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Skills for Communication Success

Overview:

There is a science behind communication, including how we react neuro-physiologically to others – their actions, words, tone, and body language. You can develop skills in connecting with others so that your communication intention is clear and understood. There's also an art to communication, allowing your authentic self to shine through and allowing the exchange with another person to unfold naturally. Interpersonal communication is complicated: there's more than just one conversation happening. There is what you're thinking and saying as well as what your audience is thinking and saying. This course will teach you the art and science of communication by discussing how to connect with your audience and how to enhance and strengthen that connection as you communicate.

Designed For:

Individuals who want to improve their interpersonal communication skills

Expected Duration:

2.5 hours

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Overview: There is a science behind communication, including how we react neuro-physiologically to others – their actions, words, tone, and body language. You can develop skills in connecting with others so that your communication intention is clear and understood. There's also an art to communication, allowing your authentic self to shine through and allowing the exchange with another person to unfold naturally. Interpersonal communication is complicated: there's more than just one conversation happening. There is what you're thinking and saying as well as what your audience is thinking and saying. This course will teach you the art and science of communication by discussing how to connect with your audience and how to enhance and strengthen that connection as you communicate. Designed For: Individuals who want to improve their interpersonal communication skills Expected Duration: 2.5 hours Bundle Includes: The Art and Science of Communication Making an Impact with Non-verbal Communication Trust Building through Effective Communication Choosing the Right Interpersonal Communication Method to Make Your Point Become a Great Listener Do We Have a Failure to Communicate?
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Solve Problems Using Systems Thinking in the Workplace

Overview:

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.

Expected Duration:

19 minutes

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Overview: 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. Expected Duration: 19 minutes Learn more
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Strategic Thinking

Overview:

To resolve many of the threats and challenges that your organization will likely have to face, it’s essential that you develop a business strategy that incorporates a clear vision, new ideas, and innovative solutions. This course explores the characteristics of strategic thinking, as well as the traits you need to plan and implement an effective strategy. It also covers how to develop your capacity for thinking strategically through creative thinking, being prepared to deal with complexity, and being aware of what's going on inside and outside your organization. You’ll also learn how understanding your organizational value chain can help you connect to the organization's strategy and implement it more effectively.

Designed for:

Functional managers, professionals, departmental leaders, and all individuals in key roles who want to develop or refine their strategic thinking skills and learn about issues relating to risk and risk management

Expected Duration:

48 Minutes

Bundle Includes:

Overview: To resolve many of the threats and challenges that your organization will likely have to face, it’s essential that you develop a business strategy that incorporates a clear vision, new ideas, and innovative solutions. This course explores the characteristics of strategic thinking, as well as the traits you need to plan and implement an effective strategy. It also covers how to develop your capacity for thinking strategically through creative thinking, being prepared to deal with complexity, and being aware of what's going on inside and outside your organization. You’ll also learn how understanding your organizational value chain can help you connect to the organization's strategy and implement it more effectively. Designed for: Functional managers, professionals, departmental leaders, and all individuals in key roles who want to develop or refine their strategic thinking skills and learn about issues relating to risk and risk management Expected Duration: 48 Minutes Bundle Includes: Thinking Strategically as a Manager Using Strategic Thinking to Consider the Big Picture
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Talent Management Essentials

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Recruiting, hiring, developing, and building and retaining a skilled workforce is HR’s main responsibility. For many prospective recruits, their ideal company is one that values and develops employees. To meet these goals and desires, you’ll need an effective talent management plan. In this course, you’ll learn why acquiring talent and effectively managing it is so important to an organization’s success. You’ll discover how to create a strategy that not only develops talent in your company, but that also retains it in the long term. You’ll also learn about the key activities associated with talent management and the roles played by managers in implementing a talent management strategy. This course introduces workforce planning and global job market issues. You will learn how job analysis can be used to determine organizational hiring needs. Strategies for recruiting and selecting the most suitable candidates are outlined. Finally, you'll learn about key activities for successful onboarding and retention of new hires.

Designed for:

This course is aimed at junior or senior-level human resource professionals, HR managers, and all Compensation and benefits analysts, administrators, staffing managers, and recruiters will also have interest

Expected Duration:

2 hours 8 minutes

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Overview: Recruiting, hiring, developing, and building and retaining a skilled workforce is HR’s main responsibility. For many prospective recruits, their ideal company is one that values and develops employees. To meet these goals and desires, you’ll need an effective talent management plan. In this course, you’ll learn why acquiring talent and effectively managing it is so important to an organization’s success. You’ll discover how to create a strategy that not only develops talent in your company, but that also retains it in the long term. You’ll also learn about the key activities associated with talent management and the roles played by managers in implementing a talent management strategy. This course introduces workforce planning and global job market issues. You will learn how job analysis can be used to determine organizational hiring needs. Strategies for recruiting and selecting the most suitable candidates are outlined. Finally, you'll learn about key activities for successful onboarding and retention of new hires. Designed for: This course is aimed at junior or senior-level human resource professionals, HR managers, and all Compensation and benefits analysts, administrators, staffing managers, and recruiters will also have interest Expected Duration: 2 hours 8 minutes Bundle Includes: Talent Management Essentials: Managing Your Company's Talent Talent Management Essentials: Management of People: Talent Acquisition and Retention
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The Art of Feedback

Overview:

The ability to give genuinely constructive feedback is vital in the workplace. If you’re a manager and are responsible for developing others, you’ll likely have to inform employees if their performance doesn’t meet the standard required. This is a delicate situation, and one that requires tact and preparation. But, if done effectively, providing feedback can not only improve performance, but also motivate people and strengthen relationships. In this course, you’ll learn how to plan a feedback session and how to give feedback in a positive manner. You’ll also learn techniques for handling bad reactions to feedback and your own nervousness, as well as how to give feedback to people at different organizational levels.

Designed for:

Anyone who wants to develop or refine their skills for providing and receiving feedback

Expected Duration:

1 hour 4 minutes

Bundle Includes:

Overview: The ability to give genuinely constructive feedback is vital in the workplace. If you’re a manager and are responsible for developing others, you’ll likely have to inform employees if their performance doesn’t meet the standard required. This is a delicate situation, and one that requires tact and preparation. But, if done effectively, providing feedback can not only improve performance, but also motivate people and strengthen relationships. In this course, you’ll learn how to plan a feedback session and how to give feedback in a positive manner. You’ll also learn techniques for handling bad reactions to feedback and your own nervousness, as well as how to give feedback to people at different organizational levels. Designed for: Anyone who wants to develop or refine their skills for providing and receiving feedback Expected Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes Bundle Includes: Polishing Your Feedback Skills Gaining a Positive Perspective on Feedback
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The Art of Staying Focused

Overview:

Even if you know what's important to do, losing focus can stop your progress. No matter who you are or what job you do, focusing at work can be hard. Even with great schedule management and organizing skills, it's easy to get off track if you're not careful. In this course, you'll learn how to stay focused and stay on top of your schedule. You'll learn strategies for dealing with focus challenges and distractions at work. You’ll also find out how to beat fatigue, manage your time, and decline work-related requests. And you’ll explore how to adjust your focus to deal with change, and how to regain focus when you've lost it.

Designed for:

Anyone at any level in a company who wants to get some practical guidance for how to manage their time.

Expected Duration:

30 Minutes

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Overview: Even if you know what's important to do, losing focus can stop your progress. No matter who you are or what job you do, focusing at work can be hard. Even with great schedule management and organizing skills, it's easy to get off track if you're not careful. In this course, you'll learn how to stay focused and stay on top of your schedule. You'll learn strategies for dealing with focus challenges and distractions at work. You’ll also find out how to beat fatigue, manage your time, and decline work-related requests. And you’ll explore how to adjust your focus to deal with change, and how to regain focus when you've lost it. Designed for: Anyone at any level in a company who wants to get some practical guidance for how to manage their time. Expected Duration: 30 Minutes Learn more
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The Building Blocks of Building Trust

Overview:

Can I trust you? This is what others may ask, often silently, when they work and engage with you. It's also what you ask about another person as well. If you want people to trust you, a firm handshake and good eye contact is not enough. You have to build trust like a mason builds a wall – one stone at a time. Trust is a core ingredient in most every positive relationship. Without trust, the mason's wall takes on a whole new analogy – a barrier with no gate for entry. In this course, you'll explore what makes you and others trustworthy, how to demonstrate trustworthiness, and the importance of extending trust to receive trust.

Expected Duration:

30 minutes

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Overview: Can I trust you? This is what others may ask, often silently, when they work and engage with you. It's also what you ask about another person as well. If you want people to trust you, a firm handshake and good eye contact is not enough. You have to build trust like a mason builds a wall – one stone at a time. Trust is a core ingredient in most every positive relationship. Without trust, the mason's wall takes on a whole new analogy – a barrier with no gate for entry. In this course, you'll explore what makes you and others trustworthy, how to demonstrate trustworthiness, and the importance of extending trust to receive trust. Expected Duration: 30 minutes Learn more
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The Essentials of Anger Management

Overview:

Anger is a normal, and even healthy emotion, rooted in the instinct for self-preservation. However, if it's not managed properly, this powerful emotion can be very destructive. It's important to find healthy ways of owning and expressing your anger. In this course, you'll explore how to manage your anger through emotional and intellectual responses, and how to respond properly to anger directed at you. You'll also explore the nature of anger including its root causes and ways to use it positively in the workplace.

Expected Duration:

0.4 hours

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Overview: Anger is a normal, and even healthy emotion, rooted in the instinct for self-preservation. However, if it's not managed properly, this powerful emotion can be very destructive. It's important to find healthy ways of owning and expressing your anger. In this course, you'll explore how to manage your anger through emotional and intellectual responses, and how to respond properly to anger directed at you. You'll also explore the nature of anger including its root causes and ways to use it positively in the workplace. Expected Duration: 0.4 hours Learn more
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The Reality of Being a First-time Manager

Overview:

The first-time manager often doesn't realize how much their new role differs from that of an individual contributor. They may have misconceptions about what being a new boss entails, and be surprised to learn that the skills and methods required for success as an individual contributor and those needed for success as a new manager are very different. This course describes some of the myths about managing people and their corresponding truths in order to clarify what a new leader really does. It also points to the typical demands and constraints of a manager's job. Finally, it describes strategies for dealing with common mistakes when managing for the first time.

Designed for:

Anyone who is exploring a career move into management, or who has been promoted or hired into a management role for the first time.

Expected Duration:

24 Minutes

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Overview: The first-time manager often doesn't realize how much their new role differs from that of an individual contributor. They may have misconceptions about what being a new boss entails, and be surprised to learn that the skills and methods required for success as an individual contributor and those needed for success as a new manager are very different. This course describes some of the myths about managing people and their corresponding truths in order to clarify what a new leader really does. It also points to the typical demands and constraints of a manager's job. Finally, it describes strategies for dealing with common mistakes when managing for the first time. Designed for: Anyone who is exploring a career move into management, or who has been promoted or hired into a management role for the first time. Expected Duration: 24 Minutes Learn more
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The Voice of Leadership

Overview:

People are inspired when they trust their leaders and are mobilized by common goals. When you strive to inspire others through your leadership, you demonstrate credibility and create a community with a shared vision. Monitoring your own leadership development is a simple and effective way to ensure success in your team collaboration. Knowing how to self-assess your teamwork and leadership competencies will help you improve your skills when managing teams in the future. In this course, you'll learn about the characteristics people look for in an inspiring leader. You’ll explore the traits and behaviors that inspirational leaders exemplify, and how your words and actions can help persuade your employees to believe in a vision. Finally, you'll learn about the role of clear, credible, and persuasive messages in inspirational leadership.

Designed for:

Managers, team leaders, or professionals who want to increase their understanding of developing the leadership attributes of self-assessment, motivation, messaging, effective communication, and inspiration.

Expected Duration:

55 minutes

Bundle Includes:

Overview: People are inspired when they trust their leaders and are mobilized by common goals. When you strive to inspire others through your leadership, you demonstrate credibility and create a community with a shared vision. Monitoring your own leadership development is a simple and effective way to ensure success in your team collaboration. Knowing how to self-assess your teamwork and leadership competencies will help you improve your skills when managing teams in the future. In this course, you'll learn about the characteristics people look for in an inspiring leader. You’ll explore the traits and behaviors that inspirational leaders exemplify, and how your words and actions can help persuade your employees to believe in a vision. Finally, you'll learn about the role of clear, credible, and persuasive messages in inspirational leadership. Designed for: Managers, team leaders, or professionals who want to increase their understanding of developing the leadership attributes of self-assessment, motivation, messaging, effective communication, and inspiration. Expected Duration: 55 minutes Bundle Includes: The Voice of Leadership: Becoming an Inspirational Leader The Voice of Leadership: Assessing Your Own Leadership Performance
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Thinking Strategically and Managing Risk

Overview:

It's important that all professionals in an organization learn how to think strategically in order to help them in their management tasks. This course explores the characteristics of strategic thinking as well as the traits you need to be an effective strategic thinker. It also covers how to develop your capacity for thinking strategically though being creative, being prepared to deal with complexity, and being aware of what's going on inside and outside your organization. This course also focuses on identifying risk factors, which is the first stage of risk management. It outlines key techniques you can use to identify risk including how to use root cause identification, the Delphi technique, and brainstorming sessions.

Designed for:

Functional managers, professionals, departmental leaders, and all individuals in key roles who want to develop or refine their strategic thinking skills and learn about issues relating to risk and risk management

Expected Duration:

3 hours

Bundle Includes:

Overview: It's important that all professionals in an organization learn how to think strategically in order to help them in their management tasks. This course explores the characteristics of strategic thinking as well as the traits you need to be an effective strategic thinker. It also covers how to develop your capacity for thinking strategically though being creative, being prepared to deal with complexity, and being aware of what's going on inside and outside your organization. This course also focuses on identifying risk factors, which is the first stage of risk management. It outlines key techniques you can use to identify risk including how to use root cause identification, the Delphi technique, and brainstorming sessions. Designed for: Functional managers, professionals, departmental leaders, and all individuals in key roles who want to develop or refine their strategic thinking skills and learn about issues relating to risk and risk management Expected Duration: 3 hours Bundle Includes: Thinking Strategically as a Manager Using Strategic Thinking to Consider the Big Picture Identifying Risks in Your Organization Assessing Your Organization's Risks Responding Effectively to Risks
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Time Management

Overview:

Meeting targets and achieving goals consistently regardless of the business situation isn't easy. A big part of doing this successfully is managing time effectively. In this course, you'll learn why it's important to align your goals with your company's goals, and you'll learn how to do it with a goal alignment worksheet. You'll also learn how to ask questions to clarify goals, and how to establish and prioritize priorities based on these goals.

You'll learn strategies for improving your productivity depending on your time management personality, how to deal with time stealers, create manageable to-do lists, and maintain an organized time management approach.

In addition, you'll learn strategies for dealing with focus challenges and distractions at work, explore ways of saying no, and consider ways in which you can adjust your focus in response to changing circumstances or emergencies. Lastly, you'll learn how to refocus when something causes you to lose focus.

Designed For:

Anyone at any level in a company who wants to get some practical guidance for how to manage their time.

Expected Duration:

1 hour 24 minutes

Bundle Includes:

Overview: Meeting targets and achieving goals consistently regardless of the business situation isn't easy. A big part of doing this successfully is managing time effectively. In this course, you'll learn why it's important to align your goals with your company's goals, and you'll learn how to do it with a goal alignment worksheet. You'll also learn how to ask questions to clarify goals, and how to establish and prioritize priorities based on these goals. You'll learn strategies for improving your productivity depending on your time management personality, how to deal with time stealers, create manageable to-do lists, and maintain an organized time management approach. In addition, you'll learn strategies for dealing with focus challenges and distractions at work, explore ways of saying no, and consider ways in which you can adjust your focus in response to changing circumstances or emergencies. Lastly, you'll learn how to refocus when something causes you to lose focus. Designed For: Anyone at any level in a company who wants to get some practical guidance for how to manage their time. Expected Duration: 1 hour 24 minutes Bundle Includes: Aligning Goals and Priorities to Manage Time Make the Time You Need: Get Organized The Art of Staying Focused
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Transformational HR and Talent Management

Overview:

HR departments need to support their organization's key strategies and help them in the fight to remain competitive. A key way that HR can do this is through effective talent management. In this course, you'll learn about the role of HR in talent management, how to identify the skills your organization needs, how to satisfy these needs through planning to recruit, train, and promote talent as your organization requires it, and how to manage performance successfully within the framework of talent management.

Designed for:

Managers, team leaders, human resources, and other professionals who manage talent and who want to evolve the HR department from a transactional cost center into a strategic business partner in their organization

Expected Duration:

1.5 hours

Bundle Includes:

Overview: HR departments need to support their organization's key strategies and help them in the fight to remain competitive. A key way that HR can do this is through effective talent management. In this course, you'll learn about the role of HR in talent management, how to identify the skills your organization needs, how to satisfy these needs through planning to recruit, train, and promote talent as your organization requires it, and how to manage performance successfully within the framework of talent management. Designed for: Managers, team leaders, human resources, and other professionals who manage talent and who want to evolve the HR department from a transactional cost center into a strategic business partner in their organization Expected Duration: 1.5 hours Bundle Includes: Planning for Skills Needs and Managing Performance Building Career Development Programs and Succession Planning Implementing Transformational HR Individual Behavior in Organizations
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Troublesome Words and Phrases: Common Usage Mistakes in Writing

Overview:

The many nuances and conventions in the English language make it diverse and interesting but sometimes difficult too. It's a good idea to familiarize yourself with some of the most common errors of usage. This course describes how to use commonly confused words correctly, including word pairs that sound alike and those that have related meanings. It also covers verbs that are often misused – for example, affect and effect or apprise and appraise. In addition, the course reviews some idiomatic combinations of verbs and prepositions that can be confusing.

Expected Duration:

30 minutes

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Overview: The many nuances and conventions in the English language make it diverse and interesting but sometimes difficult too. It's a good idea to familiarize yourself with some of the most common errors of usage. This course describes how to use commonly confused words correctly, including word pairs that sound alike and those that have related meanings. It also covers verbs that are often misused – for example, affect and effect or apprise and appraise. In addition, the course reviews some idiomatic combinations of verbs and prepositions that can be confusing. Expected Duration: 30 minutes Learn More
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Trust Building through Effective Communication

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Communication is most effective when you build and maintain the trust of the people you communicate with. In this course, you'll explore how a clear intention is the basis of an effective communication, and how understanding your audience ensures that the message gets delivered. You'll also learn how body language, vocal tone, and managing emotions can influence your communications and build trust with your audience.

Designed for:

Individuals who want to improve their interpersonal communication skills.

Expected Duration:

24 Minutes

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Overview: Communication is most effective when you build and maintain the trust of the people you communicate with. In this course, you'll explore how a clear intention is the basis of an effective communication, and how understanding your audience ensures that the message gets delivered. You'll also learn how body language, vocal tone, and managing emotions can influence your communications and build trust with your audience. Designed for: Individuals who want to improve their interpersonal communication skills. Expected Duration: 24 Minutes Learn more
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