Enrichment & Growth

Building Inclusive Work Communities

Workplace Utopia is described as “a place where everyone feels a sense of Belonging.” Why is “feeling like you belong” important? What are some of the positive and negative impacts of ‘feeling that you do not belong’? Is this topic resonating with you? If so, please join Joanne Simon-Walters, HR Professional and experienced business leader, in this introductory 1:25 min video to begin the “Building Inclusive Work Communities” conversation. This learning path will examine inclusivity essentials including inclusion strategies (also in chaotic times) to understand how this can have a positive impact on creating a sense of belonging in our workplaces.

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Supporting Workplace Inclusion

How do we recognize generational characteristics to promote generational inclusion in the workplace? How do we build teams with complementary skills where difference is a value-add? How can intergenerational collaboration create successful outcomes? Join Linda Croyle, expert psychologist and consultant in transformative communication, diversity, and inclusion who will share her insights on how we can harness the benefits each generation plays in the workplace.

Watch this 1:19 min video on Generational Inclusion which serves to introduce the “Diversity Across Generations: Supporting Workplace Inclusion” learning module.

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How to Celebrate Successes Remotely

This 4:30 min LinkedIn Learning video offers some fundamental ways to observe meaningful personal and team milestones in a remote work environment. While a virtual workplace can be a very enriching environment, it won’t happen organically.

The full course Managing Skills for Remote Leaders (1h 12m) outlines a 15 step program that shows how to create a sense of community, build an inclusive culture that spans virtual workspaces, and shares values, goodwill, and ideas.

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Effective Speakers Listen First

Do you want to be an engaging speaker? In this audio- only course from How to Be Awesome at Your Job, international speaker, Julian Treasure shares tactics and techniques that improve how you communicate. Julian stresses the importance of learning how to listen first.

This 4:57 min audio clip, Effective Speakers Listen First, is a segment from the 34 min LinkedIn Learning course, How to Speak So People Want to Listen.

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What is Cognitive Flexibility and how can it Help me?

Cognitive Flexibility is the ability to switch gears quickly and efficiently. We can increase our resiliency and creativity through adaptability, innovation, and self-observation. Beginning to identify patterns that we can recognize will give us the tools to adjust more quickly for a more effective solution.

Watch this 3:36 min video clip to help you identify patterns and adjust more quickly to find a more effective solution, a critical aspect to our mental and physical health.

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Discover the Hidden Forces that Drive your Best Work

Have you ever wondered what it is that drives you to work in the particular way you do? Motivation-therein lies the answer; the hidden force that’s unique to you. If you can figure out how to better identify and assess the power of your own motivation, you can also leverage it to great effect and make positive changes at work and in your personal life.

This 1:01 minute audio clip introduces the complete course (1:02 hour). Discover the power of your motivation code to generate transformation and boost your productivity. Gathering insights in this audio course from best-selling author of The Motivation Code, Die Empty and The Accidental Creative, Todd Henry gives you an innovative framework for thinking about what motivates you and why. Those powerful, hidden forces lurking deep inside- wouldn’t you like to know more about what they really are?

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How to Tell Better Stories with Data

Explore concrete strategies to practice and hone your skillset as a data storyteller with your own unique style! Discover how to unpack the particular problem that you want your story to solve. The trick? Learning how to merge your left and right brain so you can tell better stories with data. Mark Donnolo (Founder/Managing Partner at SalesGlobe) illustrates how you can leverage storytelling with an analytics backbone to engage your audience with your message and campaign.

This 1:22 min video clip introduces the complete course (48 minutes). You will learn pointers on crafting your data story, connecting the dots, refining as you go and making storytelling your lifelong hobby!

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Rest + Work =Creativity, Innovation & Presence

Doing great work and performing well in our roles is dependent on our ability to rest and recover. Our efforts to work harder is counterproductive beyond a certain threshold and when we are tired, we tend to make more mistakes and show less empathy towards others. Listen to this 1:38 min audio clip to learn how you can lean into resilient capabilities to do better work.

Hint: This is just one of a series of 10 short audio recordings that have been adapted from the podcast, ‘How to Be Awesome at Your Job.’ You might want to check them all out.

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