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Developed exclusively by our curriculum designers with advanced backgrounds in neuroscience and education, the lessons you’ll learn are the same ones we’ve developed for the Fortune 500.

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:

  1. What It Means To Be Professional
  2. Accountability
  3. Set Personal Goals
  4. Staying Motivated
  5. Manage Time And Priorities
  6. Personal Development
  7. Manage Your Emotions
  8. Managing Stress
  9. How To Deal With Ambiguity
  10. 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:

  1. What Is Effective Communication
  2. Create Clear Messages
  3. Proactive Listening
  4. Communication Style
  5. Overcoming Communication Barriers
  6. Cross Cultural Communication
  7. Effective E-mail
  8. Communicating Virtually
  9. Small Group Communication
  10. 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:

  1. The Value of Workplace Relationships
  2. Go Beneath The Surface
  3. Trust Is A Two Way Street
  4. Mutual Accountability
  5. Giving And Receiving Feedback
  6. Show Appreciation
  7. Being Assertive
  8. Dealing With Passive And Aggressive People
  9. Collaboration
  10. Virtual Collaboration

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:

  1. The Value Of Clear Thinking
  2. Gather Good Information
  3. Analyze The Information
  4. Inference And Reasoning
  5. Arguments And Conclusions
  6. Thinking Styles
  7. Avoid Thinking Traps
  8. Applications Of Clear Thinking
  9. Evaluate And Prioritize Ideas
  10. 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:

  1. Define The Problem/Opportunity
  2. Problem Solving Fundamentals
  3. Root Cause Analysis
  4. Appreciative Inquiry
  5. Innovation Thinking
  6. Creative Thinking
  7. Generate Solutions
  8. Testing The Solution
  9. Overcome Challenges
  10. Recognize The Opportunity

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Experience the skills you’ll be able to develop first-hand in each of our learning modules.

Self Management > Accountability

Learn the strategies you can use to hold yourself accountable for goals, development, time-management, managing emotions, and navigating uncertainty.

Communication > Creating clear messages

Learn how to effectively communicate by creating clear messages, practicing proactive listening, and adapting communication.

Teamwork > Giving effective feedback

Learn how to build positive and productive workplace relationships, including virtual relationships, through mutual understanding, collaboration, appreciation, and trust.

Thinking On Your Feet > Gather good information

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.

Problem Solving > Define the problem

Learn how to arrive at sound and actionable solutions by learning how to apply problem-solving processes including root-cause analysis and appreciative inquiry.