Uncovering and Utilizing Your Talents and Skills
We all have individual talents and skills that make us unique in some way, but you may not be aware of your own skills, or how to use those skills to improve many areas of your life.
In this course, you’ll learn what is meant by talent and skill, and why it’s important to understand what talents you possess. This course also covers techniques for identifying your unique capabilities, and outlines what you should include in a talent action plan to fully utilize and develop your key talents and skills.Â
30 Minutes
- Distinguish between talents and skills
- Recognize the rewards you gain from knowing your talents and skills
- Distinguish between the three types of skills you can have
- Recognize techniques for identifying your talents and skills
- Identify the elements to include in a talent action plan
Self-improvement for Lifelong Success
No matter how much experience you may have, there’s always room for improvement. Self-improvement is a lifelong journey of learning that can have lasting positive impacts on your personal and professional life. By encouraging organizational learning with both established and developing employees, you can foster an environment of self-development.
In this course, you’ll learn about the key principles for committing to self-improvement and continuous learning. You’ll also learn how to create a plan to organize self-improvement activities and start developing talent. You’ll find out how to develop an effective self-improvement mentoring relationship when developing people. And you’ll explore what common obstacles you may encounter in your self-improvement efforts.Â
40 Minutes
- Identify key principles of committing to self-improvement
- Recognize the positive impacts self-improvement efforts can have on your life
- Identify the five steps for creating a self-improvement plan
- Identify activities that help you maintain an openness to learning and self-development
- Identify the key characteristics necessary for developing a positive self-improvement mentoring relationship
- Recognize common obstacles to self-improvement
Establishing Self-confidence for Life
Healthy self-confidence is critical for success in your life, and not just your personal life, but professional as well. When the people you interact with in daily life sense that you don’t feel confident in yourself, they may not feel confident in you either.
In this course, you’ll learn what’s meant by ‘self-confidence,’ and the behavioral indicators of low and healthy self-confidence levels. You’ll also learn how to perform a personal analysis of your current self-confidence levels, so you know which areas to work on. Finally, you’ll discover real-world techniques you can use for building and maintaining healthy self-confidence levelsÂ
40 Minutes
- Distinguish between the key contributing elements of self-confidence
- Identify behaviors that indicate low self-confidence
- Recognize healthy self-confidence behavioral indicators
- Identify the steps for assessing your current self-confidence level
- Recognize techniques to use to increase your level of self-confidence
- Identify techniques for maintaining healthy self-confidence levels
Procrastination: Admitting it is the First Step
Procrastinating can be a big obstacle to efficient time management. The good news is that there are ways to overcome a tendency to procrastinate. The trick is to figure out what your own personal reason is for putting off what you know you need to do.
In this course, you’ll discover what may be behind your tendency to procrastinate by learning the indicators. Then you’ll explore many helpful techniques and strategies for dealing with procrastination and improving efficiency.
There are four key areas covered in this course: improving focus, increasing self-motivation, taking action, and improving your ability to organize.Â
30 Minutes
- Match causes of procrastination with key indicators
- Use techniques to overcome procrastination by being less distracted
- Use self-motivation techniques to overcome procrastination
- Use techniques to overcome procrastination by becoming more decisive
- Use strategies to overcome procrastination by organizing your time
Beating Procrastination by Boosting Your Creativity and Drive
Everyone could benefit from a boost in creativity. Whether you’re in marketing and advertising, management, or software development, all professionals need to be able to come up with original ideas and think outside the box every now and then.
But sometimes the pressure to think creatively is the very thing that blocks the flow of fresh ideas and results in the type of procrastination that is an obstacle to efficient time management.
This course focuses on the relationship between procrastinating and creativity. You’ll learn about how the optimal amount of procrastination actually boosts creativity and efficiency. You’ll also learn how to use creativity boosters to help you past those times when you procrastinate a little too much.Â
30 Minutes
- Describe the optimal amount of procrastination that a person should strive for
- Recognize strategies for overcoming personal tendencies and conditions that inhibit creativity
- Identify activities that promote creativity during a period of procrastination
- Use collaboration as a way to boost creativity and overcome procrastination
- Overcome procrastination by using techniques to take charge of your life
Improving Your Memory Skills
Despite the regular hunt for car keys and phones, most people have perfectly adequate memories, they just don’t always know how to best utilize it. Improving your memory means tapping into the power of your amazing human brain.
In this course, you’ll discover techniques for memory improvement that go well beyond simple rote memorization. You’ll learn about basic memory skills and learn how to use them to recall important details like passwords, as well as broader concepts and applications.Â
30 Minutes
- Recognize the principles of repetition, exaggeration, imagery, and focus
- Recognize basic mnemonic devices
- Identify the steps of the memory palace technique
- Remember people’s names and faces
- Recognize tips for memorizing text that you’ll later need to recite from memory
- Create strong passwords that are easy to remember
Improving Your Reading Speed and Comprehension
Most people have been taught to read the same way – letter by letter, word by word, and line by line. But that’s an inefficient way of reading, especially for those who have a lot to read and very little time to accomplish it.
In this course, you’ll learn the bad reading habits that keep you from reading more efficiently, and simple tips you can use and practice to increase your reading speed and comprehension.Â
30 Minutes
- Recognize the basic information that you need to start increasing your reading speed
- Recognize bad reading habits that slow down your reading speed
- Recognize how to read only the information you need
- Recognize ways to use your hand to increase your reading speed
- Recognize how to read groups of words
- Identify ways to increase your comprehension while reading
Understanding Unconscious Bias
No matter who you are, you are prey to unconscious biases. To be part of a complex, diverse team you must take steps to overcome implicit and explicit biases and reject social stereotypes. Understanding you own bias, whether conscious or unconscious, is the key.
In this course you’ll learn about the characteristics of unconscious bias and the nature of buried prejudice. You’ll discover how they can inadvertently affect your thinking and decision-making. And you’ll learn about the positive things that can happen when you take an anti-biased approach to people and situations in the workplace.Â
40 Minutes
- Recognize key characteristics of unconscious bias
- Match assumption-based unconscious biases to their descriptions
- Categorize examples of confirmation-based unconscious biases
- Distinguish between unconscious biases related to fixation
- Recognize how addressing unconscious bias can benefit the workplace
- Recognize unconscious biases in the workplace
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Overcoming Your Own Unconscious Biases
Each of us is a member of a society that is often partitioned into groups and tribes. While this is common to most societies, it can have harmful effects in the workplace, interfering with productivity and organizational success. We all hold biases, whether conscious or unconscious.
Part of understanding the role of unconscious bias in the workplace is admitting to yourself that you, too, hold biases. Once accepted, you can take an anti-bias approach to overcoming unconscious prejudice.
In this course, you’ll learn how to recognize your own unconscious and implicit bias and how they can fall prey to social stereotypes.Â
40 Minutes
- Identify how to recognize your unconscious biases
- Identify tactics for observing your own unconscious biases
- Recognize how to overcome unconscious bias by forming relationships with others
- Identify guidelines for avoiding unconscious bias when making decisions
- Identify the tactics for combating bias revival
- Recognize the process for overcoming your unconscious biases
Overcoming Unconscious Bias in the Workplace
Ensuring a diverse, welcoming, and productive organization means overcoming biases. No matter who you are, you are prey to unconscious biases. To be part of a complex, diverse workplace, you must take steps to overcome them.
In this course, you’ll learn to recognize how superficial differences can contribute to bias and lead to prejudice and social stereotypes. You’ll learn specific tactics for combating unconscious bias and adopting an anti-bias approach. You’ll also learn how to be an inclusive leader by using these tactics to overcome explicit and implicit bias across the organization and in the hiring process.Â
40 Minutes
- Identify the types of differences that can contribute to unconscious bias in an organization
- Recognize subtle signs of unconscious bias in an organization
- Recognize examples of micro-affirmations in the workplace
- Recognize how to lead an organization to overcome unconscious bias
- Identify strategies for overcoming unconscious bias in the hiring process
- Recognize systems that can be put in place to combat organizational bias
- Recognize tactics for overcoming organizational biases
