What is LinkedIn Explorers?
LinkedIn Explorers is a peer learning opportunity for benefits-eligible faculty and staff that allows colleagues to connect across the university and engage in a deeper dialogue on LinkedIn Learning courses. These conversations foster a meaningful understanding of the content and examine methods of application specific to the University of Arizona and higher education.
“The LinkedIn Explorers program provided takeaways that directly translate into a more positive and productive work environment while fueling my desire to keep learning and growing. I'm excited to explore more LinkedIn Explorers events in the future and continuously develop my skills to benefit both myself and my colleagues.”
--Past Participant
What to Expect:
- Deepen Your Knowledge: Gain a deeper understanding of LinkedIn course content.
- Engage with Colleagues: Connect with colleagues across the university and participate in meaningful conversations.
- Course Time Commitment: Watch the course at your own pace (typically 30 min-1 hour) prior to your discussion session.
- Discussion Session: Join a 45-minute interactive discussion session to share insights and ideas.
Key Benefits
The LinkedIn Explorers program offers key benefits for university employees regardless of their role. It provides opportunities to connect with colleagues from various departments, colleges, and divisions while also deepening understanding of a wide range of topics.
Knowledge Sharing: Foster a culture where colleagues contribute varied perspectives, insights, and experiences related to the video content, enriching everyone's understanding of the topic through collective learning, with each participant offering something valuable.
Active Learning: Participants move beyond passive content consumption by engaging with the material, reflecting on its application to their work and broader objectives, and translating knowledge into practical, real-world applications
Idea Generation: Group discussions spark new ideas and innovative solutions, particularly when addressing challenges or opportunities in the video content, fostering both personal and organizational growth.
Varied Perspectives: Engaging with different viewpoints allows for a richer, more comprehensive understanding of the topic, enhancing learning and broadening critical thinking.
Increased Engagement: Combining video content with interactive discussions makes learning more dynamic and engaging, fostering continuous professional development and keeping employees motivated and invested in their growth.
How to Participate
To participate:
- Enroll in EDGE Learning course (see below).
- You will also be prompted to register for a small group Zoom discussion.
- Watch the selected LinkedIn Learning course at your convenience.
- Participate in a small group Zoom discussion with other colleagues from across campus.
View the How to Participate in LinkedIn Explorers Program Guide
“The LinkedIn Explorers Learning program helps to focus in our learning paths. Never stop learning, never stop exploring, and never turn down the opportunity to be involved with groups like the LinkedIn Learning Explorers to find new paths, new depths and new directions.”
--Past Participant
Upcoming LinkedIn Explorer Sessions
Additional Resources
Facilitating a session can feel daunting—especially if you’re new to the content or unsure where to start. That’s why we’ve created this Facilitation Guide (PDF), a practical, easy-to-follow resource designed to help you lead a successful session with confidence.
Past LinkedIn Explorers Courses
By now, most forward-thinking organizations are aware of generative AI, but many are grappling with their own plan for how to think about and deploy gen AI in a sensible way. In this course, thought leader Charlene Li offers key insights on what some are calling the biggest change transformation in the knowledge worker era.
Learn about the art of effective, compassionate communication and tools and strategies for being a more honest, kind, and direct communicator. This will help create a culture of increased clarity and productivity that also values and respects people's essential humanity.
Learn how to take the first steps towards harnessing the power of emotion to fuel lasting growth while also remaining emotionally aware during times of transformation and making tough decisions and ways to transform emotional energy from negative to positive.
Communicating effectively isn't an innate talent that some people have and others don't—it's something that anyone can learn and practice. In this course, learn strategies that can help you hone and master your interpersonal communication skills. Join personal branding and career expert Dorie Clark as she shares techniques for communicating your message effectively in the workplace and explains how to tackle potential communication challenges with your colleagues and supervisor. She also discusses how to grapple with tricky situations, taking you through how to handle interruptions, and respond to critical feedback.
Mental toughness—also known as resilience—is a foundational skill for modern leaders. It is the key to leading companies through times of change and building high-performing and innovative teams. Based on his work with some of the world’s most successful sports and business organizations, Richard Gerver brings his unique insights into human development and success to help leaders develop mental toughness and a culture of resilience in their organizations. Through captivating stories and examples from the world of sport, Richard shares powerful strategies for building mental toughness, including using failure to build confidence, capturing and celebrating wins, using new experiences to prevent silo thinking, and developing self-efficacy. These lessons are designed for all aspiring and early-stage leaders who want to create teams that can deal effectively with complex challenges.
In this audio-only course, Steve Dalton—author of The Job Closer: Time-Saving Techniques for Acing Resumes, Interviews, Negotiations, and More— breaks down the most efficient path to landing your dream career. Steve talks with Pete Mockaitis about job search topics like how much time you should spend on your resume, how to answer tricky questions like “Tell me more about yourself,” and why it’s worth negotiating, including pointers for more successful negotiations. This course was created by Pete Mockaitis of "How to Be Awesome at Your Job". We are pleased to offer this training in our library.
Your ability to impact and influence those around you is crucial to your career. We all have friends and colleagues who always seem to get the best opportunities. If you’ve often wondered why, it’s not by luck. These people have learned the skills to be persuasive and engaging so that others are naturally drawn to them. In this course, Marielle Legair teaches you how to identify and communicate your strengths and leverage them to have a lasting impact at work. Armed with these key skills designed for the modern workplace, you’ll understand what makes you unique and how to use them to build confidence, stand out powerfully online, and create more impact and influence.