Professional Development and Personal Skills Courses
Personal Career
  • Achieving Personal Goals

  • Interviewing Skills for Job Candidates

  • Managing Stress

  • Recognizing and Managing Anger

  • Time Management

  • Balancing Work and Family

  • Choosing a Childcare Provider

  • Recognizing and Avoiding Burnout

  • Managing Change

  • Internet Basics

  • Personal Career
    Much of one's professional success is a function of personal skills that relate to professional activities, such as interviewing for a new job, balancing work and family, and managing stress. The 10 courses in this Bundle develop personal competencies that will support your employees' career aspirations and enhance their effectiveness in their private lives.
    Achieving Personal Goals
    Trying to juggle all aspects of life can be overwhelming. Without guidelines and goals, it can be difficult to reach your personal hopes and objectives in life. This course has methods and techniques to help you define your goals and confirm your priorities. By following the Strategies and Tips, you will set high but achievable goals, develop an action plan, and follow through to successful achievement. At the same time, you will be able to anticipate and deal with roadblocks and diversions.
    Interviewing Skills for Job Candidates
    Job Candidates will find that this course gives them the A-to-Z of interviewing for a new job. The Strategies and Tips provide specific recommendations for valuable preliminary work, and tools to prepare for the interviewer's questions. Key Points will help you promote your best image and create a positive impression. You will learn how to follow up with the interviewer and how to negotiate the best offer if you are selected.
    Managing Stress
    The tools and techniques in this course will help you understand and diagnose the stress in your life, identify the stressors you can and cannot control, and assess your readiness to make changes. There are methods to help you develop a systematic approach to eliminate stressors, manage your time, and implement short-term and long-term coping mechanisms. You'll develop a plan of action and learn how to avoid or address your own personal roadblocks.
    Recognizing and Managing Anger
    After learning to identify the different sources of anger, you will be given tools and methods to help you determine the emotional roots of your own anger and recognize how it manifests in your life. Tips will help you recognize your responses to anger, and give you tools to manage it. You will also be given powerful techniques that will help you use your anger to gain positive outcomes.
    Time Management
    This course addresses the nuts and bolts of time management; tools for setting goals, keeping logs, and planning your time. It includes methods for identifying low pay-off activities and time-wasters, along with suggestions for getting rid of them. It provides tips for organizing your materials and your surroundings for more efficiency, and has other practical suggestions for taking control of your time and your life with simple, tried-and-true tools and techniques.
    Balancing Work and family
    Basics of balancing the demands of work and family can be a challenging task. For most of our lives, we juggle a number of important roles that require our attention and energy. Your roles might include employee, manager, business owner, spouse, parent, community member, or student. Woven amidst those roles and associations are significant rewards and responsibilities that make our lives challenging, interesting, and satisfying. However, if we aren't careful, the demands and pressures can overwhelm and exhaust us and prevent us from achieving what we really want.
    Choosing a Childcare Provider
    There are numerous options from which to choose a child care provider and it's important to find the one that meets your needs the best. This course has guidelines and tools for identifying the essential services that you should expect, determining the competence of the child care staff, matching a child's needs with the provider's capabilities, and assuring that the child receives quality care while away from home.
    Recognizing and Avoiding Burnout
    Burnout. Exhaustion. Fatigue. Apathy. It doesn't matter what word you use. You just can't seem to get the energy to perform at your "normal" level. Find out how you can recognize and avoid burnout so you can achieve a balance and stay on track!
    Managing Change
    Poorly managed change can account for a huge amount of lost productivity. This course covers the most essential elements of living with and managing continual change. There are simple and straightforward techniques for dealing with the inevitable resistance, methods for setting goals and developing a plan, tools for understanding the personal and professional stresses that all employees experience, and suggestions for rebuilding trust and developing commitment to the changes that are implemented.
    Internet Basics
    The Internet. Everybody's talking about it. Your kids are experts on it, your neighbours are buying things over it, Wall Street rides roller coasters on it, newscasters gab about it-and where are you? If you have been feeling left out lately, and want to get in on the biggest cultural shift anybody's seen for a long time, take this course. And welcome to the new millennium!
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    System Requirements
    Pentium III Class or higher CPU, 450mHz or faster Microsoft Windows or Mac OSX (Supported operating systems: Windows 98SE, Windows 2000, Windows Millenium, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OSX 10.3↑) 256+ MB available RAM 1024 x 768 or greater resolution, 16-bit color or greater Internet Explorer v6.0↑ OR Firefox v1.5↑ OR Safari v3.1↑ Internet connectivity with 56k modem or greater Flash Player (Version 9↑)