. In this course, you will not only learn the fundamentals of Drive and its built-in essential productivity apps but how to work smarter from virtually anywhere. Join our instructor on this time saving journey as she helps you transition from Microsoft Office and learn the basics of the many uses of Google Drive. You’ll leave with knowledge on how to better organize your documents and ways to increase your productivity. Don’t miss out!

Learn the basics of American Sign Language in this full immersion (no speaking) and interactive course. The alphabet, numbers, colours, family and school-related vocabulary will be covered, as well as introductory phrases and conversational dialogue. Some ASL grammar/syntax will also be included, as well as information on Deaf culture and tips for communicating with a Deaf person.

There are three stages of stress - the good, the bad and the ugly. Coping successfully with stress requires personal awareness of what’s happening to you, and within you, at any given time. In this session you’ll explore your personal stress reactions and develop practical skills to relieve stress based on the four human energies: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.

Time is a precious non-renewable resource. We all have the same amount but choose to spend it very differently. This workshop is designed to help participants explore their time management
skills and abilities and determine beneficial changes. We will look at techniques to goal set, determine priorities, reduce procrastination and create focused time for important work.

With Google Forms, you can gather information and analyze it easily and quickly. Conduct a course evaluation, poll your students, survey your staff and so much more! Learn how to create, customize, and share dynamic forms. Then discover how to view the results in real-time and dump the data into any spreadsheet app (like Google Sheets) to manipulate and display as you wish.

Focus on your wellness. Rachelle Howse, Kinesiologist, Clinical Exercise Physiologist and mother, will take you on a journey through the seven dimensions of wellness to connect your body and mind and develop strategies to achieve long-lasting peace and wellbeing. You will move for the promotion of physical and mental health, journal reflection and intention and learn effective mindfulness techniques for the reduction of stress and anxiety. Reconnect with yourself and your family as you strengthen your wellness for a positive 2022.

Become more confident, make great first impressions, get along with others, and create better personal and professional relationships. This course provides a step by step process to become a great conversationalist as you use communication to build rapport and create trust, warmth, and respect.

The Individual Excellence course will teach you twelve vital career-enhancing skills. You will establish a clear career path and use skills like interpersonal communication and time management to achieve your goals. You will also learn how to utilize your creativity and problem-solving skills to work through adversity.

Enjoy the rewards that come from doing what really makes you happy! This course will help you fully understand your own interests, values, needs and abilities and help you use work to express yourself and share your interests and talents.

Become a more effective manager by learning the language of business management. This course provides skills in managing time, delegating responsibility, motivating your employees, solving problems and resolving conflicts so you can accomplish your job more effectively.

Do you want to know how to interact with anyone, regardless of how difficult you perceive them to be? This course will give you the skills to effectively meet your needs while protecting the dignity and rights of others to form more cooperative relationships.

Learn to quickly and efficiently use Microsoft Excel 2019/Office 365 as you discover dozens of shortcuts and tricks for setting up fully formatted worksheets. This course, taught by an experienced Microsoft Excel instructor, provides in-depth knowledge for beginners that will have you using Excel like a pro.

Master new skills and harness the power of Excel to become a power user. This hands-on course provides in-depth knowledge of charts, graphs, PivotTables, Slicers, Sparklines, AutoFilter, macros, and other advanced Microsoft Excel 2019/Office 365 functions.

In this hands-on course, you will learn Microsoft Excel 2019/Office 365's advanced functions and often-overlooked features, including data analysis tools, data tables and databases, custom controls, and PivotTables.

Learn to create professional-looking letters, reports, and documents using Microsoft Word 2019/Office 365. This hands-on course will help you master the basic features of this powerful word-processing program to type, edit, and format text, and spell check and print documents like a pro.

Use Microsoft Word 2019/Office 365 more efficiently by mastering its more advanced features. This hands-on course will teach you how to create an index, build a list of figures, design a table of contents, perform a mail merge, and use timesaving shortcuts to develop professional documents.