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Lead with Confidence: Cultivate Trust, Achieve Results, Inspire Teams

Grow your leadership capabilities, enhance your technical strengths and prepare your organization for long-term success. Get started today with OSPE’s on-demand leadership courses.

Technical Skills

Occupational Health and Safety Certificate Courses

14-19 CPD Hours

Close to 1000 Canadians die every year because of work-related incidents, and tens of thousands suffer injuries or diseases related to their workplace. The world is full of hazards and risks, and they exist in almost all areas of our lives, including the workplace. Every workplace has its specific hazards and thousands of workers are injured each year. Because of this, it is important for any engineer to know how to identify hazards and how to effectively control associated risks. Fortunately, we can learn to manage risks so that everyone can work as safely as possible.

Writing that Sells: Technical Proposals & Pitches Certificate Course

10 CPD Hours

First impressions count – let your writing make a good one. This certificate program equips you to deliver impressive proposals, build strong relationships and win over potential clients. Developed specifically for engineers, the program lets you learn independently and provides opportunities to interact with your instructor through discussion boards and assignments.

Non-Technical Skills

Strategic Planning: Acing your Strategy

2 CPD Hours
Using real-world examples, case-studies and discussions with experts, this 2-part audio course will provide an engaging and thought provoking look at why planning is so important and why most managers and leaders fail to plan effectively.

Focus on Change: Change Management Essentials

2.5 CPD Hours

Hilary takes you through a four step process for understanding change providing a holistic, wide-angled view of change. One of the biggest part of managing change is about how we manage the people side of the equation. Also, looking at the traditional and tactical side of change, and providing tools to further support change in organizations.

Emotional Intelligence: Leading Through Influence

2 CPD Hours

In this course, Russell talks to 6 great authors and leadership experts as we explore this concept of influence and why it is so important to long-term success in leadership. You will receive tools to develop what Russell calls “a mission to influence others”

Ethics: Conversations

2.5 CPD Hours
This course, explores promoting culture through examining typical conversations that go on at the board table and in day-to-day operations throughout the organization. We’ll also hear thoughts on building and maintaining an ethics-based culture from respected colleagues and experts in the field.

Intercultural Inclusive Relationships

2 CPD Hours

This course is about being an effective leader in diverse contexts with team members from a variety of cultures and backgrounds. This calls for respect and an authentic desire to learn to be a better leader to diverse teams. You may find this course to be challenging at times, as it encourages each participant to examine, re-evaluate and change long-held beliefs, biases, assumptions and behaviours.

Conflicts of Interest Unpacked

1 CPD Hour
You will gain a better understanding of how to recognize situations that might pose conflicts of interest and take appropriate actions to avoid, mange or deal with them effectively. And finally, you’ll review potential safeguards that can be used to properly manage and address conflicts of interest when they do arise.