Capstone Experience in Human Relations
General
- Undergraduate
- 75 learners; individual projects
- 20 hours per learner
- Dates set by experience
- Learners self-assign
Preferred companies
- 6 projects wanted
- Canada
- Academic experience
- Startup, Social enterprise, Non profit, Small to medium enterprise
- Arts, Business & management, Business services, Education, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Categories
Project timeline
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September 20, 2023Experience start
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September 27, 2023Needs assessment
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October 4, 2023Service offer
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November 29, 2023Presentation of findings
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December 6, 2023Final Report
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December 6, 2023Experience end
Timeline
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September 20, 2023Experience start
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September 27, 2023Needs assessment
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October 4, 2023Service offer
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November 29, 2023Presentation of findings
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December 6, 2023Final Report
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December 6, 2023Experience end
Overview
- Details
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- Are you working with a team looking to increase its effectiveness and resilience?
- Do you feel the need to reflect on your next strategic priorities?
- Are you looking to develop new skills and capacities with your stakeholders and members?
- Do you need new insights into the experiences, perspectives and priorities of your stakeholders?
Then you may be interested to explore collaborating with a team of human relations students...
Through the involvement of our students, organizations can often :
- Work on special projects they may not normally have the time or capacity to engage in,
- Build effective teams with improved collaboration capacity,
- Clarify their impact and refine their strategic vision;
- Address collaborative challenges that hinder the organization capacity to deliver its work or live its values;
- Learner skills
- Teamwork, Critical thinking, Communication, Data analysis, Research
- Deliverables
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The deliverables will be agreed upon with the organization, as part of a contract with the students. They will depend on the nature of the project, but participating organizations can typically expect:
- Some initial conversations with the student teams to refine the framing and intention of the project you are looking for support with and help the students better understand the context,
- A work plan towards the clarified intended outcomes;
- The design of one or several participative activities involving the stakeholders in your team, organization or community;
- The facilitation of said activities;
- A report on the work done and the results;
- A final feedback conversation.
Project Examples
Examples of projects:
- Skill building workshops
* examples of themes: interpersonal communications, conflict management, leadership, collaboration & teamwork, feedback;
- Facilitating strategic conversations
* Ex: Clarifying vision, mission, values; Creating action plans; etc.
- Gathering and analyzing data through thoughtfully designed participatory research processes
* ex: interviews, focus groups;
- Improving work processes
*ex: creating an onboarding manual, etc.;
- Working on special projects you may not normally have the time or capacity to engage in:
*ex: team building days; community gathering;
Additional company criteria
Companies must answer the following questions to submit a match request to this experience:
The students will be able to work with stakeholders to complete the project.
A representative of the company will be available to answer questions from students in a timely manner for the duration of the project.
A representative of the company will be available for a pre-selection discussion with the administrator of the course to review the project scope.