There is no magic pill that builds confidence overnight. Instead, confidence comes from repeating something until you’re familiar with it. To build a genuine belief in your ability to accomplish the task at hand, you first must learn to persist. In this course, Ivan Joseph discusses critical practices that can help you build unshakeable self-confidence. Learn techniques for keeping negative thoughts at bay. Discover how to fight impostor syndrome by creating a list of your achievements; that way, when doubt kicks in, you’ll have something to remind you of what you’re capable of accomplishing. Ivan also goes over the ways in which the people who surround us play a key role in shaping our beliefs, how to create effective affirmations, how to help others feel more confident by focusing on positive feedback, and more.

This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

An effective training program helps to accelerate an employee's professional development and prepares them to excel in their role. In this course, corporate training expert Jeff Toister explains how to design and deliver training programs that engage learners and help them quickly develop new skills. Jeff walks through the ADDIE model of instructional design as it applies to corporate learning, exploring each step—from conducting needs analysis all the way through delivering face-to-face training. He also provides tips for presenting with confidence and clarity, facilitating discussions, adapting your programs to webinar delivery, and more.

Improve your ability to initiate and maintain healthy work friendships, and tactfully extract yourself from ones that don’t serve you, whether interacting online or in person.

Learn how to create an effective career plan that brings you one step closer to your dream job.

Learn how to confidently deliver criticism and constructive feedback to others.

More than 80% of software products are delivered using an agile mindset, but the reality is that there is a lot of bad agile. Many agile coaches will tell you that bad agile is only good agile unoptimized, so this course walks you through five ways to optimize your agile team and enhance key processes. This course shows you how to keep standups, retrospectives, and product reviews productive, as well as how to keep the processes stable while allowing room for improvement. Next, it offers tips to improve your estimation and planning, while staying focused on the purpose behind the user stories. This course teaches you how to engage product owners, democratize scrum masters, and transition successfully to a cross-functional team. It also explains how to appease milestone managers and make sure that the product owner maintains ownership of the product. Finally, this course covers how to collaborate with the rest of the organization and keep your team together.

Learn how to find video production jobs and get paid to make commercials for brands and businesses.

Bonnie Siegler provides answers to designer's common questions about how to land a job. Learn how to write a winning resume, how to present yourself and your work, and more.

Get the pay raise you deserve. Learn how to document your value to your company and ask your boss for a raise.

Learn the secrets to consistently get great customer service.

Learn how to use your work placement as the launching pad for the next stage of your career. Get tips for networking, getting references, and more.

Have you ever worked with someone who never seemed to miss a deadline and often got things done early? If yes, you’ve likely wondered what their secret is. In this course, creativity and productivity expert Samantha Bennett will demystify how these deadline masters operate. Sam discusses the psychology of deadlines, methods you can use to set a project or target for success, and how to create timelines that work. She goes over ways you can plan for when things go off course, then concludes with practical strategies to set expectations, communicate, collaborate, and get things done.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Revitalize your approach to feedback. Learn how to make the performance review more effective, in this course adapted from the podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job.

Get practical advice for tackling one of the hardest challenges any employee faces: giving negative feedback to a boss or senior colleague.

Patience with poor performance too often becomes permission to perform poorly. Effective leaders know they need to address the problem of poor performance in their company and on their team, but the skills needed to do so don’t come naturally to most of us. In this course, former corporate executive Ron Williams shows you a roadmap for tackling the tough conversations and hard decisions that come with responding to poor performers. Ron explains how to identify and respond to poor performance, as well as exactly how to do it. He covers strategies to recognize the difference between performance and potential and to take swifter, firmer action today with team members who are coming up short.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Learn practical, evidence-based techniques to help you take more control of the quality of your daily working life, regardless of the ups and downs. Best-selling author Caroline Webb briefly goes over the behavioral science that drives your ability to perform and feel at your best, then covers seven building blocks of a good day at work: priorities, productivity, relationships, thinking, influence, resilience, and energy. Each building block includes complementary techniques that can be used in any professional context, with clear and accessible explanations of the science behind the effectiveness of each tool as well as step-by-step guidance on how to apply them in real life. Inspired by and based on Caroline’s global bestseller How to Have a Good Day, the techniques in the course have been tried and tested by more than 100k people around the globe.

There are very few absolutes in the world, but it is very likely that no one has ever exclaimed “Oh boy, more meetings!” While it is often important to gather teams and coworkers together to set goals and give status updates, meetings are certainly one area where quality should be stressed over quantity. How many meetings have you attended where the information was redundant, or worse, totally irrelevant to your work? How many meetings have you sat through with no engagement or participation? In this course, Kevan Hall and Alan Hall, authors of, Kill Bad Meetings, show you a systematic process for cutting out at least 50% of unnecessary meetings and designing better, more successful ones. They’ll show you the skills needed to improve the relevance of meeting topics, while increasing meeting engagement and participation. You may think of meetings as a necessary evil, but Kevan and Alan show you that some meetings aren’t even necessary, and those that are needn’t be evil.

Get a practical guide to innovating and maintaining a competitive edge during times of change and uncertainty.

What distinguishes a good leader from an ineffective or even harmful leader? We’ve probably all worked under different kinds of leaders, from a jaded and apathetic leader who goes through the motions and sucks the life out of an environment, to a great leader who constantly tries to take their team and people to the next level. In this audio-only course adapted from the How to be Awesome at Your Job podcast, Jeremie Kubicek talks about what separates a good leader from a bad one. He details the importance of a leader assessing themselves not just in respect to their team at work, but in five key categories: self, family, team, organization, and community. Jeremie also discusses the Support Challenge Matrix, through which one can measure whether someone under you needs more support or challenge. By the end of this course, it will be clear how good leaders manage to multiply the effect of their leadership many times over.

This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of How to Be Awesome at Your Job. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

It can be a daunting task to try to initiate positive change in your organization, especially without a plan. Gain a sense of confidence and direction through this course designed for leaders who need to guide a team through organizational change. Internationally renowned speaker and coach Amber Vanderburg teaches you skills to establish relationships, collaborate with others, and initiate, implement, and sustain lasting change. She shares tips for how to inspire others while still conveying a sense of urgency, and provides a framework for how to move through the stages of progress. Join Amber as she shares how to manage and normalize change to create lasting change in your organization.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.