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Learn to better deploy your technical skills Develop yourself for future leadership roles with greater power skills Learn to optimize yourself and team members using strengths and emotional intelligence Improve risk management through better communications and conflict Take better decisions with lasting impact regardless of your position in the company
8 months. 2 - 3 hours per week suggested.
6 virtual courses in soft skills
Our education and professional experiences focus on technical skills, how to do it.
Therefore, we progress from maker to manager to leader, primarily based on our technical competencies.
This promotion model has been in use for decades, but is now obsolete.
Few of us intentionally learn soft skills along the way, and we feel a bit overwhelmed when asked to work in complex teams or take on a managerial or leadership role.
Employers have recognized the value of personality type, adaptability and flexibility in responding to change, emotional intelligence, confidence, psychological safety, conflict management, and the ability to manage time, stress, and energy to meet the needs of the organization.
None of these are technical skills.
They are the soft skills, probably the most difficult to assess and learn, but critical for life and professional life.
success.
In fact, they are now renamed Power Skills.
Do you have what you need to succeed? This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity to spend quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and develop soft skills that are essential for professional success, not to mention life.
In this certificate program, you will consider what makes a positive workplace where people can do their best; Assess who you are now and set goals for who you would like to be, emotions and emotional intelligence, strengths, personality type, and values-based decision making, a key to critical thinking.
In the second certificate in this series, you will have the opportunity to consider time/stress/energy management, thinking style, psychological capital, approach to change, conflict styles and methods, and communication styles and methods.
Commit now to investing in your personal and professional development.
Become the person you are meant to be.
Become the person ready to take the next step with all the right power abilities.
How will this happen? An APPLE a day… Courses in this certificate use the APPLE model to help you become your best self.
Assess – You will start with validated self-assessments and explore benchmark reports prepared just for you Plan – Submit personal development goals in SMART goal format Prepare – You will prioritize your goals and prepare to learn how to make changes, using sound scientific data research put into practice Learn – You will develop your specific action plan and test the change you want to make.
Change is iterative, so you'll learn how to make learning points from false starts and initial failures.
Execute: You'll reach your SMART goals and bring new soft skills to your work and life.
And you will have developed the skills to continue your self-development long after the course.
Key Program Content: Happiness at Work: Modeling a Great Workplace Impact of Soft Skills and New Power Skills Assessment of Current Management Skills Being Your Best Self Through Intentional Change (APPLE Framework) Self-Awareness as a foundation Personality Type and How to Use It Emotions and Emotional Intelligence Strengths-Based Management Values-Based Decision Making: Vision Statement and Personal Values Smart Disobedience: How to Help Your Organization Improve You will achieve your SMART goals and bring new soft skills to your work and your life.
And you will have developed the skills to continue your self-development long after the course.
Key Program Content: Happiness at Work: Modeling a Great Workplace Impact of Soft Skills and New Power Skills Assessment of Current Management Skills Being Your Best Self Through Intentional Change (APPLE Framework) Self-Awareness as a foundation Personality Type and How to Use It Emotions and Emotional Intelligence Strengths-Based Management Values-Based Decision Making: Vision Statement and Personal Values Smart Disobedience: How to Help Your Organization Improve You will achieve your SMART goals and bring new soft skills to your work and your life.
And you will have developed the skills to continue your self-development long after the course.
Key Program Content: Happiness at Work: Modeling a Great Workplace Impact of Soft Skills and New Power Skills Assessment of Current Management Skills Being Your Best Self Through Intentional Change (APPLE Framework) Self-Awareness as a foundation Personality Type and How to Use It Emotions and Emotional Intelligence Strengths-Based Management Values-Based Decision Making: Vision Statement and Personal Values Smart Disobedience: How to Help Your Organization Improve
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