Digital addiction is a serious emerging problem that affects people of all ages on a social, emotional, cognitive, and physical level. It can profoundly impact productivity in all areas of life, including work, home, school, and personal and professional relationships. WDC provides two open enrollment courses, a selection of customized off-site training solutions, and consultation services to assist our community in addressing this issue.
Customized and on-site training opportunities are available.
Introduction to Digital Addition
We all understand that texting while driving is bad, but this same type of distraction can also affect the workplace, family, and other settings where it can have a significant impact on safety, productivity, relationships, school, careers, and business liability. This course discusses the causes of digital addiction, examines its impact around the world, reviews the latest research and legislation to address it, and provides parents, supervisors, managers, and teachers with general principles for addressing digital distraction in every area of life.
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Developing a Smartphone Policy for Workplace Safety
This workshop focuses on providing supervisors, managers, and business executives with a framework for developing, implementing, enforcing, and benchmarking a workplace smartphone policy that minimizes accidents, improves productivity and mitigates liability. Research on workplace impact and digital enforcement tools are discussed.
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Creating a Digital Wellness Culture at Your School
Teachers, professors, school administrators, school psychologists, IT managers, and librarians need a plan to address the rampant problem of digital addiction among students. This course provides a roadmap for creating a digital wellness culture at our schools to address the impact of tech addiction on students’ social vibrancy, emotional health, and academic performance. Topics covered include research on digital addiction among children, the impact of no-phone policies, educating students about the problem, and mechanisms for reinforcing the value of reducing screen time.
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Screen Time and Personal Health and Wellness
This course takes a more holistic “health & wellness” approach to teaching employees about the problem of digital addiction and how to address it in themselves and their loved ones. Topics include how technology addiction impacts social and emotional life, cognitive function, productivity and safety at work, child development, and family life. Strategies and tactics for bringing screen time under greater control in all areas of life are covered, as well as “digital detoxification,” broaching the topic with children, and enlisting the help of others.
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Controlling your Phone Use to Optimize Work Performance
This course provides employees with a deeper understanding of how excessive personal phone use at work impacts productivity, safety, and workplace relationships. It then models helpful mindsets, strategies, and tactics to keep personal phone use under control in order to optimize work performance and organizational health.
Please email askWDC@cincinnatistate.edu for schedule or custom training opportunities.