{"id":666,"date":"2017-05-12T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/?p=666"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:54:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T14:54:03","slug":"666","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/criw\/2017\/666\/","title":{"rendered":"Ledianis Rivero-Sosa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Management Program Offers Insight and Validation to Everyday Work<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ledianis Rivero-Sosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This year marks the 25<\/em>th<\/sup><\/em> <\/em>anniversary of the<\/em> <\/em>Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work<\/em><\/strong><\/a> <\/em>(CREWW) which offers a part-time professional program for women to enhance their leadership and management skills. Graduates from the program will be profiled over the next few weeks.
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By the time Ledianis Rivero-Sosa emigrated from Cuba to Canada through the Federal Skilled Worker<\/a> program, she already had four diplomas, including a bachelor\u2019s degree in English language and literature, and a diploma from a highly selective training program for managers in the tourism industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After arriving in Canada, she had also landed a position at World Skills Employment Centre<\/a>, an organization that supports newcomers to Canada in their job search process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So she wasn\u2019t particularly looking for more education, or at least not outside her field of communications. But then Rivero-Sosa came across the Sprott School of Business<\/a>\u2019s Management Certificate for Women<\/a> (MCW).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learning How to Excel<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was not something that I was looking for. But when I read about all the courses and the content that would be delivered, I said, \u2018I think it\u2019s going to be great for me.\u2019 Also because I had been promoted to a new position and I thought that this program could be the right opportunity for me to learn how to excel at my new role.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrolling last September, Rivero-Sosa graduated in March and says the program offered good training and connections, and the schedule fit her busy home life as the mother of a toddler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Perhaps not surprisingly, her favourite units of the certificate were those that dealt with communications skills, although she also learned a lot from many of the modules about leadership, managing change, managing others, and conflict management.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ledianis Rivero-Sosa<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Equally important was hearing confirmation for things she did intuitively. \u201cI\u2019ve learned many things, but for many others it\u2019s in the validation. Hearing \u2018that\u2019s exactly what you are supposed to do\u2019 has been great,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Insight into the Canadian Workplace<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet another benefit was the insight into the Canadian workplace. \u201cI\u2019m not in Cuba anymore. There I knew what I needed to know and I knew what I had to do. But here, it\u2019s not the same. It really gave me a new and insightful perspective,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rivero-Sosa adds that the insights about Canadian workplaces came from her fellow students as well as her professors. \u201cWe get richer in knowledge not only from the lectures, but from the women in the course. All of them come with huge experience in different sectors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She says she\u2019s already put some ideas into practice at World Skills Employment Centre, in her new position of co-ordinator for Pre-Employment Services and the Federal Internship for Newcomers Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s also enthusiastic about recommending the program to colleagues, and has shared some top tips with her network through a LinkedIn post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI posted on my LinkedIn that I graduated. I have my certificate in my cubicle. I\u2019m very proud of this accomplishment\u201d she says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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