Personal Skills
Candidates with strong personal skills are in high demand for a wide variety of jobs. We’ve all worked with someone who is excellent at engaging with colleagues and is always dependable. This individual has honed their personal skills. They communicate effectively with others, self-express, and self-manage.Your personal skills shape not only your professional trajectory, but your private life as well. Overall, employers look for job candidates with strong personal skills because they positively contribute to the office culture, and are reliable in a variety of ways.
Alison Doyle. “Important Personal Skills That Employers Value ” The Balance Careers, October 9, 2020, https://www.thebalancecareers.com/personal-skills-list-2063763.
Live Webinars
On Demand Webinars
Neurodiverse: Communication Skills for Everyone
Platform: Learning Tree
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In this webinar, you will learn how companies undervalue the motivation, mindset and skills needed to be a successful technical worker regardless whether they are neurodivergent or not. Recognize how current approaches are causing technical workers, with their neurodistinct thinking, to be separated from the full engagement companies need from their valuable technical team. This course is designed help bridge the gap between the neurotypical and neurodistinct in a way where everyone wins. You will learn how to: - Create a neurodiverse inclusive experience within your organization. - Recognize the Neurodistinct Asperger’s, ASD, Autistic Adults in your company to understand how they can change your success in communication! - Work together on communication, collaboration and mutual understanding to build a strong and successful working relationship. - Help neurotypical team members better understand how to relate to and work with neurodistinct individuals, and so much more!
Platform: Learning Tree
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In this webinar, you will learn how companies undervalue the motivation, mindset and skills needed to be a successful technical worker regardless whether they are neurodivergent or not. Recognize how current approaches are causing technical workers, with their neurodistinct thinking, to be separated from the full engagement companies need from their valuable technical team. This course is designed help bridge the gap between the neurotypical and neurodistinct in a way where everyone wins. You will learn how to: - Create a neurodiverse inclusive experience within your organization. - Recognize the Neurodistinct Asperger’s, ASD, Autistic Adults in your company to understand how they can change your success in communication! - Work together on communication, collaboration and mutual understanding to build a strong and successful working relationship. - Help neurotypical team members better understand how to relate to and work with neurodistinct individuals, and so much more!
Cross-Functional Teams Excellence
Platform: New Horizons
Have you found yourself working with team members from different departments or work units? As these teams are becoming the norm, there is no doubt that working in cross-functional teams have resulted in greater outcomes in responses to technological change, competition, conflict resolution and developing new leaders (just to name a few.) We have diligently developed and introduced more tools and software for collaboration across geographical and functional divides to stream line our projects. We are overcoming the barriers of document sharing, task assignments, project tracking, etc. Cross-Functional collaboration is here to stay and a key factor in assuring a company's success. However, there is also the possibility of failure and its lasting effect can also have far reaching repercussions. The new leader understands how to build and sustain cross-functional teams, do you?
Platform: New Horizons
Have you found yourself working with team members from different departments or work units? As these teams are becoming the norm, there is no doubt that working in cross-functional teams have resulted in greater outcomes in responses to technological change, competition, conflict resolution and developing new leaders (just to name a few.) We have diligently developed and introduced more tools and software for collaboration across geographical and functional divides to stream line our projects. We are overcoming the barriers of document sharing, task assignments, project tracking, etc. Cross-Functional collaboration is here to stay and a key factor in assuring a company's success. However, there is also the possibility of failure and its lasting effect can also have far reaching repercussions. The new leader understands how to build and sustain cross-functional teams, do you?
Transitioning from Subject Matter Expert to Organizational Catalyst
Platform: New Horizons
What would you do if given the opportunity to bring about change in your organization? What difference in the marketplace would you help bring? As a subject matter expert, you have proven the skills necessary for your role and the performance to back it up. You respond well to requests as you get a front row glimpse of the upcoming needed change. There is a growing impatience with the status quo, that if leveraged can take you and your company to new levels. Mastering the upcoming demands will require out of the box thinking and your leadership skills to navigate them beyond your current reach. Will you be driven by change or be the driver of change?
Platform: New Horizons
What would you do if given the opportunity to bring about change in your organization? What difference in the marketplace would you help bring? As a subject matter expert, you have proven the skills necessary for your role and the performance to back it up. You respond well to requests as you get a front row glimpse of the upcoming needed change. There is a growing impatience with the status quo, that if leveraged can take you and your company to new levels. Mastering the upcoming demands will require out of the box thinking and your leadership skills to navigate them beyond your current reach. Will you be driven by change or be the driver of change?
Leadership & Development - Leading Change & Maintaining Emotional Intelligence
Platform: New Horizons
The only thing constant in life is change. The most successful businesses, professionals, and leaders, learn to thrive through even the most complex adversities. This webinar will uncover the power of emotional intelligence and challenge you to take your self-awareness (and overall performance) to the next level as you adapt and grow through change. Elevating your emotional intelligence will help you create an organizational culture that embraces change. Navigating remote and in person interaction requires an intentional lens of awareness. During this engaging webinar, Executive Coach Erin Cambier will discuss: - Why emotional intelligence skills are key to successfully navigating change - Specific ways to leverage your emotional intelligence to improve your performance (and your teams' performance too!) - Strategies you can utilize right away to help you better self-regulate through fast-paced change and high stress situations.
Platform: New Horizons
The only thing constant in life is change. The most successful businesses, professionals, and leaders, learn to thrive through even the most complex adversities. This webinar will uncover the power of emotional intelligence and challenge you to take your self-awareness (and overall performance) to the next level as you adapt and grow through change. Elevating your emotional intelligence will help you create an organizational culture that embraces change. Navigating remote and in person interaction requires an intentional lens of awareness. During this engaging webinar, Executive Coach Erin Cambier will discuss: - Why emotional intelligence skills are key to successfully navigating change - Specific ways to leverage your emotional intelligence to improve your performance (and your teams' performance too!) - Strategies you can utilize right away to help you better self-regulate through fast-paced change and high stress situations.
Leadership & Development - Talent Management: Training to Stay Competitive
Platform: New Horizons
Finding talent is not a question of luck for great organizations – it is the result of carefully planned nurturing and training. According to a recent Gallup survey, 87% of millennials state that professional growth and career development are very important to them in the organizations they chose to work for. Join Jeremy Gray for this hour-long webinar focusing on understanding how to retain top talent and prepare that talent for leadership roles, highlighting the value of training, what the next level leader is looking for, and how to foster a culture of talent in your organization. - Identify what priorities the new workforce desires - Develop an understanding of investing in the modern talent pool - Shifting from a generation focus to a growth focus - How to equip your staff with leadership growth opportunities.
Platform: New Horizons
Finding talent is not a question of luck for great organizations – it is the result of carefully planned nurturing and training. According to a recent Gallup survey, 87% of millennials state that professional growth and career development are very important to them in the organizations they chose to work for. Join Jeremy Gray for this hour-long webinar focusing on understanding how to retain top talent and prepare that talent for leadership roles, highlighting the value of training, what the next level leader is looking for, and how to foster a culture of talent in your organization. - Identify what priorities the new workforce desires - Develop an understanding of investing in the modern talent pool - Shifting from a generation focus to a growth focus - How to equip your staff with leadership growth opportunities.
Leadership & Development - The Cracks on the Wall
Platform: New Horizons
Ever feel like you've hit a wall? Of course you have. When things don't go your way, when you find yourself in moments of crisis staring down the number of obstacles in your path, the natural reaction is to go into survival mode. We have all been there and we will all be there again and again. The question is how do you want to handle survival mode? Do you prefer to suffer and stall? Or do you want to harness the skills to thrive and transform those moments of crisis into instances of opportunity? In this session with author and Certified Trainer Valeria Grunbaum, we will talk about: - Seeing beyond what we have in front of us - Expanding our perspective so we can find opportunity - Finding 6 things to sharpen our focus in crisis.
Platform: New Horizons
Ever feel like you've hit a wall? Of course you have. When things don't go your way, when you find yourself in moments of crisis staring down the number of obstacles in your path, the natural reaction is to go into survival mode. We have all been there and we will all be there again and again. The question is how do you want to handle survival mode? Do you prefer to suffer and stall? Or do you want to harness the skills to thrive and transform those moments of crisis into instances of opportunity? In this session with author and Certified Trainer Valeria Grunbaum, we will talk about: - Seeing beyond what we have in front of us - Expanding our perspective so we can find opportunity - Finding 6 things to sharpen our focus in crisis.
Exploring the World of IT: Choosing the Right Career Path for You
Platform: New Horizons
Join CompTIA’s Dr. James Stanger as he discusses the multi-faceted job roles and career paths available to you in the Information Technology (IT) profession. He will take a look at the entire horizon of IT job roles that are available, from technical support worker to data scientist to cloud engineer and security analyst and beyond. He’ll discuss the global job market and show you how to find the right job for you. James will outline some of the most important skills you need gain to get that killer gig. Most importantly, James will relate stories from working IT professionals and students about how they discovered that these skills are easily within the reach individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, as long as they work at it a bit.
Platform: New Horizons
Join CompTIA’s Dr. James Stanger as he discusses the multi-faceted job roles and career paths available to you in the Information Technology (IT) profession. He will take a look at the entire horizon of IT job roles that are available, from technical support worker to data scientist to cloud engineer and security analyst and beyond. He’ll discuss the global job market and show you how to find the right job for you. James will outline some of the most important skills you need gain to get that killer gig. Most importantly, James will relate stories from working IT professionals and students about how they discovered that these skills are easily within the reach individuals of all backgrounds and experiences, as long as they work at it a bit.
Turning Business Agility into Competitive Edge
Platform: Learning Tree
Despite the massive acceleration of Agile practices in recent times, misalignment between technical and business teams continues to prevent most enterprise organizations from fully realizing the benefits of Agile adoption. Join Business Agility expert Alan O’Callaghan for this webinar and discover what it takes to resolve the cultural and practice misalignments that prevent organizations from gaining the competitive edge that’s vital for success in today’s business landscape. You’ll also gain valuable insights as Alan dives into the 15th Annual State of Agile report and what it says about how Agile adoption can accelerate value delivery across the enterprise.
Platform: Learning Tree
Despite the massive acceleration of Agile practices in recent times, misalignment between technical and business teams continues to prevent most enterprise organizations from fully realizing the benefits of Agile adoption. Join Business Agility expert Alan O’Callaghan for this webinar and discover what it takes to resolve the cultural and practice misalignments that prevent organizations from gaining the competitive edge that’s vital for success in today’s business landscape. You’ll also gain valuable insights as Alan dives into the 15th Annual State of Agile report and what it says about how Agile adoption can accelerate value delivery across the enterprise.
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