Employee Learning Moment

Set and Forget Your Work Hours and Location Outlook

Whether you’re working remotely or in the office, managing your schedule in Outlook ensures that colleagues know your availability and helps streamline meetings and appointments.

New features in Office 365 allow you to specify more details about your work schedule: from where you’re working (remotely or in office) and whether you work different hours on different days. In addition, you’ll be able to schedule meetings with others based on their work location and view work location on people’s profile cards.

This support page on the Microsoft website outlines the available hours and location features.

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Edit your Photos & Create a Video in Windows 10/11

Often want to make photos look their best and create a quick slideshow? In the LinkedIn Learning videos: Edit your Photos & Create a Video (6m:12s) and Create a Video from your Photos (9m:20s) a Microsoft Windows expert will show you how you can unlock the potential of Windows Photos.

If interested in more handy tips, these videos are part of the LinkedIn Learning course, Windows Tips and Tricks (1h:51 m).

Note: While these videos were recorded using Windows 11, users of Windows 10 should be able to follow along.

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Learn to Ignore the Unimportant

Plenty of people have had the experience of setting goals and then failing to achieve them- think of all the New Year’s resolutions that are never realized. But with the right strategies, even your loftiest professional goals are attainable.

As part of the LinkedIn Learning course, Defining and Achieving Professional Goals (27 min 31s), Learn to Ignore the Unimportant (3 m 37s) provides strategies for ignoring the unimportant (at least temporarily) to help you achieve your goals.

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Ready…Set…Stress Reset

Looking for ways to help you better manage your stress? A stress reset is an action, thought, saying, ritual or other strategy that can create space between your reaction to stress and your response. Watch this 3:42 min video clip to gain new insight into action with a “stress reset” and turn your new insight into action.

Would you like to learn more about your own stress personality? Watch, Discover Your Stress Personality (49 min) to find out more.

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“I just have to Listen”

Searching for ways to deeply listen? This skill can improve our empathy, increase our curiosity about others and strengthen our relationships with peers and colleagues.

Watch this 3:26 min video clip to help quiet your own thoughts by seeking meaningful connections across differences, listening instead for what individuals are trying to communicate.

Ready for more? Watch the LinkedIn Learning Program, Develop Interpersonal Skills for Inclusive Workplaces (42 min).

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How do Winning Teams Function?

Did you know that individual team members can hold multiple roles on a team? This helps individuals feed the team’s ability to maintain, adjust, improve and grow their sense of self-awareness.

Explore this 4:06 min video clip to discover the team’s functionality through task and social roles, individual differences and team norms.

Want to learn more? This video covers one of the behaviors that drive Team Success. Watch the other nine from the LinkedIn Learning course, Top 10 Behaviors that Drive Team Success (44 min) to discover all aspects of how a winning team functions.

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Building Better Routines for a New Year

Welcome back to your Employee Learning Moment (ELM). This is the place to learn about just the right tool (that will help do the trick), just-in-time (to help you through the rest of your week) and just for you (as an employee at AC)!

As we kick off a new year, building better routines and staying organized is vital to improving our mindset. Learn about the three steps to getting a jump start on your day so you can close out your day right, and begin tomorrow as part of your daily wrap up. Building routines will require time and effort to establish, but once you get started, it will set you up for a successful new year! Check out the 2:54 min video clip.

Looking for ways to help you Build Better Routines for the new year? Check out the Building Better Routines (44 min) course to get started!

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What are the Benefits of Creating & Sustaining a “Culture of Learning?”

Did you know that when you deliberately engage employees through learning, they’re 48% more likely to find purpose in their work?

Discover why a culture of learning is beneficial to organizations big and small, how to gain buy-in from the top down, how to embed learning into the flow of work, and how to keep current with learning trends. Watch this 1:16 introductory video clip with instructors and Learning and development professionals, Naphtali Bryant and Jason Mulero. They will explore how workforce trends affect learning; define a growth environment and how to take steps to create one. Additionally, they will discuss the concept of embedded learning to help you address some challenges, and identify metrics that show the impact of your initiatives.

Want to learn more? This video was just a small portion of the LinkedIn Learning course, Creating a Culture of Learning (36 min).

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Mindfulness is not just about Meditation

Mindfulness and compassion are ancient practices that, when combined, can easily and powerfully be applied in the workplace. More than meditation, a mindfulness practice helps you reduce the effects of stress and build better relationships. Compassion is an underlying force that helps create more engaged employees and more successful workplaces.

This 3:33 min video clip will introduce you to essential tools and techniques that can help you better show up for yourself and others at work, as well as give you strategies for developing greater compassion for yourself and others.

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How to Support Your Employee’s Well-Being

Managers face sometimes-daunting tasks. When your employees are struggling with burnout, stress, work-life imbalance, and other life challenges that may impact their performance and productivity, how can you support them? Check out this 3:35 min video clip to find out more about your role in your employee’s well-being and how you can positively impact your employees experience at work.

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