EdX

Let’s Get Strong: Strengths at Work (edX)

Offered by University of Maryland, College Park, University System of Maryland - USM, USMx, UMD,
Let’s Get Strong: Strengths at Work (edX)

Effective leaders know that we are always better when we play to our strengths. There’s science behind that statement. In this course, discover the power of strengths at work through selected models, self-assessment & learning use your strengths more.

Class Deals by MOOC List - Click here and see EdX's Active Discounts, Deals, and Promo Codes.

Please note: the UMD Power Lab is an optional lab, highly recommended, and costs an additional fee. Please read the important statement at the bottom of the description.
This course will help you build the confidence to bring your best self to work by identifying and learning to capitalize on your unique strengths. Strengths-based management is the secret ingredient to creating employee engagement which increases key performance indicators for all organizations.
This certificate offers an extraordinary opportunity for you to spend some quality time with yourself to assess your current level of soft skills, clearly define your core self, and build soft skills which are essential to professional, not to mention life, success.
Not only will your performance increase when you capitalize on your strengths, you’ll enjoy your work much more.
We have been schooled on fixing our weaknesses from grade school to the workplace. Weakness correction only gets you to acceptable, that is no weakness. Weakness correction alone does not get you to outstanding performance levels. Not individually and not as an organization. Identifying, accepting and embracing, and capitalizing on your strengths is the difference between good performance and excellent performance. Doing this with your team or your organization is amazing!
This course focuses on strengths, who you are at your best, not on skills, like knowing how to keyboard. Skill weaknesses, of course, must be addressed. They can be improved.
The course will define strengths, explore several strengths models, provide a free self-assessment of strengths for all learners, and help you learn to capitalize on your strengths and manage your weaknesses.
Verified learners who access the Power Lab to take additional self-assessments and receive confidential individual results from the Realise2 Strengths Profile. The Realise2 Strengths Profile provides strengths feedback along three axes: is it a strength, how often are you using it, and does its use energize you. This strengths assessment provides a dynamic tool to optimize your use of your full portfolio of strengths at work allowing you to increase your energy by how you deploy your strengths. It is a very insightful and practical tool which can be used with teams as well.
This course will prepare you to become the leader you hope to be by focusing deeply on understanding your strengths. Practical tools and techniques for use right away to be happier, more productive, more promotable, and more passionate at work.
Get the Models - Understand three models of strengths
Get Why It Matters - Understand the business case for using strengths-based management versus weakness-correction
Get the Data – Learn your unique strengths profile and how to optimize your strengths at work
Set the Goals - Set personal development goals for using your strengths more
Learn the Tools - Learn tools and techniques for how to use your strengths to improve your performance and your team’s performance
Take Action - Build effective action plans to use strengths more at work
Make the Change – Put your strengths to work to increase your effectiveness as a leader
Get the Benefit - Be able to develop as a great leader able to create great culture: build positive workplaces where individuals flourish and organizations thrive
This course is part of the Re-Imagining Leadership Professional Certificate.

What you'll learn

  • know what strengths are versus traits and skills
  • know selected models for strengths assessments
  • know your character strengths and virtues results
  • understand signature strengths
  • how to capitalize on strengths
  • how to manage weaknesses
  • how to make the business case for strengths-based management
  • set SMART goals to capitalize on your strengths
  • set SMART goals to manage your weaknesses
  • how to strengths-spot at work
  • how to re-engage your work to use your strengths more
  • how to collaborate across strengths for better, more satisfying results

Syllabus

Introduction

  • what are strengths
  • business case for strengths
  • assessing strengths
  • using strengths more

What are Strengths?

  • What are Strengths?
  • Selected Models
  • VIA Character Strengths & Virtues
  • Gallup Strengths-Finder
  • Realise2
  • Character Strengths & Virtues
  • Overview of Strengths Spotting
  • The Big Ideas

The Business Case for Strengths

  • How does strengths use benefit me?
  • Why use strengths at work?
  • What is Strengths-based Management?
  • What are the Benefits of Strengths-based Management?
  • The Big Ideas

What are Your Strengths?

  • Introduction
  • Best Self Introduction
  • Strengths-spotting
  • Character Strengths & Virtues Self-assessment
  • Other Strengths Models
  • The Big Ideas & Segue to Using Strengths More & Managing Weaknesses

Using Strengths More & Managing Weaknesses

  • How to Capitalize on Strengths
  • How to Manage Weaknesses
  • Job Crafting
  • Team Strengths
  • The Big Ideas
Go to Class
MOOC List is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Related Courses

Knowledge Management and Big Data in Business (edX) EdX
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,HKPolyUx

Knowledge Management and Big Data in Business (edX)

Management & Leadership Social Sciences

Learn why and how knowledge management and Big Data are vital to the new business era. The business landscape is changing so rapidly that traditional management, business and computing courses do not meet the needs for the next generation of workers in the business world. Most traditional methods are of a repetitive, rule-based nature and will be gradually replaced by Artificial Intelligence.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Business Management Big Data
Details
Platform Strategy for Business (edX) EdX
Boston University,BUx

Platform Strategy for Business (edX)

Management & Leadership Economics & Finance

Learn how to design, launch, monetize and compete in a networked platform market. Firms such as Apple, Alibaba, Facebook, SalesForce, Uber and Yelp operate as platform ecosystems that match buyers and sellers, gain value and market share from network effects, and harness their users to innovate. This course teaches you how to convert products to platforms and how to generate platform innovation. You will learn how to negotiate platform startup, convert existing businesses, and make vital decisions on issues of openness, cannibalization, and competition.

Mar 8th 2023
5-12 Weeks
Business Strategy Business Strategy
Details
Introduction to Project Management (edX) EdX
University of Adelaide,AdelaideX

Introduction to Project Management (edX)

Management & Leadership

Learn the principles of project management and apply them in your own work and life. Project management is an essential skill-set for many careers and in many contexts in our lives. Introduction to Project Management is an ideal starting point if you need to manage projects at work or at home, while not necessarily being a formally trained project manager. It is also suitable if you are considering undertaking a project in the near future and are seeking to learn and apply essential project management knowledge and skills.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Business Management Project Management
Details
System Design for Supply Chain Management and Logistics (edX) EdX
Chalmers University of Technology,ChalmersX

System Design for Supply Chain Management and Logistics (edX)

Management & Leadership Economics & Finance

Learn how leading supply chains are designed, what makes them competitive and how to use the SCOR model for analysis to increase your business’s ROI. Logistics and supply chain structures can be found in virtually any system. In this business and management course you will learn not only what makes leading systems competitive but also how to design, or redesign, your own system.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Business Management Logistics
Details
English for Doing Business in Asia - Writing (edX) EdX
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - HKUST,HKUSTx

English for Doing Business in Asia - Writing (edX)

Management & Leadership Languages & Literature

Introducing strategies for developing your written English communication skills in the context of doing business in Asia. The use of English for doing business in multinational settings is a fact of life for many business people. And, as Asian economies expand and become more involved in the global economy, having the ability to write clear and concise English is important when exchanging information.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Business English Communication
Details
Data Analytics for Business (edX) EdX
Georgia Institute of Technology,GTx

Data Analytics for Business (edX)

Statistics & Data Analysis Business

This course prepares students to understand business analytics and become leaders in these areas in business organizations. Today, businesses, consumers, and societies leave behind massive amounts of data as a by-product of their activities. Leading-edge companies in every industry are using analytics to replace intuition and guesswork in their decision-making. As a result, managers are collecting and analyzing enormous data sets to discover new patterns and insights and running controlled experiments to test hypotheses.

May 13th 2024
5-12 Weeks
Business Business Analytics Data Analytics
Details
Introduction to Accounting - Part 1: Basics of Financial Statements (edX) EdX
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore,IIMBx

Introduction to Accounting - Part 1: Basics of Financial Statements (edX)

Management & Leadership

Learn about the role accounting plays in an organization and how to prepare and analyze financial statements. Everyone does accounting of some kind, such as browsing bank statements, preparing a budget for building a house, or counting the cost of a birthday party. Individuals who want to be accountants, managers or entrepreneurs should be able work with financial reports.

No sessions available
5-12 Weeks
Business Accounting Financial Statements
Details
Business Model Implementation (edX) EdX
Delft University of Technology,DelftX

Business Model Implementation (edX)

Management & Leadership Business

Learn how to successfully implement a new business model by creating a practical action plan and roadmap. Designing a new business model is one thing, but how do you actually put it into practice? How do you move from your current model to a new business model? In this business and management course, you will learn how to make a practical action plan to implement your new business model.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Business Management Networking
Details
Operations Management (edX) EdX
Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore,IIMBx

Operations Management (edX)

Management & Leadership Social Sciences

Understand key aspects of business operations and lean management including capacity, productivity, quality, and supply chain. Have you ever wondered about the right methods to improve productivity, configure your supply chain or address the demand on hand? In recent years, businesses have strived to improve productivity and quality, reduce costs and delivery times, and embrace flexibility and innovation. These strategies are part of the Operations Management (OM) activities that service and manufacturing organizations engage in.

Self Paced
Self-Paced
Business Operations Management Asset Management
Details