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Creativity and Innovation: Fostering A Creative Environment (Instructor Guide) |
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Creativity is the ability to look at a situation from every possible angle and determine potential ideas, solutions, or outcomes. Employees with this ability add value to an organization by increasing its efficiency and productivity. This is why board members, stockholders, managers, and other employees want to recruit and retain creative individuals. Everyone in an organization benefits from the recruitment of creative people.
When a candidate begins to search for a job or becomes aware of available positions, the candidate will form an opinion about your company based on promotional material, media articles, stories, and word-of-mouth. Creative people look for flexibility. Although managers might hire creative people, some managers still tend to stifle employees’ creativity with excessive rules and directions. Creative candidates must believe that they will have the flexibility to be innovative, or they will look elsewhere for employment.
In this course you will learn to: recruit and retain creative individuals, and maintain a creative environment.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Creativity and Innovation: Personal Creativity |
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Creativity is often considered a talent that some people have. Actually, creativity's a skill that everyone can nurture through exercise and practice. You can prepare yourself both mentally and physically to be creative.
In this course you will learn to: prepare yourself mentally and physically to be creative, and use your experiences, innocence, intuition, and sense of adventure to increase your creativity. |
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Creativity and Innovation: Personal Creativity (Instructor Guide) |
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Creativity is often considered a talent that some people have. Actually, creativity's a skill that everyone can nurture through exercise and practice. You can prepare yourself both mentally and physically to be creative.
In this course you will learn to: prepare yourself mentally and physically to be creative, and use your experiences, innocence, intuition, and sense of adventure to increase your creativity.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity |
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The purpose of a team is to bring together people with diverse personalities, knowledge, education, and experience. This combined diversity encourages creativity and productivity to accomplish a common goal. Teams might consist of people from a single department or several departments.
Teams can generate new ideas, expand on or improve current ideas, make decisions, and solve problems. Teams can also be assigned to a specific task or be made responsible for a broader area, such as responding to changing customer expectations. When team members recognize their roles in a team, and the manager performs his responsibilities, creativity has a better chance of flourishing.
In this course you will learn to: identify characteristics of creative teams, and manage these teams effectively, conduct creative team sessions, and conduct brainstorming sessions, and use creativity to solve problems. |
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Creativity and Innovation: Promoting Team Creativity (Instructor Guide) |
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The purpose of a team is to bring together people with diverse personalities, knowledge, education, and experience. This combined diversity encourages creativity and productivity to accomplish a common goal. Teams might consist of people from a single department or several departments.
Teams can generate new ideas, expand on or improve current ideas, make decisions, and solve problems. Teams can also be assigned to a specific task or be made responsible for a broader area, such as responding to changing customer expectations. When team members recognize their roles in a team, and the manager performs his responsibilities, creativity has a better chance of flourishing.
In this course you will learn to: identify characteristics of creative teams, and manage these teams effectively, conduct creative team sessions, and conduct brainstorming sessions, and use creativity to solve problems.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Critical Thinking and Decision-Making |
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Critical thinking is an act in which you question, analyze, interpret, evaluate and make a judgment about what you read, hear, say, or write. Critical thinking helps you make better decisions on a daily basis. Learn strategies for solving everyday problems and making thoughtful, well-informed decisions. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Addressing Cross-Cultural Issues |
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When communicating with coworkers, it is very important to respect other cultures. You should refrain from using humor that might offend people from other cultures, and avoid stereotypes that might affect how you treat your coworkers.
Before communicating with employees who belong to a different culture, it is important to research their cultures and understand clearly what is expected from your communication. You should determine what types of communication are most appropriate in specific situations. For example, you should investigate the most appropriate method for communicating a behavioral problem to an employee. Some cultures prefer profuse praise to cushion the constructive feedback, while others prefer a more direct approach. The most important thing to communicate to employees of different cultures is respect. By approaching them in accordance with their cultural standards and expectations, you’ll show respect for their cultures and your communication will be enhanced.
In this course you will learn to: identify gestures used in different cultures and build a cross-cultural team, and discuss guidelines for writing cross-cultural documents and assembling a translation team. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Addressing Cross-Cultural Issues (Instructor Guide) |
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When communicating with coworkers, it is very important to respect other cultures. You should refrain from using humor that might offend people from other cultures, and avoid stereotypes that might affect how you treat your coworkers.
Before communicating with employees who belong to a different culture, it is important to research their cultures and understand clearly what is expected from your communication. You should determine what types of communication are most appropriate in specific situations. For example, you should investigate the most appropriate method for communicating a behavioral problem to an employee. Some cultures prefer profuse praise to cushion the constructive feedback, while others prefer a more direct approach. The most important thing to communicate to employees of different cultures is respect. By approaching them in accordance with their cultural standards and expectations, you’ll show respect for their cultures and your communication will be enhanced.
In this course you will learn to: identify gestures used in different cultures and build a cross-cultural team, and discuss guidelines for writing cross-cultural documents and assembling a translation team.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Communicating Across Cultures |
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When communicating across cultures, you could come across a number of barriers. In addition to language barriers, there might be more subtle obstacles, such as cultural biases and conflicting communication styles. Building relationships with people of other cultures will provide you with the incentive to work through those barriers and achieve effective communication.
In this course you will learn to: establish rapport and build trust, and listen well and provide positive and constructive feedback. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Communicating Across Cultures (Instructor Guide) |
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When communicating across cultures, you could come across a number of barriers. In addition to language barriers, there might be more subtle obstacles, such as cultural biases and conflicting communication styles. Building relationships with people of other cultures will provide you with the incentive to work through those barriers and achieve effective communication.
In this course you will learn to: establish rapport and build trust, and listen well and provide positive and constructive feedback.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Cross-Cultural Business Situations |
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You might be asked to attend or take part in cross-cultural meetings. Although cross-cultural meetings are common when you travel to a foreign country, they can also take place when several cultures send their representatives to attend meetings. These meetings might also take place over the telephone, online, or in a video conference.
In this course you will learn to: attend and organize cross-cultural meetings, conduct negotiations, and solve problems during a cross-cultural meeting. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Cross-Cultural Business Situations (Instructor Guide) |
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You might be asked to attend or take part in cross-cultural meetings. Although cross-cultural meetings are common when you travel to a foreign country, they can also take place when several cultures send their representatives to attend meetings. These meetings might also take place over the telephone, online, or in a video conference.
In this course you will learn to: attend and organize cross-cultural meetings, conduct negotiations, and solve problems during a cross-cultural meeting.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Differences In Communication |
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When communicating with people of another culture, it is important to be aware of the person’s level of active participation in a conversation. In some cultures, highly active participation is the norm, while other cultures dictate a more passive involvement.
The exchange between people engaged in communication demonstrates conversational involvement. In any culture, a message must have both a sender and a receiver. In cultures with high conversational involvement, the receiver would send verbal and nonverbal cues, such as eye contact, nodding, and interjections, such as "I’m listening" or "Tell me more." In cultures with low conversational involvement, receivers would adopt a passive posture, perhaps staring at the ground with hunched shoulders, and would simply absorb the message without offering cues on whether they are listening or not.
In this course you will learn to: identify the differences in verbal communication across cultures, and improve your nonverbal communication skills by understanding the differences in gestures and expressions that vary across cultures. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Differences In Communication (Instructor Guide) |
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When communicating with people of another culture, it is important to be aware of the person’s level of active participation in a conversation. In some cultures, highly active participation is the norm, while other cultures dictate a more passive involvement.
The exchange between people engaged in communication demonstrates conversational involvement. In any culture, a message must have both a sender and a receiver. In cultures with high conversational involvement, the receiver would send verbal and nonverbal cues, such as eye contact, nodding, and interjections, such as "I’m listening" or "Tell me more." In cultures with low conversational involvement, receivers would adopt a passive posture, perhaps staring at the ground with hunched shoulders, and would simply absorb the message without offering cues on whether they are listening or not.
In this course you will learn to: identify the differences in verbal communication across cultures, and improve your nonverbal communication skills by understanding the differences in gestures and expressions that vary across cultures.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Overcoming Communication Barriers |
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There are several barriers that can affect cross-cultural communication. Generally, barriers have a negative effect on communication because they might distort the speaker’s message or the listener’s understanding. It is important to understand these barriers to communicate effectively with people from different cultures.
In this course you will learn to: identify common cross-cultural communication barriers, overcome communication barriers and avoid cultural bias, and employ qualified interpreters and communicate through them. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Overcoming Communication Barriers (Instructor Guide) |
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There are several barriers that can affect cross-cultural communication. Generally, barriers have a negative effect on communication because they might distort the speaker’s message or the listener’s understanding. It is important to understand these barriers to communicate effectively with people from different cultures.
In this course you will learn to: identify common cross-cultural communication barriers, overcome communication barriers and avoid cultural bias, and employ qualified interpreters and communicate through them.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Workplace Culture |
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Culture is a way of life established by a group of people and passed on to succeeding generations. People within a culture usually share common values, beliefs, and perspectives and have the same language and communication style. Although people within a culture must live in close proximity while the culture is being established, future generations frequently relocate to other countries or regions. This creates situations of cross-cultural exchanges.
As we become increasingly diverse, there is a growing demand for cross‑cultural communication in the workplace. Technology allows us to communicate with peers across the globe, as though they were sitting in our offices. Efficient and cost-effective travel makes it possible to communicate face-to-face with clients in other countries. In addition, companies seeking diverse and highly skilled employees find a conglomeration of cultures among them. As a result, employers are emphasizing cross-cultural communication in their own organizations to prepare employees to work with diverse co-workers and clients.
In this course you will learn to: discuss the value of culture and the significance of cross-cultural communication in the workplace, and describe the impact of cultural differences on communication, and avoid miscommunication and conflicts that arise due to these difference. |
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Cross-Cultural Business Communication: Workplace Culture (Instructor Guide) |
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Culture is a way of life established by a group of people and passed on to succeeding generations. People within a culture usually share common values, beliefs, and perspectives and have the same language and communication style. Although people within a culture must live in close proximity while the culture is being established, future generations frequently relocate to other countries or regions. This creates situations of cross-cultural exchanges.
As we become increasingly diverse, there is a growing demand for cross‑cultural communication in the workplace. Technology allows us to communicate with peers across the globe, as though they were sitting in our offices. Efficient and cost-effective travel makes it possible to communicate face-to-face with clients in other countries. In addition, companies seeking diverse and highly skilled employees find a conglomeration of cultures among them. As a result, employers are emphasizing cross-cultural communication in their own organizations to prepare employees to work with diverse co-workers and clients.
In this course you will learn to: discuss the value of culture and the significance of cross-cultural communication in the workplace, and describe the impact of cultural differences on communication, and avoid miscommunication and conflicts that arise due to these difference.
This Instructor's Edition of this course includes notes and suggestions to assist you in presenting the material, whether in an in-person classroom setting, or as an instructor-led online or distance-learning course. It also provides you with the answers to questions found in mid-lesson activities, as well as in the quiz that concludes the course. |
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Cultural Competence |
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Culture reflects belief systems, practices, and the products of beliefs and practices among groups of people. This Cultural Competence training course is designed for participants to engage, reflect, and apply the information provided. |
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Cultural Competence (Corrections) |
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Culture reflects belief systems, practices, and the products of beliefs and practices among groups of people. This Cultural Competence training course is designed for participants to engage, reflect, and apply the information provided. |
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Cultural Competence for Paraprofessionals |
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Culture and cultural elements are essential components of people's identities. Understanding the cultural elements as paraprofessionals allows for a greater appreciation for students and can improve relationships. Cultural elements may include race and ethnicity, gender, and socio-economic status. These elements of culture are not separate from the larger cultural context in which we live and work, especially as paraprofessionals. It is important to recognize that many culturally and linguistically diverse families have specific customs and traditions that may not necessarily be connected to a particular cultural group. By understanding cultural competence, paraprofessionals can provide responsive instruction and support to students from all backgrounds. |
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Cultural Competence: Diversity, Identity, and Engagement |
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Many programs engage children, youth, families, and staff from diverse cultural backgrounds. In order to best serve their community, out-of-school time program staff need to develop the vocabulary and skills to engage with people from different cultures. During this course, participants will explore how culture can impact and shape individuals, examine their own cultural identities and how these identities may impact their interactions with others, and levels of engagement with diverse groups. |
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Cultural Competency for Children and Families (CDA 4) |
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As classrooms and communities reflect our increasingly interconnected world, cultural understanding becomes essential for educators. This course equips you with the knowledge and tools to navigate the spectrum of cultural awareness, sensitivity, responsiveness, and competence. Together, we'll explore impactful practices for fostering inclusive environments and culturally competent approaches that empower children and families. |
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Cultural Diversity in School Settings |
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This course contains definitions of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and the role DEI plays in the school setting. Embracing diversity, equity, and inclusion benefits everyone within a K-12 institution: faculty, staff, students, and families.
Learners will reflect on the different elements of their own identity and how that impacts their perception of others. This course will also discuss the role of bias in the school setting. |
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Culturally Responsive Teaching |
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This course covers the concept of culturally responsive teaching. It is just one out of many paraprofessional and teacher courses we offer. This course will help you develop new knowledge about culture and how it impacts student learning. It will teach you strategies on how to include culturally responsive strategies in the classroom and the benefits they have. It will also help you understand what your role might look like in culturally responsive teaching practices. |
