Keeping Your Skillset Current in the Digital Economy
The digital economy is revolutionizing the world of work. To stay relevant, individuals across all industries need to be open to continuous learning and developing talent. Through organizational learning, you can start developing employees by ensuring they are learning the necessary skills.
In this course, you’ll learn some of the key ways in which the world of work is changing and the skills that are in high demand. You’ll also explore ways to choose what to learn in order to keep your skill set current, as well as develop people and encourage self-development. And you’ll also explore strategies to help advance your career in the digital economy.
30 Minutes
- Recognize key ways that work is changing in the digital economy
- Recognize categories of skills in high demand in the digital economy
- Recognize ways to choose what and how to learn to keep your skill set current in the digital economy
- Identify strategies for advancing your career in the digital economy
- Knowledge Check: Keeping Your Skillset Current
A Difficult Boss Doesn't Have to Be a Difficult Problem
Working for a difficult boss can be challenging. In this course, you will learn about the management styles, communication styles, and personality types of difficult bosses. You will also learn strategies for working with a difficult boss and what to do if a boss becomes abusive.
30 Minuets
- Discover the subject areas that will be covered in this course
- Identify strategies for working with a boss who has a difficult management style
- Recognize positive ways to communicate with a difficult boss
- Identify methods for thriving under a boss with a difficult personality
- Identify strategies for remaining mindful under a difficult boss
- Recognize steps to take when difficult behavior becomes abusive
- Knowledge Check: Responding to a Difficult Boss
Taking the Lead with Workplace Motivation and Engagement
The best leaders are masters in workplace motivation and engagement.
In this course, you will learn the characteristics of motivation and engagement, as well as techniques for optimizing both. You will also learn techniques for motivating and engaging yourself and others, in both onsite and remote situations.
30 Minutes
- Discover the subject areas that will be covered in this course
- Recognize the forces that drive motivation and engagement
- Identify techniques that foster self-motivation
- Recognize techniques that develop self-engagement
- Identify coaching techniques that maximize motivation and engagement in yourself or in others
- Recognize techniques for enhancing your motivation and engagement as a remote worker, or in others who work remotely
- Knowledge Check: Attaining Peak Motivation and Engagement
Outwitting Your Cognitive Bias
In order to make the best business decisions, you need to confront – and overcome – your cognitive biases. In this course, you will learn techniques for identifying cognitive bias, as well as strategies for overcoming specific biases.
30 Minutes
- Identify the causes of cognitive bias
- Recognize the characteristics of three types of cognitive bias
- Identify strategies for avoiding prediction bias
- Recognize the strategies for avoiding decision bias
- Identify the strategies for avoiding action bias
- Knowledge Check: Understanding Cognitive Bias
Be Liked and Respected in the Workplace
Eighty percent of your day is spent at work. Whether you commute to an office or work from home, to a huge degree your professional success depends on your likability. Think about all your professional interactions; you work on team projects, collaborate on conference calls, sit in meetings, talk to clients, etc. These and more are situations that require your ability to be liked.
However, it’s not a popularity contest. Being liked doesn’t mean you give up your professional integrity. Although it’s not possible to be liked by everyone, this course teaches you techniques to be likable and respected by your colleagues and boss. You will also learn how to ‘get over it’ when someone in the workplace does not like you.
40 Minutes
- Recognize techniques for being likable in the workplace
- Recognize how to be likable without losing respect from others in the workplace
- Recognize communication techniques that enable you to communicate better and be well-liked
- Recognize appropriate tech-etiquette to be well-liked in the workplace
- Identify techniques that help you to get over it when a coworker does not like you
- Identify techniques to overcome your boss not liking you
- Knowledge Check: Becoming Likable in the Workplace
Solve Problems Using Systems Thinking in the Workplace
Systems thinking allows you to understand how systems work, as well as your role in them. Systems thinking affords you the ability to see the interrelationships among all events, putting you in a better position to address problems
30 Minutes
- Recognize sources of organizational and interpersonal conflict
- Identify actions that help prevent or mitigate workplace conflicts
- Recognize behavior outside acceptable boundaries of workplace conflict
- Recognize appropriate actions to take when confronted with a conflict situation
- Identify steps for resolving a workplace conflict
- Identify techniques for overcoming obstacles to conflict resolution
- Knowledge Check: Overcoming Workplace Conflict
Becoming a Successful Collaborator
When organizations are recruiting, one of the top skills they look for in a candidate is their ability to collaborate. Today’s hiring managers know that collaboration leads to improved problem-solving, increased productivity and promotes interconnected team members who share expertise and learn from one another.
Defining collaboration is tricky because it means different things across industries, departments and roles.
In this course you’ll learn about the meaning of collaboration, the concept of teaming in collaboration, and best practices for being a good team member and for being a successful collaborator. You’ll examine conflict management styles to determine which one is yours, and the impact on your team.
50 Minutes
- Apply techniques to be a successful collaborator
- Identify characteristics of collaboration
- Recognize characteristics that help you be a better collaborator
- Recognize characteristics of good team members
- Identify the characteristics of teaming
- Recognize the different work styles of collaborators
- Knowledge Check: Becoming a Successful Collaborator
Becoming a Continuous Learner
Continuous learning is a response to the modern workplace: technology, staff and company direction change constantly. Continuous learners are able to adapt and obtain necessary skills and knowledge in a constantly changing workplace. Continuously learning provides you with a competitive edge in your job and in your career.
In this course, you’ll learn the behaviors that define continuous learning and their benefits. You’ll also learn habits to practice to aid becoming a continuous learner, along with reading and learning agility strategies for encouraging life-long learning.
20 Minutes
- Recognize benefits of continuous learning
- Recognize continuous learning behaviors
- Identify habits used to become a successful continuous learner
- Identify reading strategies that give you a competitive advantage
- Identify learning agility strategies
- Knowledge Check: Applying Strategies for Continuous Learning
How to Learn Effectively
Effective learning is not about memorizing and reciting on a test, and it doesn’t only exist in a formal educational setting. In this course, you’ll learn some key strategies to boost your ability to explore, be inquisitive, and use all your senses to learn the way you prefer to learn.
30 Minutes
- Recognize the definitions of effective learning
- Recognize the benefits of effective learning
- Identify strategies for becoming an effective learner
- Recognize how to use meta cognition to become an effective learner
- Knowledge Check: Using Best Practices for Effective Learning
Leveraging the Power of Analogical Thinking
When struggling with a difficult problem, it’s easy to become hemmed in by traditional habitual thinking. Learning to leverage the power of analogical thinking allows you to think creatively and gain fresh insights through the exploration of unexpected similarities.
In this course, you’ll learn what analogical thinking is, when it’s best used, and how to use it. You’ll also learn under what situations it can fail, and how to avoid superficial analogies so you can make better strategic choices.
30 Minutes
- Identify key characteristics of analogical thinking
- Identify the advantages of using analogical thinking
- Identify steps in the analogical thinking process
- Recognize common reasons why analogies fail
- Recognize key elements of a process to evaluate the strength of analogies
- Knowledge Check: Applying Your Analogical Thinking Skills
