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Coming soon | McGill Online Mini-MBA

We know first-hand that managers are facing more disruptions than ever before. One of the biggest questions that companies are asking themselves today is how they can adapt to today's new reality—a challenge we have also had to face.

 

McGill Executive Institute has been working hard not only to offer our most popular programs online but also to create an impactful virtual experience for our participants. With that in mind, we are pleased to announce that our Mini-MBA Series will be offered online!

 

Classified as: Executive Education, External, faculty, management, McGill Executive Institute, staff, training, Mini-MBA
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Published on: 19 May 2020

Training farmers for the 21st century

Keesha Ness’s family certainly knows farming – they’ve been doing it for nearly 100 years and plan to celebrate when they reach that milestone next summer.

Ness is passionate about farming, loves her cows, and plans to follow the family’s tradition.

“I’m definitely hoping to help out with the management side,” says Ness of her family’s Ayrshire dairy farm in Howick, Quebec.

“I really love the management side of it.”

Classified as: farming, dairy cattle, training
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Published on: 21 Nov 2019

Eurofins Food Safety Systems Partners with McGill University for Public Food Safety Training for Canadian Food Manufacturers

 

Eurofins Food Safety Systems (EFSS) and the Food Safety and Quality Program (FSQP) at McGill University are excited to announce a signed agreement to provide co-branded public training for the Canadian food manufacturing industry. The courses include the highly sought-after FSMA Preventive Controls Qualified Individual Training as well as GFSI benchmarked standard training to SQF and BRC. The partnership is an exceptional pairing as Eurofins and McGill University share a common interest in the success of the Canadian food manufacturing industry.

Classified as: training, food industry, Food Safety and Quality Program, FSQP, Eurofins
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Published on: 10 Jun 2016

New LSM 800 Microscope

The Advanced BioImaging Facility (ABIF) has integrated a brand new LSM 800 microscope from Zeiss into the facility.

Featuring convenient and user-friendly software complete with custom-made shortcut buttons for experiment repetition as well as diode lasers for fast start-up and beautiful images.

Classified as: training, ABIF, microscope, lsm800, zeiss
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Published on: 1 Mar 2016

FIS 351 Crystal Reports for Finance Users – Level 1 - Registration is now open in Minerva - REMINDER

Dear Colleagues,

Spaces are still available for  course FIS 351 Crystal Reports for Finance Users Level I. If interested, register for this course through the Employee menu in Minerva (IT Customer Service (ICS) Training Menu > Banner/Minerva > select FIS 351). Based on registration numbers, we may reduce the number of sessions offered between February and April.

Classified as: Financial Services, training, crystal reports, FIS 351
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Published on: 18 Jan 2016

FIS 351 Crystal Reports for Finance Users – Level 1 - Registration is now open in Minerva

Dear Colleagues,

January to April sessions for course FIS 351 Crystal Reports for Finance Users Level I are now open for registration in Minerva. This course covers basic functions to modify text and field objects in existing crystal report templates pulling data from the FIS data warehouse. The complete course description along with prerequisites is available in the IT Knowledge Base.

Classified as: Financial Services, training, crystal reports
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Published on: 18 Dec 2015

New LSM 800 Microscope

The Advanced BioImaging Facility (ABIF) has integrated a brand new LSM 800 microscope from Zeiss into the facility.

Featuring convenient and user-friendly software complete with custom-made shortcut buttons for experiment repetition as well as Airyscan for 1.7x more resolution in image acquisition.

Classified as: training, ABIF, microscope, lsm800, zeiss
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Published on: 10 Dec 2015

NEW course: FIS 351 Crystal Reports for Finance Users – Level 1

Dear Colleagues,

Classified as: training, reporting, crystal reports, FIS
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Published on: 17 Sep 2015

Practice doesn’t always make perfect (depending on your brain)

Study fuels nature versus nurture debate

How do you get to Carnegie Hall? New research on the brain’s capacity to learn suggests there’s more to it than the adage that “practise makes perfect.” A music-training study by scientists at the Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital -The Neuro, at McGill University and colleagues in Germany found evidence to distinguish the parts of the brain that account for individual talent from the parts that are activated through training.

Classified as: music, neuroscience, brain, training, Robert Zatorre, Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital, mcgill faculty of medicine research
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Published on: 28 Jul 2015

Who is working on Global Health at McGill?

You can now find research teams and individual faculty members more easily in our NEW Research and Training section. In addition McGill-based Global Health team can apply for funding! Learn more here.

Classified as: Research, training, faculty, Global Health, website, Update
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Published on: 15 Apr 2015

McGill Executive Institute is proud to launch the 2013-2014 seminar calendar

Shaping leaders and managers to be at their best

Classified as: seminar, training, Executive Education, McGill Executive Institute
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Published on: 30 Oct 2013

Key modifications urged for Québec energy policy

Key modifications urged for Québec energy policy

Classified as: engineering, Sustainability, McGill, education, training, policy, Polytechnique, Quebec, government, institute energie Trottier, sustainability policy, TISED
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Published on: 24 Oct 2013

Desjardins Group and The Neuro – training the next generation of neuroscientists

As part of The Neuro’s Thinking Ahead Campaign, a $240,000 donation from Desjardins Group, the largest financial cooperative group in Canada, to The Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital – The Neuro, McGill University has enabled the creation of the Desjardins Outstanding Student Award. Twelve awards of 20 000 $ each will support top-rated graduate students and postdoctoral fellows who are advancing research to better understand the nervous system and neurological disorders and aid in developing new therapies.

Classified as: neuroscience, brain, training, The Neuro, Desjardins
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Published on: 4 Sep 2013
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