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People and Soft Skills for Professional and Personal Success Specialization
IBM

People and Soft Skills for Professional and Personal Success Specialization

Develop key power skills to boost your work life. Master powerful people and soft skills for achieving professional success.

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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
4.5

(748 reviews)

Beginner level

Recommended experience

1 month
at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

  • Create and deliver presentations that will leave a lasting impact on your audience 

  • Communicate with your peers in a way that builds your personal reputation and increases your eminence

  • Demonstrate active listening skills and questioning styles to explore issues, enhance understanding, and resolve problems

  • Complete work in an agile and effective manner that will ensure satisfaction and contribute to your career growth

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Specialization - 6 course series

Collaborate Effectively for Professional Success

Course 12 hours4.5 (425 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Apply collaborative behaviors to help your team develop through the four stages of team development. 

  • Utilize different methods of collaboration to improve teamwork and cooperation in your workplace.

  • Recognize the barriers to collaborating effectively and identify specific behaviors that enhance or damage collaboration.

  • Identify techniques to effectively lead or participate in virtual team meetings.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Critical Thinking
Category: Communication
Category: Soft skills
Category: Listening Skills
Category: teamwork

What you'll learn

  • Create presentations that will leave a lasting impact on your audience

  • Present and deliver with confidence to engage your audience

  • Use techniques like storytelling, props, and discussion to enhance your presentations

  • Manage nerves effectively; Plan for and deal with unexpected problems that may arise

Skills you'll gain

Category: People Skills
Category: Professional Development
Category: Soft skills
Category: Effective Communication
Category: Social Skills

Delivering Quality Work with Agility

Course 31 hour4.6 (270 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Deliver high quality work that solves a problem and reduces effort for the person or group requesting it

  • Apply the quality work process to all requests through clear communication and focus on clients

  • Take ownership of your assignments and apply the five-step method that will help you deliver quality work

  • Work with agility while applying the quality work process to become a trusted advisor to your clients and colleagues

Skills you'll gain

Category: Communication
Category: Soft skills
Category: Listening Skills
Category: People Management
Category: Organizational Conflict

Solving Problems with Creative and Critical Thinking

Course 43 hours4.6 (385 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Utilize critical and creative thinking to solve issues.

  • Describe the 5-step process of effectively solving problems.

  • Analyze a problem and identify the root cause.

  • Explore possible solutions and employ the problem solving process.

Skills you'll gain

Category: Critical Thinking
Category: Creative Thinking
Category: Professional Development
Category: Problem Solving
Category: Soft skills

Developing Interpersonal Skills

Course 53 hours4.7 (1,604 ratings)

What you'll learn

  • Identify and analyze different communication styles and understand their strengths and weaknesses

  • Demonstrate active listening skills and questioning styles to explore issues and enhance understanding

  • Identify conflict response styles; approach and effectively mediate workplace conflicts

  • Determine ways to build and maintain trust and increase your influence and eminence in the workplace

Skills you'll gain

Category: Communication
Category: Soft skills
Category: Agility
Category: Quality
Category: Time management

People and Soft Skills Assessment

Course 62 hours4.6 (126 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Communication
Category: Presentation Skills
Category: Soft skills
Category: Creative Skills
Category: Powerpoint Skills

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IBM Skills Network Team
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