Enrichment & Growth

Searching for ways to deeply listen? This skill can improve our empathy, increase our curiosity about others and strengthen our relationships with peers and colleagues.

Watch this 3:26 min video clip to help quiet your own thoughts by seeking meaningful connections across differences, listening instead for what individuals are trying to communicate.

Ready for more? Watch the LinkedIn Learning Program, Develop Interpersonal Skills for Inclusive Workplaces (42 min).

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

Did you know that when you deliberately engage employees through learning, they’re 48% more likely to find purpose in their work?

Discover why a culture of learning is beneficial to organizations big and small, how to gain buy-in from the top down, how to embed learning into the flow of work, and how to keep current with learning trends. Watch this 1:16 introductory video clip with instructors and Learning and development professionals, Naphtali Bryant and Jason Mulero. They will explore how workforce trends affect learning; define a growth environment and how to take steps to create one. Additionally, they will discuss the concept of embedded learning to help you address some challenges, and identify metrics that show the impact of your initiatives.

Want to learn more? This video was just a small portion of the LinkedIn Learning course, Creating a Culture of Learning (36 min).

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

Managers face sometimes-daunting tasks. When your employees are struggling with burnout, stress, work-life imbalance, and other life challenges that may impact their performance and productivity, how can you support them? Check out this 3:35 min video clip to find out more about your role in your employee’s well-being and how you can positively impact your employees experience at work.

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

An organization’s culture is evidenced in its values, policies, attitudes, structures, and beliefs. It is a tangible asset that impacts morale and company performance, and it can be built, nurtured, and changed. Check out this 3:40 min video clip to understand more about why you should be invested in organizational culture.

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

Do you have difficulty keeping focus? In reality, just like a bad exercise routine may leave you wondering why you’re feeling scattered or disorganized.

This LinkedIn Learning video, Reduce absentmindedness (2m 32s), gives strategies that can help you effectively encode, store, and retrieve information to reduce absentmindedness.

Want more information about upskilling more effectively? This video was just a small portion of the LinkedIn Learning course, Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively (1h).

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

Get quick answers to your most urgent Outlook questions.

The LinkedIn Learning course, Outlook Quick Tips (27m 55s), is chalked full of Outlook tutorials built to help you work with email, stay organized, and customize your Outlook experience.

These short tutorials help users work faster and smarter with Outlook, the ubiquitous email and calendar app from Microsoft. Learn how to set up an out-of-office message, work with reminders, create folders and subfolders, change the default font in email messages, share Outlook calendars with others, request read receipts, and more.

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• Book an Appointment with the Centre for Organizational Learning’s System Training Specialist for support with or problem-solving assistance with your Outlook

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

Do you have difficulty learning new skills and information? People often think they’re bad learners, or have a bad memory, or make too many mistakes when learning. In reality, just like a bad exercise routine may leave you wondering why you’re not seeing results, bad learning strategies may be at the root of all your learning difficulties.

In this LinkedIn Learning video, Reduce complexity: Chunking (5m), you will gain insight into how to reduce complexity by chunking learning.

Want more information about upskilling more effectively? This video was just a small portion of the LinkedIn Learning course, Strategies to Learn and Upskill More Effectively (1h).

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

How do you retain your most valuable people within the organization?

One of the greatest gifts you can give to your employees is to be fully present with them for 5 minutes. Removing distractions from the working environment and being present with your team can be an extremely powerful tool to help support employee engagement. To find how effective you can be in 5 minutes, check out this 2:46 minute video or download the, What did you Notice Checklist from the exercise files of this course.

This video is from the 1h:22 minute LinkedIn Learning course: Engagement=Success

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

Are you looking for practical strategies to help you increase your positivity when hardships and challenges arise? This 3:38 min video clip will demonstrate some techniques to help you reduce negative thought patterns and cultivate positive environments, relationships, and habits.

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.

While you may not usually think of being creative as a benefit to productivity, sometimes shaking things up and approaching work with creativity can help you bring big projects to the finish line. In this audio-only course, Four Simple Strategies to Boost Creativity and Productivity (8 mins), 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 to produce meaningful outcomes.

Have questions? Suggestions for employee learning? Contact the Centre for Organizational Learning.