Based on four of the most popular courses taught at the Wharton School, Achieving Personal and Professional Success is designed to introduce the tools and techniques for defining and achieving success at home and at work. You'll learn how to find your passion and core values, how to apply these values to your own life, how to work well with others, how to communicate effectively, how to set goals, how to use influence to achieve these goals, and even how to say you are sorry. Through exercises, self-diagnostic surveys, quizzes, and many case studies, you'll discover how to define not only what you want, but also the best way to get it. While many business courses cover topics related to successful organizational practices, these courses provide key insights into successful personal practices, whether you are in the office or in your home. We all bring ourselves to work every day, and these courses will help you be your best self wherever you are.
Overview
Syllabus
Course 1: Success
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Improving Communication Skills
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Course 3: Influence
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. What does it mean to be influential? How does one persuade others to pursue a unified goal? How does ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Negotiations
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. In this course, you will learn crucial skills needed to understand the intricate dynamics that go ... Enroll for free.
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to ... Enroll for free.
Course 2: Improving Communication Skills
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. Learn how to communicate more effectively at work and achieve your goals. Taught by award-winning ... Enroll for free.
Course 3: Influence
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. What does it mean to be influential? How does one persuade others to pursue a unified goal? How does ... Enroll for free.
Course 4: Negotiations
- Offered by University of Pennsylvania. In this course, you will learn crucial skills needed to understand the intricate dynamics that go ... Enroll for free.
Courses
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Do you want to be more successful? This course was designed to help you define what success means to you, and to develop a plan for achieving it. Wharton Professor G. Richard Shell, an award-winning author and the creator of the popular Wharton School course on the meaning of success, created this course to help you answer the questions that arise when you consider how best to use your life. Drawing on his decades of research and mentoring, Shell offers personalized assessments to help you probe your past, imagine your future, and measure your strengths. He then combines these with the latest scientific insights on everything from self-confidence and happiness to relationships and careers. Throughout, he shares inspiring examples of people who found what they were meant to do by embracing their own true measure of success. Get ready for the journey of a lifetime—one that will help you reevaluate your future and envision success on your own terms. Students and executives say that Richard Shell’s courses and executive training programs have changed their lives. Let this course change yours.
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Learn how to communicate more effectively at work and achieve your goals. Taught by award-winning Wharton professor and best-selling author Maurice Schweitzer, Improving Communications Skills is an essential course designed to give you both the tools you need to improve your communication skills, and the most successful strategies for using them to your advantage. You'll learn how to discover if someone is lying (and how to react if they are), how to develop trust, the best method of communication for negotiation, and how to apologize. You'll also learn when to cooperate and when to compete, how to create persuasive messages, ask thoughtful questions, engage in active listening, and choose the right medium (face-to-face conversation, video conference, phone call, or email) for your messages. By the end of the course, you'll be able to understand what others want, respond strategically to their wants and needs, craft convincing and clear messages, and develop the critical communication skills you need to get ahead in business and in life.
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What does it mean to be influential? How does one persuade others to pursue a unified goal? How does one leverage power? In this course, you’ll learn how to develop influence and to become more effective in achieving your organizational goals. Professor Cade Massey of the Wharton School has designed this course to help you understand the framework of power and influence and the dynamics of effective networks, and shows you how to develop your skills of persuasion and leverage. By the end of this course, you’ll know your own strengths and how to use them to get what you need, how to gain power and influence, and how to leverage relationships and alliances to achieve your goals in both business and in life.
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In this course, you will learn crucial skills needed to understand the intricate dynamics that go into the process of negotiation, and how you can go into your negotiation confident and fully prepared. You'll learn about the framework that goes into shaping a successful negotiation, in addition to gaining the knowledge that will allow you to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances. You'll also learn about emotional control, crafting questions to help you get the information that you need, and skills that will allow you to negotiate in any setting. You will also successfully learn how to navigate a negotiation through real-world exercises, and how to best work to build trust, diffuse anger, and make rational decisions based on the information at hand. Lastly, you will learn how to prepare to negotiate in any setting and use your skills to facilitate with teams and influence outcomes. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to utilize your newly acquired skills to successfully negotiate for employment, contracts, and in any part of your life. Within this course, you will end with the knowledge of how to craft a successful negotiation strategy and manage the conflict that can arise, as well as build trust.
Taught by
Cade Massey, Maurice Schweitzer and Richard Shell
