Welcome CPHR Alberta members!
Below you will find a list of PowerED™ offerings specifically chosen to provide you with an option to earn CPD’s while enhancing your professional development competencies. Take advantage of your CPHR Alberta membership preferential pricing and realize up to 90 days course access for ultimate flexibility. Group pricing is available for Embracing Allyship and Inclusion, AI Ethics: An Introduction, Dream Teams, Communication and Conflict Resolution, and Coach Approach for Leadership Development.
Embracing Allyship & Inclusion
Dismantling systemic discrimination and building inclusive communities may feel like an overwhelming task. But like all important endeavours, organizations can begin by taking a series of seemingly small steps. This micro-course has been designed to help you and your organization get started on this journey.
Find out how others have overcome discrimination and learn through our featured leaders and real-talk segments. Dive deeper by following the links throughout each module — and check out the appendix for more articles, podcasts, videos, and other resources!
Through interactive content, animated videos, and audio segments, organizations will be guided to consider perceptions and biases, evaluate your workplace and community, and strengthen organizational capacity to listen and support those around you.
Take advantage of group pricing when you purchase 5 or more seats. Your cost is reduced to $235 per person! Reduction applied at checkout.
How it Works:
8 hr micro-course | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $275 - 5 or more $235 | CPD Hours - 8.
What You'll Learn
- Reflect on the formation of identity and your perceptions of difference
- Learn about the role of social power in the construction of identity
- Explore the prevalence and impacts of discrimination
- Evaluate your own privileges
- Develop strategies to overcome bias habits
- Examine the difference between performative and active allyship
- Discover best practices for effective and meaningful allyship
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Upon completion of Embracing Allyship & Inclusion, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
Essential Skills for Leaders - Certificate
This dynamic, interactive series, dives into the concept of effective leadership, exploring different strategies, tools, and real-world experiences across four essential pillars: authenticity; interpersonal and team dynamics; effective communication and conflict resolution; and every-day task management.
The four courses in the Essential Skills for Leaders Certificate include; Leading with Authenticity, Dream Teams, Communication & Conflict Resolution, and Leadership in Action.
How it Works:
2 weeks per course | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $2,080 | CPD Hours - 48.
Earn a certificate upon completion of all four courses. As a bonus consider taking your learning to the next level by completing Coach Approach for Leadership Development and earn a Master Badge in Leadership & Coaching.
Each of these courses are available individually:
When we think of "leadership," it may be tempting to jump directly to the image of a high-powered, and charismatic executive or innovator. And while that may be true in some circumstances, the reality is that there are many different ways to demonstrate leadership. The important thing is to find a style and approach that aligns with the context you find yourself working in, and feels the most right to you. This is known as authentic leadership and, according to the experts, it is a vital component for organizations looking to navigate today's fast changing work landscape.
This course explores some of the foundational elements of practicing authentic leadership: uncovering your core value set, crafting a personal leadership philosophy, building genuine and trusting relationships, embracing empathy, and identifying your unique goals and vision towards becoming the best, and most authentic, leader you can be.
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 | CPD Hours - 12.
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the role of self-awareness and authenticity in contemporary leadership
- Identify personal strengths, tendencies, and values and understand how they inform your personal leadership style
- Articulate the importance of trust, vulnerability, and accountability in leadership
- Set realistic and achievable goals, articulate your personal vision, and maintain a desirable work/life balance
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Upon completion of Leading with Authenticity, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
This course shifts gears from identifying your own personal leadership mindset in order to consider how that mindset intersects with and furthers the development of a successful, dynamic, and high-performing dream team. We'll spend some time exploring some of the essential qualities of high performing teams, discuss the steps and stages of team development, and look at ways to support each team member's unique talents, interests, perspectives, and growth. Take advantage of group pricing when you purchase 5 or more seats. Your cost is reduced to $450 per person! Reduction applied at checkout.
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 - 5 or more $450 | CPD Hours - 12.
What You’ll Learn
- Describe the qualities and characteristics of high-performance teams
- Understand the stages of team development and change management and identify opportunities for leadership at each stage
- Recognize the unique skills, backgrounds, and needs of individual teams and provide individualized support accordingly
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Upon completion of Dream Teams, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
This course takes an in-depth look at what contributes to effective, successful communication. We'll explore the role perception plays in how we communicate and discuss strategies for ensuring not only that we are being heard, but that we are really hearing others as well. We will then apply these new communication strategies to managing conflict in the workplace, diffusing it at its most challenging level and harnessing its more positive attributes to inspire creativity and innovation among your team. Take advantage of group pricing when you purchase 5 or more seats. Your cost is reduced to $450 per person! Reduction applied at checkout.
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 - 5 or more $450 | CPD Hours - 12.
What You’ll Learn
- Describe the qualities and characteristics of high-performance teams
- Understand the stages of team development and change management and identify opportunities for leadership at each stage
- Recognize the unique skills, backgrounds, and needs of individual teams and provide individualized support accordingly
Claim your digital badge
Upon completion of Communication & Conflict Resolution, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
Explore techniques to help you become more confident and proficient in your daily leadership, supervisory, and managerial duties. We'll talk about ways to stay on top of short-term, mid-term, and long-term objectives, and how to balance your many divergent responsibilities through improved productivity, performance management, future planning, and, perhaps most importantly, overcoming imposter syndrome to become the best, most effective leader you can be.
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 | CPD Hours - 12.
What You’ll Learn
- Distinguish between and address common workplace polarities and problems
- Balance short-term, mid-term and long-term expectations, tasks, and responsibilities
- Practice effective time management and task prioritization
- Implement successful and meaningful processes for performance management, recruitment, and succession planning
- Overcome imposter syndrome and build confidence to manage proficiently
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Upon completion of Leadership in Action, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
Artificial Intelligence Ethics Micro-Credential
So, your organization has decided to adopt some AI technology. That’s great! From analytics to productivity to simple in-browser chatbots, AI can provide powerful ways to pursue your organization’s interests and to create value for your clients and customers. But maybe you’re worried about all the AI ethics scandals you keep hearing about—privacy violations, biased algorithms, job-killing automation, autonomous vehicles causing road accidents… that’s not the kind of thing you want your organization to be known for. How does one even start to develop ethical AI?
This micro-credential equips you with the advanced competencies and essential knowledge that the market requires for the growing AI industry focused on ethical oversight and governance. This online, on-demand micro-credential is the first of its kind in Canada and globally.
How it Works:
2 weeks per course | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $2,080 | CPD Hours - 48
Earn a certificate of completion upon completion of all four courses.
Each of these courses are available individually:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already impacting our lives in ways we don’t always see. AI technology is being deployed in many domains, from autonomous vehicles to the Internet of Things (IoT),to a wide range of AI enabled algorithms and robots. Organizations are rushing to embrace the promise and possibilities of an AI-enabled future. AI is estimated to be a $13T global market by 2030. (McKinsey)
But as with all new technologies, advancement can outpace regulation, unleashing a range of ethical concerns about possible harm done by the careless deployment of AI. We are already seeing the early warning signs and often devastating consequences these technologies can have on people’s lives. A few examples include:
- Tragic stories about facial recognition used in policing and the devastating, unjust outcomes
- People being killed by autonomous vehicles
- The political and social consequences of widespread misinformation
- Discriminatory practices conducted by automated systems that impact people’s access to employment, education, healthcare, insurance and financial products
Take advantage of group pricing when you purchase 5 or more seats. Your cost is reduced to $450 per person! Reduction applied at checkout.
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demond, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 - 5 or more $450 | CPD Hours 12
What You’ll Learn
- Review the basics of how AI works
- Explore common misconceptions about AI
- Learn about contemporary applications and limitations of AI
- Examine professional and philosophical approaches to addressing ethical issues in AI
- Find concrete tools and processes for ethically aligning AI projects with your organization’s goals and values
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Upon completion of AI Ethics: An Introduction, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
Data is a necessary input for AI systems. In our digitally connected world, it's virtually impossible to go through a day without generating data. Yet, the use of big data to fuel AI raises several ethical concerns. There are questions around the protection of privacy and the creation of a surveillance culture in the over collection of data. It's not clear whether we can adequately consent to the use of our personal data given the onslaught and opacity of digital terms and conditions agreements. There are also issues that arise from historically biased, incomplete, or unrepresentative datasets that lead to harmful outcomes that disproportionately impact marginalized communities. This course explores the role of data in the development of AI systems and outlines ways in which we can apply better data ethics principles and practices.
Have you considered the social and ethical ramifications of big data or its integration with AI technologies? Have you developed the knowledge and skills needed to identify and manage the potential risks of collecting, storing, processing, and using large amounts of data?
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demond, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 | CPD Hours 12
What You’ll Learn
- Explore the rise of big data, as a new and valuable class of data
- Assess the ethical issues associated with datafication, including principles of data justice and data sovereignty
- Examine the role of data in training machine learning models for AI applications and systems
- Learn how bias is encoded in datasets and find strategies for mitigating the risk of bias
- Consider the social, moral, and legal dimensions of privacy and what constitutes personal information
- Discover strategies for protecting data security, promoting the privacy of data subjects, and enacting best practices in data governance
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Upon completion of AI Ethics: Data, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
Technology is not neutral. There are many human choices that go into the design of any technology, including machine learning models. Choices are made about the type of model to use, which features should be included or excluded and what things should be "optimized" for in the model. Ultimately, AI is constructed by people. The fact that some AI systems are unexplainable "black boxes" is a design choice.
Today’s AI systems exemplify narrow AI. They do not have intrinsic motivations of their own. Nor are they able to solve every problem that a human can. Rather, they are designed to tackle narrowly defined tasks—to make predictions, recommendations, or decisions in specific domains for specific purposes. This course provides context for how machine learning models actually work and tackles the question of how these models can be designed in ways that better align with core ethical principles.
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demond, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 | CPD Hours 12
What You’ll Learn
- Learn about the applications and limits of machine learning, a prominent approach to AI
- Explore ethical issues associated with the development and use of machine learning models
- Examine the implications of opaque models for accountability and autonomy
- Consider how design choices influence user behaviour
- Assess the role of data bias in producing unjust outcomes in AI systems
- Find strategies for improving transparency and accountability, promoting autonomy, and mitigating bias in machine learning projects and applications
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Upon completion of AI Ethics: Data, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
The measure of effective leadership is based on the lasting effects long after they are gone.
What happens when robots take on tasks that have traditionally been performed by human workers and caregivers? Are there limits to what robotic systems and applications can do? What role do companies and other stakeholders have to play in ensuring that robots are designed, built, sold, and used responsibly?
Depending on your professional background, you may feel like you already know the answers to these questions. Have you considered the social and ethical ramifications of outsourcing work and other activities to robots? Have you developed the knowledge and skills needed to identify and manage the potential risks?
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demond, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 | CPD Hours 12
What You’ll Learn
- Learn about the applications and limits of classical and autonomous robots.
- Explore ethical issues associated with the development and use of robotic systems.
- Examine the effects of robot-enabled automation in the workforce and other contexts.
- Consider how design choices shape people’s interactions with robots and other human beings.
- Find strategies for promoting autonomy and well-being, improving transparency and accountability, and mitigating the potential risks of systems or projects that involve robots.
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Upon completion of AI Ethics: Data, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
Coach Approach for Leadership Development
Amplify your leadership abilities with the Coach Approach for Leadership Development. Deploy the best coaching practices to help you strengthen your employee relationships, support growth, and increase engagement with your team.
This course will take you on a journey to provide you with relevant considerations, applications, and even provide you with a toolkit to help you put into practice the Coach Approach.
Take advantage of group pricing when you purchase 5 or more seats. Your cost is reduced to $450 per person! Reduction applied at checkout.
How it Works:
2 weeks | Online, On-Demand, Self-paced | CPHR Member Price $520 - 5 or more $450 | CPD Hours - 12.
What You’ll Learn
- Apply contemporary leadership principles
- Demonstrate enhanced ability in coaching through effective communication
- Manage team responsibilities, expectations, and performance
- Utilize practical communication tools for empowering your team
- Increase motivation, engagement, and collaboration
- Give and receive feedback
- Adopt the Coach Approach to drive improved organizational culture
- Practice the Coach Approach in a unique AI-powered simulation!
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Upon completion of Coach Approach for Leadership Development, a digital badge is awarded. Share the badge and your earned competencies with your network.
Learning Pathways
Take your learning to the next level by completing either the Leader Development Program or Essential Skills for Leaders certificate plus the Coach Approach for Leadership Development and earn a Master Badge in Leadership & Coaching.
Things You Need to Know
How many CPD hours will I earn per course?
The following courses or certificates have been Pre-Approved by CPHR Alberta for the following CPD hours:
- Embracing Allyship & Inclusion Micro-course – 8 hours
- All other courses – 12 hours
- Certificates – 48 hours total
When do I start?
You can start the course as soon as you register! You will automatically be directed to the interactive learning environment.
Are there tests or quizzes involved?
In the majority of courses, there will be assessments. All assessments are designed to be accessible and easy to complete by engaging in the course content. Within each module, you will have the answers to each assessment.
What is the refund policy?
No refunds will be issued for courses. Refunds may be considered under exceptional circumstances on a case-by-case basis. Please contact powered@athabascau.ca for more information.
What are the computer requirements for this course?
You should have access to a Mac, PC, or tablet with an Internet connection, with Safari, Chrome, Microsoft Edge or Firefox as a browser. Here is a link that outlines browser support:
https://documentation.brightspace.com/EN/brightspace/requirements/all/browser_support.htm
For virtual sessions:
- Speakers/headphones
- Web camera and microphone
Learners that want to use their smart phone to access the courses can also download the D2L Pulse App for free to access the course available on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.d2l.brightspace.student.android&hl=en_CA
Or the Apple App Store: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/brightspace-pulse/id1001688546
Who do I contact if I need help?
You can contact powered@athabascau.ca