Spark more creativity and innovation from your team. Learn how to keep on top of what’s working (and what isn’t) and remain innovative.

Almost everyone is struggling with a loss of attention and focus due to excessive smartphone use. In America, the average person looks at their phone between 50-100 times per day and touches it over 2,000 times. This not only hurts workplace productivity but damages relationships and our mental health. This course provides quick and practical tips on how to set reasonable boundaries so that you can use your smartphone wisely, rather than feeling used by it. Productivity expert Dave Crenshaw helps you set time limits, curate your apps, resist the urge to pick up your phone, and more.

This course was created by Dave Crenshaw and Invaluable Inc. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Learn how to become your most productive self by setting boundaries with your devices and technology.

Take charge of your career. Learn to identify your career goals and develop a flexible career path that aligns with your unique skills and passion.

Having ownership, or full control and accountability, over your career goes beyond basic planning or career conversations. When you truly take ownership, you empower yourself to be honest about where you're at in your career, figure out tangible ways to get to where you want to go, and advocate for yourself along the way. In this course, career strategist Julia Toothacre leverages her many years as an academic career advisor to guide you on a path to ownership. Julia first explores how to identify and manage your current mindset, as well as assess your career journey thus far. She then discusses how to create your work happy place by staying true to your strengths, values, and interests. Julia also reviews skills gaps and steps you can take to solidify your next step; actions you can take to set yourself up for success when opportunities arise; and tactics for establishing long-term goals. Upon completing this course, you'll have a clearer idea of the mindset shifts, tasks, and activities that can help you take more ownership on your career journey.

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

Adopt a top-notch talent management strategy that helps you recruit and retain employees who add value to your company.

To find the best and brightest people for a role, you need to know where to look. Barbara Bruno helps you implement talent-sourcing strategies to recruit top candidates.

Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur discuss their artistic journeys and how their paths led them to create a nonprofit production company that tells stories about positive social change.

For customer service reps, having conversational skills and knowing how to talk to customers (and how not to talk to them!) are critical to doing your job well. In this course, instructor Noah Fleming covers the skills you need most when engaging with your customers. Noah explains how to find the right tone and how reading the situation can help you make sense to the customer.

He discusses ways that positivity and personality allow the customer to feel comfortable and points out that brevity is often more important than depth in customer conversations. Noah shows you how to focus the conversation on results and how to stop talking and start listening. He covers the right questions to ask, the power of body language, conversation killers that you should avoid, and ways to handle difficult conversations. Noah finishes with an upbeat description of how following up is one of the best things you can do when talking to customers.

Tanner Woodford wanted to create new opportunities for people to experience the power and impact of design. As executive director of the Chicago Design Museum, Tanner is working to preserve and showcase how design has shaped and is shaped by this great city. In this audio-only course, Justin Ahrens interviews Tanner about building a community from scratch, evolving it into something bigger, and using design to make people's lives better.

This course was created by Justin Ahrens. We are pleased to offer this training in our library.

Exercise precise control over your image editing. Learn how to use selections and masks to create targeted adjustments in Photoshop CC.

Stay productive by managing your tasks in one central hub: Microsoft Teams. The new Tasks app brings a robust productivity experience to Teams, integrating features of Microsoft Planner and To Do. In this course, Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft MVP, and project manager Heather Severino gives you a quick overview of Tasks in Teams, showing how to set up lists for individual tasks, organize lists, edit and move task items, and mark tasks as completed. Heather demonstrates how to add tasks to a shared plan directly from Teams, including how to assign tasks to individuals and add due dates. Plus, she covers how to configure the navigation bar settings to customize the way you view your task details, as well as how to ensure you're viewing the most up-to-date information.

Making money in the music business? Find out how to claim income from gigs, maximize your deductions, and file the right tax forms with the IRS.

Learn how to manage and minimize the taxes for your small business. Get tax planning tips to structure a small business, file taxes, and reduce your tax rate.

Follow along with colorist Taylre Jones as he reveals insights from his grading process in DaVinci Resolve and before-and-after samples straight from his reel.

Discover classroom technologies that can help educators be more efficient in planning lessons, delivering instruction, engaging and managing students, and grading.

Get tips to keep up to date with the latest educational technology. Learn how to become more efficient in the classroom, and increase student achievement.

Create a happier, healthier workplace by teaching civility and learning how to set a good example with your own behavior.

Learn how to teach complex topics. Find out how to break down difficult material, turn it into an engaging unit, and then assist students who are struggling via scaffolding.