Personal Development

How do you create a successful, fun, and personally meaningful career? The answer depends on your unique strengths, interests, and values. 

This course will help you identify your professional strengths, interests, and values. What are you good at? Leveraging your strengths boosts self-confidence and performance. What tasks do you enjoy? Following your interests makes work feel fun and engaging. Finally, what’s important to you? Practicing your core values infuses work with a greater sense of purpose. 

Knowing your strengths, interests, and values empowers you to make career choices that align with your authentic self. And showing up as your authentic self is key to feeling more confident, passionate, and invested at work.

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Personal Development

Wendy Wood—the leading scientist on the nature of habit—provides the first scientifically grounded analysis of habit formation in Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick.

In this course, you'll uncover Wood's knowledge about the complex processes behind habits and dive into the three bases for habit formation: context, repetition, and reward. You'll gain a toolkit for how to break unwanted habits and create new, desired ones. And you'll learn how to form and stick with habits that work with you, not against you.

This free course is provided in partnership with the Next Big Idea Club.

Personal Development

In a world of constant change and technological advancement, how can individuals and organizations adapt, innovate, and succeed? 

This question is at the heart of the book, Never Stop Learning: How to Stay Relevant, Reinvent Yourself, and Thrive, written by UNC Business School professor Bradley Staats. In this course, you’ll learn about the psychological biases that trap us in old ways of thinking, along with tips to overcome them. You’ll also explore simple strategies to expand your skills, and become a more dynamic learner who excels in the modern world.

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Personal Development

The fear of failure is a universal human experience. The question that matters is: How do you react to it? Do you take a deep breath and chase the challenging goal that scares you, anyway? Or, do you allow fear to hold you back from pursuing your dreams and seizing personal or professional opportunities? 

In this course, you’ll learn how to overcome your fear of failure and take positive risks, pursuing your greatest ambitions. First, explore how catastrophic thinking, shame, and other underlying factors contribute to the fear of failure. You’ll then learn how to reframe your thinking and position failure as a valuable growth opportunity. When all else fails, discover how taking action—regardless of how you feel—can build confidence and lessen the fear of unknown outcomes. 

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Do you ever have days where you can’t seem to muster the motivation to get anything done? While everyone feels unmotivated occasionally, chronic low motivation can prevent you from achieving your professional goals. Not only that, it can also foster feelings of anxiety, guilt, and shame that harm your well-being. 

So, how do you stay productive—when the last thing you want to do is work? In this course, you’ll learn the four primary causes of low motivation, along with specific strategies to overcome each. 

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Personal Development

While everyone’s path to professional success varies, some experiences are universal. For example, we’ve all struggled with fear, self-doubt, or staying motivated at work. And we all know how difficult it can be to admit a mistake—or stand out in a sea of colleagues. 

This course teaches you how to overcome the five challenges most professionals face. First, you’ll confront your fear of failure, step outside your comfort zone, and embrace positive risks. Second, you’ll learn about impostor syndrome and how to squash self-doubt. From there, you’ll explore tips for exceptional work to get noticed by your boss and colleagues. Finally, the last two lessons cover how to bounce back from a big mistake and stay productive when unmotivated. 

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Personal Development

If you want to be the highest-earning employee, then you have to be the highest-contributing employee. In other words, you need to show your company that you’re worth the investment. 

This course examines the relationship between contribution and compensation. In it, you’ll learn the 4 P’s for increasing your contributions at work, along with some tips on how to be a culture add instead of a culture cost. You’ll also explore best practices to ensure that your efforts are recognized—and rewarded. 

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Have you ever felt unnoticed, undervalued, or underappreciated at work? If so, then you may suffer from a lack of workplace visibility. 

In this course, you’ll discover what it means to have visibility at work—and how increasing it can advance your career. You’ll also learn about three of the biggest obstacles to workplace visibility, along with tips to overcome them and get recognized by your boss and peers.

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Personal Development

In High Conflict: Why We Get Trapped in Conflict, and How We Get Out, investigative journalist Amanda Ripley chronicles the stories of people involved in high forms of conflict—and how they emerged from that chaos.

In this course, you’ll find out why some conflict keeps us from moving forward. You’ll also learn about the systems and people that thrive on unhealthy conflict. And you’ll discover techniques to avoid getting trapped.

This free course is provided in partnership with the Next Big Idea Club.

Personal Development

Anyone can set an ambitious goal, but how many of us actually end up achieving it? All too often, when we embark on a seemingly smooth course, it turns out to be treacherous and unclimbable. 

In this course, you’ll learn why the process of setting your goals is just as important as choosing targets that truly matter. You’ll also learn how to set goals that accurately reflect your purpose and find tools you can use to track your progress. In the end, you’ll walk away with a stronger sense of alignment between your vision and the daily habits that will help you conquer your goals in the long run.

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Do you constantly create schedules only to find you can’t make them work? Changing priorities, inaccurate time estimates, and procrastination are just a few of the elements that can stand in the way of your plans.

In this course, you’ll learn why scheduling is such a valuable skill set and how to create a schedule that works for you—not the other way around. You’ll also take away tips for prioritizing tasks and learn how to minimize procrastination so that you can actually stick to your schedule. 

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Do you always arrive late no matter what you do? Then you’re probably suffering from chronic lateness.

This course will help you understand what causes lateness by introducing four personality types, along with tailored tips to overcome lateness for each type. Learn your unique strengths and weaknesses so you can apply them to your best advantage.

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Personal Development

We want you to be happy with your career path and understand what’s next and how to get there.

To make sure you’re heading in the right direction, this course gives you the tools and training you need to drive your professional development. You’ll learn how to conduct a self-assessment, choose a path that best aligns with your needs, and explore various career moves and growth opportunities. Then, you’ll learn how to set attainable career goals, create a specialized plan, and put that plan into action with your manager.

You’re unique in what drives you. And, in this course, you’ll learn how to embrace that individuality—carving out a career path that supports your personal happiness and success.

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Personal Development

Behavioral scientist and professor Katy Milkman explores the inner workings of change in her book How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

In this course, you’ll learn about behavioral change and explore strategies you can use to achieve your own goals. You’ll also discover what keeps us from changing and how we can overcome these typical barriers to change.

This free course is provided in partnership with the Next Big Idea Club.