Certifications
There are 533 total certifications in this view, with 25 items displayed per page.
The Perennials: Creating a Postgenerational Workplace (Book Bite)
July 2, 2024 Continuing Education
Mauro Guillén shares insights from his latest book, "The Perennials: The Megatrends Creating a Postgenerational Society". Learn how an eagerness to break away from traditional age stereotypes and expectations has led to the rise of a perennial mindset.
Skills: Organizational Design · Diversity & Inclusion
Tags: Sociologist · Professor · Mauro Guillén · Author · Best-Selling Author · Stereotypes · Expectations · Next Big Idea Club · Mindset · Key Insights
The Perfect Story: How to Inform and Inspire (Book Bite)
June 17, 2024 Continuing Education
In this audiobook summary, Karen Eber shares some of the ideas from her book. Find out how you can use brain science to tell better stories, generate endless story ideas, and tell stories that bring data to life. Avoid common storytelling mistakes.
Skills: Storytelling
Tags: Connections · Influence · Good Story · Leadership · Leaders · Mistakes · Storytelling · Addressing Mistakes · Creatively · Personally
The Power of Habit (Blinkist Summary)
May 5, 2024 Continuing Education
This course shows you how the brain forms a habit or routine, and how you can start or end any habit you wish. Learn how habits create a craving that make them difficult to break, but you can replace an existing routine with another one.
Skills: Personal Development
Tags: Habits · Powerful Techniques · Power · Audiobook Summary · Blinkist · Large Routines · Book · Marketing · Keystone Habits · Willpower
The Power of Language: How Multilingualism Transforms Our Minds (Book Bite)
March 23, 2024 Continuing Education
Psycholinguistics is the scientific study of the interaction between mind and language, and in this audiobook summary, psycholinguist Viorica Marian explores the many ways that the words we learn impact our lives. Viorica draws on cutting-edge research.
Skills: Personal Development · Multilingual Communication
Tags: Insights · Psycholinguistics · Creatives · Boost Creativity · Cutting-Edge Research · Impact Our Lives · Language · Speaking · Psycholinguist · Next Big Idea Club
The Power of the Minimalist Entrepreneur
February 10, 2024 Continuing Education
Inspired by his book "The Minimalist Entrepreneur", Sahil Lavingia shares his conventional wisdom-defying playbook for a new generation of entrepreneurs in this audio course from Knowable. Find out how to generate ideas, validate them, and build momentum.
Skills: Entrepreneurship
Tags: Advice · Training · Hypergrowth · Approachable · Realistic · Wisdom · Sahil Lavingia · Knowable · Niche · Communities
The Procrastination Cure (Blinkist Summary)
August 20, 2024 Continuing Education
This audio-only course examines why we are drawn to procrastination and what we can do to move past it. Explore some reasons why you might be procrastinating, as well as advice on getting started quickly and gaining momentum. Find out how to prioritize.
Skills: Increase Productivity · Priority Management
Tags: Procrastination · Problems · Habits · Best Ways · Achieve More · Blinkist · Learn · Time Management · Manage Your Time · Eliminate Distractions
The Purpose Effect (getAbstract Summary)
December 28, 2024 Continuing Education
A clear purpose is good for business. "The Purpose Effect", by bestselling author Dan Pontefract, explains how organizations can build and articulate purpose on three critical levels. This audio-only summary from getAbstract reviews this important book.
Skills: Organizational Leadership · Organizational Culture
Tags: Businesses · getAbstract · Clear Purpose · Dan Pontefract · Articulate · Meaningful Goals · Energizing Workplaces · Organizations · Workplace · Significant Contributions
The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do (getAbstract Summary)
December 21, 2024 Continuing Education
With over 20 million books in print, author Ken Blanchard is one of the world's most popular business authors. This audiobook from getAbstract summarizes the biggest lessons from "The Secret" — the fictional, motivational story of Debbie Brewster.
Skills: Leadership
Tags: Meaning · Businesses · Business Growth · Inspirational Business Novel · Author · Ken Blanchard · Novelist · Leadership · Effective Leadership · Encourage Leaders
The Six Skills of Proactive Professionals
February 16, 2024 Continuing Education
International speaker and trainer Chrissy Scivicque discusses a crucial set of proactive skills that keep you moving forward in your career. Chrissy explains the importance of big picture understanding, and offers useful advice on developing these skills.
Skills: Career Management
Tags: Chrissy Scivicque · Trainer · Proactive · Moving Forward · Disneyland · Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Focus · Foresight · Advice
The Spectrum of Gender Identity in the Workplace
February 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Join instructor Cory Wade in this approachable course that explores the concept of gender, how it's historically been defined, how it's being redefined in today's world of work, and how to create an environment where everyone has a voice.
Skills: Gender Equality · Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging
Tags: Belonging · Cory Wade · Gender Spectrum · Work Environment · Inclusive · Gender · Binary · Allyship · Gender Politics · Gender Variant Empathy
The State of Generative AI: Images, Prompting, and Language Models
March 9, 2024 Continuing Education
Explore the evolution of artificial intelligence in images and videos. Discover the history of foundational models and review the current landscape of image and video generation. Finally, compare the open and closed-source APIs currently available.
Skills: Conditional Image Generation · Artificial Intelligence for Design
Tags: Evolution · Image Generation · Closed-Source Platforms · APIs · Foundational Models · History · Video Generation · Copyright · Artificial Intelligence · Current Landscape
The Surprising Upside of Procrastination
June 20, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course from "Modern Mentor", Rachel Cooke helps you harness the power of procrastination to inspire creativity, provide a burst of adrenaline, or give your brain a break. Rachel shows you how to think of procrastination as a beneficial tool.
Skills: Time Management
Tags: Overcome Procrastination · Procrastination · Macmillan Publishers · Modern Mentor · Rachel Cooke · Perspectives · Beneficial Tool · Harness Power · Overcome · Overcome Obstacles
The Three Pillars of Effective Communication
February 28, 2024 Continuing Education
Ximena Vengoechea, author of "Listen Like You Mean It: Reclaiming the Lost Art of True Connection", teaches you to become a more successful communicator by unlocking the three key skills of conversational presence: self-awareness, trust, and patience.
Skills: Building Trust · Interpersonal Communication
Tags: Communication · Communicate · Conversational · Patience · Self-Awareness · Rapport · Presence · Erosion · Trust · Knowable
The Three Secrets to Effective Time Investment (Blinkist Summary)
December 9, 2024 Continuing Education
Check out this audiobook summary of Elizabeth Grace Saunders' "The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment", a practical guide to living a life by design instead of impulse. It provides step-by-step strategies for planning your days around the commitments.
Skills: Time Management
Tags: Management · Elizabeth Grace Saunders · Powerful · Wealthy · Commitment Culture · Commitments · Investment · Blinkist · Importance · Emotional Baggage
The Top Three Negotiation Myths
March 4, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course, adapted from the podcast "Negotiate Anything", Kwame Christian discusses these common negotiation myths with Allan Tsang, Negotiation Coach and Consultant at Oblinger & Tsang, and explores how to use the truth to your advantage.
Skills: Negotiation
Tags: Trust · American Negotiation Institute · Trustworthy · Allan Tsang · Negotiations · Negotiate Anything · Myths · Kwame Christian · Advantage · Conventional Wisdom
The Undercover Economist: The Economics behind Everyday Decisions (Blinkist Summary)
January 6, 2025 Continuing Education
Economics play a major role in shaping our everyday lives — from lattes we buy in the morning to the traffic jams we encounter on our way home. In "The Undercover Economist", Tim Harford demystifies economic systems, explaining how they impact choices.
Skills: Economics
Tags: Tim Harford · Blinkist · Salient Points · Distill · Economic Systems · Demystify · Major Role · Everyday Lives · Economic Development · Practical Advice
The Unspoken Rules of High Performers and High Potentials
June 22, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course, Gorick Ng unravels the mystery by highlighting three critical work expectations that managers rarely express. Gorick is a career advisor and author of the bestselling book "The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right".
Skills: High Potential Development · Career Management
Tags: Team Player · Pete Mockaitis · Key Mindset · Mindset · Gorick Ng · Managers · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Top Performers · Critical Work Expectations · Career Advisor
The Upskilling Imperative (Blinkist Summary)
March 29, 2024 Continuing Education
This audio-only course shows you how to establish a learning culture at your company. Most skills only stay relevant for five years, so it's important to keep learning. Discover ways to prove the value of development programs and create a DEAL hour.
Skills: Organizational Learning · Lifelong Learning
Tags: Businesses · Cultivation · Cultivate · Agile · Excitement · Tactics · Interesting · Tactics and Techniques · Accessible Learning · Learning
Think Again: The Art of Mental Flexibility (Book Bite)
April 14, 2024 Continuing Education
Learn how to think like a scientist, open other people's minds, and complexify the world to embrace multiple perspectives and overcome binary thinking. With these insights and more, you'll be ready to exercise more mental flexibility to cultivate meaning.
Tags: Adam Grant · Individual Achievement · Excellence · Purpose · Conventional Wisdom · Wisdom · Life · Next Big Idea Club · Daily Life · Status Quo
Think Faster, Talk Smarter: Master Impromptu Speaking
June 22, 2024 Continuing Education
Matt Abrahams shares some key points from his book "Think Faster, Talk Smarter: How to Speak Successfully When You're Put on the Spot". Communication is critical to success in our personal and professional lives, yet too often we're not prepared.
Skills: Interpersonal Communication
Tags: Nerve-Wracking · Communication · Communicate · Author · Book · Successful People · Spontaneous Communicator · Public Speaking · Success · Successful
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Blinkist Summary)
January 11, 2025 Continuing Education
This course shows you ways that your mind works. Learn how you can steer clear of errors and improve intelligence. Learn how you are not always in control of your thoughts and biases and how the halo effect and confirmation bias can influence decisions.
Skills: Critical Thinking
Tags: Statistics · Plans · Strategic Plans · Instantaneous Reactions · Blinkist · Mental Heuristics · Brain · Errors · Intelligence · Mind
Threat Modeling: Information Disclosure in Depth
January 10, 2025 Continuing Education
STRIDE is a threat modeling framework that helps security pros think strategically. This course addresses the I in STRIDE, which stands for information disclosure. You can learn how to preserve the confidentiality of the data, and other information.
Skills: Threat Modeling
Tags: Cryptography · Defenses · Information Disclosure · Frameworks · Threat Modeling Framework · Popular · Access · Information · Adam Shostack · Expert
Thriving Amid Stress and Irritation
April 15, 2024 Continuing Education
Big stress — from colleagues, family, or a huge to-do list — can make you feel powerless. Sometimes your solutions only make things worse! In this audio-only course, Sharon Melnick, Ph.D. teaches you how to stop stress spirals and stay "in your power".
Skills: Stress Management
Tags: Sharon Melnick, Ph.D. · Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Colleagues · Family · Stress · Solutions · Power · Employment · Empowering Women
Tips for Better Business Writing
November 2, 2024 Continuing Education
This course, designed by Adcom Designs and Write It Well managing director, Natasha Terk, provides relevant, actionable tips to improve the quality and impact of your writing. Learn how to plan a message, and use the right words to communicate clearly.
Skills: Business Writing
Tags: Improve Your Writing · Writing · Understanding · Proofreading · Jargon · Communication Skills · Redundant Words · Comprehensive Understanding · Discussions · Concise Writing
Tips for Fostering a Growth Mindset from Today's Top Business Leaders
March 30, 2025 Continuing Education
High-profile business leaders share short, actionable advice for anyone trying to cultivate a growth mindset. Hear about how to own your failures from media mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg. Find out how to change a scarcity mindset from Sandra Velasquez.
Skills: Self-Management
Tags: High-Profile · Business Leaders · Career Development · Growth Mindset · Develop Skills · Business Development · Liquid Death · Mike Cessario · Jeffrey Katzenberg · Sandra Velasquez
There are 533 total certifications in this view, with 25 items displayed per page.