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Innovative Mindset
Problem Solving and Critical Thinking
As a leader, your team and organization rely on you to have good judgement and make the right decision with the information you have. Good decisions are the product of strong critical thinking skills and thoughtful problem solving. And like all skills, you can learn, practice, and get better at them. In this course, Dr. Eric Zackrison helps you do just that. He shows how to critically assess the source of information and how to determine the right approach to take. Eric also demonstrates strategies for approaching both simple and complex problems, and details taking your team through the entire life cycle of a challenging decision. He also imparts an understanding of common traps people fall into when solving problems, both individually and as a team. After this course, you’ll have the tools to approach your next problem more critically and solve it more effectively.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 45 minutes
Discover how to hone your strategy to ensure that it succeeds. In this course, join Mike Figliuolo as he highlights some of the major reasons that strategic plans fail, and how to avoid making those same mistakes. Mike examines common problems that can knock your plan off course, including insufficient capabilities, pursuit of the wrong initiatives, and incorrect assessments of the market. By covering each of these issues in detail, he helps you make a better assessment of your own strategic plan.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 54 minutes
The pace of change and volume of information we encounter in daily life make it hard to think through decisions. Instead, people often rely on biases and rules of thumb, which trap them into drawing faulty conclusions. The most successful teams use critical thinking—objective and rational analysis—to illuminate the wisest conclusions. While this course may be targeting management, it teaches anyone at any level of the organization to hone their critical thinking skills. Learn how to upgrade critical thinking to avoid deceiving fallacies, spot misleading cognitive biases, craft better arguments, hone judgment, and improve decision-making. Instructor Becki Saltzman teaches skills that will improve how your company or team innovates, tackles challenges, and responds to change.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 56 minutes
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You are a creative person. Despite what your inner critic may have told you, you absolutely can solve complex business problems without a roadmap. The potential is there; whether or not you tap into it is up to you. In this concise course, Seth Godin—the author of 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, and The Practice—lays out how to help your team let go of the fears that hinder your creative progress and start creating work that matters. Learn how to combat preconceived notions about creativity, including the idea that creativity is a gift bestowed upon a select few. (Spoiler alert: it's not.) Discover how to tap into your team’s creativity by embracing the possibility of failure, cultivating practical empathy, and exploring the root causes of writer's block and impostor syndrome. Plus, get tips for making creative problem-solving a habit that sticks.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 37 minutes
Start E-course: Creativity at Work: A Short Course from Seth Godin
Adaptability and Change Management
In this course, psychologist Dr. Emily Anhalt helps you build mindsets, skills, and strategies to build your resilience, helping you to turn challenges into opportunities for growth, transformation, and innovation. Emily first focuses on mindsets to become more resilient, developing skills to make meaning out of challenges and setbacks and develop a growth mindset amongst disruption. She then guides you on ways to build emotional agility in order to become more resilient, with strategies to reframe challenging thoughts, face difficult truths, and build your emotional fitness. Plus, learn about an essential element of resilience—tapping into the relationships and resources around you. Finally, Emily shows you how to create a personalized resilience plan to meet current and future challenges while building your resilience.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 43 minutes
When you deliberately engage employees through learning, they’re more likely to find purpose in their work. But learning and development need to be intentional—and continual—to succeed. In this dynamic course, learning and development expert Naphtali Bryant equips you with essential tools to reshape your organization’s learning landscape. Naphtali shares his learning CULTURE framework and explains how to champion collaborative learning, leadership engagement, and a skills-first mindset. Explore innovative technologies, inclusivity, engagement strategies, and measure the impact of your learning culture. Embark on this transformative journey to cultivate a resilient, future-ready learning culture.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 45 minutes
Mindset is a choice. People with a growth mindset—who choose to believe that talent and ability can grow—experience better performance, focus, and success. You have the power to change your mindset. The key is learning how to make the shift. In this course, Dr. Gemma Leigh Roberts guides you through practical tools to recognize your mindsets—and how those mindsets alter your response to challenges. Gemma shows you ways to build a growth mindset through an understanding of the relationship between neuroscience and mindset and explains the impact of self-narratives on our mindsets, ways to reframe failure as an opportunity for growth, how to shift to a focus on effect versus outcome and how to reframe stress to enhance a growth mindset. Plus, learn how to create a plan to develop a growth mindset that turns challenges and uncertainty into fuel for growth.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 42 minutes
Taking Initiative and Risks
Deciding to champion an important initiative, a great cause, or a new idea is only half the battle. To get results, you need to inspire other people to take action. Luckily, persuasion is a skill you can learn. All it takes is the right preparation and approach. In this course, you can develop the mindset and skillset to drive results—for yourself, for your company, and for the people who can be positively impacted by your ideas. Discover how to connect with your audiences and speak to the conversation going on in their heads, and to frame your big asks so that people are eager to say yes. Professional speaker and coach Alexia Vernon teaches a simple and effective process to make heart-centered, high-impact persuasive communication your new norm.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 35 minutes
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Psychological safety is a key factor in healthy teams. A leader’s job—whether at the top of an organization or somewhere in the middle—is to create a safe space for people to speak up, make mistakes, and bring their full selves to work. This course can help you recognize and promote psychological safety—clearing the big blocks to innovation, connection, and collaboration in your organization. Amy Edmondson, professor of leadership and management at Harvard Business School, introduces nine actionable tips, including encouraging open dialogue, reinforcing the purpose and meaning of your organization, leading with openness, modeling curiosity, soliciting feedback, and celebrating risk. Plus, learn easy ways to incorporate psychological safety into your daily practice.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 24 minutes
Start E-course: Psychological Safety: Clear Blocks to Innovation, Collaboration, and Risk-Taking
“Every single time I have finished writing something, I am sure that this is my one and only time of landing on a good idea and executing it successfully and that I will never, ever repeat it.” Even after decades at the top of her field, that’s how The New Yorker’s Susan Orlean thinks about the highs and lows of the creative process. In this audio course from Knowable, Orlean draws from her storied career as a journalist and bestselling novelist to teach lessons in creative ideation, productivity, and risk-taking so that the "blank page" never gets the best of you. Learn how Orlean conquers creator’s block, fights back against uncertainty, and embraces reinvention to produce great work consistently — and how you can, too.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 30 minutes
Start E-course: On Creative Productivity and Risk-Taking
Continuous Improvement
Maintaining your competitive advantage is always a work in progress. After all, the products, services, and processes of your business are constantly in flux. In this course, instructor Richard Chua shows you how to apply quality management tools and techniques for the design, control, and overall improvement of your organization’s products and service quality.
Discover the power of quality management principles to create operational excellence and gain competitive advantage. Learn about how quality impacts revenue, costs, and profits, and ensure your outputs are free of deficiencies. Explore the three universal processes of quality planning, control, and improvement as outlined by the Juran Trilogy. If you’re an executive, manager, engineer, analyst, or project supervisor, Richard covers the skills and strategies you need to know to maintain quality every step of the way as you strive for operational excellence.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 2 hours 20 minutes
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The objective of management is to make improvements—not only to products and services but also to entire processes. The difficult thing is to know what needs improving, and then whether your interventions have made a positive difference. This course provides an overview of the basic tools used for process improvement, such as statistical process control, and how to use these tools to improve the three most critical aspects of your business process: time, quality, and cost. Chris Croft distills the best practices from process improvement frameworks such as Lean and Six Sigma, and combines them into lessons that will help take the core of what your business does, measure it, and do it better.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour 18 minutes
Does your business need to improve performance for growth? In this course, Dr. Frank Gonzalez IV shares how to measure and enhance organizational performance. Learn to identify key performance factors, set clear objectives, and select appropriate metrics. Implement effective data collection and analysis processes. Align performance goals with your organizational vision and create actionable plans. After this course, you'll be ready to drive continuous improvement and achieve business success.
LinkedIn Learning E-course, 1 hour
Start E-course: How to Measure and Improve Organizational Performance