Being able to balance conflicting priorities of customers is a sophisticated skill to develop, and yet a necessary one. Build your ability to do this and you will greatly increase your personal performance and value to the team. The reason, if you’re able to successfully balance your customers’ needs while still meeting them, you’re making many customers happy at once, and anyone who can do that is certainly an asset to any organization. This course will help you when you have more than one request from a client that must be met or delivered at the same time. Although sometimes this isn’t a problem, at other times you may have a number of work priorities already and the added client requests make it difficult to do it all. By completing this course, you will know how to balance the conflicting priorities of different customers. Course Result: Balance the conflicting priorities of different customers. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).
Most frequent questions and answers
Co-operative education is a three-way partnership between the university, students and employers. Students apply their classroom knowledge in a series of four-month work experiences. You, the employer, enhance a student’s education, while reaping the unique benefits of CO-OP employees.
- Year-round access to well-motivated, qualified employees.
- Access to potential full-time staff in a controlled environment, reducing your costs and risks.
- Access to a cost-effective source of temporary employees for peak periods or special projects.
- A say in what students learn by working with the university.
- Promotion of your organization as one that believes in developing the potential of young people.
- Access to a great pool of French-speaking, English-speaking and bilingual students.
Most work terms run at least 15 weeks, or four months. They can be no shorter than 13 weeks. Some master’s students, as well as some science and engineering students, are available for 8 or 12 months’ work terms.
All jobs are reviewed by a CO-OP Program Coordinator, and only those providing students with work experience related to their professional development are approved. Administrative activities involved in a job should be less than 10% of the entire workload.
When you first contact SSC, you are assigned one of our Program Coordinators, depending on your discipline of interest. This person is your main contact in our office. As you move through the recruitment process, you also work with a representative from CO-OP Administrative Services, who assists with job posting and interview scheduling.