Self-Development

  • 8 Courses | 2h 32m 47s
  • 16 Books | 24h 43m
  • 13 Audiobooks | 91h 38m 11s
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Continuous improvement of fundamental capabilities, such as your memory and reading comprehension, will help you advance. Learn more today. Discover how to actively grow and develop a skill by putting effort into the process.

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Learning from Failure and Success

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Learning from Failure and Success
Failure is trendy. Every day you can read about failure being celebrated for lessons learned. People are encouraged to fail as fast as they can, with buzzwords exhorting "Fail Fast," "Fail Big," and "Fail Often." But while you certainly can learn from failures, you can also learn powerfully from successes. The key is to take advantage of all your experiences to learn essential lessons that will help you prosper in the future. In this course, you'll learn methods to glean growth and learning from any experience, and to identify each stage of the success cycle to make that happen. You'll also examine actions that allow you to learn from setbacks or even mistakes, and how to use your successes to inspire and guide you to future triumphs.
6 videos | 22m has Assessment available Badge
How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Achieve Success
What stands between you and success? People who are the best they can be are empowered by a belief that throughout their lives and careers, within their organizations and in their relationships, they can take action to improve their current state. They see themselves as responsible for their own happiness and success. In this course, you'll learn principles and characteristics shared by people who have broken through the barriers holding them back from true success. You'll discover how to identify those barriers - as well as your own personal triggers and mental blocks - and overcome them. You'll also learn strategies to jumpstart your work mindset and to advocate for yourself to get you out of your own way and on a path to success.
7 videos | 25m has Assessment available Badge
How to Learn Effectively
Effective learning is not about memorizing and reciting on a test, and it doesn't only exist in a formal educational setting. In this course, you'll learn some key strategies to boost your ability to explore, be inquisitive, and use all your senses to learn the way you prefer to learn.
5 videos | 15m has Assessment available Badge
Becoming a Continuous Learner
Continuous learning is a response to the modern workplace: technology, staff and company direction change constantly. Continuous learners are able to adapt and obtain necessary skills and knowledge in a constantly changing workplace. Continuously learning provides you with a competitive edge in your job and in your career. In this course, you'll learn the behaviors that define continuous learning and their benefits. You'll also learn habits to practice to aid becoming a continuous learner, along with reading and learning agility strategies for encouraging life-long learning.
6 videos | 12m has Assessment available Badge
Making the Most of Making Mistakes
Everyone makes mistakes, but knowing how to handle them well can turn potential failure into a success. The secret is to learn to view errors and opportunities to learn, developing a growth mindset, and applying what you've learned in order to mitigate against future mistakes. In this course, you'll learn to identify when mistakes can be opportunities for personal improvement and how mistakes can be avoided. You'll also learn how mistakes can drive improvements, as well as techniques to mitigate and learn from mistakes.
6 videos | 21m has Assessment available Badge
Improving Your Memory Skills
Despite the regular hunt for car keys and phones, most people have perfectly adequate memories, they just don't always know how to best utilize it. Improving your memory means tapping into the power of your amazing human brain. In this course, you'll discover techniques for memory improvement that go well beyond simple rote memorization. You'll learn about basic memory skills and learn how to use them to recall important details like passwords, as well as broader concepts and applications.
7 videos | 17m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
Improving Your Reading Speed and Comprehension
Most people have been taught to read the same way - letter by letter, word by word, and line by line. That's fine for advancing through elementary school, but it's inefficient for those who have a lot to read, a lot to understand, and very little time to accomplish it. Reading speed and comprehension skills can improve with better reading habits. This course examines how bad reading habits keep you from reading faster, more efficiently, and with greater retention. You'll learn methods for increasing your basic comprehension skills, and simple tips you can use and practice to increase your reading speed without sacrificing understanding.
7 videos | 16m has Assessment available Badge
Developing Your Business Acumen
Business acumen is a difficult to define combination of forethought, creativity, and agility that is a key factor in setting successful business professionals apart from their less accomplished peers. But it doesn't just come from experience. It has to be cultivated and nurtured. In this course, you'll learn how developing professional acumen enhances your leadership, communication, and decision-making skills. And further, you'll learn that influences your company's competitive advantage and explore methods for developing an operational perspective to uncover opportunities for change or innovation.
6 videos | 20m has Assessment available Badge Certification PMI PDU
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BOOKS INCLUDED

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Succeed On Your Own Terms: Lessons From Top Achievers Around the World On Developing Your Unique Potential
Succeed on Your Own Terms helps you recognize your own unique qualities and strengths, and offers you an alternative way of thinking about how to reach your personal goals. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 10m book Authors By Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney

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Blind Ambition: How to Envision Your Limitless Potential and Achieve the Success You Want
Blind Ambition provides a unique approach to setting and achieving goals and teaches you how to achieve even your most lofty ambitions. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 10m book Authors By Patricia Walsh

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Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don't
In Clutch, author Paul Sullivan uses real-life examples to illustrate what qualities allow some people to succeed in high-pressure situations where others fail. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 5m book Authors By Paul Sullivan

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How You Learn Is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your Life
A guide to awakening the power of learning that lies within each of us, this accessible book offers deep, research-based insights into the ideal process of learning and guides you in identifying your dominant style.
book Duration 2h 39m book Authors By David A. Kolb, Kay Peterson

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The Art of Deliberate Success: Transform Your Professional and Personal Life
Helping you identify strengths and weaknesses so you can focus your attention and effort where it matters most, this informal, easy-to-read yet effective book will help you use language more effectively, master your behaviour, get things done, and ultimately reach your goals.
book Duration 5h 19m book Authors By David Keane

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Simplicity: An Uncomplicated Guide to Being Successful and Achieving Your Full Potential
Demonstrating how to awaken your passion and tap into your inner greatness as you remove the metaphorical clutter from your life, this book offers techniques to expand your mind and understand your true potential through the power of thinking simply, while stripping back the jargon and digging to the core of any obstacle in your way.
book Duration 2h 13m book Authors By Richard Gerver

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5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary Results
Whether you want to boost your health, wealth, or wisdom, this book reveals a key technique and gives you concrete ways to give 5 percent more to yourself, your family, your colleagues and managers, and your business-no matter where you are in life.
book Duration 3h 4m book Authors By Michael Alden

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Personal Success
Packed with simple but game-changing techniques, this energizing success guide shows you how to transform your dreams into tangible results.
book Duration 1h 14m book Authors By Brian Tracy

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Say More About That ...: And Other Ways to Speak Up, Push Back, and Advocate for Yourself and Others
In Say More About That, veteran inclusion strategist, coach, writer, and speaker Amber Cabral delivers an incisive and practical guide to assertively addressing inequitable treatment you see at home, work, school, and other settings.
book Duration 4h 2m book Authors By Amber Cabral

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How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work: Integrating Personal Creativity Within Your Professional Role
How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work is based on the most recent creativity research, which analyzes how creativity plays an important part in the individual's sense of identity.
book Duration 4h 59m book Authors By Oana Velcu-Laitinen

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The High Five Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple Habit
In The High Five Habit, author Mel Robbins explores how to start believing in yourself and gaining the confidence to forge your way through each day. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 7m book Authors By Mel Robbins

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Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Effortless outlines a step-by-step action plan on how to embrace the easier way by intentionally focusing on what matters most. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 7m book Authors By Greg McKeown

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Rules Don't Work for Me: My Code for Business and Life
In Rules Don't Work for Me, author Gail Summers explores how outliers can use their outsider perspective to be effective in their personal and professional lives. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 11m book Authors By Gail Summers

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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
In Daring Greatly, Brown sets out to convince readers that the myth of vulnerability equating to weakness is what blocks innovation and prevents us from making life-sustaining connections with co-workers and family members. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 8m book Authors By Brené Brown

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The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your Team
In The 6 Types of Working Genius, Patrick Lencioni explores how utilizing your natural gifts enables you to live a happy and fulfilled life. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 7m book Authors By Patrick Lencioni

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The Self-Care Mindset: Rethinking How We Change and Grow, Harness Well-Being, and Reclaim Work-Life Quality
In The Self-Care Mindset, author Jeanette Bronée outlines a progressive and perfectly sensible pathway towards integrating work and life based on self-care. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
book Duration 8m book Authors By Jeanette Bronee
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED

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You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest Potential
You Already Know How to Be Great examines concepts around which to build a simple and reliable method for consistent performance in a wide range of roles-from those who want to learn how to teach, to those who want to learn how to learn. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 9m 16s audiobook Authors By Alan Fine, Rebecca R. Merrill

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Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make More
Your Best Just Got Better is a practical guide to improving time management, setting and achieving goals, focusing on what's important, and getting more out of everything-money, stock, business, resources. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 11m 36s audiobook Authors By Jason W. Womack

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Breathing Love: Meditation in Action
This audio edition is a spiritual guide to living love as an embodied meditation practice. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 5h 41m 25s audiobook Authors By Jennie Lee

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The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism
This audio edition discusses what charisma actually is, how it is learned, what its side effects are, and how to handle them.
audiobook Duration 8h 20m 22s audiobook Authors By Olivia Fox Cabane

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Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work
This audio edition will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to you.
audiobook Duration 3h 25m 43s audiobook Authors By Whitney Johnson

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
This audio edition presents a principle-focused approach to problem-solving, and offers a revolutionary program to breaking the patterns of self-defeating behavior that keep us from achieving our goals and reaching our fullest potential. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 13h 53s audiobook Authors By Stephen R. Covey

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Innovation You: Four Steps to Becoming New and Improved
This audio edition reveals DeGraff's unique four-step program to bolster your ingenuity and remake your life. From forging ahead in a new career to losing weight to finally pursuing that long-held dream, DeGraff's strategies are effective and easy to follow. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 6h 36m 4s audiobook Authors By Jeff DeGraff

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Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
This audio edition demonstrates how to become a linchpin in your organization so that you are truly indispensable. Read by the author.
audiobook Duration 8h 19m 30s audiobook Authors By Seth Godin

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The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
This audio edition reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ.
audiobook Duration 16h 9m 27s audiobook Authors By David Brooks

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Mastery
This audio edition shares the secret path to greatness and shows readers how to unlock the passion within and become masters.
audiobook Duration 16h 9m 1s audiobook Authors By Robert Greene

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Soft Skills For Dummies
Soft Skills For Dummies helps you hone in on the traits you already have to market yourself as a workplace leader who's in touch with what today's employers are looking for: people who can lead and inspire through interpersonal communication, cultural awareness, time management, teamwork, critical thinking, and problem solving.
audiobook Duration 6h 28m 33s audiobook Authors By Cindi Reiman

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The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and Neurosurgery
In this inspiring book, Dr. Rolle tells the story of his incredible journey, revealing how a strong work ethic, deep faith, and the family values instilled by his Bahamian immigrant parents set the stage for the transformative life philosophy that enabled him to overcome adversity, defy expectations, and create a life of meaning and purpose.
audiobook Duration 6h 52m 22s audiobook Authors By Dr. Myron L. Rolle

AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY

Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Effortless outlines a step-by-step action plan on how to embrace the easier way by intentionally focusing on what matters most. In this Summary, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
audiobook Duration 13m 59s audiobook Authors By Greg McKeown
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED

Self-development
Continuous improvement of fundamental capabilities, such as your memory and reading comprehension, will help you advance. Discover how to actively grow and develop a skill by putting effort and initiative into the process. You can better manage and develop yourself by increasing your proficiency of topics such as self-development, accountability, courage, professionalism, and more. You can focus on being action oriented and developing yourself to increase your success. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
9m    |   9 questions
Growth Mindset
Growth mindset means that you can learn quickly, adapt to change, and improve personal and organizational performance by addressing your own strengths, weaknesses, and developmental needs. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
8m    |   8 questions