Digital Skills for the Workplace

Know there are tools out there you should be using, but not sure what they are? Learn about the world of digital efficiency and the apps and programmes that will make your life easier, and save you time.

Is your team scattered around the city or country? Upload, reorganise, store, share and collaborate on brainstorms in the cloud with tools like Post It.

Battling to share ideas efficiently? Get creative with your mind-mapping, infographics and diagrams using programmes like Coggle, Mindomo, Piktochart and/or Canva (see you later Powerpoint!)

Trying to manage an ever-growing to-do list of tasks and projects? Streamline your task management and create efficient, organised lists and plans with Trello, the mother of all project management tools.

Wanting to take presentations to the next level? Connect and interact with your audiences at events through live audience response tools like Answer Garden or Mentimeter.

Needing to master social media and marketing? Create virtual experiences for your website, social media channels and marketing with Tour Creator or Tour Builder. And demonstrate complex information through video with tools like OpenShot or Edpuzzle.

Needing to cut back on lengthy and outdated processes? Sign documents digitally with Doc Hub or Docusign.

Wanting to go paperless? Upload, reorganise, store, share and collaborate in the cloud thanks to Google Drive.

“The great thing about these tools (resources) is that they get on with the boring stuff so that you can get on with the human stuff” – Fee Webby, GM of The Mind Lab

Due to popular demand we are launching a new intake of Digital Skills for the Workplace – the @Home Edition, kicking off April 14th. This is a 4-week programme designed to help people who are looking to upskill due to the effects of the lockdown.

The online sessions for the @Home Edition run 3-4 days per week for 90 minutes each, and the programme runs for 4 weeks. Please note this is a micro-credential and additional time will be required for self-directed study each day.

We have full scholarships for all Kiwis available for this programme to reflect the impact of COVID-19 on people’s work and lives. The scholarship will be automatically added to your application.

Note: if school returns before the end of this programme, the timing of these online learning sessions will change to reflect this.

For the May intake onwards the programme is 7 weeks long. Online sessions are three hours long delivered via an online facilitator, and additional weekly self-directed learning is supported by live webinar sessions and our online platforms (e.g evaluating tools relevant to your work/project, online content, assessment)

Digital skills are not just technological skills

Digital skills are the foundation of the framework that supports and responds to the changes happening in the workplace. They are the soft skills – all the things that technology cannot do – such as collaborate, empathise, create, identify opportunity. Read more on this here.

The workplace

Anywhere where work is done: in a high-rise, in a cafe, in your study or in the car whilst waiting outside soccer practice.

The future of work

An environment where soft skills and technology meet to amplify impact.