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Self Management
Learn the strategies you can use to hold yourself accountable for goals, development, time-management, managing emotions, and navigating uncertainty.
Become a valued and productive member of the workforce, knowing how to reflect on and identify your own strengths and weaknesses in your self-management.
Includes over 5 hours of lessons including:
- What It Means To Be Professional
- Accountability
- Set Personal Goals
- Staying Motivated
- Manage Time And Priorities
- Personal Development
- Manage Your Emotions
- Managing Stress
- How To Deal With Ambiguity
- Make A Good First Impression
Communicate Clearly
Learn how to effectively communicate by creating clear messages, practicing proactive listening, and adapting communication.
Be able to communicate clearly through written and verbal messages, including knowing how to deliver difficult messages, using confidence and emotional intelligence.
Includes over 5 hours of lessons including:
- What Is Effective Communication
- Create Clear Messages
- Proactive Listening
- Communication Style
- Overcoming Communication Barriers
- Cross Cultural Communication
- Effective E-mail
- Communicating Virtually
- Small Group Communication
- Deliver Difficult Messages
Teamwork
Learn how to build positive and productive workplace relationships, including virtual relationships, through mutual understanding, collaboration, appreciation, and trust.
Develop the skills to hold yourself and teammates accountable for the accomplishment of mutual goals and objectives.
Includes over 5 hours of lessons including:
Thinking On Your Feet
Learn how to identify and implement strategies and tools to improve outcomes by improving your thinking using logical reasoning to arrive at valid conclusions, all while learning to avoid common thinking traps.
Be able to gather high-quality information to apply appropriate clear thinking techniques in the workplace and clearly comunicate your thinking process with others.
Includes over 5 hours of lessons including:
- The Value Of Clear Thinking
- Gather Good Information
- Analyze The Information
- Inference And Reasoning
- Arguments And Conclusions
- Thinking Styles
- Avoid Thinking Traps
- Applications Of Clear Thinking
- Evaluate And Prioritize Ideas
- Move On From Conflict
Problem Solving
Learn how to arrive at sound and actionable solutions by learning how to apply problem-solving processes including root-cause analysis and appreciative inquiry.
Be able to generate, test, and implement creative, innovative, and actionable solutions to various types of problems and employ problem-solving skills to solve those problems.
Includes over 5 hours of lessons including:
- Define The Problem/Opportunity
- Problem Solving Fundamentals
- Root Cause Analysis
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Innovation Thinking
- Creative Thinking
- Generate Solutions
- Testing The Solution
- Overcome Challenges
- Recognize The Opportunity
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Self Management > Accountability
Learn the strategies you can use to hold yourself accountable for goals, development, time-management, managing emotions, and navigating uncertainty.
