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Grammar: The Keys to Better Understanding the Structure and Syntax of English
When studying a language grammar is the foundation of fluency. Grammar is the structure and system of English consisting of syntax, rules, forms and morphology. Grammar is also the key to speaking and writing more clearly, professionally, and intelligi...
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How Improving Your Grammar can Benefit Your Career
You see an exciting job opportunity online and you are thrilled about the opportunity to apply. The posting asks that you send your resume and cover letter in an email. This is your chance to make a great first impression. What’s the one thing that cou...
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How to Create an Interview Portfolio
You've been applying to hundreds of jobs this week. Your top two options also chose you! Congratulations! They scheduled the interview and you are almost ready to secure your new position, all you have to do is ace the interview. Not difficult at...
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Now Hiring Smiling Faces! How Positivity Impacts Your Work Experience
Many more employers are realizing that they rather have a pleasant team member than a highly skilled one. Of course, ideally, the new hire would be both pleasant and skilled, but if you needed to rely on one over the other in the interview, remember...
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Smuggling Your Resume Past the Army of Bots
TS (applicant tracking system) software makes it easier for companies to filter and vet resumes so HR can spend more time hiring and training top talent. Due to this, you need to make sure your resume can get through.
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Personal Budgeting Basics
Let's be honest. The word "budget" doesn't usually elicit happy feelings. Every time you try to stick to one, you end up spending more than you expected. You're fed up and ready for a change. Have no fear! In this path, you ...
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Get Connected: LinkedIn 101
Learn the basics of using this powerful platform to drive your job search and boost your network.
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Get the Skinny on LinkedIn Job Applications
LinkedIn has great ways to make finding and applying to jobs faster and easier. Check out this info. to ensure a lean mean job search.
Week 3
· Email & Phone Etiquette · Create a vision, prioritize your time & goals · Identify skills based on interests/personalities
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Empowering Your Mind with Positive Psychology
Twenty years ago when I struggled with depression, I had no idea about the tools I needed to stay mentally happy until my psychologist introduced me to them. Then I thought, “Why am I only hearing about this now?” We don’t wait until people have heart...
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Goal Setting Success
Top-level athletes, high achieving teams, and pretty much any successful business person and achiever in every field all set goals. In fact, the only thing between you and where you want to be is the execution of actionable steps towards what you...
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Making Your Dreams A Reality
"Success" can only truly occur internally, because it is based on your emotional commitment. At the most basic level, success is your relationship with yourself. Most people are living a lie; either saying they want to change but not doing an...
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Time Management 101
We each have 24 hours a day, but some of us are able to be more productive with our hours than others. Whether you are trying to find a way to do less or more in your day, this path will assist you in creating healthy habits in order to increase your...
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Email Isn’t Dead. Make Sure You’re Doing It Right
Email remains the life blood of business communications. Every time you send an email, your reputation, effectiveness, and productivity are on the line. Whether you’re communicating with customers, partners, or colleagues, take a moment to make sure...
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How To Maintain An Organized Inbox To Enhance Productivity
Overflowing email inboxes are not only sources of constant stress, but also can drastically decrease your work productivity. According to a report from the McKinsey Global Institute, an average employee spends 28% of their work time reading, writing or...
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Phone Skills for Everyone
"Answering the phone" sounds like an easy task, right? But there's a lot of pressure to do it right. Each time the phone rings, it's an opportunity to make a good impression on someone on the other side, whether it's a customer, client, or guest.
Week 4
· Scheduling Meetings · Manage Office Resources & Information (company & personal resources) · Learn how to tell your story · Networking opportunities · Assess the skills needed to achieve career goals
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Passion Lead Success
When developing a career plan, setting goals is a common success tool. Typically these goals are based on financial gain, but what if each professional goal spoke instead to your personal passions. Too often we have to decide between being successful...
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LeaderSHIFT: Leadership Essentials for an Extraordinary Life
Do you want an average life? Something ordinary, something unremarkable? Most people would answer those questions with a resounding “No!” And yet so many people live a life that is exactly that: average. Ordinary. John Maxwell, author, and noted ...
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Mastering Public Speaking
We all know the feeling. You have to get up in front of an audience, and it can be nerve-wracking knowing how to present the right information, with a clear set of slides, in an engaging way. We have all suffered through boring, mundane talks...how do...
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Spreadsheets & Databases: Using Excel, Google Sheets and AirTable
So much of our lives - professional and personal - are dependent on data. Manage your finances. Maintain information about your customers. Keep track of project elements and timing. On and on. From simple to more complex data, understanding how to...
Week 5
· What is Feedback and how to use it · Resume & Letter Writing · How to handle emotions in business settings
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Want That Job? Here's How To Get It
Finding a new job (or your first job) can seem like an exhaustive process, but we’ve got your back! Before you go furiously updating your resume and tailoring cover letters for every position you see, make sure you know what you want. From the...
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Empowering Your Mind with Positive Psychology
Twenty years ago when I struggled with depression, I had no idea about the tools I needed to stay mentally happy until my psychologist introduced me to them. Then I thought, “Why am I only hearing about this now?” We don’t wait until people have heart...
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Dealing with Other People's Emotions
Most people want to end conversations when someone cries or gets angry, but then you miss the opportunity to find solutions together. And, it’s likely you will make the person feel worse. It’s better to be compassionately silent until they relax. Then,...
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Dealing with Difficult Workplace Relationships
We all deal with difficult people in the workplace. Whether it is a difficult boss, colleague, or subordinate, when we understand more about what makes the difficult person tick, then we can better get what we want and need from that individual. This...
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Acing the Interview: Tips to Help You Get Hired
The interview can be the make-it or break-it moment of your job search process. Not only do employers want to talk to you about your skills and experiences, but they want to know if you're a good fit for their team. It's not just what you've done but w...
Week 6
· Group communication, teamwork, leadership & management · Sales & Customer Service · Elevator Pitch
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Communicating Effectively: How to Inspire and Convince
Course PROVIDED BY DelftX The majority of challenges that organizations face are technology related. Given the growing importance of technology, the demand for leaders with an engineering background will probably rise. Already a quarter of the CEOs...
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Teamwork! Embracing Our Collective Ethos
Why do some teams 'just click' and others seem to be such hard work? How do I engage with my team members when they are virtual or disconnected? These questions are very common for us to ask ourselves when we have to work with a group on a pro...
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How May I Help You? Creating Positive First Impressions
The moment a customer enters your store, the clock is ticking. How your customers engage your organization begins the moment they cross your threshold. Greeting the customer quickly sends a message that your company is customer-centric and values...
Week 7
· Learn about Change · Active Listening
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What to Do When Change Happens to You
Change is inevitable; and often, out of your control - but you have a superpower - you control your response to change and all the uncertainty that accompanies it. Developing a healthy approach to change means focusing on the path ahead, recognizing...
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Building a Strong Work Ethic
Developing a strong work ethic is essential to career success. Your boss, colleagues, and clients expect the best from you! It's important to always bring your "A game" to the workplace, and these resources will help you be the best possi...
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Active Listening: A Communication Guide
Stop hearing and start listening! In order to really connect with your customers, managers, and colleagues, active listening is key. These resources can help you develop the skills that can serve as the foundation for good communication.
Week 8
· Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development · Time Management (Work-Life balance)
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Spotlight on Entrepreneurship
This path features words of wisdom from various successful entrepreneurs. Hear from Richard Branson, Sara Blakely, Elon Musk and others on topics like starting a business, creating innovative products, avoiding common pitfalls, and overcoming failure.
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Start, Market, & Grow Your Business!
Through his decades of experience in business, David Meltzer serves as a valuable source of insight and wisdom to the world of entrepreneurship. Use this path as a tool to gain further understanding on how to successfully start, pitch, market, and grow...
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Time is Your New Currency, Spend it Wisely
Remember when you had time to enjoy a book without checking your phone incessantly? Maybe not. How about when you could spontaneously check on a friend? Still too far fetched? Your time can feel like it has become as scarce as face to face...
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The Future of Soft Skills in a Digital Age
The future of work is still human, at least for the next 10 or so years. How do you safeguard yourself and your most important method of survival? You develop your very human soft skills! Those skills we tucked in the back of the closet in a dusty box ...
Week 9
· Communication (verbal/nonverbal, cross-cultural & intercultural) · Healthy work environment · Mock Interviews
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Want That Job? Here's How To Get It
Finding a new job (or your first job) can seem like an exhaustive process, but we’ve got your back! Before you go furiously updating your resume and tailoring cover letters for every position you see, make sure you know what you want. From the...
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How to Meaningfully Collaborate with Other Departments
If your job requires you to plan or direct activities in coordination with other department managers, it is important to use proper communication and effective collaboration.
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Getting Interpersonal: Communication Skills
Interpersonal skills are the fundamental elements on which many other skills, in life and work, are built. This path introduces you to a basic, but crucially important, interpersonal skill - communication. Explore why interpersonal skills matter, what...
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Thriving in a Multicultural Environment
The reality of today’s global economy is changing the way employers look at their staff. While relevant experience and technical know-how remain must-haves for employers, they are also looking for employees with the ability to understand people from...
Week 10
· Presentation Skills
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Networking at Conferences
Professional conferences provide inspiration on the keynote stage, education in the breakout sessions, and (for many of us) perspiration during networking breaks. Wherever you fall on the continuum of introverts and extroverts, you can use conferences...
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There’s Speaking. And there’s Public Speaking.
If you’re reading this, you’re interested in the way you speak. Too fast? Not fast enough? To many ummms and errrs? Too ‘flat’? Sounding boring? Everyone has their own voice and communication style. Sometimes really informal. Chatting to...
Supplemental Learning Paths
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Time is Your New Currency, Spend it Wisely
Remember when you had time to enjoy a book without checking your phone incessantly? Maybe not. How about when you could spontaneously check on a friend? Still too far fetched? Your time can feel like it has become as scarce as face to face...
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Career Leap: Pushing Beyond Your Bounds
This is an all call for the serial fear mongers amongst us. Those of you who know you need to make a move, or take a leap, but fear has you in its awesome clutch. I challenge you, without judgement, Do It Anyway! We are inundated with media that...
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The Future of Soft Skills in a Digital Age
The future of work is still human, at least for the next 10 or so years. How do you safeguard yourself and your most important method of survival? You develop your very human soft skills! Those skills we tucked in the back of the closet in a dusty box ...
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A Skills-Based Resume May (or May Not) Be Best
Most of us only know the most common, basic format for a resume. We are all aware a resume typically includes your work history presented in chronological order, and any additional effort given to it usually involves word choice and how to organize...
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Open Doors & Close the Deal
The begrudged sales call. You understand the fundamental principles behind selling, but you still dread the 'sales call'. There are several ways to manage a sales call, however, the 8 steps detailed below include the most succinct way you can ...
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