University of Colorado Boulder - Be Your Best Creative Self
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Be Your Best Creative Self at Coursera Overview
Duration | 21 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Be Your Best Creative Self at Coursera Highlights
- Earn a shareable certificate upon completion.
- Flexible deadlines according to your schedule.
Be Your Best Creative Self at Coursera Course details
- Welcome to Be Your Best Creative Self, the second course in the Personal Development for Professional Success Specialization.
- This course is for creative professionals who want to work more efficiently and at higher levels of both job satisfaction and success. As students work through this course, they will:
- ? learn to make the creative state more reliable and productive
- ? fine-tune their personal brand so that they present themselves positively and accurately
- ? learn basic skills for working with others that will help to avoid traps as well as to enable success
- As much as anything, this is a survival-skills class designed to help creative professionals take control of their careers. The assignments and exercises are intended to build a creative community in which students gain confidence and grow together.
Be Your Best Creative Self at Coursera Curriculum
Module 1: Creativity and Effective Brainstorming
Welcome to Be Your Best Creative Self
A little about your instructor.
What does "creative" really mean?
Avoid falling for the left brain/right brain myth.
Creativity is a practice.
Confidence builds momentum and momentum builds confidence.
Know when and where to work.
Here are four ways to get moving.
Make a list to make progress.
Tell a story.
Start a conversation.
Devour your world.
Revision is creative.
Talent matters, not things.
Why Take This Course?
The Left Brain, the Right Brain, and Points-in-Between
Creative Exercises
Making a List to Make Progress
Quiz: About creativity
Module 2: Your Personal Brand
Identity matters.
Stand out.
People like good people.
Everything you make should reflect everything you believe.
Great products deserve great packaging.
Become a chameleon.
Catch mistakes before your clients do.
Growth is a choice.
Everything You Do Matters
About branding
Module 3: Working with Others
Be good, but be easy.
Everyone talks.
Give them dreams, not keepsakes.
Taking criticism is the job.
Reading people is impossible.
With practice you can avoid most traps.
If you must, surrender, but never give up.
No one likes to be bullied.
Do unto others.
Nothing teaches like teaching.
Never stop growing.
Whenever you can, make work fun!
Are You a Trap?
The Mood Board
Intentional vs. Accidental Growth
Top Ten Tips for Creative Professionals
About working with others
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