LinkedIn Learning Course Highlight

Rock Your LinkedIn Profile

Explore how to create a LinkedIn profile that brings your personal career story to life, whether you are just starting out, seeking to advance, or making a career change. Instructor Lauren Jolda—head of the “Rock Your Profile” team at LinkedIn—offers tips on tailoring each section, starting with the key insight that a LinkedIn profile is unique and shouldn’t be approached exactly like a resume. Lauren covers ways to add media to a profile, methods for showcasing your career accomplishments and aspirations, and specific examples of profile phrases and language that can help inspire your personal story. Find more information on the course here

Linkedin Course Highlight

Take 30 minutes and learn how to capture, clarify, organize, reflect, and engage with tasks that are demanding your attention, and come away with a clear head and a clear focus. Join-world renowned productivity and time management expert David Allen as he walks you through his five-step process for Getting Things Done.

Lynda.com moves to Linkedin Learning

On July 15 beginning at 8am. UMD’s e-learning tool (Lynda.com) will be migrating to the more robust Linkedin Learning system over the course of the day. During the migration period, users will be unable to log into Lynda.com. Once the migration is complete, an email from Linkedin Learning will be sent to users instructing them to activate their new account by logging in. Additional instructions and information can be found here.

July’s Lynda Course – Effective Listening

Listening is a critical competency, whether you are interviewing for your first job or leading a Fortune 500 company. Surprisingly, relatively few of us have ever had any formal training in how to listen effectively. In this course, communications experts Tatiana Kolovou and Brenda Bailey-Hughes show how to assess your current listening skills, understand the challenges to effective listening (such as distractions), and develop behaviors that will allow you to become a better listener–and a better colleague, mentor, and friend.

Topics include:

  • Define attentive listening
  • Explore what happened when you are ‘distracted by delivery’
  • Recall what a mental filter is and how it can affect assumptions
  • Explore methods for choosing the best paraphrasing response in the situation
  • List the five listening intentions

How to use Lynda.com

Make the most of our Lynda.com membership. Watch this course to learn how to quickly find the training and tools you need to create your own personalized learning path. First, find out about the types of videos we offer at Lynda.com, including in-depth software training, first looks at up-and-coming technology trends, courses to help you develop critical business skills, techniques for creative pros, and inspirational documentaries. Then get a demo of special library features such as bookmarks, playlists, notes, transcripts, certificates of completion, and FAQ’s, and learn where to turn for help when you need it. Plus, find out how to access Lynda.com on the go, using our mobile apps and offline viewing capabilities.

Topics include:

  • Choosing a membership plan
  • Finding the latest releases
  • Downloading and using exercises files
  • Searching the video transcripts
  • Choosing the right video player
  • Creating and sharing playlists
  • Taking notes
  • Printing and sharing certificates of completion
  • Updating your membership profile
  • Changing or canceling your membership plan
  • Contacting customer support

May’s Lynda Course – Having Difficult Conversations

Leadership coach and lynda.com director of learning and development, Britt Andreatta shares her tips and strategies for having difficult conversations. In her four-phase model, you’ll discover the situations that lead up to difficult conversations, decide when the conversation is warranted, prepare for the interaction, and monitor outcomes to ensure success.

Along the way, learn the secrets of turning difficult conversations into successful interactions that enhance communication and rapport. Improve both your professional and personal relationships, finding your way back from conflict through mutually successful outcomes. Topics include:

  • Understand why conversations go badly
  • Define the influence of power structures and patterns in a difficult conversation
  • Identify observable behaviors and use them to focus on facts and on how behaviors affect the business
  • Control the direction of a conversation
  • Build a blueprint from which to structure a conversation
  • Identify and prepare for resistance during a difficult conversation
  • Identify the conversational choices available to you when others resist your efforts

You can access the course here. Use your UMD credentials to login.

Facilitating Culturally Inclusive Departmental Meetings

The Office of Human Resources is hosting a webcast on “Facilitating Culturally Inclusive Departmental Meetings” on May 30, 2019. Dr. Turner, Associate Professor of Student Affairs at the University of Maryland will help you leaders build self-awareness strategies to foster cultural inclusion in your departmental meetings and optimize group dynamics. SIGN UP TODAY!