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The Spouses' Learning Series provides Marine Corps spouses the opportunity to further their personal and professional growth through a series of workshops and online courseware. Though targeting spouses who volunteer in their local community, the program is available to all Marine Corps spouses. The triad of workshops and online courseware provides skills and educational development in the following areas: Communication, Relationship Building, Personal and Professional Empowerment, Business Management and Leadership, Stress Reduction, Goal Setting, and Life/Work Balance. Spouses' Learning Series Motivational Workshop The motivational workshop Sun-Sational: Discover a More Powerful You, features Jacey Eckhart, successful author, syndicated columnist, and the creative drive behind the deployment CD "These Boots: A Spouse's Guide To Stepping Up and Standing Tall During Deployment", available through Military OneSource.

The interactive workshop is designed to provide spouses with the opportunity to gain a working knowledge of personal communication styles and personality types, and to use the new understanding of self to improve communication and relationships with their spouse, family, friends, and co-workers. The workshop also encourages Marine spouses to define their life-challenges and the needed support systems to help restore balance to their military family during a time of war.

The online Business Management and Leadership Skills training is professional, self-paced and targeted to meet the needs of the Spouses' Learning Series (SLS). SLS Online Courseware is designed to provide spouses with short, effective online learning opportunities to expand their base of knowledge in their personal and professional lives. Courses are available 24-7 and are free. Each of the 80+ courses is intended to be applicable to all levels of education and volunteering regardless of whether the spouse is new or experienced, management or entry level. The various course topics are listed below.

PERSONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL TOPICS

• Communication Skill Builders
• Leadership Development Management Skill Builders
• Personal Skills Development
• Team Building

The online courseware is especially important to those spouses who have accompanied their Marine on Independent Duty or to a Remote location and who are not aboard a Marine Corps installation.

If you have taken these courses and enjoy them, recommend them to friends, fellow Key Voluteers, L.I.N.K.S. team members or other Marine Corps spouses. They are available to everyone and look great on a resume.

SPOUSES LEARNING SERIES - LEADERSHIP SKILLS WORKSHOP (LSW)

These four hour interactive, educational workshops provide participants the opportunity to improve interpersonal skills, become a more effective communicator and facilitate better team building. Participants are also able to take a self-scored personality assessment and learn how their personality type relates and can interact more effectively with others.

The skills and techniques gained through this workshop will benefit leaders of all experience levels.

• LSW workshops are available throughout the year at each installation. Contact the installation MCFTB office for more details.

Workshop topics include:

• Understanding your personality type and others
• Improving Communications
• Dealing with difficult people
• Improving your team building skills