Forging Your Career Path: Tips for New Professionals
Your first days as a new professional can be tough. This path has resources to help guide you through several aspects of this new phase of your life, including communication and personal branding.
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Soul Entrepreneurship
Soul=the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal Entrepreneurship= The activity of setting up a business.
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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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Communicating Effectively: How to Inspire and Convince
Course PROVIDED BY DelftX The majority of challenges that organizations face are technology related. Given the growing importance of technology, the demand for leaders with an engineering background will probably rise. Already a quarter of the CEOs...
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Boost Your Negotiating Skills
Life often requires compromise - be it in the workplace or at home. From closing a sale with a new client to deciding on a what to have for dinner with your partner, negotiation skills can be applied toward successful,...
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Customer Salutations: A How-To Guide
It may sound silly but simply greeting your customer goes a long way. In a matter of seconds, customers begin to form their opinion of your business and a forced or generic opening line will not seal the deal.
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You Can Be a Web Developer: Chapter 1
Hi! I'm Rob. I have a degree in Mathematics from Cambridge University and you might call me a bit of coding geek. After building websites for friends and family for fun, I soon learned that web development was a very...
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The Secrets to Hiring Great Employees
Hiring the wrong employee is a mistake that can cost your organization thousands of dollars in wasted productivity and salary costs. But how do you get it right? Here, experts share some of their tips, tricks, and secrets to success.
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Avoiding Scheduling Pitfalls
You are always busy. Between juggling multiple project deadlines, conference calls, and meetings, you have a pretty full workload. We get it. For things to run most effectively, you need to schedule, maintain, and update appointments as efficiently as...
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How to Teach Yourself to Code
If you’re just getting started on your coding journey, here is an easy-to-follow guide to the basics of coding with free online resources that will help you get off on the right foot!
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Listen & Learn: How to Sell in New Markets
After all of the research and market analysis, your organization decides to enter a new market. You know exactly what this means. You're up to bat. As a key member of the sales team, you have to now prepare to...
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Delegating for Success
Some of us have a hard time delegating -- letting go of work can sometimes be hard! But it's important to remember that delegating and sharing the load can actually make everyone involved more effective. Distributing work among other staff...
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Leaning In: Leadership Challenges for Women
Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In is a massive cultural phenomenon and its title has become an instant catchphrase for empowering women. These resources, curated from LeanIn.org and from around the web, serve as guides to educate learners on the challenges...
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Tech Tips
Working for yourself, for a company, or even in your personal interactions, technology helps you get the job done: writing and editing, creating spreadsheets, email and calendaring. Google has a suite of tools designed for each of these tasks. There...
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How to Create Content for Humans and Algorithms
The amount of content we produce every day is truly mind-boggling. There are more than 3 million blog posts created each day and half a million tweets sent every minute...That pace is only accelerating with the growth of the Internet....
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The Power of Storytelling & Creativity with Ben Folds
Being creative as a job - is a tough job. Singer/Songwriter/Producer/Photographer Ben Folds is the definition of creativity at work - he is, among others, a prolific musician, an Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony, an improvisational composer,...
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Mastering your Inbox is 90% Mindset, 10% Hands-On
As emails increase, we tune out more and over time become even less responsive. As incoming messages become increasingly challenging to navigate in volume and or urgency, here are a few ways managing your inbox that can be done on...
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The Secrets to Landing Your "Dream Job"
Most of us want something more or better than what we have now. Work is typically the #1 thing many Americans report they are not fulfilled with and wish they could change. You don't have to be one of them....
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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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Decision-Making: Quantifying Your Thinking
We make hundreds of decisions every day, and even small improvements in our decision strategy can add up to huge payoffs over the course of our lives. Playing poker professionally taught me an enormous amount about rationality, psychology and the...
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Maximum Productivity: Setting Goals that Work
Goal-setting is a powerful process for imagining your ideal future and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into a reality. This process helps you choose how you'll spend your time, what distractions you'll avoid, and ulti...
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Cultivating a Mutuality Mindset
I truly believe, in my firsthand experience, the world is hungry for us to unite together as opportunity-makers and to emulate those behaviors as so many of you already do and to reimagine a world where we use our best...
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Career Resources: Preparing for your next role
Are you entering or re-entering the workforce? Looking to pivot to a new role or industry? Here are some fundamental resources to help prepare for your journey These series provides resources to help you get a job, or change to...
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Tips and Resources for Instructor-Led Training
Before you can help others learn, it's important to keep a few things in mind: the ways that adults learn, the climate in which adults learn best, the methods of instruction that are the most effective, and the importance of...
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