7 Ways to Sharpen Your Skills While Working at Home
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Do you work with a #distributedteam? Are you a solo #remoteworker? Do you work at home, but yet, feel your skills are becoming dull? It depends. According to Flexjobs recent survey* of working mothers, 64% feel they are more productive at home. Yet, many work-at-home (WAH) professionals feel challenged to keep up with trends and to learn the new skills necessary to stay employed and well-paid. Like your work, you can also do this important learning at home. Professionals need continual skill refreshment to remain productive for their job and add value to their work and career.
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thank you for choosing this Princey video.
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My name is Mark Anthony Dyson.
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We want to know more about me and what I
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do. Voice of jobs dot com.
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Meantime, we're gonna talk about seven ways to sharpen your
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skills while working at home.
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One of the things that I think it's important to
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grab those resource.
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Is that air easily available?
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There's a lot of REV in ours and teleconferences that
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are useful, uh, through especially through your industry organizations and
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maybe your Facebook lives and groups that you belong to
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you linked in groups.
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But you could find a lot of old ones online
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that are already available, like on YouTube.
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Maybe your university has recorded wearing ours, and teleconference is
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already in the career center.
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You can go ahead and contact them to participate, or
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at least get some of the older ones that might
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still have relevant information, but they're very useful for you.
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How'd casting Blog's have been around allow for more than
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10 years?
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Actually, last guy, listen to my 1st 1 in 2007
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but ultimately you can.
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That learned a lot from podcasts and blocks, especially if
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they're in the different industry or you might wanna be
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keeping up with some of the other ones.
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And since a lot of them now are streamed or
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on demand to different channels, you can find out something
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that's a little bit more up to date in up
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to minute ah, other than relying on the podcast directory.
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But even that that if you just have iTunes or
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just maybe one of the podcast directory, they're thousands at
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this particular 10.22 spots, and they're good Thio two as
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a go to for for your resource is collaborations a
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great way for you to keep your skills sharpened and
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two home new skills, especially if you collaborate with somebody
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who's in the industry.
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You desire to be in the future, and if you
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have a job already, you're working from home already on
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distributed team, you know that is the remote worker is
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just hard to get a person to person time.
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In the meantime, you can collaborate with other people whether
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they could be in the same industry or people you
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meet online.
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It's a great way to also network and connect with
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other people.
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Eso collaborations don't include them.
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Find a way.
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Uh, don't exclude them.
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Find a way to connect with other people there.
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Volunteer. Now this one where people get confused about about
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bang to that has to be Ah, on Lee.
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A certain organization that will ask for volunteers actually shouldn't
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go volunteer with a profit organization or a non popular
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No, not for profit organization.
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The main thing is, if you just got a new
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skill, maybe you want to learn how to use it,
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but you can't use it yet.
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In professional environment, you don't have enough experience.
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Well, you go ahead, Thio organization that will help you
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or allow you to use those skills and volunteer.
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A lot of times, you could just go ahead and
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say, Hey, I have to use my skills.
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I'm kind of new at it.
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And these patients, they don't mind a free help if
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you're successful, Maybe they might even write you linking a
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recommendation for notes.
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But volunteering is a great way to keep your skin
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shot. No way to keep your skills sharp.
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And, uh, yes, even home new ones that you you've
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attained is to train others.
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Now you see the 101 or maybe in a volunteer
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class or whatever.
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You may decide to choose, but people appreciate when you're
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giving back.
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Or maybe you can do this on the side for
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money. Maybe you have that special skill set that's remarkable.
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Now have you announced during your Facebook page that you
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would like to train a few people?
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Uh, you'll have people who could sign up nose, but
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you can wife discern what's gonna be best for you.
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But meantime, that is a great way for you to
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make sure that your skills were made shots.
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You can create nick network opportunities out of anything these
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days. If you don't leave your home very often, you're
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you're working because your remote, maybe you're really remote and
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you're really away from people.
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That might be one thing, so therefore, you might need
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to use social media.
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That's a way to connect with people.
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But really, if you're just working a big city like
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while I lived in Chicago, everything is a networking opportunity,
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and you can create that despite conversations that you're able
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to initiate.
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So don't forget that something that also could be very
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helpful to you because networking itself could be directly um,
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helpful. Uh, when you go to conferences and association meetings
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or meet up so wherever that is.
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But ultimately you create those situations, so you just have
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to be a little bit more attentional whereabout seven.
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And finally, there's a great little at that you should
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know about.
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And it's called Libby Libby you use on your phone
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and connected to your local library.
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You asked me a lot of great carton under invalidated,
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and then you have access to these books on on
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your phone.
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What's great about it is that they're audio books on
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them. And this also the type that you read if
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you don't mind reading on your phone.
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And people have been doing it for years now, and
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I know that some of just would rather have the
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physical book by a lot of times we may forget,
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or we want to be thinking about it right the
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moment. Why not just go ahead and down through Libby
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or use YouTube as a great resource for the way
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that you can, uh, access books?
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There are three audio books on YouTube.
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Did you know that the book I found this couple
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of my found recently Out Lies by Malcolm Gladwell.
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That's pretty.
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That's pretty.
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The whole audiobook.
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It's there.
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Another great book I found out after buying the, uh,
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physical book.
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But, uh, Chris Boss's Big never split the difference.
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Negotiating as if your life depended on it is available
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on audiobook, and you can listen to it.
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Um, there's some nuances with the APP you'll have to
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work out inside, but, uh, I found that resource very
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useful. Um, as I want to sharpen my negotiating skills
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and re netbook and listening to that book again on
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YouTube so they have it there.
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Seven ways for you to sharpen your skills with home.
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Thank you so much for choosing this threat.
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See video of one.
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No. Again more about me market, then you, Dyson.
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Your brother was the judge's dot com, But thank you
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very much for choosing this Prince of Video.