SkillSoft Spotlight Course of the Week ~ For Supervisors

Mon, 11 May 2020 12:36:21 -0400

SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning to help you more masterfully manage yourself personally and professionally, improve your effectiveness in managing your work, and support you in skillfully leading your teams. 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 Facing Virtual Team Challenges.

Facing Virtual Team Challenges (27 min)

Virtual teams can face the same difficulties as other teams, but also have unique challenges. In this course, you'll learn how to handle challenges facing your team, and how to evaluate your own style.

Participants will learn to:

recall tactics for ensuring equal management of onsite and offsite team members

list tactics for managing teamwork spread across multiple time zones

identify strategies for ensuring respectful treatment of all members of a diverse team

name approaches for avoiding and handling conflict among remote team members

apply strategies for overcoming communication difficulties faced by a geographically diverse team

recognize the importance of reflecting on your management approach

recognize strategies for working around typical challenges facing remote or blended teams

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.