On The Job

Setting Up Informational Interviews

Note Taking for Informational Interviews

Reflecting on Informational Interviews

Employers’ Values and Me

Explore how to look for companies in your job search that have values and interests similar to yours and where you can be your authentic self.

Know Who’s Who in a Company

You are the CEO of a new robotics company. Learn who’s who in your company and each employee’s responsibilities.

Contribute to Group Success

Take on the role of an intern and distribute tasks to colleagues based on their skill sets to maximize productivity and efficiency.

Consider the Needs of the Team

Analyze different points of view and construct advice as you help Adrian decide whether to stay at his high school, or move to a new school where he might have a better chance of winning the basketball championship.

Step Up to Lead

Help Monique prove she has what it takes to lead as she formulates a plan to address her company's high turnover rate.

Tailor Your Communication

Learn to evaluate different audience characteristics to tailor effective communication and gain stakeholder support.

How to Navigate Company Hierarchy

Learn how to read and analyze an organizational chart and how to identify appropriate ways to communicate and interact based on organizational hierarchy and culture.

Follow My Cue

Learn to recognize and interpret verbal and nonverbal cues in the workplace.

Shared Leadership

Learn how to determine approaches to achieve goals effectively through shared leadership as both a leader and a team member.

How Collaboration Works

Active Listening in the Workplace

Take on the persona of a travel agent and use active listening skills to make the best vacation recommendations for your customers.

Effective Team Behavior

Communicate with Confidence

Research best practices for using email, instant messaging, and videoconferencing for business communication and practice writing a business instant message and email.

All in Agreement

Learn about techniques for obtaining consensus among team members and about techniques for finding common ground with opposing viewpoints in decision making.

Effective Remote Collaboration

A Positive Look at Conflict

What's so great about conflict? You may be surprised to learn that conflict can be a very positive part of workplace relationships. Of course, it's only positive when it's handled correctly. Learn about the upside of conflict.

Communicate Virtually

Explore business applications and features for different methods of virtual communications in a business setting.

Selecting the Right Conflict Resolution Model

How do you know whether a conflict can be resolved through interest-based (win-win) negotiation? When should a third party make a win-lose decision? In this activity, explore different scenarios and learn more about different types of conflict resolution.

You're The Boss: Conflict Resolution

It takes serious conflict management skills to be a supervisor. You're in charge as you evaluate supervisors' conflict management skills and help improve employee satisfaction.

The Other Side of Conflict

Take charge of workplace conflict resolution as you help characters make decisions. At each decision point, see how your choices play out—and whether they help or hurt the conflict resolution process.

Prepare for Hired

Help Cory prepare for a job interview by ensuring his portfolio is aligned to the position and responding to interview questions by persuading the hiring manager's needs, values and desires.

Translating Job Posts

Job listings often include buzzwords that only make sense if you already know what they mean. What in the world is a brand ambassador? What does it mean to be customer focused?

Practice Using a Job Search Tool

Online job searching was never more fun! In this activity, help your friend find a perfect job while getting hands-on experience with job search tools, tips, and techniques.

Answering Difficult Questions

Why did you leave your last job? How much money did you make in your last job? Interviewers may ask you these types of tricky questions, so it's important to be prepared for them. Learn how to answer some of the toughest interview questions.

Effective Profile Statements

A profile statement is just a few sentences long, but it summarizes who you are and what you have to offer as an employee. In this activity, find out what makes a great formal profile statement and how to craft a social media profile statement.

Preparing to Talk About Yourself

What are interviewers really asking when they say, "Tell me about yourself"? It is one of several common interview questions that are trickier than they seem. Learn why interviewers ask these questions and prepare to answer them by telling stories.

Owning the Interview

Which interviewees get the job? In this game-style activity, start with some key tips for rocking a job interview, and then decide whose interview styles are most likely to win the job.

Online Job Applications

What does it take to complete an online job application? Learn about the information you need to have on hand, and then practice filling out an online job application form. When you're done, you'll be ready to apply for the real-life job of your dreams!

Responding to Failure

You applied for the job of your dreams—and you didn't get it. Don't give up! Failure is the first step toward self-improvement and a great way to discover areas in which you can grow. In this activity, discover tips and techniques for responding.

Make the Match

How do you know which job is right for you? Challenge yourself to make the right match for three very different job seekers in this interactive game. As you play, discover some key factors to consider when choosing among job offers.

Improve Company Culture Together

Critical Thinking: You Decide

Learn about the different methods of gathering information to make a business decision and evaluate the quality of the evidence gathered.

Maximizing Productivity and Efficiency

Describe the value of productivity, efficiency, and initiative and learn to identify and access available resources to increase productivity and efficiency.

Ethics in Real Life

Experience different ethical dilemmas based on competing values throughout a given day in a neigborhood, at school, and at a part-time job and then see your final score on the Ethics Meter

Put Goals Into Action

Help Erin run her new cafe, and help her determine the tasks she will need to complete to accomplish her goals and help her prioritize the most urgent tasks for the business.

The Most Valuable Ideas

Learn how to identify characteristics that make an idea original, inventive, and valuable.

Designing Ideas

Learn about different ways to come up with ideas and determine which of those techniques is most appropriate to use in a given situation.

Netiquette

Learn how to define and identify practices that demonstrate netiquette and identify ways to evaulate and clean up one's online presence and digital tattoo.

Set Meaningful Goals

Explore how to respond to constructive feedback about work performance by setting goals and putting them into action.

Critical Thinking with Cause and Effect

Identify the causes and effects in a workplace and find a solution by analyzing what caused the problem.

Paws and Effect

Make decisions that show your adaptability, accountability, and flexibility in order to earn enough paws to adopt a pet from the animal rescue center.

Cleaning Up Your Communication

Learn how to demonstrate communication that reflects a clear and logical order for the audience.

Weighted Pros and Cons Decision-Making Tool

Decision making can be tough. The Weighted Decision-Making Tool allows you to give some criteria more weight than others, making it easier to choose the right alternative. In this activity, learn about and try out this valuable tool.

Bias and Legitimacy

Learn how to find out if an information source can be used by determining if it is a credible source.

Managing Change

Learn how to apply leadership principles in a realistic business scenario and make decisions that demonstrate an understanding of adaptability and self-direction.

Implementing New Ideas

Learn how to present creative ideas clearly and briefly, highlighting the solution's features and benefits.

Improving Ideas

Learn how to compare options for implementing new ideas effectively.

Overcoming Barriers to Change

Learn how to identify possible real-world barriers to new ideas and methods.

Uncovering Root Cause

Take a look at the causes and effects in a situation and find out which one is the root cause and how to fix it.

PACED Decision-Making Model

PACED stands for Problem, Alternatives, Criteria, Evaluation, and Decision. And that's the process you go through as you use this matrix-based decision-making tool for complex situations with multiple alternatives.

Build a Strong Work Ethic

Identify features that demonstrate a strong work ethic, and identify ways an individual can go "beyond expectations" in a variety of scenarios.

Reach Higher

Practice working with a fictional team to achieve a goal, and determine if that goal was achieved.

Everyday Strength: Developing Resilience

Navigate challenging situations by practicing strategies that will increase your resilience.