We all encounter moments of adversity in our working lives, but it's how we face up to these challenges that determines our success in reaching our potential. Even the most gifted people risk failure if they can't deal with adversity. Achieving goals requires determination, persistence, and adaptability. In this course, you'll explore how to overcome the challenges you'll face as you work to achieve your goals. You will also learn about the characteristics of an adaptive mindset and how to develop and nurture the personal persistence necessary for facing both day-to-day and uncommon obstacles that threaten to derail your efforts.

Regardless of our own unique jobs and lives, we are all bound by time. It never stops and you can never get it back. Most professionals suffer from the constant and gripping fear of not having enough time. Managing time and tasks poorly can create more stress. In this course, you will learn strategies that help you manage your time efficiently and ensure that it is aligned with your goals. You will learn to assess the value of your tasks and how you can block time according to the priority of each task. You will also learn to create effective to-do lists and schedules that will help improve productivity.

Everyone could benefit from a boost in creativity. Whether you're in marketing and advertising, management, or software development, all professionals need to be able to come up with original ideas and think outside the box every now and then. But sometimes the pressure to think creatively is the very thing that blocks the flow of fresh ideas and results in the type of procrastination that is an obstacle to efficient time management. This course focuses on the relationship between procrastinating and creativity. You'll learn about how the optimal amount of procrastination actually boosts creativity and efficiency. You'll also learn how to use creativity boosters to help you past those times when you procrastinate a little too much.

Workplaces have become sources of constant innovation and evolution. To meet the challenges of this continuous progress while increasing your own contributions, you need to recognize your talents, build on your strengths, and constantly improve to maintain yourself as a top performer. In this course, you'll learn approaches that can help you embark on a successful self-improvement journey, and the roles that talents and skills play in self-improvement. You'll also explore overarching strategies to enhance any self-improvement effort and discover the key elements of a robust self-improvement plan.

The workplace is both dynamic and challenging. Within this complex ecosystem, toxicity can cast a dark shadow over your working life. It can erode your morale, impede productivity, and take a toll on your mental and emotional well-being. Therefore, it is crucial for you to address this issue head-on by implementing effective strategies to navigate and mitigate its adverse effects. In this course, you will learn to identify key indicators of a toxic work culture, develop strategies to cope with and navigate through it, and address toxic behaviors. Additionally, you will learn techniques to influence positive change in a toxic workplace. With these strategies, you will be better prepared to navigate the challenges of a toxic workplace and create a healthier and more productive work environment.

It is often said that there are only two certainties in this world: death and taxes. Dane Jensen would argue that there's a third: pressure. Pressure is an inevitable part of the human journey - of navigating work and family, pursuing goals, encountering setbacks, and growing. Dane has spent his career understanding pressure - what creates it, why it can lead to breakdowns, and what we can learn from those who channel pressure to breakthroughs. His research at the intersection of elite sport, academia, business, and Government has produced a straightforward equation for understanding pressure, and a series of habits that high performers use to perform and find joy under pressure. You'll learn: • The three components of the ‘pressure equation': every high-pressure situation comes from a combination of three factors. Understanding these factors is the first step to harnessing the power of pressure. Once you can diagnose the root causes of pressure, you can begin to act. • How to nail your peak pressure moments: in peak pressure moments like big presentations, exams, interviews or performances, our bodies are wired in ways that can sabotage us. We tense up, get tunnel vision, and miss key information. You'll discover three habits you can build to escape the traps of biology and perform to your peak when it matters most. • How to thrive over the long haul: the pressure of enduring a pandemic, tackling a major, multi-year project, or balancing work with young children is different than nailing a big sales call. People who understand how to perform under peak pressure and stay motivated through the long haul are unstoppable. Learning and mastering these skills will allow you to not only take advantage of the key moments that can define your career, but also to find joy along the journey of a high-pressure life.

What stands between you and success? People who are the best they can be are empowered by a belief that throughout their lives and careers, within their organizations and in their relationships, they can take action to improve their current state. They see themselves as responsible for their own happiness and success. In this course, you'll learn principles and characteristics shared by people who have broken through the barriers holding them back from true success. You'll discover how to identify those barriers - as well as your own personal triggers and mental blocks - and overcome them. You'll also learn strategies to jumpstart your work mindset and to advocate for yourself to get you out of your own way and on a path to success.

The digital economy is revolutionizing the world of work. To stay relevant, individuals across all industries need to be open to continuous learning and developing talent. Through organizational learning, you can start developing employees by ensuring they are learning the necessary skills. In this course, you'll learn some of the key ways in which the world of work is changing and the skills that are in high demand. You'll also explore ways to choose what to learn in order to keep your skill set current, as well as develop people and encourage self-development. And you'll also explore strategies to help advance your career in the digital economy.

The amount of time available to you is constant - you can't buy more and you can't save it for later. However, by managing your time, you can increase your productivity. And the better you understand your own personal productivity, the easier it will be to manage your time effectively. In this course, you'll learn about how you can use task management to maximize your productivity. You'll discover the benefits of using time management and assessing the value of your tasks. You'll learn about benefits of setting goals and how productivity is tied to your ability to assess time and set priorities. And you'll also learn about the process of "chunking" your time and how to use different types of to-do lists effectively.

Organizing your physical and digital workspaces is a great way to be more productive. When you declutter your workspace, you can improve many aspects of your work day, including your ability to concentrate, achieve targets, and become more efficient. This course will help you increase your productivity by showing you how to organize and maintain both your physical and digital workspaces. You'll learn the rewards of organizing your workspace and find out what a productive workspace looks like. You'll learn how to use your organization skills to manage your digital workspace. And finally, you'll find out how to make your new clutter-free life last by making organization a habit.

Self-starters take initiative, work without supervision, and begin projects independently. Organizations are always looking for people who come to the table with creative ideas, who find work that needs to be done and do it without waiting to be told. But self-starters also gain personal benefits from being someone who takes responsibility for their own happiness, the success of their work and relationships, the morale of their workplace, and their life. In this course, you'll learn the characteristics that most self-starters have in common, and why they are valued as employees and as leaders. You'll also learn the skills you need to build or enhance your own self-starting toolbox, the barriers you may encounter on the path to being a self-starter, and strategies to overcome those challenges.

Over the course of a career, not everyone you work with will be easy to get along with. Sometimes this presents difficult situations. But whether it's your boss, a peer, direct report, client, or vendor, professionalism, and professional success, rely on overcoming challenging people and be able to work with even those you don't personally care for. It requires using tact. In this course, you'll learn to navigate challenging situations with tact and diplomacy. You'll learn how to get along with co-workers, give feedback to bosses and direct reports, compose tactful emails, and negotiate diplomatically.

Even when you know your priorities and have an organized time management routine, you'll still be challenged every day by distractions, temptations, interruptions, and procrastination. To avoid causing internal time management detours, you have to develop ways to stay focused, and this often means using personal and interpersonal skills in very specific ways. In this course, you'll learn strategies to manage challenges to your personal focus, techniques to help you shut out distractions and manage time conflicts, and ways to regain focus and develop mental resilience when faced with change.

Accepting challenges and negotiating roadblocks with maturity and composure are vital to building a successful career and professional life. This requires developing high levels of self-confidence, self-trust, and resilience, and constantly nurturing and maintaining these qualities in yourself in all situations. In this course, you will learn the elements that go into making self-confidence, and what methods you can use to assess your current confidence levels. You'll explore how to manage situations that can cause a threat to your self-esteem and learn strategies to boost your confidence over the long term.