The CCSU Continuing Education Blog
Continuing Education: A Great Resource for Networking
It makes sense that one benefit of taking continuing education courses in your field or career area would be expanding your professional network. As you learn the skills you need to stay up to date in your field or advance to the next level, you will get to know...
Continuing Education Makes Both Work and Non-Work Life Better
Continuing education can help a person advance their career or learn new skills, but it is also good for minds and bodies. A recent study showed that even seniors 80 years old and older who stayed cognitively active were more than twice as...
Why ‘Soft Skills’ Can Be Hard Work
Soft skills are an increasing focus for many companies. These skills include communication, leadership, management, collaboration, adaptability, and emotional intelligence, among others. Soft skills are necessary in most jobs, particularly as...
Improve Your Emotional Intelligence to Further Your Career
Emotional intelligence can be important to your career in many different ways. Those who score high on a scale measuring emotional intelligence make on average $29,000 more a year than those who don't, so anything you can do to improve this trait could be worth...
Hard Data on ‘Soft’ Skills Learned in Professional Development
It is extremely rare that any employee has sufficient technical or professional skill to excuse them from the need for so-called "soft" skills like a positive communication style. Whatever your profession, you can safely assume that you will have more success if your...
Why You Need Continuing Education When Your Career Is Going Well
When you have a career and it is going well, it can be tempting to ignore continuing education. It doesn't seem very important to gain new skills when the skills you already have seem sufficient for the job that it seems like you will have for the foreseeable future....
Continuing Education and Professional Development Between Jobs
Whether you have been subject to corporate downsizing, have taken time off to tend to family, or are voluntarily taking time between jobs, continuing education may be just what you need to learn new skills that will be valuable to your next employer. Even if you seem...
The Surprising Connection Between Boredom and Innovation
It's great that we have entertainment and things to do at our fingertips 24/7, but should we always fight boredom? The answer appears to be "no," according to studies that show that boredom can have a surprising effect on creativity and innovation. Boredom is more...
Top 5 Ways to Be Innovative in Work and Life
Being innovative means having new ideas and doing new things that you haven't done before as well as doing familiar things in different ways. Chances are, your work and your life are interconnected in many ways, which means that innovations in one will often carry...
6 Ways Recreational Interests Help You Have a Better Career
It may seem counterintuitive, but studies have shown that people with hobbies and interests outside their work are actually more effective in their careers overall. Here are some of the ways recreational interests can help you have a better career. 1. You will be more...