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"WorkKeys�is a job skills assessment system that measures your "real-world" skills. This first full-length practice test will help you prepare for the WorkKeys�Applied Mathematics Assessment, one of the three assessments that are the foundation of the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) program." --
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"WorkKeys�is a job skills assessment system that measures your "real-world" skills. This first full-length practice test will help you prepare for the WorkKeys�Workplace Documents Assessment, one of the three assessments that are the foundation of the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) program." --
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"WorkKeys�is a job skills assessment system that measures your "real-world" skills. This first full-length practice test will help you prepare for the WorkKeys�Graphic Literacy Assessment, one of the three assessments that are the foundation of the National Career Readiness Certificate (NCRC) program." --
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Low self-esteem is a state of mind caused by many factors, and it can affect productivity and careers negatively. Psychology expert Peter Quarry believes that triggers for low self-esteem can be avoided by identifying the things you do well each day, building a self-esteem file for collecting evidence of your accomplishments, and updating this file regularly with new successes.
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In this video, Peter Quarry and Eve Ash note the growing importance of collaboration as a workplace skill. Pooling ideas and team-based projects result in higher-preforming workplaces. However, effective collaboration requires an understanding of people's different work and communication styles, and a willingness to suspend judgement and let go of stubborn beliefs. Peter outlines ways collaboration can be "killed" and how it can designed for improved...
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This program provides powerful insights into understanding today's leadership challenges, and provides some tools for leaders to help them manage a chaotic world. By being and authentic leader, and recognizing that employees need purpose, leaders can instill confidence, build resilience, be realistic, and demonstrate honesty, openness and preparedness to listen. This means staying healthy and grounded, pacing oneself, and being mindful.
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There are two sides to accountability: who you are accountable to and what you are accountable for. Being accountable is a willingness to accept responsibility for performance, engaging in discussion and acting on suggestions for improvement. While it requires stringent give-and-take of feedback, the results are improved communication and higher standards. Learn how to enhance personal and group accountability with Peter Quarry and Eve Ash's suggestions...
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The demand for critical thinking skills in the workplace has risen by 158% in the last three years. This program defines critical thinking, and provides some practical steps to develop critical thinking skills further. It explains how to swtich off emotions to understand how one feels from a place of detachment and to consider an alternative response. Then, it's important not to jump to conclusions: seek the facts and more evidence before responding....
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"[T]he skills the economy values are changing in historic ways. The abilities that will prove most essential to our success are no longer the technical, classroom-taught left-brain skills that economic advances have demanded from workers in the past. Instead, our greatest advantage lies in what we humans are most powerfully driven to do for and with one another, arising from our deepest, most essentially human abilities--empathy, creativity, social...
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Gain a professional edge in the nursing workplace with expert insight across a variety of contemporary and enduring issues you'll encounter on the job. Comprehensively updated and reflecting the latest evidence-based perspectives, Professional Issues in Nursing: Challenges and Opportunities , 5th Edition , prepares you to confidently manage timely workplace considerations, workforce issues, legal and ethical concerns, nursing education challenges,...
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Offers leadership lessons for aspiring nurse leaders from colleagues in business, medicine, philanthropy, government, academia, research, and health care fields. This book will prepare and enable nurses to lead change to advance health. It offers practical advice, lessons learned, and testimonials of how nurses can prepare themselves for leadership that will help them to provide exceptional health care and innovative nursing education as well as to...
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Nursing is more than a job. It is a profession that attracts those who value compassion, want to make a difference in other people's lives, and want to do greater good in the world. While the profession provides endless options of practice, settings, and flexibility, nurses are burning out due to schedules, long shifts, mental and physical exhaustion, workload, conflict and bullying, challenging patients, rapid advances in technology, and lack of...
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The digital economy opens up ways for everyone to be creative. This doesn't just mean being artistic; it's more about ideas, solutions, alternatives, and incremental improvements. This program explores ways that mental capacity can be developed, and creativity can be harnessed. According to Peter Quarry, it requires the four "C" skills: creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration.
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