Happy New Year! A new year always provides the opportunity for new beginnings both personally and professionally. Many of us have already made some resolutions for 2025, but if you’re still looking for a way to expand your horizons this season, LinkedIn Learning has plenty of ideas to jump start your journey! Check out these courses to help you get started.
Certification & CEU Programs
Looking to dive into a new technology or maybe gain Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to keep your certifications current? LinkedIn Learning has several courses that provide no only standalone professional certifications, but also provide CEUs to maintain your certifications and licenses from PMI, CompTIA, SHRM, and others.
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Practical Communication Tips for Managers
As a manager, communicating effectively with your team is vital to success. Words—both the words you choose and how to choose them—matter. Phrases that might seem helpful, like “My door is always open,” or “It’s not urgent” may seem helpful but could cause unintended harm to your relationships and your work. In this concise course, learn practical communication tips to enhance your effectiveness and keep your team focused on what matters most. Plus, learn how to effectively communicate after work hours, create guidelines for offline discussions, prioritize time off, and more.
Learning Excel: Data Analysis
Microsoft Excel is an important tool for data analysis. It helps companies accurately assess situations and make better business decisions. This course helps you unlock the power of your organization’s data using the data analysis and visualization tools built into Excel. Author Curt Frye starts with the foundational concepts, including basic calculations such as mean, median, and standard deviation, and provides an introduction to the central limit theorem. He then shows how to visualize data, relationships, and future results with Excel’s histograms, graphs, and charts. He also covers testing hypotheses; modeling different data distributions; calculating the covariance and correlation between data sets; and calculating probabilities, combinations, and permutations. Finally, he reviews the process of calculating Bayesian probabilities in Excel. Each chapter includes practical examples that show how to apply the techniques to real-world business problems.
Five Ways to Control Your Time
Everybody wants more time. While you can’t make more hours in the day, you can find more time for the most important things in your life. In this course, Chris Croft introduces 5 simple time management tips to reduce distractions and stay focused on what matters.
The first—saying no—is simple in theory, but hard in practice. Chris explains how to reclaim the power of “no” to make room for true priority items. The second step, negotiation, allows you to spend less time on unimportant tasks. The third way is to delegate sometimes, and the fourth is improving systems and processes so that repetitive tasks are quickly and easily managed. Last but not least, Chris explains how to overcome perfectionism and nitpicking. He explains how to apply the five methods to all time-stealers, including meetings, interruptions, and more.
In the initial chapters, he’ll help you clarify your life and work goals, prioritize to-dos using Eisenhower’s matrix of tasks, and answers questions like “Does working longer hours actually get more done?” The worksheets included with the exercise files will help you apply the lessons to your own work and life, and hone your time management skills—one step at a time.
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