On The Job

Digital Ethics

Learn the difference between safe and unsafe behavior online, and discover personal branding and its importance.

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15 mins

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How to Develop a Growth Mindset

It takes time to develop a growth mindset, but it's worth the effort. Explore tips and examples to help you overcome fixed ideas and allow you to grow, learn, and overcome challenges.

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10 mins

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Strategic Planning Decision Making

Some decisions are larger than others, like those related to the overall direction of a company or organization. These decisions require a different process and inputs, including what competitors are doing as well as what potential customers might want.

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10 mins

Intermediate

What is the Gig Economy?

Learn about the growing gig economy, and discover how many people are earning a part-time or full-time income on their own terms. Could increased access to technology and opportunities make gigs more available to you?

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10 mins

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Problems as Mysteries

You are presented with a problem, learn how to view it as an opportunity, explore the root cause by looking for patterns and trends, and then consider an information-based solution based on that cause.

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15 mins

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Maximizing Productivity and Efficiency

Describe the value of productivity, efficiency, and initiative and learn to identify and access available resources to increase productivity and efficiency.

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15 mins

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What is a Growth Mindset?

Growth mindset is a way of thinking that can help you fulfill your potential. Learn about growth mindset and how to identify it in yourself and others.

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5 mins

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Decision Making

When decisions are hard to make, you'll want to try one of these helpful decision-making tools. Learn about the JA, PACED, and Weighted Decision-Making Tools and when to use each one.

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Gigs are Everywhere

Think there are only a few kinds of gig work available? Think again! There are gig opportunities in every career cluster. Discover the amazing breadth of gigs you can choose from depending on your interests, time, skills, and resources.

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Digital Literacy

Learn criteria for being digitally literate. What digital literacy skills do I have and new skills might I want to gain?

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15 mins

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Myth of Multitasking

Learn the importance of focused attention and the potential downfalls of multitasking. Avoid distractions, and use single-tasking to focus.

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15 mins

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Choices and Consequences

Learn that all choices have consequences, that decisions made now may affect future opportunities, and that there are multiple paths to success. It’s never too late to change direction.

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15 mins

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Commit to Goals

Learn the importance of committing to a goal as well as how to overcome obstacles to achieve a career goal.

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15 mins

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Weighted Pros and Cons Decision Making Model

Decision making can be tough. The Weighted Decision-Making Tool allows you to give some criteria more weight than others, making it easier to choose the right alternative. In this activity, learn about and try out this valuable tool.

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10 mins

Intermediate

Is Gig Work Right for You?

Gig workers work as independent contractors. They may work for companies, nonprofits, or individuals. Gig work offers a lot of advantages, but it's not right for everyone. In this activity, you'll decide whether you have a gig-friendly life.

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Using Digital Tools

Learn the importance of choosing the right digital tool for a job or task.

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10 mins

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The Most Valuable Ideas

Learn how to identify characteristics that make an idea original, inventive, and valuable.

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10 mins

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Designing Ideas

Learn about different ways to come up with ideas and determine which of those techniques is most appropriate to use in a given situation.

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10 mins

Intermediate

Netiquette

Learn how to define and identify practices that demonstrate netiquette and identify ways to evaluate and clean up one's online presence and digital tattoo.

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10 mins

Intermediate

Critical Thinking with Cause and Effect

Identify the causes and effects in a workplace and find a solution by analyzing what caused the problem.

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10 mins

Intermediate

Paced Decision Making Model

PACED stands for Problem, Alternatives, Criteria, Evaluation, and Decision. And that's the process you go through as you use this matrix-based decision-making tool for complex situations with multiple alternatives.

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5 mins

Intermediate

Planning For a Gig Life

Some forecasts project as many as half of all U.S. workers could be freelancers within the next decade, many of them by choice. A 2016 McKinsey study found nearly three-quarters of American gig workers could have found a traditional job.

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10 mins

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Working Memory

Learn that writing things down is the best way to encode them into your memory and that mnemonic devices are tools to help store information in memory.

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15 mins

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Bias and Legitimacy

Learn how to find out if an information source can be used by determining if it is a credible source.

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10 mins

Intermediate

Implementing New Ideas

Learn how to present creative ideas clearly and briefly, highlighting the solution's features and benefits.

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15 mins

Intermediate

Improving Ideas

Learn how to compare options for implementing new ideas effectively.

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15 mins

Intermediate

Overcoming Barriers to Change

Learn how to identify possible real-world barriers to new ideas and methods.

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15 mins

Intermediate

Uncovering Root Cause

Take a look at the causes and effects in a situation and find out which one is the root cause and how to fix it.

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10 mins

Intermediate

Identify Creative Solutions

Learn that there are different ways to solve problems and that considering problems from a new perspective can help them come up with creative solutions.

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15 mins

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On The Job

Digital Ethics

How to Develop a Growth Mindset

Strategic Planning Decision Making

What is the Gig Economy?

Problems as Mysteries

Maximizing Productivity and Efficiency

What is a Growth Mindset?

Decision Making

Gigs are Everywhere

Digital Literacy

Myth of Multitasking

Choices and Consequences

Commit to Goals

Weighted Pros and Cons Decision Making Model

Is Gig Work Right for You?

Using Digital Tools

The Most Valuable Ideas

Designing Ideas

Netiquette

Critical Thinking with Cause and Effect

Paced Decision Making Model

Planning For a Gig Life

Working Memory

Bias and Legitimacy

Implementing New Ideas

Improving Ideas

Overcoming Barriers to Change

Uncovering Root Cause

Identify Creative Solutions

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