Whether you are an aspiring, current, or seasoned manager, new development opportunities can help you maximize your full potential, both professionally and personally. Topics include Performance Conversations, Change Management, as well as themed Leadership Development Pathways.
These pathways designed to empower you to craft a customized development journey that aligns with your leadership goals and aspirations.
HR Foundations for Managers
HR Foundations for Managers are a series of learning modules intended to build awareness and a more in-depth understanding of how to navigate Human Resources-related processes, procedures, and policies at the University of Waterloo.
Addtional Resources
Technology Training
- LinkedIn Learning is available to employees. Log in using your WatIAM credentials.
- IT Professional Development (ITPD) courses teach recommended computing skills.
Career advising
Get confidential career advising for employees* from the Centre for Career Action.
- View the Career development CareerHub
- Centre for Career Action Employee services
* Available to all employees at the University, including contract staff (with contracts exceeding 1 year), regular staff, faculty, and research associates.
Secondments and temporary reassignments
Secondments are fixed term opportunities for a regular staff member to gain valuable experience in another organizational unit with the knowledge that the staff member will return to their existing position when the term of the secondment has ended. An agreement between the University, the staff member, as well as the two organizational unit heads, the hiring manager and current staff manager, and Human Resources is required. A secondment typically occurs between departments, and the position is advertised campus-wide. View secondment opportunities.
Temporary Reassignments are similar to secondments in that they are temporary opportunities. The difference is that these roles are within the employee’s home department, and as such, if the position is advertised, the advertising for the opportunity is internal to the department.