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WHAT’S PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN YOUR INBOX ?
The concept for Professional Development in Your Inbox came about as we pondered what we wish someone had created for us over the years:
Access to high-quality professional development content we could use to upskill our teams on the topics needed to design awesome experiences in today’s world
Curated content and topics that wouldn’t require a significant amount of time or money, just high-value information
Development for everyone, regardless of their current understanding of the topic or their ability to facilitate development conversations
WHY SHOULD YOU SUBSCRIBE?
Our free Professional Development in Your Inbox subscription series features easily consumable learning experiences that are timely, research-aligned, and curated by performance science experts. Featuring a variety of rotating performance science topics, each monthly email contains access to an interactive online learning journey. Topics include but are not limited to designing moments that matter, preventing burnout in your teams, leveraging storytelling to accelerate change, and practicing cultural humility to promote inclusion at work.
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Enhance People Experience
Engage in Job Crafting to Thrive at Work
Job crafting involves making small changes to the way you give and receive at work so you can improve your overall job experience. Consider how relationship science can be applied to the experience of employment to discover new insights about how to be more fulfilled in your role.
Reimagine Onboarding to Provide a More Impactful Experience
While tools and technology are enablers of onboarding experiences, they are not the core experiences. We must design memorable moments to authentically introduce new hires into the organization. Learn how to identify, prioritize, and design memorable moments to create an impactful onboarding experience.
Enhance Employee Experience through Curiosity and Connection
Creating a more connected and engaged workplace doesn’t require a major initiative or investment. Learn practical ways you can intentionally shift your mindset and make small adjustments to your ways of working to positively impact your colleagues’ engagement and experiences.
Strengthen Organizational Health with the THRiVE Model
Maintaining a pulse on the health of your organization is crucial for addressing needs so that employees are engaged, motivated, and thriving—and so the organization is collectively able to achieve its mission. Learn how to assess and gauge the health of your organization and identify ways to strengthen it.
Evolve Learning & Development
Design Moments to Create Better Experiences
Moments are the smallest unit of measurement by which we process experiences. They serve as the foundation of meaningful experiences. Shift from a mindset focused on creating content to one focused on designing impactful experiences that incorporate memorable moments for your end users.
Build Habits to Reinforce and Drive Desired Behavior
Habits are all around you. In fact, 40% or more of our daily activities are formed on habits and routine. Habits not only help reduce mental load but they can also reinforce and drive desired behaviors. Install habits in your work to increase your overall performance and impact.
Increase Your Impact through Human-Centered Measurement
Data are everywhere. But for data to be informative and actionable for growth, or to have the intended impact, a human-centered measurement approach is critical. Learn how to set up an assessment or measurement task that considers the human element and stakeholder impact.
Design Effective Learning Scenarios
Realistic learning scenarios are a proven method to test decision-making and support learning. Learn a practical process for identifying, writing, and validating learning scenarios that will help you accelerate and enhance training for your people.
Develop Your Creativity to Fuel Innovation among Your Team
The business need for creativity is growing faster than analytical thinking, technical literacy, and personal attributes like resilience and motivation. Discover practical tools and ideas for incorporating creativity into your work to foster innovation and promote a culture of continuous improvement among your team.
Thrive through Change
Build Storytelling Skills to Accelerate Change
Creating a narrative around change helps people understand why new behaviors and skills are important to the organization’s success and enables them to contextualize the changes they’re seeing. Strengthen your storytelling skills to accelerate change adoption while making it memorable and appreciated more broadly.
Design Event Experiences that Drive Behavior Change
Although an event may create a wonderful one-time high, it often does not provide the desired impact needed to create sustainable long-term change. Learn a framework for planning impactful event experiences that consider the participant experience at every stage and enable your people to truly learn, connect, and engage together.
Understand How to Sense and Shape Your Organization’s Future
While it’s not possible to predict the future with exact precision, leaders can strategically sense and shape the future by assessing how current trends and signals might impact an organization by using proven amplification techniques. Learn a framework for gaining foresight to sense and shape possible future scenarios.
Recognize and Regulate Your Reactions During Change
The emotions and physical reactions we feel when experiencing a significant change can make navigating it even more difficult. Learn why change feels so difficult and gain practical tools for recognizing and regulating your reactions evoked by change.
Enable Technology
Assess Your Readiness for Skills Transformation
Research shows that organizations that use skills-based talent strategies are more likely to retain high performers, successfully anticipate and respond to change, and drive efficiency and innovation. Assess your organization’s skills transformation readiness and learn the benefits of using skills-based talent strategies.
Maximize Your Learning Experience Impact
Why do some learning experiences fall short of their goals? They lack the learning experience framework required to maximize impact. Learn about the factors that influence the impact of your learning experiences and how to manipulate them to increase learner adoption and engagement.
Assess Your Team’s Digital Resiliency
To drive innovation, improve productivity, and adapt to emerging technologies, it’s essential to gauge your team’s comfort level in using existing technology, as well as their confidence in exploring emerging technology. Assess your team’s digital resiliency and explore strategies to bridge gaps in your digital skillset.
Design for Accessibility in the Digital Age
When we design digital content and communications for accessibility and inclusivity, it benefits everyone. Learn how to use Microsoft’s accessibility tools to enhance PowerPoint decks and Word documents and how to use alternative text to enhance your social media presence.
Build Inclusive Cultures
Foster Empathic Conversations in the Workplace
Organizational change happens through individual and relational change—and that starts with listening more effectively one conversation at a time. Learn how applying active listening techniques can promote understanding and increase team cohesion.
Practice Cultural Humility to Promote Workplace Inclusion
Studies show that workplace inclusion increases employee engagement and satisfaction. But it can be difficult to know how to move the inclusion needle forward to create this positive impact. Explore how de-emphasizing cultural competency and committing to practicing cultural humility can help you promote inclusion.
Create a Culture of Trust by Talking about Mental Health at Work
More than 90% of people have experienced mental health challenges, whether personally or with loved ones. Mental health impacts how we show up every day—including at work. Learn steps you can take to normalize talking about mental health to foster a culture of trust, care, and support.
Increase Team Engagement and Productivity through Trust and Security
Research shows that the more trust people have at an organization, the more energy, engagement, and productivity they experience at work. Learn how you can begin building the trusting culture your organization wants (and needs) to thrive by practicing vulnerability and openness at work.