Sign up for 20 of the Most Popular LinkedIn Courses for Free This Month
Life over the past few months of the pandemic has greatly changed how and where we work, including whether we have a job at all. If you are fortunate enough to continue to work, this period may have made you wonder about your current position or your entire career and whether this is really the best use of your time and talent. This does not necessarily mean that it is time (or desirable) to notify you and try to find something new right now.
But this is a good opportunity to learn new skills or brush up on ones that might be a little rusty. If this sounds like something that interests you, then know that in September 20 of the most popular LinkedIn training courses are available for free to take . Here’s what you need to know.
How to sign up for free courses
There isn’t really a formal registration process for these free LinkedIn training courses. In fact, you don’t even need a LinkedIn account to access them. Just select the course that interests you from their list, click on the title and you’re done. A complete list of all 20 courses (with links) can be found here . But to give you an idea of what’s on offer, here are 10 of the most popular courses as an example of what’s available.
What courses are available?
1. Time management: work from home
Instructor: Dave Crenshaw
Course Description: When you have so much time and attention, it is difficult to find the balance to stay productive. Learn how to set up a dedicated workspace for maximum productivity, collaborate with remote colleagues, create your daily schedule, and get productive with virtual meetings. He also offers advice to working parents and other caregivers who need to balance professional and personal responsibilities in the home.
2. Strategic thinking
Instructor: Dory Clarke
Course Description: Strategic thinking is the ability to think on a large and small scale, in the long and short term, past and present. This course teaches managers and leaders how to use strategic thinking to guide your teams and find solutions to key business problems.
3. Basics of remote work
Instructor: Mike Gutman
Course Description: This course shows you how to use modern, cloud-based communication and collaboration tools to get work done from anywhere while remaining connected to your organization. Gutman shows how you can create a productive work environment, avoid distractions, and build rapport with remote coworkers to make you feel part of a team and succeed in a remote career.
4. Learning Python
Instructor: Joe Marini
Course Description: Python is a popular and well-read object-oriented language – powerful and relatively easy to learn. Whether you are a newbie to programming or a seasoned developer, this course can help you get started with Python. Joe Marini, Senior Development Consultant at Google, provides an overview of the installation process, basic Python syntax, and an example of how to create and run a simple Python program. Learn to work with date and time, read and write files, and extract and parse HTML, JSON, and XML data from the Internet.
5. Development of emotional intelligence.
Instructor: Gemma Lee Roberts
Course Description: Emotional intelligence can help you build effective relationships at work. Executive Coach and Organizational Psychologist Gemma Roberts explains what emotional intelligence is and why it matters. It helps you become aware of yourself so you can identify triggers that can affect your performance. It also helps you align your intentions and your influence so you can build strong collaborative relationships.
6. Basic Learning Excel 2016
Instructor: Dennis Taylor
Course Description: Get started with Excel, the world’s most popular and powerful spreadsheet program, with Excel expert Dennis Taylor. Learn how to best enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, work with multiple sheets, format the appearance of data and cells, and create charts and pivot tables. Other lessons cover the powerful families of IF, VLOOKUP, and COUNTIF functions; Goal Seek, Solver and other data analysis tools; and automating tasks using macros.
7. Excel Learning Basics (Office 365)
Instructor: Dennis Taylor
Course Description: Become familiar with Microsoft Excel, the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. Follow Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data.
8. Confident communication
Instructor: Jeff Ansell
Course Description: Most people are afraid to speak in public, but effective oral communication is a key skill in business. Jeff Ansell offers simple communication tools, strategies, and tips that are easy to use and deliver immediate results. It will help you speak more confidently, use your body and language to better express ideas and overcome anxiety.
9. Cert Prep: Project Management Professional (PMP) ®
Instructor: Sandra Mitchell
Course Description: In today’s competitive environment, effective project managers are critical to bottom line. PMP showcases your skill, your experience and your education. Find out what it takes to sit the PMP exam with Project Manager and Exam Prep Trainer Sandy Mitchell.
10. Fundamentals of project management
Instructor: Bonnie Biafore
Course Description: Project Management is a set of techniques that anyone can apply to achieve goals and increase the success of projects. Project management can be used to manage small, simple projects as well as complex enterprise-wide initiatives. In this course, Biafore explains the basics of project management, from setting project goals and objectives and building a project plan, to managing resources and work, meeting deadlines, and closing a project.
Looking for more? Courses 11-20 can be found here .