Skills for Success eLearning Courses
Our Skills for Success e-learning courses focus on developing key competencies that are crucial for career advancement and personal growth. These comprehensive e-learning courses, designed to align with the Government of Canada’s Skills for Success initiative.
Courses
Accept Your Responsibilities
Being responsible in the workplace is hugely important. In this course, you will understand the importance of being responsible at work, demonstrate responsible decision-making, understand the impact irresponsible behaviour can have, and learn to take initiative for responsibilities and follow-through in the workplace.
Participating and Contributing to Meetings
This course will take you through tips to successfully participate during meetings, as well as how to prepare and execute successful meetings if you are the facilitator.
Writing Effective Professional Emails
Start your journey to learn how to write both effective and professional emails to get you off to a great start while contacting employers and beyond.
Finding Creative Solutions Using Your Creative Muscles
Learn 5 different brainstorming techniques and how to brainswarm.
Finding creative solutions can be hard, but you can foster a creative mind to help generate new ideas or solutions. Using several techniques that you can do by yourself or as a team, get better at generating clever ideas!
Create a Professional Digital Footprint
Everything you do online leaves behind a trail. Learn about this trail, called a Digital Footprint, and its impacts on job searching.
We often think as we browse the internet that we are always anonymous, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. Everything you do online can be monitored and traced back to you if you are not careful! Over this course, you will learn tips on how to create a positive Digital Footprint, and what to avoid.
Analyzing Data in Charts, Graphs, and Tables
Analyzing data means looking at information and thinking about it. Then, use that information to answer questions or make decisions. This course will introduce the process of analyzing data, particularly when it comes in the form of a chart, graph, or table.
Problem Solving in the Workplace
Time is one of your most valuable resources in the workplace. Unfortunately, there never seems to be enough of it—especially when it comes to problem-solving. Even in a single workweek, you might have several issues to tackle. In this lesson, you’ll explore how to prioritize problems effectively. You’ll learn about common prioritization mistakes to avoid, along with a tool you can use to get the best return for your time and effort.
Following Instructions at Work
Following instructions can be applied in numerous contexts; from specific workplace tasks to mechanical equipment instructions, to delivery directions and beyond. In this course, we will go over the importance of following instructions.
Writing a Disclosure Statement
For jobseekers who identify with a disability, a written communication skill that is common in the employment journey is the disability disclosure statement. This course will help you understand what disclosure is, when you should disclose, and how to disclose.