Thrive at Work: Digital Skills to Enhance your Career Prospects, Motivation, and Emotional Wellbeing
Offered By: Coventry University via FutureLearn
Course Description
Overview
The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged millions around the world to adjust to new ways of working.
This program of courses aims to help you enhance your digital skills, stay motivated, better understand your colleagues, and make the most of your time at work.
Develop the digital skills employers are looking for in the 2020s
The world of work is changing rapidly. The pandemic has accelerated and exposed a need for everyone to develop better digital skills regardless of where they work.
On this program, you’ll explore core in-demand digital skills, set goals for your professional development, as well as learn how to create an online CV and professional presence.
Enhance your emotional intelligence to improve your wellbeing
Technological change is impacting not only where people work, but also how employees engage with their colleagues and how businesses relate to, motivate, and engage their staff.
This program will enable you to delve deeper into the value of emotional intelligence for employee wellbeing in the digital workplace.
You’ll explore how emotional intelligence helps us to understand ourselves and others, resolve conflict, and build better relationships.
Increase your productivity
You’ll also consider the impact these changes may have on employee engagement and motivation, and discover strategies to keep you and your team productive.
Better understand the behaviour of your colleagues, managers and direct reports
You’ll be introduced to key approaches, concepts and issues around organisational behaviour and how it impacts you as an employee or manager.
By the end of the program, you should feel equipped with the emotional intelligence and business understanding you need to stay engaged, effective and productive.
Syllabus
Course 1: An Introduction to Organisational Behaviour: How to Understand Your People
-Discover why organisations behave the way they do, the effects of misbehaviour at work - and what you can do to improve things.
Course 2: Emotional Intelligence at Work
-Explore how emotional intelligence helps us to understand ourselves and others, resolve conflict and build better relationships.
Course 3: Career Skills for the 2020s: Navigating the Online World of Work
-Find your purpose and identify the career skills you need to upskill in your sector or to seek a new job online.
Course 4: Motivation and Engagement in an Uncertain World
-Supporting you to thrive at work during the coronavirus outbreak.
Courses
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Explore the meaning of emotional intelligence
What is emotional intelligence, and why is it important? On this course, you’ll explore how emotional intelligence influences not only our relationships with others but also with ourselves.
As well as exploring the origins of emotional intelligence, you’ll also learn about the key theorists who have attempted to define, develop and discuss this fascinating construct.
Discover why emotional intelligence is so important
Emotional intelligence is a sought-after skill. You’ll learn about how it’s different from ‘traditional’ intelligence, as well as how it can be used to develop relationships and guide self-development.
To give a balanced view of the subject, you’ll also look at some of the criticisms of emotional intelligence research.
Develop your emotional intelligence skills
By exploring the emotional intelligence definition and some of the key concepts surrounding it, you can develop your own emotional intelligence skills.
You’ll be able to identify some of the central components of this vital soft skill, and how they can be applied in certain situations.
Understand how emotional intelligence improves performance in the workplace
By the end of this course, you’ll also understand how emotional intelligence at work can be used. You’ll examine ways in which it’s measured, as well as how it can be applied in various organisational settings.
These emotional intelligence examples can help give you context for how it is used in the workplace.
This course is for anyone with a professional or personal interest in exploring emotional intelligence in workplace settings. It is suitable for those with a background in business, psychology or with relevant work experience and for those who wish to expand their existing emotional intelligence skills. It is part of the MSc Business and Organisational Psychology, which is accredited by the Association for Business Psychology.
Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.*
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Learn to understand the behaviour of your colleagues, managers and reports
Understanding how a business behaves can help us to understand how a business works - and how it can be made to work better. We call this discipline organisational behaviour.
On this course, you’ll explore the key approaches, concepts and issues in organisational behaviour - and how they apply to you. You’ll investigate why people act as they do, along with how managers can prevent workplace misbehaviour.
Ultimately, you’ll develop a better comprehension of how everyone in your organisation (including you) behaves and interacts. This will help you and your organisation to work better.
This course would suit professionals at all levels in an organisation, across all disciplines. It may be of particular interest to those in leadership or managerial roles - looking to improve business processes by managing organisational behaviour.
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Develop the digital skills employers are looking for in the 2020s
In this rapidly changing world, it’s important that you’re confident about working online and embracing technology in your professional life.
On this course, you’ll assess your strengths and weaknesses and explore the skills you need to build to progress in work or to seek a new job in the 2020s.
Learn how to set goals for your professional development
You’ll be introduced to digital tools and analytical frameworks that will help you to set goals for your future career and identify the skills you’ll need to get there.
Whether you need to enhance your communication skills, increase your digital capabilities, or boost your problem-solving abilities, this course will allow you to explore your skills, strengths, and areas for development.
Create an online CV and build your professional online presence
Alongside expert progression coaches and student experience officers, you’ll build valuable knowledge around how to use technology to your professional advantage.
You’ll explore what makes a successful online presentation, how to write a CV and covering letter to share online, as well as digital tricks and tips to help you find your purpose and identify what employers want.
You’ll benefit from access to an online community of learners to support you along the way, as well as the professional resources you need to help you take control of your career.
This course is designed for anyone who would like to improve their online and digital skills, as well as their soft skills like communication, problem-solving, emotional intelligence, adaptability and resilience.
You should be able to complete the course using just a mobile phone, but it would be beneficial to have a tablet or laptop with a keyboard to enable you to write longer documents such as CVs and covering letters, for which you will need word processing software such as Microsoft Word or Google Docs.
There is also at least one optional activity in which you are encouraged to video yourself giving a short presentation. A mobile phone that allows you to record short videos will be sufficient for this.
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Explore how we can offer more than work itself
The world in which we live is constantly changing, affecting the way in which organisations manage employee relations, motivation and engagement.
This course explores these changes in depth and assesses what they may mean for teams, groups and the employment relationship, as well as the impact they may have on employee engagement and motivation.
You’ll also reflect on methods that may help organisations to sustain employee motivation and engagement in the future.
This course is for people who wish to discover the importance of employment relationships and the importance motivation and engagement has in the workplace.
Please note that the staff described in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below may be subject to change.
Taught by
Michael Oyelere, Anthony Thompson , Navami Leena and Tara Hawes
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