Personal and Professional Development: Maximising Learning Opportunities at Work
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In a fast-changing workplace, continuous learning is key, but finding time can be a challenge. Our short online course explores how to learn effectively, overcome barriers, and develop strategies to grow your skills and career.
Course Level: Intermediate
Duration: 20 Minutes
Accreditation: Virtual College Endorsed
Certificate: Self-Printed Certificate
Description
Our short online course will help you maximise learning opportunities at work, ensuring that you can develop and learn the skills you need to further your professional career.
The work climate is constantly developing, and it feels like there are new skills, ideas and concepts being introduced all the time. Many businesses are encouraging their employees to train and develop their skills, but how can we make the time?
Our short online course addresses this very topic. Suitable for anyone with an interest in learning at work, it explores what learning is, why curiosity is necessary, and the barriers we put up to learning. It also provides many hits and tips about how we can become better learners and what strategies we can put in place, ensuring that you’ll soon be maximising those learning opportunities at work.
The course covers the following topics:
- Learning and the role of curiosity
- Barriers to learning and how to overcome these
- Ways to become a better learner
- How to create a learning ritual
- Learning strategies and principles
This course is also included in our 15-course Personal and Professional Development Training Package.
What you'll learn
- Understand what learning is
- Understand how to be a better learner
- Be able to feel confident in creating a learning ritual
- Know how to maximise learning opportunities at work
Suitable for
- This course is for anyone looking to maximise workplace learning opportunities
Certification
Self-Printed Certificate Option
Upon completion of the course, a digital certificate will be available to download instantly.
Frequently Asked Questions
After you have completed your purchase, you will be able to access your training straight away!
When buying one of our courses, you will need to enter a valid email address which will be used to create your account with our Learning Management System – Enable – where you will take the training. We will also send your purchase receipt to this email address, and any additional courses purchased in future using the same email address will be added to your system account.
Once you have completed your purchase, you will be able to send the course(s) to other people using your system account with Enable by entering the learner’s email address so that they may access the training and set up their own system account with our Learning Management System.
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