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About the content
Increase your resilience and adaptability, and explore the value of good health and wellbeing in the workplace with this course from the University of Leeds.
Develop your understanding of workplace wellbeing
Are you ready to tackle today’s rapidly moving world of work?
This two-week course will teach you how to learn, develop, and adapt to changes in the workplace, and how to cope with its demanding environment.
Hearing from professionals and using practical examples, you’ll learn the value of resilience and adaptability and how it has helped others create successful careers. You’ll also examine the reasons why employers are looking for these skills in particular.
Learn how to thrive in a digital workplace
With guidance from experts, you’ll discover how developing new skills helps you to do your job more effectively and adapt to new roles and ways of working.
To help you succeed in the digital workplace, you’ll learn how to evaluate your current strengths and identify the value of workplace wellbeing for yourself.
Demonstrate your adaptability skills to shine in an interview
To feel ready to show your skills in an interview, you’ll assess and practice your own adaptability.
By the end of the course, you’ll have the resilience and skills to look after yourself in the workplace, so you can forge a happier and healthier career.
Prerequisite
This course is designed for people who have some digital skills but want to build confidence and knowledge in using digital technology in the workplace.
You could be studying, a graduate, re-entering the workplace, or looking to improve your career prospects.
Syllabus
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Identify the key features of resilience
- Assess the techniques for growing your resilience
- Develop a plan to improve your resilience
- Identify the key features of personal adaptability
- Assess your adaptability and develop a plan to improve it
- Demonstrate your ability to adapt
Instructors
Sophie Pendrell
Sophie has worked with digital media for over 30 years both as an artist, producer and educator. She now works remotely from her home beside the sea.
Content Designer
L'université de Leeds est un établissement d'enseignement supérieur britannique située dans la ville de Leeds, dans la région anglaise de Yorkshire-et-Humber.
Platform
FutureLearn is a massive open online course (MOOC) learning platform founded in December 2012.
It is a company launched and wholly owned by The Open University in Milton Keynes, England. It is the first UK-led massive open online course learning platform, and as of March 2015 included 54 UK and international University partners and unlike similar platforms includes four non-university partners: the British Museum, the British Council, the British Library and the National Film and Television School.
