SkillSoft Spotlight Course of the Week ~ For Employees

Mon, 11 May 2020 12:39:55 -0400

SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning that supports you in navigating complex challenges in personal and professional life, helps you to increase your effectiveness, and to improve your relationships. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.

This week's spotlight course is Staying Balanced in a Shifting World.

Staying Balanced in a Shifting World (15 min)

Achieving a healthy work.life balance gives you the chance to practice mindfulness and focus on what's important in all aspects of your life. Maintaining this work/life balance requires constant vigilance. This course focuses on techniques for managing stress and recognizing the behaviors like passivity, aggressiveness, and assertiveness, and how these affect your ability to find balance in life. Techniques that can be used to achieve and preserve balance are also discussed. Materials designed to support blended learning activities aligned with this course are available from the Resources Page.

Participants will learn to:

identify the benefit of simplifying your life

recognize actions you can take to simplify your life

differentiate between examples of passive, aggressive, and assertive behaviors

sequence examples of the steps to communicate assertively and set your limits

recognize how to reframe a situation

TO LOGIN:

Using Internet Explorer or Google Chrome, Login to SkillPort using your FULL UMBC email address for both the username and password boxes.

Once logged in, simply type the name of the course in the search bar.

Need Login Assistance? Email hrtraining@umbc.edu to set up your account and to help with login difficulties. UMBC faculty and staff accounts are set up within 1 month of hire.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Visit our UMBC SkillSoft page for information on UMBC’s curated role and topic-based certificate tracks as well as professional industry certifications that align with SkillSoft courses.