Soft Skills & Career Success: How to Be Excellent at Work
What you'll learn
- Evaluate individual signature strengths and understand how those are best used at the individual and team levels.
- Develop professional presence, soft skills, and confidence in the workplace.
- Become a more effective communicator in the work environment.
- Ask better questions and increase your ability to come up with more and better ideas.
- Create clear, specific, and actionable goals by making a simple but effective career action plan.
- Gain access to a variety of career boosting resources, tools, and techniques.
Requirements
- No special skills or knowledge are needed before taking this course. However it is helpful to already be working in an international environment or to have plans to someday do so.
Description
You've managed to land your very first "real" full-time job? Congratulations! Now what?
Have you ever wished that your job or workplace came with an easy guidebook to help you be more effective, get noticed (in a good way), and even promoted to the next level so you can more easily reach your long-term career goals?
This easy to follow course was made for beginners, novices, and those looking to brush up on existing soft skills. It will take you by the hand and help you with all the "Day 1 Basics" that you are expected to know immediately like how you should dress, behave, and act.
We'll also take you beyond the basics so you can develop effective work habits that will help you succeed at your job, create a healthy work/life balance, and have a better understanding of your own personal strengths and how you work best.
This course was created for recent graduates, interns, new hires, junior staff, or any employee looking to boost their skills at the office and in the global workplace
Let us help you succeed at work. By the end of this course you will be able to:
Evaluate individual signature strengths and understand how those are best used at the individual and team levels.
Develop soft skills, professional presence, and confidence in the workplace.
Become a more effective communicator in the work environment.
Ask better questions and increase your ability to come up with more and better ideas.
Create clear, specific, and actionable goals by making a simple but effective career action plan.
Gain access to a variety of career boosting resources, tools, and techniques.
Join American University of Myanmar Professors, Kristen Palana, MFA and Dr. Luisa Glascock, PhD who lead this course based on their live training sessions with the young creative professionals at Mango Group Myanmar as well as senior managers from the UN's World Food Programme Myanmar.
Both Professors also have decades of experience guiding young people into their first jobs and helping them to make better and more informed career choices that lead to a more balanced and fulfilling life.
New bonus lectures and resources will continue to be added and timely advice will be provided in the discussion forum. We love to help and always respond to inquiries and discussions ASAP.
Please Note: All students who enroll in this course also will receive periodic free and discounted access to our other top-rated current and upcoming courses.
You have a 30-day, 100% money-back guarantee with no questions asked so you have nothing to lose. We make ourselves available so you will have access to us if you have questions or need specific feedback along the way.
Empower yourself now by enrolling in this easy to follow Workplace Essentials course and join our growing learning community! Click the "Take This Course" button in the upper right corner and let's get started boosting your impact at work right away!
Who this course is for:
- This course is best suited for junior staff in an office environment who would like to communicate better with clients and their team, understand better how to succeed in an international work environment, and to learn soft skills for better work productivity and success.
- This course will also help college students, interns, and recent graduates as they begin to navigate the work environment for the first time.
- This course was originally custom designed for the creative professionals at Mango Group in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar is a country in transition that is just opening up to the world for the first time. Therefore this course can be helpful to anyone just starting out in their career or to someone coming into contact with an international workplace environment for the very first time.
Instructors
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
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- 86,605 Students
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My goal is to empower ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
I'm an American/Portuguese multidisciplinary artist based in Malawi. After decades as a digital artist, I've reconnected with my fine art roots. My animated films have screened in over 75 international film festivals earning numerous “Best Animated Short Film” awards.
As an educator, I've taught at universities on four continents, including at The American University of Rome, where I co-founded the Film and Digital Media Program. I've worked as a designer and educator for organizations such as the WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, UNDP, GIZ, and WFP and created multimedia programs for students from all walks of life. Since 2014, I've taught thousands of students online in 185 countries, and from 2016–2019, taught for universities and NGOs in Myanmar. I’m currently helping international and local creatives find solutions to their most pressing art, design, business, and tech problems through master classes for UN organizations, live and online mentoring, and consulting.
What can I help you with today?
- 4.0 Instructor Rating
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Dr. Luisa Glasscock is formerly a school educator. Her professional experience includes teaching students, many of them English language-learners, from age four to University graduate programs in the area of Education.
Luisa’s personal journey has taken her to live and work in various countries including Mexico, United States, Japan, Spain, China, and currently Myanmar. She earned a BA in Psychology (Mexico), MEd in International Teaching (USA), and a PhD with a concentration in Curriculum-Instruction, and Cultural Studies in Education (USA), including a Fulbright in Japan.
Working in public and private institutions for over 30 years has led Luisa to become an effective instructor and mentor to individuals immersed in international perspectives in the work environment. She is keen on research and issues that help individuals of future generations to continue being creative, resourceful, imaginative, and adaptable for individual advancement and collaborative work accomplishment.