Employee Learning Moment

The Importance of Self-Awareness towards Personal Development

While a multitude of factors can go into the making of a successful person, nearly all individuals who achieve high levels of personal and professional success have a keen sense of self-awareness. In this introductory 1:16 min video you will understand the importance of focusing on developing self-awareness to allow you to personally develop your leadership skills and enhance your career progression. Organizational psychologist, Gemma Roberts helps you learn how to develop your self- awareness so that you can understand how others see you, and better align your actions with your intentions. She shares strategies for how to identify beliefs to enhance self-awareness , step outside of yourself to gain a different perspective, leverage a self-awareness action plan, and more.

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Storytelling for Meaningful Learning

How can we make learning more interesting and memorable for our learners? Learners often have an easier time retaining concepts when they’re woven into a compelling narrative. In his 1:45 min video clip introduction, Paul A. Smith, Storytelling Coach and author of, “Lead with a Story” and “10 Stories Great Leaders Tell,” talks about the importance of the story. Paul shares how we can begin to build engaging training content by using essential storytelling techniques.

Storytelling in its many varied forms opens up dialogue to allow for sharing including providing analogies and making connections to prior and new learning while inviting the sharing and discussion of other’s perspectives and lived experiences.

Consider how you can choose the right story to tell in the right situation, as well as, how to structure your story. Also, how you can incorporate emotion, surprise, and humor into your training to make the content more fun, relatable, and transformative for your learners.

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Harness Strategic Thinking Strategies to Innovative, Communicate, and Problem Solve

Explore this 3:10 min video clip and be inspired by AJ Eckstein to learn how to creatively problem-solve by adapting a beginner lens to welcome challenges with an open mind, while letting go of pre-conceived notions and assumptions.

Do you struggle when it comes to problem-solving? Would you like to think more strategically? In the rest of this course, you will be guided through a simple 3-part process with actionable tips on how to think like a consultant and solve problems both at work and in your personal life. From identifying the root cause of a problem to organizing your thinking to solve a problem to communicating effective solutions, a variety of creative methods and strategies and introduced that you can lean on. Some examples include using the 80/20 rule for maximum impact, the MECE principle to organize your thinking, and creating issue trees and decision trees to break down problems and make good decisions.

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Set and Forget Your Work Hours and Location Outlook

Whether you’re working remotely or in the office, managing your schedule in Outlook ensures that colleagues know your availability and helps streamline meetings and appointments.

New features in Office 365 allow you to specify more details about your work schedule: from where you’re working (remotely or in office) and whether you work different hours on different days. In addition, you’ll be able to schedule meetings with others based on their work location and view work location on people’s profile cards.

This support page on the Microsoft website outlines the available hours and location features.

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Edit your Photos & Create a Video in Windows 10/11

Often want to make photos look their best and create a quick slideshow? In the LinkedIn Learning videos: Edit your Photos & Create a Video (6m:12s) and Create a Video from your Photos (9m:20s) a Microsoft Windows expert will show you how you can unlock the potential of Windows Photos.

If interested in more handy tips, these videos are part of the LinkedIn Learning course, Windows Tips and Tricks (1h:51 m).

Note: While these videos were recorded using Windows 11, users of Windows 10 should be able to follow along.

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Learn to Ignore the Unimportant

Plenty of people have had the experience of setting goals and then failing to achieve them- think of all the New Year’s resolutions that are never realized. But with the right strategies, even your loftiest professional goals are attainable.

As part of the LinkedIn Learning course, Defining and Achieving Professional Goals (27 min 31s), Learn to Ignore the Unimportant (3 m 37s) provides strategies for ignoring the unimportant (at least temporarily) to help you achieve your goals.

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Ready…Set…Stress Reset

Looking for ways to help you better manage your stress? A stress reset is an action, thought, saying, ritual or other strategy that can create space between your reaction to stress and your response. Watch this 3:42 min video clip to gain new insight into action with a “stress reset” and turn your new insight into action.

Would you like to learn more about your own stress personality? Watch, Discover Your Stress Personality (49 min) to find out more.

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“I just have to Listen”

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).

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How do Winning Teams Function?

Did you know that individual team members can hold multiple roles on a team? This helps individuals feed the team’s ability to maintain, adjust, improve and grow their sense of self-awareness.

Explore this 4:06 min video clip to discover the team’s functionality through task and social roles, individual differences and team norms.

Want to learn more? This video covers one of the behaviors that drive Team Success. Watch the other nine from the LinkedIn Learning course, Top 10 Behaviors that Drive Team Success (44 min) to discover all aspects of how a winning team functions.

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Building Better Routines for a New Year

Welcome back to your Employee Learning Moment (ELM). This is the place to learn about just 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)!

As we kick off a new year, building better routines and staying organized is vital to improving our mindset. Learn about the three steps to getting a jump start on your day so you can close out your day right, and begin tomorrow as part of your daily wrap up. Building routines will require time and effort to establish, but once you get started, it will set you up for a successful new year! Check out the 2:54 min video clip.

Looking for ways to help you Build Better Routines for the new year? Check out the Building Better Routines (44 min) course to get started!

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