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Have no Fear! How to Overcome Interview Anxiety
The moment you enter the front area for your interview, your body immediately responds. Your palms are sweaty. Your clothes feel tighter than normal. You're also trying to calm the dance batter between your stomach and butterflies. Yes, this is...
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Claims Negotiation Tool Box
When negotiating in the claims environment, there is a wide range of possible outcomes and an even wider range of negotiation techniques that can be used to influence those outcomes. There is no "one size fits all" tool that can...
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Working at a Startup: Things to Know
Startups are their own special breed of organization, and working at one requires an understanding of the culture, challenges, and opportunities that can come along with these new businesses.
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Education is Marketing is Education
Good education is about engaging your audience, providing multiple pathways about learning more, and giving people options for expressing what they’ve learned. Good marketing builds upon the same foundation. Marketers are still tasked with engaging...
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Building an Authentic Network
Authentic networks are based on authentic connections; the act of surrounding yourself with people who feel right to you. An authentic network is exactly what these two words suggest -- a network of people you intentionally engage with in order...
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How To Build Your Network When You're Working From Home
With digital tools and social media, you're one click away from connecting with just about anyone - a necessity now that a majority of people are require to work from home. However, if you hit send on a poorly worded...
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Getting Started with Graphic Design
Have you ever thought about starting a career in graphic design? Or do you want to learn some basic skills for promoting your business? Either way, you don’t need to go to design school to become a graphic designer. With...
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Open Educational Resources in the K-12 Classroom
Open educational resources (OER) are educational materials made available for sharing, accessing and reusing through a public or open license; these materials have been used in the K-12 and higher education environments for years with much success....
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Data Management
Spreadsheets & Databases are powerful tools that can simplify processes and assist teams in being more efficient. There isn't a single industry that does not need to effectively organize its data, ranging from software companies to schools...
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Dare to Be Fair
This learning path explores the impact of fairness on performance and offers concrete strategies for leaders and individuals to create a fair workplace. Fair businesses outperform not only because employees are motivated and committed, but also...
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The Truth About a Career in HR
Want to pursue a career in Human Resources? There are many different aspects to consider; this path walks you through several of them, including the role of HR professionals and HR information systems.
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Leading a Team to Coordinate Events
Picture this: You have been tasked with the responsibility to plan a company-wide training event. You're ready to roll up your sleeves and get to work but have no idea where to start. If that sounds like a scenario you're...
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The Neuroscience of Leadership
How would your business grow if you could become smarter overnight? What would the impact be if you could tap into more parts of your brain to increase innovation, creativity, emotional engagement, vision, feelings of safety, belonging, and...
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Thriving in a Multicultural Environment
The reality of today’s global economy is changing the way employers look at their staff. While relevant experience and technical know-how remain must-haves for employers, they are also looking for employees with the ability to understand people from...
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Microsoft Excel 2016
Any user new to Excel 2016 will benefit from this path, which is based on the Goodwill Community Foundation's video tutorials. These bite-sized videos cover basic and advanced functions of Microsoft Excel, including creating and saving sheets,...
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Creating a Culture of Magic: The Formula for Great Employees
At Disney, it’s not magic that makes it work, it’s the way we work that makes it magic. Our secret to the magic is our cast members. We don’t hire people and make them nice, we hire nice people. We...
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Time Management 101
We each have 24 hours a day, but some of us are able to be more productive with our hours than others. Whether you are trying to find a way to do less or more in your day, this path...
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Make Your Meetings Matter: 12 Essential Building Blocks to Effective Meetings
Effective meetings produce useful results. Effective meetings have high participation, good energy, constructive collaboration, and meaningful conversations.
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The Importance of Resilience
What does it mean to be resilient? We have all heard the word before. Often times it's about kids - they are so resilient. Right? After we grow up, do we stop being resilient? I think we probably do but...
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How To Conduct User Experience Research
The What, Why, and How of user experience research. This is for people who don't know what UX research is and want to know more. This provides the foundation of what it is as well as how to go about...
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Startups, Growth Hacking, & Digital Marketing
Getting started - as a startup, small business, or entrepreneur - is tough. The startup boom has created such a tsunami of information around developing a successful startup that it's difficult to separate a signal from all the noise. This...
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The Dark Side…of UX Design
The terms dark pattern and dark UX sound exactly like design practices the Empire would use to confuse Stormtroopers requesting time off through their intranet (Empirenet?). Unfortunately, the most common targets of these UX practices tend to be us...
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A Skills-Based Resume May (or May Not) Be Best
Most of us only know the most common, basic format for a resume. We are all aware a resume typically includes your work history presented in chronological order, and any additional effort given to it usually involves word choice and...
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