Creating Great Work

While we often look to company leaders to inspire and energize the organization, it really doesn’t matter what your role is. Whether you’re a leader, manager, or individual contributor, you can make a difference in creating the inspiration and excitement needed for the future. All you need is to be clear on what excites you. Once you’re clear on this, you can share it with others. And when you share what energizes you with others, you’ll be creating inspiration and energy for those around you. This course provides an assessment to identify what excites you at work. In addition, you’ll find out how to share this information to support your career growth and inspire others about the great things happening at the company. By completing this course, you will know what excites you the most about the company and its future. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).

Course Result:

Identify what excites you the most about the company and its future

Duration:  10 minutes

Challenging work is good for everyone. It stretches our capabilities, forces us to learn new things and tests our limits. It broadens our experience and builds our skills, enabling us to do new things or more complicated work. After completing something that is challenging, we tend to experience higher levels of satisfaction, knowing we did something that was difficult and not easy to do. This course provides a group of actions you can select from to increase the level of challenge in your work. Remember, challenges are not always easy. They can be hard. However, through challenges we grow, develop and build our skills. This increase in experience then allows us to do more complicated work and strengthens our value to the organization. By completing this course, you will be able to identify the actions you can take to increase the level of challenge in your own work. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).

Course Result:

Identify the actions you can take to increase the level of challenge in your own work

Duration:  10 minutes

The most successful people use their past experiences to steer both current actions and behaviors, as well as future decisions. Our past experiences are filled with knowledge and wisdom. We learn quite a lot from all kinds of situations and experiences, both positive and negative. Through our past we gain a level of understanding and wisdom that would not be achieved had a particular situation not occurred. This course will teach you how to take the time and make it a habit to methodically analyze and evaluate past experiences to understand what was learned, and to determine how that information can be applied. Successful people make this a habit all the time, and it certainly would be advantageous if you did too. By completing this course, you will be able to analyze key experiences from the last two years to discover what you’ve learned. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).

Course Result:

Analyze key experiences from the last two years to discover what you’ve learned

Duration:  10 minutes

Most everyone desires some level of balance between work and their personal life. We want to be able to enjoy family, friends, and hobbies, while also contributing to the company and delivering great work. With that said, different people have different work-life balance needs. Some people have numerous family commitments, are actively involved in a personal hobby, or just have a certain number of hours they’re willing to work. Other people may have a personal drive to accomplish and achieve a variety of goals, and thus are willing to sacrifice more personal time for work time. This course will teach you how to determine what level of balance is right for you. Once you know this, you can start to work with others to help create the best work situation possible. Keep in mind that as your situation changes, your work-life balance will change too. By completing this course, you will know what great work balance looks like for you. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).

Course Result:

Define what great work balance looks like for you

Duration:  10 minutes

Challenging work is important in any work situation. When our work provides the right level of challenge we stay interested in what we’re doing—we don’t become bored, we enjoy building new knowledge and capabilities, and we find it rewarding to accomplish something that was difficult and not easy to do. As an individual employee you have the responsibility to ensure you have the right level of challenge at work. You are the one who can best take care of and be attuned to what is happening in your work situation. You need to be an advocate for yourself. You can do this by taking action to create the best work situation possible. This course will meet with your manager to discuss the level of challenge in your work, as well as how you’d like to work together to ensure you have the right amount of challenge to grow, develop, and be successful. By completing this course, you will know how to talk to your boss about the right level of challenge for you. This course has been approved for 1 hour of PDU credit from PMI (Project Management Institute).

Course Result:

Talk to your boss about the right level of challenge for you

Duration:  10 minutes