Certifications
There are 399 total certifications in this view, with 25 items displayed per page.
Becoming a Great Conversationalist
July 6, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course from "How to Be Awesome at Your Job", Celeste Headlee breaks down the steps towards becoming a better conversationalist. Listening is the top skill required to become a better conversationalist, but listening skills are tough to develop.
Skills: Interpersonal Communication
Tags: Conversationalist · Conversational Skills · Habits · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Celeste Headlee · Pete Mockaitis · Listening Skills · Eye-Opening · Powerful Connection · Essential Components
Ideas That Resonate
July 6, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course, Stefan Mumaw reveals the seven characteristics of ideas that resonate. He shows you what big ideas look like, using examples from real-world companies like Dove, Volkswagen, TNT, and Google, and teaches you how to unlock the potential.
Skills: Design Thinking
Tags: Advertising · Marketing · Ideas · Currency · Dove · Volkswagen · TNT · Google · Full Potential · Potential
Four Simple Strategies to Boost Creativity and Productivity
July 6, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course adapted from the "Modern Mentor" podcast, host Rachel Cooke helps you understand how you can harness your creativity to be more productive. Rachel details actionable techniques to burst through productivity barriers, enabling you.
Skills: Creativity and Innovation · Productivity Improvement
Tags: Modern Mentor · Productivity · Benefits · Rachel Cooke · Macmillan Publishers · Thinking Patterns · Attention · Strict Deadlines · Mentors · Mentorship
What You Need to Know About Crafting a Stand-out Resume
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Are you tired of submitting resumes that never seem to get noticed? In this episode of the podcast "Get Hired", Ana Lokotkova, a seasoned career advisor, sits down to share insights and practical strategies to help you stand out from the competition.
Skills: Personal Branding · Resume Writing
Tags: Practical Strategies · Competition · Stand Out · Ana Lokotkova · Next Level · Resume Writer · Career Advisor · Resume · Professional Experience · Get Hired
The Long-Distance Teammate: Staying Connected (Book Bite)
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel, co-founders of Remote Leadership Institute, go over how to help remote workers get work done efficiently, communicate well, and build relationships with colleagues. Tune into this audiobook from Next Big Idea Club.
Skills: Remote Teamwork
Tags: Workplace Strategist · Workplace · Engagement · Key Insights · Insights · Author · Remote Work · Kevin Eikenberry · Next Big Idea Club · Wayne Turmel
Training Your Mind to Focus and Handle Distractions Better
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Pete Mockaitis is joined by Dr. Amishi Jha to unpack the truth of what's going on in our distracted, tech-laden lives. A professor of psychology at the University of Miami, Amishi shares the single most important tool you can cultivate — mindfulness.
Skills: Self-Management · Productivity Improvement
Tags: Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Truth · Focus · Science of Focus · Day-to-Day Lives · Dr. Amishi Jha · Peak Focus · Mindfulness · Common Myths
Startup Stories: Teacher Earns $8,000 Selling Curriculum
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Author Chris Guillebeau shares the story of Erin Austin, a high school French teacher who diversifies her income by creating curriculum for sale. Her products sell for low prices, but by selling in volume, she's able to earn a solid amount each month.
Skills: Entrepreneurship
Tags: Author · Entrepreneurs · Chris Guillebeau · Teaching · Teachers · Learning · Learning Plan · Learning-Oriented · Resources · Links
The Foundational Principle Separating Good Leaders from Bad Ones
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Author Patrick Lencioni explores why so many leaders fall short — and how to resolve it. As Patrick explains, too many professionals think of leadership as a reward for their hard work. As a result, they end up abandoning their core responsibilities.
Skills: Leadership
Tags: Professionals · Industry Professionals · High-Achieving Professionals · Success · Successful · Patrick Lencioni · Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Leaders · Core Responsibilities
Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters (Book Bite)
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
In his book, "Effortless: Make It Easy to Do What Matters", Greg McKeown explains how to make your life easier by flipping the script — making important tasks easier. Tune into this audiobook summary from Next Big Idea Club to learn five key insights.
Skills: Personal Development
Tags: Next Big Idea Club · Greg McKeown · Exhaustion · Burnout · Key Insights · Audiobook Summary · Flipping the Script · Success · Relentless Drive · Important Tasks
Getting Restarted with DEIB in Your Organization
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Karen Jaw-Madson provides a playbook for organizations looking to energize their DEI efforts. Karen shows where to begin with DEI, what a DEI leader needs, what an organization needs for successful DEI programs, and outlines conditions for DEI success.
Skills: Organizational Leadership · Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion
Tags: Energize · Organizations · Valuable Playbook · DEI · Leadership · Karen Jaw-Madson · Stumbling Block · Leaders · Success · Successful
Making More Impact as a Middle Manager
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
In this audio-only course from "How to Be Awesome at Your Job", Scott Mautz presents a series of best practices for leading up, down, and across your organization. Scott explains that middle managers have to be good at making multiple mental transitions.
Skills: Team Management · Leadership
Tags: Pete Mockaitis · Best Practices · Mental Transitions · Excellent Feedback · Training · Pragmatism · Firefighting · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Scott Mautz · Middle Managers
Talk Triggers: How to Create Customers with Word of Mouth
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
In this audio-only course, Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin walk you through practical strategies to get the most out of word-of-mouth marketing, showing you how to use talk triggers as bold differentiators to help your product stand out from the competition.
Skills: Word of Mouth Marketing
Tags: Priorities · Penguin Random House · Jay Baer · Daniel Lemin · Marketing Campaigns · Word-of-Mouth · Campaigns · Talk Triggers · Bold Differentiators · Sales Strategy
How to Reframe Rejection, Beat Burnout, and Get Unstuck
July 4, 2024 Continuing Education
Lia Garvin — founder of the Workplace Reframe — shares how small, subtle reframes can drastically change how we receive feedback — including how to get out of "the dread zone". And, she reveals how rejections actually unlock new possibilities.
Skills: Emotional Intelligence · Stress Management
Tags: Negative Results · Writer · Speakers · Workplace Strategist · Inner Critic · Lia Garvin · Pete Mockaitis · Bleak Outcomes · How to Be Awesome at Your Job · Feedback
Eat Their Lunch: Winning Customers Away from the Competition
July 3, 2024 Continuing Education
From Anthony Iannarino, comes the first ever playbook for B2B sales. Get tips and techniques that you can put to use throughout the sales process, all the way to winning them over and closing a deal. This audiobook was created by Penguin Random House.
Skills: Customer Acquisition · Competitive Strategies
Tags: Customers · Strategies · Practical Strategies · Vision · Enterprise · Secrets · High Stakes · Penguin Random House · Future · Anthony Iannarino
The Most Powerful You: 7 Paths to Career Bliss (Book Bite)
July 3, 2024 Continuing Education
In her book, "The Most Powerful You: 7 Paths to Career Bliss", Kathy Caprino shows you how to take the reins in your career by identifying the seven most damaging power gaps, then accessing internal and external power to harness new levels of success.
Skills: Personal Development
Tags: Career · Kathy Caprino · Bliss · Key Insights · Abilities · Talents · Accomplishments · New Levels · Next Big Idea Club · Success
Design Thinking: Cultivating Curiosity for Empathy and Inclusion
July 3, 2024 Continuing Education
Jessie Shternshus helps you dig deeper into your curiosity to form better relationships and design more inclusive products and environments. Get tips on the overall importance of curiosity in design thinking, how self-consciousness can inhibit curiosity.
Skills: Design Thinking · Empathic Design
Tags: Societal Norms · Jessie Shternshus · Environments · Self-Consciousness · Life-Long Learning · Best Tools · Curiosity · Mindless Actions · Tools · Inclusive Products
How Startups Find Problems Worth Solving
July 3, 2024 Continuing Education
In this audio-only course from Knowable, Eric von Hippel and MIT Bootcamps founder Erdin Beshimov show you how to apply the user-led innovation framework to generate valuable, market-leading ideas and solve problems inspired by your own experiences.
Skills: Innovation Development
Tags: Eric von Hippel · MIT Bootcamps · MIT Sloan School of Management · Smart People · Problem Solver · Problems · World's Greatest · Innovations · Knowable · Erdin Beshimov
Nailing your Interview, Resume, and Negotiation FAST
July 3, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course, Steve Dalton — author of "The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More" — breaks down the efficient path to landing your dream career. Steve talks with Pete Mockaitis about job search topics.
Skills: Interview Preparation · Career Management
Tags: Steve Dalton · Author · Efficient Path · Job Search · Dream Career · Negotiations · Successful Negotiations · Topics · Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job
Circles of Competence: Know Your Strike Zone
July 2, 2024 Continuing Education
In this audio course from Knowable, learn how to use this simple yet powerful mental model to identify your highest-leverage competencies for greater returns in business and life, avoid potentially harmful personal and professional oversteps.
Skills: Self Assessment
Tags: Towering Figures · Knowable · Ted Williams · Richard Feynman · Warren Buffett · Mental Models · Greater Confidence · Philosophies · Tenet · Intellectual Honesty
Stop Overthinking and Manage Your Inner Critic
July 2, 2024 Continuing Education
In this course, Melody Wilding — executive coach and author of "Trust Yourself" — explains how to stop overthinking and deal with your inner critic. Melody uses the term "sensitive strivers" to describe highly sensitive and high-achieving professionals.
Skills: Self-Confidence · Intrapersonal Skills
Tags: Melody Wilding · Author · Executive Coach · Overthinking · High-Achieving Professionals · Professionals · Industry Professionals · Inner Critic · Pete Mockaitis · How to Be Awesome at Your Job
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
Bystander Training: From Bystander to Upstander
July 2, 2024 Continuing Education
Catherine Mattice shows that by going from bystander to upstander — someone who holds their co-workers accountable for bad behavior — you can turn a toxic workplace into a supportive environment where employees are able to do their best work.
Skills: Workplace Relations · Anti-Bullying · Accountability
Tags: Toxic Environment · Catherine Mattice · Bystander · Intervening · Benefits · Upstander · Supportive Environment · Bad Behavior · Professional Conduct · Employees
Smarter Faster Better (Blinkist Summary)
July 1, 2024 Continuing Education
Find out how you can become one of them. Learn how to stay motivated by letting yourself make choices and setting goals. Discover how to set goals as achievable parts, stay focused on your goals, and help each of your team members feel safe and valued.
Skills: Productivity Improvement · Decision-Making
Tags: Foster · Commitment Culture · Motivated · Motivated Leader · Productive · Blinkist · Motivation · New Ways · Old Ideas · Competitive
Chatter: How to Harness The Voice in Our Head (Book Bite)
June 25, 2024 Continuing Education
In the 2021 book "Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It", author Ethan Kross explores how to use the voice in your head to reshape your life, career, and relationships in positive, meaningful ways. From Next Big Idea Club.
Skills: Mindfulness
Tags: Chaos · Book · Inner Voices · Career · Better Relationships · Relationships · Life · Next Big Idea Club · Ethan Kross · Voices
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
There are 399 total certifications in this view, with 25 items displayed per page.