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Be Kind – Prosocial Behavior Enhances Wellbeing
Workplace Relationships Are Developed Through Communication
Seven Steps For Better Colleagueship
Are You Brave Enough To Be Yourself?
See The People Around You
View Of Humanity Helps In Understanding Your Own And Others' Actions
Take Charge of Difficult Situations and Conversations
Navigating Emotions in Difficult Situations
How to Turn Change Resistance into an Asset
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  • Be kind – prosocial behavior enhances wellbeing

  • Seven Steps For Better Colleagueship

  • Workplace Relationships Are Developed Through Communication

  • Are You Brave Enough To Be Yourself?

  • See The People Around You

  • View Of Humanity Helps In Understanding Your Own And Others’ Actions

  • Take Charge of Difficult Situations and Conversations

  • Navigating Emotions in Difficult Situations

  • How to Turn Change Resistance into an Asset

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Take Charge of Difficult Situations and Conversations

Recommendation: First aid kit for difficult conversations
We have first aid kits for physical injuries, but what about socially and psychologically challenging situations? If you could create a first aid kit for difficult conversations, what would it contain? How do you ensure that you can stand back up and move towards new challenges? This video offers valuable insights to support you in navigating tough conversations and resolving conflicts. At the end of the video, you can create your own first aid kit and share it with colleagues!
Watch the video, create your own first aid kit, and compare your thoughts with your coworkers!

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Navigating Emotions in Difficult Situations

Recommendation: Emotions in difficult situations
What are you feeling right now? And how many emotions can you identify at this moment? Emotions can be conflicting, and you may experience several simultaneously. When faced with a tough situation, conflict, or challenging conversation, articulating your emotions can calm the situation. So why do we often avoid expressing emotions in the workplace?
This video helps you understand how to express your emotions constructively and in a manner suitable for the work environment! If you enjoy the video, feel free to share the text and image above with your colleagues through a newsletter, on an intranet, or via Slack.
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How to Turn Change Resistance into an Asset

Recommendation: Why change resistance is a good thing?
One challenging aspect of the workplace is change, as it evokes various emotions and reactions in different individuals. Emotions also fluctuate throughout the change process. It can be frustrating when one is excited and another is anxious—or vice versa! This video helps understand the positive aspects of resistance to change and how it can be harnessed for the benefit.
If change is a relevant topic for you, take a look at this video! Feel free to share it with your colleagues as well; grab the text and image above and pass them along in a newsletter, on an intranet, or through Slack.
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Be kind – prosocial behavior enhances Wellbeing

Video Recommendation: Prosocial Behavior and Listening
Are you interested in enhancing your communication skills and understanding concepts like prosocial behavior or active listening? Studies show that prosocial behavior is highly beneficial and healthy. It also has a positive impact on workplace environments and enhances people’s productivity.
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Seven Steps for better colleagueship

Video Recommendation: Seven Quick-fixes for Good Colleagueship
This video presents seven tips to enhance interaction and improve collaboration within your workplace. Through these quick tips, you’ll learn to adjust your behavior, increase understanding within the team, and strengthen colleagueship.
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Workplace relationships are developed through communication

Course Recommendation: Good Collaboration in Good Colleagueship
Workplace relationships can often be casual and short-lived – we’re constantly considering how to build connections with new individuals. At the heart of these relationships lies interaction and social networks. In this training, you’ll learn how to establish and maintain connections with others. The training also covers ways to ensure that you can tackle complex matters together.
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Take the first steps towards better workplace relationships! Recommend this training to teams and help them enhance interaction and colleagueship. Copy the text and image above and pass them along, maybe in a newsletter, on the intranet, or via Slack.

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Are you brave enough to be yourself?

Video Recommendation: Show the Person behind the Action
Are you brave enough to be yourself at work? What about in your free time? It’s crucial to be able to be ourselves both at work and outside of it. Sharing our thoughts, challenges, skills, or lack thereof, builds trust. Others understand you better and see you as a person – they might even find something relatable! This short video helps you reflect on who you are and how you can be yourself regardless of the environment.
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See the people around you

Video Recommendation: See the Person behind the Work
Besides daring to be yourself, it’s important to see others as individuals too. How well do you know your colleagues? Do you know how they’re doing or what they enjoy? Behind the work, there’s a group of people, human beings – this video helps you recognize them just as they are!
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View of Humanity helps in Understanding Your Own and Others’ Actions

Course Recommendation: View of Humanity
View of humanity plays a significant role in our daily lives. The way we perceive the world and the people around us profoundly influences our actions, choices, and beliefs. This mini-course helps you understand what the view of humanity entails, how your own views impact your actions, and how they could be developed. It encourages reflection on the type of behavior you value and why you believe people act as they do. Moreover, it prompts considerations about why you behave the way you do and provides insights into developing your own view of humanity.
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Academy of Brain

The Academy of Brain has assembled its own team of experts to ensure that the soft skills online training content is based on strong expertise, scientific research and hands-on experience.

Ville Ojanen

VILLE OJANEN

Ville is a psychologist with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience. He has more than a decade of experience in the areas of change management and psychological working-life skills training.

Minna Huotilainen

MINNA HUOTILAINEN

Minna is a professor of educational sciences at the University of Helsinki and at CICERO Learning Network where she uses neuroscientific methods to understand the role of memory and attention in learning. In addition, she leads the international Master’s Programme in Changing Education.

Jarmo Manner

JARMO MANNER

Jarmo has a master’s degree in economics and is an executive coach and organizational consultant. He has 15 years of leadership experience and 20 years of coaching experience with individuals, groups and organizations.

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