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There are 5 modules in this course
You've thought about who you are and how you want your career to be. You have some soft skills to deal with situations that could cause problems. What about the team around you? How do you build functional and constructive professional relationships? How can you add value? What do employers look for when they are promoting?
Skill-building in this course will include asking questions, listening, developing likeability (you’d better be stellar if you’re difficult), identifying cognitive bias, apologizing, receiving apologies, and the basics of whistleblowing. After this course, you will be able to:
- assess your own listening and reactions and retune them in advance or on the spot for a more constructive outcome
- add value at work by keeping situations easy instead of difficult
- manage your own approach
- be prepared when things go wrong
The prerequisite for this course is Course One of the Specialization "Professional IQ: Preventing and Solving Problems at Work".
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3.1.1: We're Not as Rational as We Think We Are•1 minute
3.2.1: 2MC: Commission Sales•2 minutes
3.3.1: It's Not All About You•1 minute
3.3.2: 2MC: Face Embarrassment•1 minute
3.3.3: Overconfidence and Egocentrism•8 minutes
3.3.4: Confirmation Bias and Motivated Blindness•7 minutes
3.3.5 What Happened Next? Face Embarrassment•7 minutes
3.4.1: There are More Cognitive Biases?•1 minute
3.4.2: 2MC: Chen Becomes Uncomfortable at Work•2 minutes
3.4.3: Stop Digging: Pursuit of Sunk Costs•5 minutes
3.4.4: Sinister Attribution Bias•7 minutes
3.4.5: Chen's Situation, First Pass•3 minutes
3.5.1: Prevention and Recovery: Framing and Reframing•1 minute
3.5.2: 2MC: Chen Uncomfortable at Work, Continued•1 minute
3.5.3: Framing•7 minutes
3.5.4: Framing in Chen’s Situation•5 minutes
3.5.5: Using Reframing as a Tool for Chen•6 minutes
3.5.6: What Happened Next? Chen Uncomfortable at Work•3 minutes
3.6.1: What Happened Next? Commission Sales•4 minutes
3 readings•Total 30 minutes
Week 3 Overview•10 minutes
Week 3 Resources and References•10 minutes
Summary of Measurement of Social-Evaluative Anxiety•10 minutes
5 assignments•Total 150 minutes
Week 3 Quiz•30 minutes
Lesson 3-3 Practice Quiz•30 minutes
Lesson 3-4 Practice Quiz•30 minutes
Lesson 3-5 Practice Quiz•30 minutes
Lesson 3-6 Practice Quiz•30 minutes
1 peer review•Total 60 minutes
Week 3 - Cognitive Biases•60 minutes
1 discussion prompt•Total 10 minutes
Week 3 Discussion•10 minutes
Week 4: When Things Go Wrong
5 hours to complete
Module details
Despite your best efforts, sometimes problems can’t be avoided. Learn an effective strategy for apologizing, and how to engage in disputes professionally.
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Reviewed on Mar 7, 2017
It's one of the best courses on this topic! Very well structured and interesting with concrete steps and recommendations.
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great. minor complaint that the cut scene music is annoying and jarring, especially at the end with the Univ. of ILL logo slapping on the metal sounds.
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