Enrichment & Growth

Tips to help you Improve your Listening Skills

Listening is a skill that you can manage through the practice of multiple listening strategies. Watch this 2:31 min video clip to learn how you can become more mindful when interacting with peers, colleagues and groups.

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Scheduling Downtime

Thinking about ways to optimize your mindset for success? Watch this 2:02 min video clip to learn how scheduling downtime and pausing to reflect can help you cultivate flow in your work.

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Rethinking end-of-work-day Rituals

Are you looking for key opportunities to revise your end-of-work-day rituals? Listen to this 3:11 audio recording to learn about some tips and strategies to help you clearly draw boundaries between work and home life.

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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Setting & Accomplishing Goals

Happy New Year and welcome back to our Employee Learning Moment! This blog is designed for our busy lives at Algonquin College. This is the place to learn about the right tool (that will help do the trick), just-in-time (to help you through the rest of your week) and just for you (as an employee at AC)!

The Employee Learning Moment (ELM) highlights resources, tools, and just-in-time workplace tricks to help you work more collaboratively and effectively. We hope you will return to this blog or subscribe to receive weekly updates.

This week the ELM explores goal setting so that you can get more meaningful things done. To learn about some of the techniques that you can leverage to help maintain momentum as you effectively accomplish your goal(s), please check out this 1:24 minute video clip.

Hint: Don’t stop there, it is just the introduction to a set of short clips that will help you take action and overcome obstacles, especially when everything feels like a priority.

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Insights on Working from Home’s Largest-ever Experiment

Curious about increased productivity and retention while working from home? Or looking for ways on how to combat isolation as employees continue to work from home? Listen to this 2:12 audio recording and learn about the study on working from home’s largest-ever experiment!

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!

To access this podcast, simply click on the link above, or, if you are new to LinkedIn Learning, please visit this link for more information.

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

 

The 6 Morning Habits of High Performers

It is said, “Your level of success will seldom exceed your level of personal development because success is something you attract by the person you become.” Listen to this 3:36 min podcast to discover 6 practices to get back on track, including how to practice silence for greater clarity.

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Reinventing Work: Professional Development Options for Employees

How can we continue to support professional learning opportunities for our employees in our hybrid workforce model? This 10:08 min video clip will explore various aspects to support employee learning and development as we move forward.

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Reinventing Work: Managing Remote/Hybrid Teams

What will the new workplace look and feel like? What issues will managers and leaders need to keep at the forefront of their minds. This 11:36 min video clip will examine critical strategies that we can leverage to help navigate and manage hybrid teams.

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Fostering Inclusion & Belonging in a Hybrid Workforce Model

As we continue to work towards a hybrid workforce model, what can leaders and managers do to ensure employees feel safe and connected? Establishing a sense of belonging starts with intention and empathy. This 10:25 min video clip examines the importance of asking employees what they really need to feel supported in their working environments.

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Leading and Motivating People with Different Personalities

Understanding personality and what motivates people is a key skill for people managers to build rapport and to effectively lead and manage teams. Are you interested in learning how you can better guide your Team in the right direction? Are you aware that recognized personality traits exist? Start by watching this 50 second video clip.

The clip is the first in a series of short videos that will help guide you to take your leadership skills to the next level.

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