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Overview/Description
Too little time, too many tasks, and everything needs your immediate attention. Sound familiar? This Challenge Series exercise explores the tools and skills needed to manage your time and cope with conflicting priorities.
Target Audience
Professionals in non-managerial roles who wish to enhance their skills and knowledge in setting and managing priorities
Expected Duration (hours)
0.2
Lesson ObjectivesCoping with Conflicting Priorities
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Advancements in communication technology have given us instant access to boundless information, but the gains in efficiency and productivity have come at a cost. This Business Impact explores the causes of information overload and explores some practical ways to cope with it.
Expected Duration (hours)
0.1
Lesson ObjectivesCoping with Information Overload
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Oftentimes your success or failure depends not only on the situation you are in, but how you react to that situation. Your reaction to the situations you encounter is significantly influenced by your attitude. Having a positive attitude involves looking for the best in a situation, being realistic about possibilities and consequences, and having the courage to believe that you can succeed. It isn't always easy to be positive. You may feel that the odds are stacked against you, or you may find it hard to cope with the difficult and challenging situations that you find...
Overview/Description
For working professionals, keeping up with the competing demands of office and home takes more than good time-management skills. It requires an ability to prioritize and set a healthy work/life balance. This Challenge Series exercise explores the ways that work/life balance can be created to minimize stress and maximize productivity.
Target Audience
Mid- to upper-level managers and executives; all high potentials and fast trackers, including individual contributors
Expected Duration (hours)
0.2
Lesson ObjectivesCreating Work/Life Balance
Overview/Description
Creativity isn't reserved for authors, painters, and filmmakers. It's an essential trait for every business professional who wants to maximize resources and discover opportunities. This Challenge Series exercise explores the skills and practices needed to be a creative force. The learner plays the role of a product development team member for an automotive diagnostic equipment company.
Target Audience
Professionals in non-managerial roles who wish to enhance their creative skills and knowledge
Expected Duration (hours)
0.2
Lesson ObjectivesCreativity: Developing and...
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Your thinking can have a significant effect on the quality of your life â it determines how well you work through complex problems, make decisions, and accomplish your goals. That's why developing critical thinking skills is so important. To think critically is a practical goal â one you can apply to every question, issue, or problem you face. This course explains how critical thinking promotes creative thinking. It also describes the skills required for critical thinking and how to apply critical thinking to decisions, problems, or issues in the workplace.
Target...
Overview/Description
Critical thinking is something everyone does â to some degree or another â in their professional and personal lives. Almost all of your everyday activities require you to seek information, analyze alternatives, assess the alternatives, and reach some conclusion. And all of these processes are part of critical thinking. Thinking plays a powerful role in your life â it determines how you feel, what you do, and what you want. Improving the quality of your thinking, then, improves your life â helping you to achieve your goals, make better decisions, and take charge of...
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Critical thinking is useful for examining an issue or problem logically. This Challenge Series product explores applying the critical thinking process.
Target Audience
Mid- to upper-level managers and executives; all high potentials and fast trackers, including individual contributors.
Expected Duration (hours)
0.2
Lesson ObjectivesCritical Thinking
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Receiving criticism is rarely a pleasant experience. Yet, it can provide considerable opportunity for personal growth. This Business Impact explores some possible strategies for processing feedback in a useful manner.
Target Audience
Students preparing to enter the workforce, entry level employees who have just entered the workforce and mid-level employees looking to refresh their skills.
Expected Duration (hours)
0.1
Lesson ObjectivesCriticism in Context
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Effective communication is always a challenge, and when diverse cultures are introduced, good communication can become even more challenging. In todayâs global economy, understanding how context, style, beliefs, and value systems influence the way we communicate and decode others' messages is more important than ever. This course attempts to explain various dimensions of a culture and how they affect the communication between individuals from different cultures by identifying the requirements of successful cross-cultural communication. The course takes you through the...