Free Learnables
Are you a leader looking to build a change-ready culture and enhance your change-leadership capabilities? Look no further! My Mentored Learning, Inc. and Alice Meredith offer free learnables to help you on your journey. Our learnables are short, interactive micro-learnings that are perfect for training icebreakers or self-development. With a focus on change leadership, these resources will help you navigate the challenges of leading change in your organization.
Elevate Your Learnability: Measure Your Self-directed Learning Skills and Unleash Your Potential
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The Learnability Assessment is designed to measure an individual’s capacity and willingness to acquire new skills, knowledge, and capabilities quickly. In today’s constantly changing landscape, organizations need employees who can adapt and evolve professionally to facilitate change. This assessment helps identify an individual’s ability to grow, develop and remain employable throughout their career by recognizing when their skills are no longer relevant and proactively developing new ones for future success. By measuring an individual’s learnability, organizations can identify employees who are best suited to adapt to changing environments and drive growth within the organization.
Uncovering Hidden Bias: Peeling Back Layers to Shed Light on Implicit Bias
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The resource presents two engaging exercises that encourage participants to reflect on their personal beliefs, perceptions, and social conditioning. These exercises are designed to help individuals identify and address their hidden or implicit biases.
Fostering Cultures of Inclusion: Resources for People Leaders
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The resource presents engaging questions to foster open discussions that promote inclusivity. These questions initiate conversations that can help leaders create a safe space for team members to share their perspectives and ideas.
Feedback-Seeking Behavior Self Assessment
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The Feedback-Seeking Behavior Assessment is a toll designed to identify a person’s openness to seeking feedback and their level of comfort in receiving constructive criticism. It emphasizes the importance of continous learning and growth, and highlights the benefits of seeking feedback as a way to improveonessel and the world around us. The assessment also acknowledges common barriers to seeking feedback, such a fear of rejection and discomfort with criticism and provides insighton how to over these obstacles. By taking this assessment, individuals can gain a better understand of their feedback-seeking behaviors and develop strategies for becoming more resilent in their pursuit of growth.
Open and Agile Mindsets
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This free learnable focuses on the importance of having an open and agile mindset when dealing with changes in the workplace. Leaders play a critical role in helping their teams navigate through changes successfully. This learning content describes the characteristics of closed-minded people and provides techniques for expanding and exploring open-mindedness.
VOMPing, A Conflict Resolution Method
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The free learning resource discusses an effective conflict resolution strategy called VOMPing. This method is recommended for leaders to use when conflicts arise between two people. The technique involves four stages: vent, own, empathize, and plan.
Shifting Mindsets
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This learning resource discusses how to influence others to have more agile and open mindsets during times of change.
Conflict Resolution Styles
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This learning content is about conflict resolution skills and the importance of being aware of your own personal style of resolving conflicts. The content explains five different styles of conflict resolution and highlights the advantages and disadvantages of each style.
Emotions of Change
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Change is an inevitable part of life, and whether it’s a small adjustment or a major transformation, it can often bring up a range of emotions. In this learning segment, you’ll explore the common emotions that people experience when faced with change and how to manage them effectively.
Common Responses to Change
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This learning content discusses how to effectively navigate teams through challenging conflicts in changing environments. The key learning highlighted is the need to understand the diverse range of responses and reactions that individuals in a team may have towards change, such as flight, fight, freeze, and submit. The content elaborates on each response, provides guidance on how leaders can recognize and respond to each one, and emphasizes the importance of helping team members see change as an opportunity rather than a threat.
Harness the Power of Conflict
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This learning content discusses how workplace conflict if appropriately managed, can lead to new solutions and stronger team relationships. The author emphasizes that conflict is a necessary part of progress and development and can bring about innovation and diversity of thought. However, if the conflict is not addressed appropriately, it can have negative impacts on company culture, employee morale, and business results.
Cultivating a Change-Ready Culture
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We all recognize that cultivating a culture of change doesn’t just happen overnight, and, while it would be nice, there’s not a 10-step task list to bring this to life. This resource describes what a culture of change looks and feels like and inspires leaders to cultivate change-ready cultures.
Effective Communication: Assessing your communication style
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The Assertiveness Communication Style Assessment is designed to measure how effectively individuals express their thouhgts and feelings while respecting their own needs and those of others. This assessment distinguishes between passive, aggressive and assertive communication styles and helps individuals identify where they fall on the spectrum.
Managing the Polarity of Change
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This learnable reviews a common mistake that change leaders make in mismanaging the polarity of impact. It emphasizes the need for leaders to manage the balance between incorporating new changes into existing business models without disrupting business operations or team dynamics.
Conflict Intelligence: Identify Your Conflict Intelligence Level
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The Conflict Intelligence Assessment measures your level of self-awareness, knowledge, and abilities to effectively manage conflicts with humility, objectivity, and empathy. The assessment evaluates your ability to regulate your emotions and treat others with respect, even in challenging situations. By measuring your Conflict Intelligence level, the assessment provides insight into your strengths and areas for improvement in managing conflicts with compassion and insight for yourself and others. Developing Conflict Intelligence is crucial for attaining peach, and this assessment can help identify ways to strengthen this vital aspect of your life.
Daily Dialogue
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This learnable discusses the importance of ongoing dialogue and communication during a process of change. Alice emphasizes that change can be an emotional experience, and that those emotions can persist long after the initial announcement of the change. As such, it’s important for leaders to create opportunities for dialogue, in which team members can ask questions and share their thoughts and feelings about the change.
Conflict Resolution: Identify Your Natural Conflict Resolution Style
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The Natural Conflict Resolution Style Assessment is designed to help individuals identify their innate approach to conflict resolution. By assessing key leadership behaviors such as self-awareness, self-control, assertive communication, collaboration, problem-solving, empathy, and active listening. Individuals can gain insight into their natural conflict resolution style. This knowledge can help individuals become more adept at recognizing and managing their reactions to conflict, leading to more constructive conflict resolution outcomes.
Walk the Walk
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The training resource “Addressing Doubts Prior to Leading Change” focuses on the importance of leaders modeling new expectations and behaviors during a change. This resource highlights the common mistake of leaders failing to address their own questions and doubts about the change, which can result in their inability to successfully model the behavioral changes required.
Defining Narratives
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The content shared in this learnable discusses the importance of considering age groupings in creating inclusive environments in the workplace and the importance of diversity and inclusion. It introduces the idea of “I see me” and “I can bring my whole self to work” as narratives that can help foster a diverse and inclusive culture and touches on the importance of representation and having a diverse leadership team.
Valor in the Workplace
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The difference between courage and valor in leadership is explored in this content. Valor is depicted as a heightened version of courage, in which a leader asserts their convictions and fights for justice, even if it may result in personal repercussions. Examples of courage and valor in the workplace are given, and viewers are encouraged to seek out opportunities to strengthen their own courage and valor in their daily lives.
Just Be
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Content shared in this learnable is about the importance of being authentic and true to oneself in order to bring one’s best self to their work and avoid imposter syndrome. It suggests that self-discovery and understanding oneself is key to being able to confidently be oneself, and that one’s internal feelings or emotions can serve as a guide to whether they are being true to themselves or not. The content also mentions the concept of an internal ethical GPS, which can alert one to when they are being unfair to themselves or others, and suggests that feelings of expansion, joy, and freedom are indicative of being in alignment with oneself, while feelings of tension, unease, and frustration indicate a lack of alignment.
The Power of Empathy
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This content explores the power of empathy, the ability to identify and comprehend others’ feelings and perspectives, is a crucial behavior in the pursuit of becoming more influential. It is one of the five components of emotional intelligence, a key factor in success in the workplace. Emotional intelligence is the unique difference between individuals in terms of promotion and assignment opportunities. When transitioning into a new role, it is important to prioritize seeking to understand the unique environment and people, rather than solely focusing on getting others to understand oneself. A leader who is admired often possesses a certain level of emotional intelligence that sets them apart from others.
Elevate Open-Mindedness
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The content in this learnable discusses the importance of having an open mind as a defining trait of a good leader. It explains that open-mindedness allows us to see all sides of an issue, helps us make better decisions, and keeps us agile and flexible. The content suggests a strategy for cultivating an open mind by engaging curiosity on a daily basis, such as seeking out new knowledge, exploring different perspectives, and actively listening to others’ opinions. It highlights the importance of being open-minded in order to bridge divides and find common ground on important issues.
Promoting Inclusivity
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This content explores the power of being more inclusive. Inclusivity is the practice of ensuring that everyone feels welcomed, respected, and valued for who they are. It involves creating an environment where everyone’s contribution, perspective, and opinions are welcomed and appreciated. To promote inclusivity, one can make an effort to get to know colleagues from different backgrounds and expand their life experiences. It is also important to speak up if you witness or hear about discriminatory or harassing behavior and to acknowledge and work to mitigate any personal biases. By being inclusive, we can create a positive and welcoming environment at work and help create positive change.