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PolyU 85th Anniversary Interview Series - Sir Gordon Wu

【PolyU 85th Anniversary Interview Series】 Dr Sir Gordon Wu Ying-sheung assumed Chairmanship of the PolyU Council in 1997. Under his leadership of over six years, Sir Gordon guided a number of key PolyU campus development projects. He valued the positive impact hostel life brought to students and took part in the design of the PolyU’s first student hostel located in Hung Hom Bay. In this video, you will learn about Sir Wu’s views regarding education and whole person development as well as his wise words for young people.
【理大八十五周年訪談系列】胡應湘爵士1997年出任理大校董會主席，在任六年領導理大校園多項重要發展，更親自參與理大第一所位於紅磡灣學生宿舍的設計，非常重視宿舍生活對大學生的成長。想知道胡爵士對學生全人教育的看法以及對年輕人的勸勉？立即看片。

Keywords:: History Hong Kong Polytechnic University Interviews Education Higher China -- Hong Kong Universities colleges College buildings
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PolyU 85th Anniversary Interview Series - Prof. Poon Chung-kwong

【PolyU 85th Anniversary Interview Series】 Prof. Poon Chung-kwong led PolyU for 18 years. During his tenure as President, PolyU assumed full university status and started a new chapter in its history. In this video, you will learn about how Prof. Poon positioned PolyU in unique roles, helping the University to excel in various aspects and laying a strong foundation for its long-term development.
【理大八十五周年訪談系列】潘宗光教授帶領理大18年，出任校長期間，理大正式取得大學地位，開展了理大歷史新的一頁。潘教授任內爲理大發展確立獨特的定位，並取得驕人成績，爲理大長遠發展奠定堅實的基礎。立即看片。

Keywords:: College presidents History Hong Kong Polytechnic University Interviews Education Higher China -- Hong Kong Universities colleges
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Success: Practical Thinking Skills

This award-winning course aims to sharpen your competitive edge in work and life. It empowers you with positive values and practical problem-solving skills, including creative strategies for addressing challenges from COVID-19. Enriched with interesting animations, a new success story and breakthrough pedagogies, this updated version (2.5) effectively helps you master knowledge and skills requisite for a successful life.

Keywords:: Creative thinking Learning ability Critical thinking
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Academic Career Kit

Learn more about finding a journal for publication, open access, predatory journals, your copyright as an author, social media in academics, enhancing your visbility, networking, tools for sharing and co-writing or research data management.

Keywords:: Scholarly publishing Research Academic writing Bibliographical citations -- Evaluation Research -- Data processing Scholarly publishing -- Evaluation
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Why Tech Needs The Humanities

If you want to build a team of innovative problem-solvers, you should value the humanities just as much as the sciences, says entrepreneur Eric Berridge. He shares why tech companies should look beyond STEM graduates for new hires -- and how people with backgrounds in the arts and humanities can bring creativity and insight to technical workplaces.

Keywords:: Science the humanities Vocational guidance
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Questioning Assumptions (Screencast)

Learners watch a commercial for a fictitious product and pose questions to challenge the assumptions made in it.

Keywords:: Hypothesis Critical thinking
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Double Trouble With Listening

Learn about the seven common barriers of listening and evaluate a conversation using the barriers.

Keywords:: Disctraction (Psychology) Listening Attention
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Seven Barriers to Listening

The learner will identify common barriers to effective listening.

Keywords:: Attention Distraction (Psychology) Listening
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Employability Essentials -- Think Critically and Creatively

Being a critical and creative thinker is essential in today’s workplace. It’s also crucial to your career success, regardless of your field or your position. Employers are looking for employees who can creatively problem solve to find answers that are best for both employees and the company.

Keywords:: Critical thinking Creative thinking
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SQ3R

In this learning activity you'll be explore independent and cooperative learning strategies to support retention of the material.

Keywords:: Study skills
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Employability Essentials - Adapt to Change

You will understand why having the ability to adapt to change is an essential employment skill.

Keywords:: Adaptability (Psychology)
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The You View

Learners will write effective business messages that incorporate a second-person point of view and focus on the benefit to the reader. This approach is often used to create positive messages, neutral messages, and inquiry messages in business settings.

Keywords:: Business writing
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The SMART Principle

Learners will examine how to use the SMART principle to make sure a goal is simple, measurable, realistic, timely, and holds people accountable.

Keywords:: Goal (Psychology) Motivation (Psychology)
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Recharging Your Attitude

Learners will determine if they are satisfied with their attitudes and then rank tips for regaining a positive disposition in the workplace.

Keywords:: Goal (Psychology) Motivation (Psychology)
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Time Management Matrix

Explore what time management is, how to use a time matrix, and how to put it all together and use our new time management skills to accomplish more during your days.

Keywords:: Time management
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Problem Solving: Using a Decision Matrix

The learner will understand how to use brainstorming and a decision matrix to find the best solution to a problem.

Keywords:: Problem solving
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Thinking Outside the Box

Learners examine strategies for evaluating new ideas and accepting change. They consider a list of various reactions to change and a list of actions that enhance teamwork, and check those statements that apply to themselves.