Wisdom Cafe Wednesday

Archives of past Wisdom Cafe Wednesday newsletters.

Top Qualities of a Great Collaborator

Collaboration is one of the top 3 soft skills employers look for in candidates. So, you might be wondering how to find out if a candidate is a gifted collaborator. Or you might be wondering if you're a natural collaborator yourself. Chances are, if you're dealing with a natural collaborator, they have several of the qualities in this article.

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Tips For Career Success

You’ve met with quite a few staff at UC Berkeley to provide career coaching. As you’re gearing up for retirement in two weeks, and reflecting on your experiences with staff, what would you say are the most common aspects that staff seek support with and what would you recommend readers try if they have similar needs?

It’s been a real privilege to work with UC Berkeley staff on a wide variety of career development questions. There are common themes, although each person’s concerns are also unique. I’ve met with people about specifics like updating their resumes, and also with...

Take Your Social Learning to the Next Level: Sustain Quality Development Partnerships

Use the this guide to help employees how to sustain an effective development partnership by asking the right questions.

Provide employees with the guidelines on what effective development partnerships look like at your organization. Then collectively make an intentional plan for everyone to get more from their partnerships.

Set Yourself Up for Your Next Job

The “Skill Self-Estimate” is a tool for comparing your current skills with the skills required for a particular position or type of position. You often won’t have absolutely all of the information you would like about a job to compare to your skills. As you work with this exercise, notice the questions you have, and think about ways that you might get more information if you need it. Check it out here.

Save Time in Excel

Want to take your Excel game to the next level? In this course, veteran Excel trainer and instructor Dennis Taylor shares powerful tips, tricks, and shortcuts that can help you leverage more of what Excel has to offer. Learn time-saving tricks for creating formulas rapidly, accelerating data entry, and naviagating within worksheets efficiently. Plus, discover drag and drop techniques, formatting shortcuts, charting and PivotTable tips, and much more.

Note: This course was recorded on Excel for Office 365; however, most of the contents will benefit anyone using Office 2019 or 2016....

Questions to Ask Before, During, and After Development Experiences

You can use these questions to ensure that critical lessons and skills are both learned and applied back on the job.

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Project Management Foundations: Schedules

Discover how to build project schedules that help you accomplish your project goals on time and within budget - while being flexible enough to accomodate change. In this course, trainer and PMP Bonnie Biafore teaches you how to proactively manage project schedules. Learn how to develop a plan for schedule management; identify activities and milestones; estimate costs; allocate and negotiate for resources; and manage the schedule over time. Bonnie introduces techniques to uncover and resolve schedule conflicts, shorten timeframes, and reduce costs. By the end of the course, you'll have...

On-the-job Learning: Identify the Skills You Need

Employees can significantly improve productivity and success in current roles by embracing on-the-job learning. Employees should use...

Migrating from Office 2013 to Google Apps

This detailed course helps viewers smoothly move from using Office 2013 to Google apps. Learn about the differences and similarities between Office and Google apps, and everything else you need to know, before you start migrating your files. Author Jess Stratton explains how to navigate the Google Drive interface, how to upload files and convert them to the Drive formats, and how to replace each of the Office programs in your workflow with Google Docs, Sheets, and Presentations. The course also explores moving Outlook contacts and calendars to Gmail and Google Calendar and using...

Maximize What You Learn at Work

You are spending 39% of your work time learning and most of that learning occurs on the job. However, 11% of work-time is spent on wasted learning that does not improve your performance. This guidebook helps foster more productive learners and improve performance by prioritizing the most relevant learning, seeking information and learning from colleagues, and reflecting on learning experiences.

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