Our departmental values

Leadership

• Strive to uphold the university's promise internally and externally.
• Honour our students' investment.
• Represent the university internally and externally.
• Communicate.

Respect

• Remember it's not personal.
• Emotional safety.
• Respect everyone's role and importance.
• Assume others have positive intentions.
• Respect other teams.
• Trustworthy: to be trusted to succeed and trust colleagues to do the same.
• Accountable.
• Embrace present-day thinking.
  

Co-operation

• Listen and understand stakeholder needs.
• Show empathy to other teams and effectively collaborate with team.
• Work as a team towards a common goal.
• Share and listen to ideas.
• Encourage open, up/down/cross communication.
• Accessible.
• Respond to the thoughts and ideas of others with an open mind.
• Communication openly with team members.

Resourcefulness

• Accept current state/role, department, university.
• Adapt to changes in a positive and supportive manner.
• Communicate honestly project timelines/updates.

Confidence

• Exercise confidence to make big decisions.
• Incorporate our vision in every task.
• Plan with purpose.
• Seek insights vs. subjective-based decisions.

Continuous Improvement

• Understand and learn from past experiences and move to improve them.
• Reflect: what we've done affects the future.
• Own our mistakes.
• Be accountable for our actions.
• Commit to ongoing improvements and quality (Processes, work, project skills).

Supportive

• Recognize jobs completed well.
• Provide opportunities to develop skills.
• Understand and support of skill sets and expertise.
• Build in time for learning and celebration.