WHAT'S NEW FROM THE LEARNING HUB THIS WEEK:

• CHECK OUT the learning portfolio 'Working Remotely'.  This week, we have added articles from the Centre for Creative Leadership in the folder 'Leading teams remotely' and articles from the Harvard Business Review in the 'Working remotely' and 'Wellbeing remotely' folders... so please dip in and find out more. 

• SIGN-UP FOR WEBINARS.  Due to an overwhelmingly positive response,  we can confirm that the following webinars will take place as follows (click on links to sign-up):
  • Positive Discipline:  For parents juggling working from home with children - 9 and 23 April.  Join Izumi Takase for an interactive webinar to discover the key concepts of positive discipline and motivations behind children's behaviour. 

• • Resilience in times of turbulence (special Covid-19 resilience booster) -  15 April (English). 

• • La Résilience en période de turbulence (booster de résilience spécial Covid-19)  - le 17 avril  (Français).  

• SIGN-UP FOR FREE trial with LinkedIn Learning until 20-Apr-2020 -  two weeks remaining to take advantage and access over 15,000 online courses from LinkedIn Learning. Access via the Learning Hub - learn anytime and anywhere
  • To help your learners navigate the LinkedIn/Bookboon offer, we have mapped courses/competencies from the Leadership/Personal Development and Communications portfolios to a selected number of courses available from these two online providers - see attached document (LinkedIn_Bookboon_course_mapping)

• • In addition, technical courses that are available on LinkedIn learning and that might be on interest to you: Learning Jira Software and Excel 2016 Essential Training

Do keep in touch via our Learning and Development channel on Mattermost and if you have learning news to share, please do not hesitate to post to the wider community.

***IN OTHER NEWS***

LANGUAGE PORTFOLIO

• Sign-up and join the LANGUAGE TANDEM - stay connected and hone your language skills!

If you want to start learning languages in tandem with a colleague at CERN you can get in touch via the 'Language 'Tandem’.

This site is open to everyone who would like to practice the two official languages or any other languages that you would like to learn.

Please note the deadline for the next enrolment period:

General and Professional French courses

Period: beginning May - Mid-July (Enrolment deadline 27th April)

 General and Professional English courses

Period: beginning May - Mid-July (Enrolment deadline 27th April)

Please note:  In case of the extension of confinement, these courses WILL be converted to virtual classes.

TECHNICAL MANAGEMENT PORTFOLIO 

·                Call for participants: Fast Forward the productivity system for researchers (VILT). Helping early-stage researchers lead projects with more confidence, more focus and less stress in just 7 weeks ! Sign-up till 15 April. 

TECHNICAL PORTFOLIO

·                ** Virtual-classroom courses **

Several of our face-to-face courses have been converted into virtual classrooms: courses on Python, C++, Javascript, Linux, ANSYS, CATIA, VHDL, Drupal, Microsoft Office (including consulting), EDMS, InforEAM and others are still taking place with trainer and learners connected from home. Please find below a list of the virtual sessions with enrolment deadlines.

Please go to Learning Hub and sign-up for a session (if available) or indicate your interest or contact us directly at Technical.Training@cern.ch . 

The courses will take place If we reach a sufficient number of participants.

** Upcoming session SmarTeam - CATIA data manager at CERN (April 7th - April 14th) - in French **

We are trying to organise a new session of "SmarTeam - CATIA data manager" at dates to be defined between April 7th - April 14th.  If interested, please sign-up for the Online Session at this link. 

SAFETY TRAINING

Last but certainly not least, a word from our colleagues in Safety Training.  Please refer to the CERN Bulletin Article (published on 25 March) with the latest news on the measures taken regarding the suspension of safety classroom courses.