LinkedIn Learning Resources

LinkedIn Learning is a great resource for all RRC Polytech Students. LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that helps all levels of learners discover and develop workplace business, technology-related, and creative skills through expert-led course videos. There are thousands of courses available to you – all you need is your RRC Polytech ID and password — sign in from the LinkedIn Learning icon in your HUB account, or directly.

The Academic Success Centre has put together a series of playlists curated just for international students. Check out these videos and courses today!

Academic Skills

This playlist provides resources for academic success.

Effective Listening (1h 8m)
Communications experts Tatiana Kolovou and Brenda Bailey-Hughes help you assess your listening skills and develop more-effective listening behaviors.

Learning with Your Mobile Device (59m 17s)
Use your mobile device to take learning on the go. Explore mobile learning techniques to build your skills and stay motivated and engaged.

Improving Your Memory (1h 29m)
Improve your memory with these fascinating (and proven!) memorization techniques.

Cross-Cultural Competence

This playlist provides resources on cross-cultural competence; dealing with unfamiliar or unexpected cultural situations, and communicating effectively in culturally diverse settings. (Duration: 2h 45m)

Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences (40m 2s)
Continue your Thrive journey and discover how to interact with others across differences.

Developing Cross-Cultural Intelligence (1h 14m)
Learn how to develop the cross-cultural intelligence to navigate cultural differences. Discover the difference between high- and low-context cultures and how to effectively work across them.

Communicating Across Cultures (32m 48s)
Develop your cross-cultural communications skills to communicate and collaborate better with managers, colleagues, and employees around the globe.

Team Work and Managing Conflict

This playlist provides resources on working in diverse and effective teams; managing conflict across cultures and personalities, and dealing with unexpected situations. (Duration: 5h 30m)

Being an Effective Team Member (31m 42s)
Learn how to work best on a team. Explore the key characteristics of exemplary team members and find out how you can adopt these behaviors to become a more valuable collaborator.

Managing Team Conflict (1h 10m)
Learn how to confidently lead through conflict. Review the various sources of team conflict and learn how to defuse tricky situations using different approaches.

Conflict Resolution Foundations (51m 13s)
Discover how to improve your relationships with your coworkers, clients, employees, and supervisors and find your way through conflict back to cooperation.

Working with Difficult People (1h 46m)
Learn methods for recognizing the characteristics of some of the most common types of difficult people, and discover how to deal with these individuals more effectively.

Developing Your Emotional Intelligence (1h 10m)
Learn how to enhance your personal performance and build effective relationships at work by developing emotional intelligence.

Goal Setting for Life and Work

This playlist provides resources on goal setting and planning for life; personal development and achievement, and career planning. (Duration: 3h 5m)

Why goal setting works (3m 10s)
Take a short break for learning and learn a new success habit each week. Get tips to increase your satisfaction and success at work and in life.

Successful Goal Setting (25m 34s)
Learn practical tips and strategies that can help you define your goals and take steps towards achieving them.

Refining your goals using SPVEM (4m 20s)
Take a short break for learning and learn a new success habit each week. Get tips to increase your satisfaction and success at work and in life.

Achieving Your Goals (25m 21s)
Set yourself up for success by learning to set realistic goals that can be broken into meaningful action steps.

Discovering Your Strengths (57m 6s)
Discover your strengths. Learn how to identify what you do best and make your strengths align with the work you do.

Taking Charge of Your Career (45m 13s)
Take charge of your career. Learn to identify your career goals and develop a flexible career path that aligns with your unique skills and passion.

How to Develop your Career Plan (24m 38s)
Learn how to create an effective career plan that brings you one step closer to your dream job.

Personal Success Skills

This playlist provides resources on developing a positive mindset for life success; understanding one’s own personal values; encountering and working with different cultural values; building personal confidence; and essential Canadian communication skills.

Cultivating a Growth Mindset (58m 57s)
Mindset is a choice. Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset in order to achieve your true potential.

Six anti-success habits (4m 14s)
Take a short break for learning and learn a new success habit each week. Get tips to increase your satisfaction and success at work and in life.

Developing Self-Awareness (1h)
Learn how to become more self-aware in order to develop yourself personally and enhance career progression.

Boost resilience, learn to thrive (3m 42s)
Being resilient will not only help you overcome challenges—it will help you thrive. Learn how to enhance your resilience with these tips.

The sliding resilience scale (3m 55s)
Being resilient will not only help you overcome challenges—it will help you thrive. Learn how to enhance your resilience with these tips.

Create an edge to enhance performance (4m 26s)
Being resilient will not only help you overcome challenges—it will help you thrive. Learn how to enhance your resilience with these tips.

Building Resilience (41m 25s)
Kelley School of Business professor and professional communications coach Tatiana Kolovou explains how to bounce back from difficult situations, by building your “resiliency threshold,” with these training techniques.

Assertiveness and aggression (4m 9s)
Take a short break for learning and learn a new success habit each week. Get tips to increase your satisfaction and success at work and in life.