ÂĚñÉç

Wednesday, November 12, 2025 13:00to14:00
 Rethinking Research Presentations

Get started with this intro to SKILLSETS’ Presentation Skills series. This workshop teaches participants how to create clear, accessible and engaging research presentations that are fit for a variety of academic and non-academic audiences.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, presentation skills
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 16:00to17:30
Customer Discovery

This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, ÂĚñÉç Engine Centre, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Skills
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 16:00to17:30

This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.

Classified as: Graduate Students, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, ÂĚñÉç Engine Centre, SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops
Thursday, November 13, 2025 13:00to14:30
Active Listening

Interested in improving your communication skills? Join us for this workshop to develop an understanding of what active listening consists of and how it can be practiced. This workshop will focus on defining what active listening is and isn't, explaining why active listening is both important and useful, and practicing active listening.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, student services, student wellness hub
Thursday, November 13, 2025 14:00to15:00
Planning with Purpose

The Planning with Purpose information session is an introduction to the Individual Development Plan (IDP) at ÂĚñÉç. This session covers the process and building blocks of creating a meaningful IDP and setting goals in grad school.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, myPath: Developing your IDP, Planning with Purpose, individual development plan
Monday, November 17, 2025 10:30to11:00
Grad Breakfast Club

Stay on track with a 30min “plan your week” session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Grad Breakfast Club
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Monday, November 17, 2025 12:30to14:00
Taking Ownership of Your Degree with the Progress Tracking Form

This 90-minute interactive workshop helps graduate students reframe the Progress Tracking Form (PTF) as more than a bureaucratic requirement—transforming it into a personal roadmap for reflection, planning, and building strong supervisory relationships.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, supervision
Tuesday, November 18, 2025 10:00to11:30
Skills for Strategic Procrastination

Having difficulty getting started? Do you find yourself putting off tasks? Join this workshop to (1) develop an awareness of what is procrastination and how you procrastinate, (2) identify how procrastination works, and (3) discuss how to change "procrastination to "doing."

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, student services, student wellness hub
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 13:00to14:00
Building Your Next Presentation

This workshop focuses on the steps participants need to develop content for their next research presentation. From STEM based quantitative research, to social science exploration, this workshop will explore worksheets designed to help participants develop better content.

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Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, presentation skills
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 14:00to14:30
How to Ask Your Boss for a Raise

November 19, 2pm - 2:30pm (online)

Are you earning a master’s degree to advance in your current profession? Join Beyond Graduate School for this webinar on how to negotiate a pay raise or promotion as a career advancer.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Beyond Career Platforms; Beyond Graduate School; Finances; Asking for a raise
Friday, November 21, 2025 12:00to13:00
Studying Well in Grad School

Graduate school demands strong study habits and effective learning strategies. Throughout your degree, your reasons for studying will change (courses to comps to defense), which will require different strategies and approaches.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Academic Skills
Monday, November 24, 2025 10:30to11:00
Grad Breakfast Club

Stay on track with a 30min “plan your week” session on Monday mornings. Meet with a group of peers to set your intentions, boost motivation, troubleshoot challenges, and (mostly importantly) take the pressure off!

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, Grad Breakfast Club
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Wednesday, November 26, 2025 13:00to14:00
Effective Presentation Visuals

In this workshop, participants learn how to avoid the pitfalls of building slides that have too much information, take too long to process, and compete for audience attention. By understanding the limits of human visual and auditory language processing, participants learn how to work within them.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, presentation skills
Wednesday, November 26, 2025 16:00to17:30
Startup Finances

In this workshop, you'll learn how venture capitalists (VCs) typically value an early-stage innovation-driven venture. To do that we'll go through and give examples on how to forecast sales and how to set pricing, how to forecast expenses and how to figure out the amount of capital needed to finance your business.

Classified as: SKILLSETS Graduate Workshops, ÂĚñÉç Engine Centre, Innovation and Entrepreneurship Skills

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