MOSTLY AI will provide you the support you need to strive for the best version of yourself. Every year, all MOSTLIES receive a 1000€ budget for learning and development. Your career and personal development matters to us. You will have a budget per joining year that you can use for courses, webinars, certifications, books, subscriptions etc.
How can I use my L&D budget?
You identify the training focus and discuss potential training programs or methods in agreement with your manager.
You submit a request for a virtual credit card via Spendesk, which will go to your Manager & Finance for approval.
Cost centre is: [pick your department]
Expense category: 632 - Learning & Development
You will have to take care of all the arrangements (registration, orders, etc.) independently.
If you need to drop or cancel any training, please coordinate with your Manager and try to get a refund of any fees paid (if this is not possible, the cost will come out of your budget anyway).
When can I use my L&D budget?
Your budget becomes available after your probation period.
Employees under termination processes can’t make use of this benefit.
Is there any possibility for me to go above the allocated budget?
This could be a yes, as long as this has been approved by your Manager + Senior Management (VP, CEO or Founder). If you have identified a Learning & Development opportunity that is out of the budget, please reach out to your Manager and explain the ways in which this would be beneficial for yourself, for the team, and for MOSTLY AI. This will be treated on a case by case scenario.
Resources
We believe that learning is a constant and living process. For one to keep evolving, one must take chances, learn from the mistakes and build on experience.
Below you can find some suggestions of resources.
Everyone can contribute with new contents or ideas, feel free to add your suggestions by leaving a comment.
Agile teams
Title | Type | Description |
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Certified Scrum Master | Online course (Scopphu) | This training will be a basic survival guide for working as a Scrum Master in a Scrum Team You will have access to a series of unique guidelines:
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Scrum Mastery: From Good To Great Servant-Leadership | Book (Amazon) | The basics of being a ScrumMaster are fairly straightforward: At face value all a ScrumMaster needs to do is facilitate the Scrum process and remove impediments. But being a great ScrumMaster, one who truly embodies the principles of servant-leadership and helps move a team to the high performance levels possible with Scrum, is much harder and much more elusive. In this book Geoff shares a collection of stories and practical guidance, drawn from over ten years of coaching numerous Scrum teams that will guide you on your path to greatness. |
Communication
Title | Type | Description |
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HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations | Book (Amazon) | Take the pain out of presentations. Terrified of speaking in front of a group? Or simply looking to polish your skills? No matter where you are on the spectrum, this guide will give you the confidence and the tools you need to get results. |
Communication | The stronger a team’s communication skills are, the better the outcome: research by MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory found that good communication is integral to the success of high performing teams. This makes it crucial that we learn how to convey tricky but important messages in good time, with clarity, respect and patience. Available Virtually or In-Person | |
Effective Communication - Get Buy-in Faster by Asking Better Questions | Roi Ben-Yehuda talks about one of the most valuable (but least-known) skills we need to communicate well and influence: how to use the right question at the right moment. He discusses our communication skills so that we can more quickly resolve problems, earn influence, and motivate people. | |
The Hidden Powers of Communication with Caroline Stagg | Following a degree in behavioural psychology; a career in corporate communications and as a freelance journaIist, Caroline Stagg turned to helping leaders, and ambitious professionals maximise their critical skills and expertise to produce better results with less effort, so they can find more fulfilment and enjoyment in their work and their lives. On this episode of The Workplace Communication Podcast, Caroline joins us to talk about the hidden powers of communication. | |
Public Speaker | The Public Speaker helps you to inform, motivate, entertain, and persuade better. Join host and creator Lisa B. Marshall for short, practical tips that help you to be engaging and memorable every time you speak. It's not just about public speaking, it's about effective communication. | |
The Communication Guys Podcast | A majority of the podcasts we found regarding communication were directed towards verbal contact with others, but this podcast switches things up a bit. How you speak, teach and write to others are all essential forms of communication. Because of this, it’s important to ensure your communication skills are valuable in all areas. This is where Tim Downs and Dr. Tom Barrett come in to play. They focus on teaching universal principles that will excel you communication skills in any settings and use their experience in business to show the impact these techniques can have on those you communicate with. | |
The Create Awesome Meetings podcast | The Create Awesome Meetings Podcast offers practical tips and inspiration that will help you make your next meeting more productive and profitable. |
Cross function collaboration
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The Bureau Briefing: Episode 112: Cross-Functional Collaboration at Google | At Google, you might have a team of 300 engineers, two dozen designers, 10 researchers and a handful of product and project managers. All unique humans with different opinions and ideas. All working together on enormously broad, complex problems. Clipping away at a speed of maximum velocity. | |
From Superpowers to Great Teams - | Companies are grappling with increasingly complex challenges that require us to bring our best to the office every day. To do that, we need to tap the diversity of passions and perspectives around us. This begins with bringing your best self to work and building the conditions for those around you to thrive. Work is most joyful—and its outcomes most impactful—when we embrace relationships as opportunities and bring out the best in our collaborators. | |
Develop Your Company’s Cross-Functional Capabilities | Most companies struggle to differentiate themselves. The few that succeed are those which stand apart because of their distinctive capabilities: the things they excel at doing, time and time again. In this excerpt from their new book, Strategy That Works, Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi explain why distinctive capabilities are vital to success, and address a fundamental question that many companies overlook: How to bring these capabilities to scale, so that every part of the enterprise can call on them. | |
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Common Challenges and Tips to Make It Work | Here are 4 common challenges faced by cross-functional teams and practical ways to fix them. | |
Why we struggle with cross-team collaboration and what to do about it | Learning to collaborate with team members in different departments can unlock opportunities for companies to do their best possible work. So why do we fight it? And why do we have a hard time facilitating it even when we all agree we want it? Read the post to find 5 common barriers to collaboration across teams, departments, and functions—along with solutions for each. |
Project Management
Title | Type | Description |
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Leading Complex Projects - | When it comes to complex projects, unexpected challenges and changing timelines are expected. Great leaders embrace this complexity—they don’t try to control it. They understand that people—the team and stakeholders—are key to successful project outcomes. In this course, you’ll learn how to balance logic and intuition to guide others through the inevitable ups and downs of complex projects. Rather than learning traditional project management tools and tactics, you’ll gain tools for establishing team alignment and discovering what motivates and engages each of your team members so you can empower your team to deliver stronger outcomes. | |
Your complete guide to project management in 2022 | The goal of project management is producing a complete project that meets objectives. In this guide, we’ll break down how to effectively use project management — all in plain English. | |
Project management for non-project managers | The steps, skills, and troubleshooting techniques you'll need to deliver the goods without losing your mind. | |
7 Must-Watch TED Talks for Project Managers | 1. The puzzle of motivation | Dan Pink 2. Yves Morieux: As work gets more complex, 6 rules to simplify 3. Getting in control and creating space | David Allen 4. Build a tower, build a team | Tom Wujec 5. The happy secret to better work | Shawn Achor |
Sales
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work in progress 👷🏾 | ||
Miscellaneous online training platforms
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A Cloud Guru | Get certified, master modern tech skills, and level up your career with cloud training — whether you’re starting out or a seasoned pro. |
Code Academy | Regardless of where you are in your coding journeys, you can start or continue to learn, grow, and make an impact. One can learn basic coding for free, whilst some advanced coding options start from $20 per month. |
Coursera | Learn without limits. Start, switch, or advance your career with more than 5,000 courses, Professional Certificates, and degrees from world-class universities and companies. |
edX | It offers free education courses from Harvard, MIT and other universities. A chance to become a student at a college that you have never attended. |
Khan Academy | A nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere. Topics like Math, Science, Economics, Computing Arts and humanities are available. |
Lifehack | Learn “life multipliers”.: cross functional skills that work across many aspects of life such as How To Stop Procrastinating or How to stay motivated. |
LinkedIn Learning | LinkedIn Learning provides video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills. Courses fall into four categories: Business, Creative, Technology and Certifications. |
Pluralsight | With the technology skills platform, you can see where your skills stand and master the latest in software development, IT ops, AI and machine learning, security and more. |
The Big Know | Offers content on emotional skills like resilience, stress relief or navigating anxiety (or even yoga!). |
The Project Gutenberg | Educating ourselves through reading never gets old. Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. |
Udemy | Udemy is a massive open online course provider aimed at professional adults and students. |
Internal trainings
Name | Description |
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MOSTLY Mini Meetups | |
Finance 101 | Episode 1 - Invoices Episode 2 - Virtual Credit Card |