Are they promoting mental health? Getting skills means they turn to you for insight, possibly training empathy or mindfulness to perform. Is your boss considering net performance? Become her sustainability expert by learning about Green HR and business ethics.
Communication and other soft skills
Don’t be the one making typos in Slack or confusing co-workers with poorly written emails. Employers always consider communication and other “soft” skills to be the most in-demand attributes regardless of industry or role, so learn them well.
That will not only help you in your current role, but in your job search as well. When your future boss asks about your qualifications, don’t just talk about the hard skills specific to your role, but show how you’ve researched other soft skills, such as as negotiate or team building or personal productivity.
The courses also do not need to apply directly to the business world. Take a online writing course with Roxane Gay or stand-up comedy class from Judd Apatow—Your boss is unlikely to ask you to write a personal essay or do impromptu assignments in the office, but these courses will help you write more clearly or confidently for meetings.
Some skills don’t need to be said or listed on your CV. On the Masterclass, the essay writer David Sedaris has a section on how to tell better stories, a talent that will help in interviews, at work, and in the pub. And RuPaul offers advice on authenticity and self-expression — what better soft skills could you want?
Waking up for work
You should take diversity training to uncover your biases, become a better person, and treat those around you more fairly — but there’s more to educating yourself than that. unconscious bias training.
So while Coursera, for example, organizes classes on Diversity in the workplace and consists of, it also offers the curriculum against racism as well as the history of Black lives are worth it too, sexuality and gender identity.
NS University of Alberta’s Free Online Indigenous Canadian Course is one of Coursera’s most popular classes and it got an unexpected boost when Schitt’s Creek star Dan Levy signed up to learn. It’s really engaging — you’ll discover more than just rewatching the sitcom, however gripping, for the 18th time.
Self growth
Life is more than work — but you’ll certainly do better in your career if you become a lifelong learner. It’s not too dull as classes don’t have to be directly applicable to work, instead choose whatever catches your attention.
For example, Masterclass has big names that provide insight into the world that made them famous. So instead of watching another episode of Queer eye, Registration for New French style course; forget to binge more super chef, and take Cooking class by Yotam Ottolenghi.
