Skills coach is a skill-based learning tool for employees and people managers that delivers engaging micro-content directly via email. The two minute daily activities teach key leadership skills, while being easy to use. The selection of courses uses short interactive lessons, backed by science that drive results.
Skills coach courses include: resilience, productivity, feedback, strategic thinking, leading change, coaching, 1-on-1s, meeting mastery and people development. Skills coach is a Culture Amp feature.
Skills coach uses three important components to make it as effective as possible:
- Spaced repetition: humans forget things quickly. How quickly we forget is a constraint on our ability to learn. By repeating the same concepts, people are more likely to remember them.
- Experiential learning: each lesson ends with a prompt to try something out that day. The next day it incorporates reflection questions to help people experience, reflect, conceptualise, and then experiment some more.
- Reminders: people are reminded if they miss a lesson, and sent an afternoon nudge for important exercises. Reminders really do work to help people to change behaviour and achieve goals.
How to access Skills coach
Access is via your HORUS/Single Sign On (SSO) login.
Login using your ANU ID email e.g. u1234567@anu.edu.au, then click on ‘Sign in with SSO’. Your named ANU email will not work. No need for a password, just click on either 'Continue' and/or 'Sign in with SSO'.
Skills coach is available to continuing, fixed-term and continuing contingent-funded ANU staff.