The CCSU Continuing Education Blog
Why Apply Lean Principles in Healthcare?
Lean principles are customer-centered. These principles focus on continuously improving processes by innovating and streamlining them to maximize cost savings and quality simultaneously. The overall goal of lean principles is to solve the common and ongoing problems...
Top 5 Ways to Be Innovative in Work and Life
There are always new ways to approach routine tasks at work and in 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...
6 Ways Recreational Interests Help You Have a Better Career
Creative hobbies help your brain be more creative in your 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...
4 Reasons To Learn Outside Your Comfort Zone!
When continuing your education, the temptation is to build on existing skills and areas of strength, but there are a number of benefits to learning things outside the areas in which you are skilled and trained. What Science Says About Learning Skills In New Areas Most...
Embracing Generational Differences in Adult Workforce Training
Research has found generational differences in the way people of various ages approach work and work-related training. These differences can make training workers more difficult since people may respond to training differently because of their age and background....
Convincing Your Employer to Invest in Professional Development
Studies have shown that companies that invest in their employees' professional development boost employee satisfaction, improve recruiting, and build the overall knowledge base of their teams. Unfortunately, not all employers realize the benefits of professional...
Embracing Generational Differences in Adult Workforce Training
Baby boomers have different ways of approaching work than other generations. Research has found generational differences in the way people of various ages approach work and work-related training. These differences can make training workers more difficult since people...
Top 5 Crossover Skills for Today’s Professional
Having a strong repertoire of transferrable skills - those that can be put to use in multiple work settings and contexts - is a great way to set yourself apart when pursuing professional opportunities. Although you may seek to move to a job that seems very different...
How to Use TED Talks to Enhance Continuing Education Programs
TED (Technology, Education, Design) Talks are brief videos, usually 4 to 10 minutes in length, that share ideas and information about a topic. These talks are typically engaging and high-interest for viewers and have many applications for continuing education. The...
The Value of Storytelling as a Learning Tool
People have used storytelling as a learning tool since the beginning of recorded history (at least). Before there were printed textbooks and computers and terrabytes of data about different learning styles, storytellers shared oral history with townspeople and passed...