Course Description
This course is designed to empower learners with essential skills and knowledge for personal and professional success.
Through interactive elements and practical exercises, you will learn to apply these skills in real-life situations, supporting your goals and overcoming obstacles.
Key concepts covered include:
- Strategic learning: learn to strategically apply evidence-based approaches to maximize learning.
- Navigating difficult conversations: gain skills to handle challenging conversations with confidence and empathy.
- Mentorship: build and maintain strong mentor-mentee relationships to enhance career growth.
- Project management: master planning, executing, and completing projects to boost your productivity.
- Academic resilience: develop resilience to handle challenges and maintain well-being.
This course is designed to help you grow both personally and professionally.
Curriculum
- 7 Sections
- 55 Lessons
- Lifetime
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- Introduction to the course5
- Navigating difficult conversations9
- 2.1Module at a glance
- 2.2Preparing for difficult conversations, including your role (LO1)
- 2.3Getting to know ourselves better
- 2.4Planning for the conversation (LO2)
- 2.5Starting the conversation (LO3 Part 1)
- 2.6Moving through the conversation (LO3 Part 2)
- 2.7After the conversation (LO4)
- 2.8Special topic: negotiations (LO5)
- 2.9Resources
- Strategic learning14
- 3.1Module at a glance
- 3.2How does learning work?
- 3.3Learning activity: Are your learning strategies effective? Do you believe about learning?13 Questions
- 3.4Self-regulated learning
- 3.5Reflect : values, goals and metacognition
- 3.6Building learning skills
- 3.7Curiosity
- 3.8Mindfulness
- 3.9Mindsets
- 3.10Failure as part of learning
- 3.11Let’s get practical
- 3.12Becoming more strategic about learning
- 3.13Conclusion
- 3.14Acknowledgements and References
- Gen AI4
- Project management14
- 5.1Module at a glance
- 5.2Part 1: Understanding project management
- 5.3Project management quiz10 Questions
- 5.4Learning activity: Proactive project management worksheet
- 5.5Part 2: Project planning
- 5.6Part 3: Preparation and risk management
- 5.7Learning Activity 5: Constraints, Assumptions, and Risk Part 1
- 5.8Part 3: Preparation and risk management (continued)
- 5.9Part 4: Project scheduling
- 5.10Part 5: The project diary
- 5.11Part 6: Closing out a project
- 5.12Project management conclusion
- 5.13Appendices
- 5.14Acknowledgements
- Academic resilience7
- Mentorship4
Instructor
LEAD Team
Our team is comprised of students and professors from many universities in Canada. We bring expertise and experience in many different areas to make LEAD as good as it can be!
Read more here:
https://lifelonglearninghub.ca/about/
