Learning catalogue

This conversation features Melissa Hathaway, President of Hathaway Global Strategies LLC and former advisor on cyber security to both the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations, and Scott Jones, the first Head of the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security.

Experts in this video consider questions such as: "What does setting our society on a sustainable climate trajectory look like?" and "Has the COVID-19 pandemic helped or hindered action on climate change?

Ailish Campbell, Ambassador for Canada and the European Union, Stefanie Beck, Deputy High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom, and Michelle d'Auray, Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the OECD discuss economic, security and societal forces shaping current events in the EU.

This conversation with Anil Arora, Chief Statistician at Statistics Canada, Claire Durand, Professor at the Department of Sociology at the University of Montreal, and Nik Nanos, Chief Data Scientist and Founder of Nanos Polling is about exploring such issues as how the media affects polling consumption and quality, whether polls are suffering from fewer and less diverse participants, and what intelligent consumers should look for when trying to figure out the quality of a poll.

This conversation between Dori Tunstall, Dean of the Faculty of Design at OCAD University, and Adrian Harewood, co-host of CBC News Ottawa, is about their memorable achievements, letdowns, and hopes for the future, what the Black Lives Matter movement and the pandemic have taught us about working towards a better and more consciously inclusive society, what lessons they take from their careers in design and journalism that might inform a better path forward for the public service and what they believe organizations like the public service can do to achieve a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace.

The speakers Lindy Elkins-Tanton, Principal Investigator for NASA's Psyche mission, and Sarah Gallagher, Science Advisor to the President of the Canadian Space Agency discuss such questions as: how does space ambition contribute to useful innovation, greater prosperity and better security and what can space research and development teach us about fostering innovation here on earth?

On October 22, 2020, the Canada School of Public Service was joined by two distinguished experts on the future of work: Armine Yalnizyan, Economist and Atkinson Fellow on the Future of Workers, and Gary Bolles, Chair for Future of Work at Singularity University.

This online self-paced course explores the key characteristics and many benefits of effective cross-functional team collaboration within organizations. Participants will learn how to assess their team's readiness for cross-functional collaboration and overcome the potential barriers to utilizing skills and creative ideas from functions across the organization.

This online self-paced course examines the benefits of cultivating agile thinking across an organization, exploring the critical success factors and key steps involved in creating an agile enterprise. Participants will learn how to implement enterprise agility by overcoming common obstacles and selecting planning tools that support an agile organization.

This online self-paced course explores how to identify the peers within your organization who are especially important to your goals and to bringing success to your organization. Participants will learn the best ways to develop and maintain solid, mutually beneficial relationships with the people who matter most to their professional lives.

This course is designed to help employees develop cultural competencies to build positive and respectful relationships with Indigenous Peoples in a public service context. Participants will identify their respective biases and values, reflect on their own culture, and gain a unique understanding of diverse Indigenous cultures and perspectives.

This course provides an overview of the cyber security landscape and the essentials of how to protect classified and sensitive information on Government of Canada networks. Participants will learn to assess their digital footprint and identify potential privacy threats associated with their online activities.