SkillSoft Spotlight Course of the Week ~ For Employees

Fri, 24 Apr 2020 14:20:44 -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 Challenges of Working Remotely.

Challenges of Working Remotely (5 min) - video

Working at home poses some challenges as well as opportunities that need to be explored and each person has a different set of unique circumstances. In this short video you'll explore ways to stay focused, maintain a good work-life balance, and avoid burnout. Take note of your own unique situation and identify strategies to aid you in creating a healthy remote working experience.

Video Reflection:

As you watch this short video, think about your own lived experiences, what you have learned and are learning, and any new ideas that spring forth as a result of exposure to new perspectives and actions.

A couple reflection questions to stimulate your learning...

1. What stood out to you in the video?

2. Was there anything that resonated with your own lived experiences

in the past?

3. What have you learned from going through these experiences in the

past?

4. How have these moments and other difficult moments shaped you

and helped you grow?

5. What new ideas are now germinating about this situation?

6. What might you try moving forward? What difference might it make?

Organize Your Physical and Digital Workspace (27 min)

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.

Participants will learn to:

recognize the rewards of an organized workspace

recognize what a productive workspace looks like

apply the process for creating a clutter-free workspace in a given scenario

recognize appropriate examples of the principles of effective filing

recognize techniques for managing digital files

manage your e-mail in a given scenario

recognize how to maintain a productive workspace

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.