Building Relationships While Working from Home
The LinkedIn Learning Course, “Building Relationships While Working from Home”, focuses on building healthy and friendly relationships with coworkers while working from remote locations. I chose this specific course as it is appropriate for present-day learning as COVID-19 has led to a high increase of remote learning and working. Having online classes is new to me, and I struggle making connections with peers and professors solely online. This course emphasizes being authentic, having friendly forms of communication, and creating a balance between work and social interaction. They all work together to create a healthy environment while not being in person to physically express emotions and feelings through body language and tone. Even though this course is about working from home, I applied it to taking classes from home. For example, using softened language when writing emails to professors or peers can help build friendly relationships even though it is all through a computer screen. As mentioned at the end of the course, I will pick a new skill from this course monthly to work on in order to build my skill-set from doing things such as school or work from home.