Did you know that you can get hands-on practice resolving real-world business issues by taking SkillSoft’s Business Challenge Series courses?  These 15-20 minute interactive case studies bring to life problems and solutions for a wide range of sales, business, and professional topics. Gain the full value of the learning experience by immersing yourself in these scenarios in a safe, exploratory environment.  At the end of the course, you’ll receive feedback about your solution and will be invited to try a different solution, acquiring different perspectives and tools that can inform how you apply the concepts in your own workplace situation.

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To schedule a department presentation about using SkillSoft for professional development, contact Jill Weinknecht Wardell at ext. 5-1442 or jwardell@umbc.edu.

Did you know that you can use SkillSoft e-Learning to find short interactive videos that provide solutions to frequently encountered business problems?  These 5-10 minute videos, called Business Impact Series, can be found within the course catalog under the folder ‘Business Exploration Series.’ During these short videos, you will receive background information on the business scenario, watch it being enacted through a dramatization, and receive a specific course of action that you can apply to your own situation.   With over 170+ videos to choose from on topics such as Management, Leadership, Human Resources, Sales, Finance and Accounting, and Professional Foundations, you are bound to find a topic that suits your individual and/or your departmental needs.

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To schedule a department presentation about using SkillSoft for professional development, call ext. 5-6262 or hrtraining@umbc.edu.

Highly successful teams have members who exhibit certain key characteristics, most notably trust in others and a sense of commitment to the team. In the early stages of team development, leaders must set up structures and processes that support the development of these team characteristics. This one-hour course offers strategies used to build trust based on encouraging honest, accountable, fair, and positive behavior. The course also provides leaders with strategies that help increase team member commitment, such as being supportive, making members feel secure, providing interesting work, and acknowledging contributions and achievements. By using these strategies, team leaders can develop a cohesive team that works together to reach its goals.

This is course number:  team_03_a04_bs_enus

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For more information about the Business Exploration Series courseware, click here.

To schedule a department presentation about using SkillSoft for professional development, call ext. 5-6262 or hrtraining@umbc.edu.

"Much of the fun in life is getting stuck in things -- parties, dating, working out, work itself, shopping, brunch, online research, social media... the list is endless. Sometimes these things are extremely useful, valuable and satisfying. Our spirit knows when this is the case, as we feel refreshed, content and rewarded. It makes us happy -- like the time we have coffee with the friend we have a soul connection with, the barre class we take where we love the music and really stretch ourselves, or the day we take a staycation somewhere new and find a fantastic book store or restaurant.

Then there's the rest of the crap we do. This "stuff" often isn't useful or valuable, and instead of feeling satisfied, we're left feeling neutral, indifferent, even hollow.

Picture an awesome day you had in your life. I bet it included people you love, an activity you love, or both. Sometimes, in the day-to-day of doing "stuff," we lose sight of the valuable and confuse it with the non-valuable. We say yes to things that don't necessarily serve us, connect with people who take our energy rather than energize us, and spend hours of our precious time doing things out of habit or to please others."

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With the hectic pace of contemporary life, time management skills are essential to optimal productivity and stress-reduction. This series of one-hour courses helps you analyze your current use of time, clarify your goals, prioritize your workload, and outline ways to better manage time in accordance with your personality type and energy cycle. You will learn how to prepare useful to-do lists, properly sequence tasks, and estimate time frames so you can meet your deadlines. Additionally, you will learn delegation skills, such as effective task-based communication, techniques to address skills-based delegation problems with employees, and effective practices for dealing with employees who lack confidence and motivation when presented with new tasks.

• Time Management: Analyzing Your Use of Time: pd_11_a01_bs_enus
• Time Management: Planning and Prioritizing Your Time: pd_11_a02_bs_enus
• Delegation Essentials: Overcoming Delegation Problems: mgmt_27_a03_bs_enus

Visit the UMBC SkillSoft website for a Quick Start Guide, FAQs, and the link to log in to SkillPort.

For more information about the Business Exploration Series courseware, click here.

To schedule a department presentation about using SkillSoft for professional development, call ext. 5-6262 or hrtraining@umbc.edu.