Self-Development
- 9 Courses | 2h 51m 38s
- 16 Books | 24h 40m
- 13 Audiobooks | 91h 38m 11s
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.
COURSES INCLUDED
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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PMI PDU
Learning from Failure
From the minor slip up to a full-blown catastrophe, failure is a part of life and business. It's part of your self-development, and it's part of developing talent. It should be embraced as an opportunity for continuous learning and growth. If you encourage organizational learning, you can start developing employees. And then those who embrace failure are more likely to achieve their goals. In this course, you'll learn how to embrace failure by developing an attitude of learning from setbacks. You'll learn about the cycle of success when developing people, and you'll also explore failure in greater detail, its potential benefits, as well as key strategies for embracing it.
6 videos |
18m
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PMI PDU
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BOOK SUMMARY
Succeed On Your Own Terms: Lessons From Top Achievers Around the World On Developing Your Unique PotentialSucceed 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.
10m
By Herb Greenberg, Patrick Sweeney
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Blind Ambition: How to Envision Your Limitless Potential and Achieve the Success You WantBlind 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.
10m
By Patricia Walsh
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Clutch: Why Some People Excel Under Pressure and Others Don'tIn 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.
5m
By Paul Sullivan
Book
How You Learn Is How You Live: Using Nine Ways of Learning to Transform Your LifeA 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.
2h 36m
By David A. Kolb, Kay Peterson
Book
The Art of Deliberate Success: Transform Your Professional and Personal LifeHelping 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.
5h 19m
By David Keane
Book
Simplicity: An Uncomplicated Guide to Being Successful and Achieving Your Full PotentialDemonstrating 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.
2h 13m
By Richard Gerver
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5% More: Making Small Changes to Achieve Extraordinary ResultsWhether 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.
3h 4m
By Michael Alden
Book
Personal SuccessPacked with simple but game-changing techniques, this energizing success guide shows you how to transform your dreams into tangible results.
1h 14m
By Brian Tracy
Book
Say More About That ...: And Other Ways to Speak Up, Push Back, and Advocate for Yourself and OthersIn 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.
4h 2m
By Amber Cabral
Book
How to Develop Your Creative Identity at Work: Integrating Personal Creativity Within Your Professional RoleHow 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.
4h 59m
By Oana Velcu-Laitinen
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The High Five Habit: Take Control of Your Life with One Simple HabitIn 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.
7m
By Mel Robbins
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Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters MostEffortless 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.
7m
By Greg McKeown
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Rules Don't Work for Me: My Code for Business and LifeIn 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.
11m
By Gail Summers
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Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and LeadIn 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.
8m
By Brené Brown
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The 6 Types of Working Genius: A Better Way to Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, and Your TeamIn 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.
7m
By Patrick Lencioni
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The Self-Care Mindset: Rethinking How We Change and Grow, Harness Well-Being, and Reclaim Work-Life QualityIn 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.
8m
By Jeanette Bronee
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
You Already Know How to Be Great: A Simple Way to Remove Interference and Unlock Your Greatest PotentialYou 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.
9m 16s
By Alan Fine, Rebecca R. Merrill
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Your Best Just Got Better: Work Smarter, Think Bigger, Make MoreYour 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.
11m 36s
By Jason W. Womack
Audiobook
Breathing Love: Meditation in ActionThis audio edition is a spiritual guide to living love as an embodied meditation practice. Read by the author.
5h 41m 25s
By Jennie Lee
Audiobook
The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal MagnetismThis audio edition discusses what charisma actually is, how it is learned, what its side effects are, and how to handle them.
8h 20m 22s
By Olivia Fox Cabane
Audiobook
Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to WorkThis audio edition will help you understand how the frameworks of disruptive innovation can apply to you.
3h 25m 43s
By Whitney Johnson
Audiobook
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal ChangeThis 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.
13h 53s
By Stephen R. Covey
Audiobook
Innovation You: Four Steps to Becoming New and ImprovedThis 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.
6h 36m 4s
By Jeff DeGraff
Audiobook
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.
8h 19m 30s
By Seth Godin
Audiobook
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and AchievementThis audio edition reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ.
16h 9m 27s
By David Brooks
Audiobook
MasteryThis audio edition shares the secret path to greatness and shows readers how to unlock the passion within and become masters.
16h 9m 1s
By Robert Greene
Audiobook
Soft Skills For DummiesSoft 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.
6h 28m 33s
By Cindi Reiman
Audiobook
The 2% Way: How a Philosophy of Small Improvements Took Me to Oxford, the NFL, and NeurosurgeryIn 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.
6h 52m 22s
By Dr. Myron L. Rolle
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters MostEffortless 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.
13m 59s
By Greg McKeown
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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.
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