Part of our core purpose at APSA involves promoting professionalism, excellence and encouraging your professional and career development.
As an APSA member, you can participate in workshops, webinars, and pre-COVID, networking events. As part of our own professional development, the APSA team also looks for ways to learn and improve our skills.
Here are a few free or paid courses that you may find helpful in your professional and career development. We've certainly found them beneficial for our team.
Charity Village
Charity village has several free webinars, articles and podcasts, and paid courses that range from free to $900 in their learning centre.
Examples of their offerings include:
- Mental Health and Psychological Safety at Work Master Certificate Program
- Culture By Design: How to be Intentional About Living Values at Work
- Creating Diversity, Equity, Sensitivity, and Inclusion in your Workplace: A Roadmap for Real Change (Free 15-minute course)
StaffBase (formerly Bananatag)
Voices by Staffbase have a number of internal communications live webinars where you can ask questions and interact with professionals in the field. They also have recorded webinars available to you, if you sign up.
Examples of their offerings include:
- Advancing Leaders Through Collaboration
- Connecting Your Workforce and Closing Communication Gaps
- How to Rethink Email in 2022
Red Cross Psychological First Aid
The past few years have been very taxing on everyone’s mental health and well-being. This course promises to help you learn how to anticipate stress whenever possible and equip yourself with the skills to practice self-care and care for others during stress, crisis, or trauma. APSA has offered this in the past, and the office staff have taken this beneficial course.
Here’s where you can learn more and sign up.
How You Can Help
Have you taken a course, whether online or in-person, that you'd like to share with us? We're always happy to hear from you and learn what may benefit members like you. Thank you!