SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning that supports you in navigating complex challenges in personal and professional life, helps you to increase your effectiveness, and to improve your relationships. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.

This week's spotlight course is Take a Deep Breath and Manage Your Stress.

Take a Deep Breath and Manage Your Stress (22 min)

When you're constantly adding items to your never-ending to-do list, feeling overwhelmed at work and home, and finding your health and relationships negatively impacted, you are likely experiencing stress. Stress is produced by your own feelings and reactions to certain external events, rather than by the events themselves. But while you may not always be able to control the external events causing your stress, by applying mindfulness techniques, you can control your reactions to them. This course explains the physiological, behavioral, and psychological signs and symptoms of stress and where it can come from. It outlines strategies for maintaining work/life balance and managing stress. It also covers ways to change your responses to stress and make them more positive and how to use relaxation techniques and adopting mindfulness to help you focus.

SkillSoft Spotlights focus on just-in-time online learning to help you more masterfully manage yourself personally and professionally, improve your effectiveness in managing your work, and support you in skillfully leading your teams. Each course is 30 minutes or less and is curated to provide tools, strategies, and practices to accelerate your success.

This week's spotlight course is Influencing Through Positive Leadership.

Influencing Through Positive Leadership (26 min)

An organization's social and political landscape can provide opportunities for positive leadership, influencing others in order to accomplish team and company goals. In this course, you will discover methods and strategies for effectively influencing a team to accept your ideas. You'll be introduced to the importance of political awareness and the essential skills involved in utilizing positive influence, while avoiding the negative, when persuading others. You'll also have an opportunity to practice methods for influencing effectively and ethically.

Participants will learn to:

• discover the subject areas that will be covered in this course
• recognize key concepts related to the use of influence
• identify techniques for influencing people
• recognize the importance of utilizing positive organizational politics
• recognize the importance of avoiding negative organizational politics
• recognize positive political actions that create strong relationships
• identify actions that use positive politics to promote unifying goals
• Knowledge Check: Utilizing Positive Influence