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Soft Skills and Professional Development Essentials

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, an ideal time to check in with your mental health and discover effective techniques to help reduce stress, avoid burnout, and improve soft skills. Beginning May 19, use promo code MAYSALE20 for 20% off the total price of listed courses below. Offer ends May 31, 2025, at 11:59PM EST.

This year, we are updating our Learning Center to provide you with an optimized user experience and more CE opportunities. Please note important dates below.

What are Soft Skills?

Soft skills, also known as people skills, are personal traits that allow one to interact effectively in both professional and personal settings. Examples of soft skills may include communication, teamwork, empathy, adaptability, and other interpersonal skills.

Soft Skills and Professional Development Continuing Education Courses

In your professional life, improving soft skills and interpersonal communication can help you avoid burnout, manage emotions, reduce workplace stress, and support patients with compassion. Learn how you can enhance your career and boost emotional intelligence with our library of soft skills and professional development continuing education courses.

Soft Skills for Hard Jobs (STEP 464)
In this course, learn how to develop invaluable soft skills, like communication, time management, and collaboration to help avoid burnout in stressful occupations.

Coping with Workplace Stress (STEP 490)
Workplace stress can have a major impact on your personal and professional life. Explore common stress triggers and symptoms and how to manage them.

Compassion Fatigue Among Healthcare Workers
Maintaining empathy in the workplace can be a challenge for healthcare workers facing mental and physical burnout. Learn more about compassion fatigue and how to combat it.

Supporting Our Patients Through Cultural Humility (STEP 478)
With the dynamic changes our society faces on a daily basis, it is imperative to be empathetic and cognizant of cultural humility. Learn how to collaborate and support patients of diverse backgrounds.

How Important is Integrity in the Workplace? (STEP 460)
Integrity is crucial in the workplace. Learn more about integrity and the factor it plays in your professional life.

A Trauma-Informed Approach to Healthcare (CE: 1.0)
70% of adults have experienced at least one traumatic event in their lives. Use this course to identify signs of trauma and learn techniques to help manage it.

Post-Traumatic Growth: Understanding and Treating PTSD (CE: 1.0)
Nearly 8% of people will develop PTSD in their lifetime. This course offers insight into how this condition develops, its symptoms, and how to help patients suffering from PTSD.

The Effects of Kinesthetic Venipuncture Training Methods on Student Anxiety: A Quantitative Study (STEP 510) (CE: 1.0)
Anxiety is a common obstacle for students during their studies. Phlebotomy, which involves patient care and mastering sanitary practices, proper technique, and order of draw, can exacerbate this anxiety. Learn more about the effects of anxiety levels.

Soft Skills and More Continuing Education

Whether you take one of our soft skills and professional development CE courses or explore the full library, the tools you learn can have a positive impact in your daily life. Discover more learning resources in our comprehensive CE catalog designed to set you up for success in the allied health field.

 


Please note important dates below when purchasing CE courses:

  • All users are encouraged to complete their courses by November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM CST, prior to the anticipated blackout period.
  • Courses purchased BEFORE June 1, 2025:
    • Users who do not complete their courses by November 30, 2025, 11:59 PM CST will lose access to the course.
    • Users who lose access will need to repurchase the course.
  • Courses purchased BETWEEN June 1 and November 30, 2025:
    • Users will retain access to purchased courses in the new Learning Center, but will lose progress.
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