Overview/Description Your reputation often precedes you in any work environment. It can define your creditability, impact your career opportunities, and shape your relationships with your colleagues. Because your reputation is so important, you must proactively build a positive one if you want to succeed in your career. Developing a professional reputation takes more than simply having the right skills and talents for the job. It's about being self-aware, polite, and essentially treating those you interact with in a respectful way. This course introduces you to the basics of how to act...

Overview/Description Just as organizations must respond to demographic and social changes that introduce new languages, cultures, values, and attitudes to the workplace, so must you as an individual. To understand and appreciate diversity, you must develop an understanding of yourself and the ways in which you and others view the world. Your ability to use a variety of strategies to effectively deal with diverse situations in and out of the workplace is very important. Equally important is the ability to share these effective strategies openly, to leverage the diversity that exists within the...

Overview/Description When your values and beliefs align with the values of your organization, going to work each day can feel like a rewarding, enriching experience. But what if they don't? How do you overcome feelings of value misalignment or conflict, and do so without affecting your work or your professional relationships? This Impact Series product explores ways of identifying and addressing areas of personal and organizational value conflict. Target Audience Professionals in non-managerial roles who wish to improve their ability to act according to their personal and organizational...

Overview/Description The possibility of employee burnout can threaten productivity. This impact examines strategies for balancing workloads. Target Audience Individuals responsible for managing personnel either occasionally, for example as project managers, or more permanently as team leaders or line managers. Expected Duration (hours) 0.1 Lesson ObjectivesEmployee Exhaustion: Managing a Well-balanced Workload