5 online courses to develop your soft skills
Soft skills in the workplace are becoming increasingly important as organisations look to add additional value to their business.
Soft skills are the skills that enable you to fit in at a workplace. They include your personality, attitude, flexibility, motivation, and manners. They are so important that they are often the reason employers decide whether to keep or promote an employee.
Indeed, a study conducted by Wonderlic found that 93% of hiring leaders stated that soft skills are an “essential” or “very important” element when making hiring decisions.
Moonshot News has compiled a list of 5 online courses to develop your soft skills.
Teamwork Skills: Communicating Effectively in Groups
Duration: Approx. 11 hours to complete
Effective teamwork and group communication are essential for your professional and personal success.
In this course you will learn how to make better decisions, be more creative and innovative, manage conflict and work with difficult group members, negotiate for preferred outcomes, improve group communication in virtual environments, develop a better overall understanding of human interaction, and work more effectively as a team.
The goal of this course is to help you understand these important dynamics of group communication and learn how to put them into practice to improve your overall teamwork.
Creative Thinking: Techniques and Tools for Success
Duration: Approx. 20 hours to complete
In today’s ever-growing and changing world, being able to think creatively and innovatively are essential skills. It can sometimes be challenging to step back and reflect in an environment which is fast paced or when you are required to assimilate large amounts of information. Making sense of or communicating new ideas in an innovative and engaging way, approaching problems from fresh angles, and producing novel solutions are all traits which are highly sought after by employers.
This course will equip you with a ‘tool-box’, introducing you to a selection of behaviours and techniques that will augment your innate creativity. Some of the tools are suited to use on your own and others work well for a group, enabling you to leverage the power of several minds. You can pick and choose which of these tools or techniques suit your needs and interests, focusing on some or all of the selected approaches and in the order that fits best for you.
Psychology of Diversity and Unconscious Bias
Duration: 2.5 hours on-demand video
Many people understand that diversity and unconscious bias are important issues to grapple with, but it’s difficult to get a strong handle on them. For years, social scientists have turned their attention to stereotyping and discrimination in order to use data and scientific methods to know more about why it happens and how to stop it.
In this course you’ll learn to understand the difference between stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination, to identify acts of stereotyping, to develop the ideal mentality for engaging with an increasingly diverse society, and implement tested strategies for undermining unconscious biases.
The course includes:
- 2.5 hours on-demand video
- 5 articles
- Full lifetime access
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of completion
Leading People and Teams
Duration: Approximately 5 months to complete (suggested pace of 3 hours/week)
In this specialization, you will learn essential leadership skills, including how to inspire and motivate individuals, manage talent, influence without authority, and lead teams. In this specialization, you will not only learn from Michigan faculty.
The instructors will share with you their research on how to lead people and teams effectively, and work with you to apply these insights to your own teams and leadership. In every course, you will have an opportunity to apply new leadership skills by working through a series of practical leadership assignments. In addition, the capstone will enable you to work on live leadership challenges faced by senior leaders from premier Fortune 500 firms and receive their feedback on your ideas and solutions.
Skills for Success
Duration: 4 months (3 – 4 hours per week)
What does it take to succeed in today’s competitive job market? The workplace skills that employers value are changing, and most traditional education paths do not match employers’ evolving needs. Applicants across industries and job types need more than just the standard credentials to get hired and be successful.
The five-course Fullbridge Career Development: Skills for Success is designed to help you build in-demand workplace competencies that will ensure you stand out as an applicant and employee. This self-paced program explores contemporary business fundamentals and helps you create a marketable personal brand. Through innovative and engaging online learning techniques, you will build and enhance the critical hard and soft skills that will help you stand out in your current or future profession.
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