Certifications

Understanding and Supporting LGBTQ+ Employees

Diversity, equity, and inclusion thought leader, Rhodes Perry, teaches a framework on how you can engage in acts of allyship to support your LGBTQ+ colleagues. He also offers strategies for organizational leaders to build an LGBTQ+ inclusive organization.

Skills: LGBTQ+ · Allyship

Tags: LGBTQ+ · Rhodes Perry · Colleagues · Success · Work · Practical Examples · Engage · Diversity · Inclusion · Barriers

Strategic Security Leadership: Cultivating Growth, Inclusivity, and Collaboration

Instructor Chloé Messdaghi explores the pivotal role of leadership in creating an inclusive environment within security teams. Chloé delves into strategies that leaders can employ to foster inclusivity, empower teams, and integrate security strategy.

Skills: Strategic Leadership · Information Security Management

Tags: Security · Chloé Messdagh · Roles · Leadership · Pivotal · Culture · Key Principles · Safety · Diversity · Psychological

The Power of the Minimalist Entrepreneur

Inspired by his book "The Minimalist Entrepreneur", Sahil Lavingia shares his conventional wisdom-defying playbook for a new generation of entrepreneurs in this audio course from Knowable. Find out how to generate ideas, validate them, and build momentum.

Skills: Entrepreneurship

Tags: Advice · Training · Hypergrowth · Approachable · Realistic · Wisdom · Sahil Lavingia · Knowable · Niche · Communities

Backgrounder: A History of Web Typography

Whether you're perusing a hardback encyclopedia or a Wikipedia page, typography impacts the way that you interpret written material. And on the web, font choice can also impact a reader's experience by affecting how quickly your site loads.

Skills: Web Typography

Tags: Web Development · Fonts · Microsoft · Typography · Methods · Techniques · Programming · Adobe · Flash · History

Building Skills to Become a Powerhouse Negotiator

Negotiation is an essential skill for success. However, many people lack formal training in negotiation, relying solely on their instincts or limited knowledge. Kwame Christian discusses with Anuj Jagannathan, a skilled negotiator and author of two books.

Skills: Negotiation

Tags: Leaders · Leadership · Thought Leader · Negotiating · Negotiation · Negotiate Anything · Skills · Complexities · Professional · Anuj Jagannathan

Mindsets and Strategies for Negotiation Success

What is assertiveness? In this audio-only course, adapted from the "Negotiate Anything" podcast, Lousin Mehrabi explains what assertiveness truly is, why it's important, and how to use conflict to add value to your business and general life.

Skills: Successful Negotiation

Tags: Negotiation · Negotiating · Respect · Assertiveness · Effectiveness · Confidence · American Negotiation Institute · Lousin Mehrabi · Confidence · Executives

Shake Shack CEO Randy Garutti (Thirty Minute Mentors)

Randy Garutti is the CEO of Shake Shack, where he leads one of the most popular chains in the United States. With more than 350 locations, Randy and his mentor Danny Meyer transformed Shake Shack from a hot dog stand into a multi-billion-dollar business.

Skills: Leadership · Entrepreneurship

Tags: Shake Shack · Randy Garutti · Thirty Minute Mentors · CEO · Entrepreneurs · Companies · Leading · Fast-Casual Chains · Restaurants · Danny Meyer

How to Use Rejection to Your Advantage

In this course adapted from the "Modern Mentor" podcast, Rachel Cooke teaches you how to turn rejection into fuel for future success by showcasing how to process rejection and act on feedback. Rachel shares practical advice to help you improve confidence.

Skills: Constructive Feedback · Accountability

Tags: Rejection · Advantage · Macmillan Publishers · Teaching · Modern Mentor · Rachel Cooke · Professional · Success · Feedback · Inspiration

How to Prepare for Your Negotiations

In this course, adapted from the "Negotiate Anything" podcast, Susan Borke, a former attorney at National Geographic and current Principal at BorkeWorks, covers the best ways to get ready for your negotiation. Susan goes over the cycle of negotiation.

Skills: Negotiation

Tags: Negotiating · Training · American Negotiation Institute · National Geographic · BorkeWorks · Negotiate Anything · Susan Borke · Research · Rehearsal · Review

Get Ready for Generative AI

Ashley Kennedy explains what generative artificial intelligence (AI) is, how it's trained, and how it works. Check out examples for image-based and text-based AI and get some useful tips on how to create prompts that will help the AI create what you want.

Skills: Artificial Intelligence for Business · Artificial Intelligence for Design · Generative Al

Tags: Social Media · Artificial Intelligence · Technology · Collaborative · Artwork · Music · Ethics · Ashley Kennedy · Risks · People

How to Think Strategically

What is strategy, and how can you employ it more effectively in your daily life? LinkedIn's own COO, Daniel Shapero, deep dives into his favorite subject and pulls in insights from other leaders. Learn Daniel's definition and first rule of strategy.

Skills: Strategic Thinking

Tags: Strategic Direction · Thinking · Leadership · Thought Leader · Leaders · Pitfalls · Disruption · Architecture · Patterns · Daniel Shapero

Beating Procrastination

Instructor Petr Ludwig introduces practical, research-based techniques you can use to beat procrastination. Petr explains how you can build willpower through good habits and nourishing both your body and your mind. He shows methods to block distractions.

Skills: Time Management

Tags: Procrastination · Mind · Procrastinate · Body · Mindset · Techniques · Practical · Research-Based · Pete Mockaitis · Petr Ludwig

Confidence: How to Overcome Self-Doubt, Insecurity, and Fears

Confidence comes from within yourself. In this course, instructor TJ Guttormsen provides information and practical exercises to help you change and improve the thoughts and emotions that might be holding you back, so that you can participate more fully.

Skills: Self-Confidence

Tags: Yourself · Confidence · TJ Guttormsen · Practical · Information · Exercises · World · Privately · Improve · Improvement

Confident Communication for Introverts

Introverts face some unique challenges when it comes to communication and socializing. Communication coach TJ Guttormsen offers insights and practical strategies designed to help introverts develop the ability to communicate with confidence.

Skills: Interpersonal Communication · Confidence Building

Tags: Unique · Introverts · Challenges · Communication · Socializing · Personal · Professional · Lives · Meaning · Conversations

How to Build a Secret Circle of Mentors

Mentors play a role in our lives. There are many different types of mentors you'll encounter in your careers, and each will help you succeed in different ways. Join Rachel Cooke as she defines mentors, and explores what they can do to benefit your life.

Skills: Professional Networking

Tags: Networking · Professional · Mentors · Mentoring · Companies · Personal Growth · Growth · Macmillan Publishers · Benefit · Life

Managing Your Time

In this short course, author Todd Dewett, Ph.D., shares four time-management tips that help everyone from busy executives to new employees get more out of their work day. Learn how to think differently about time management, and embrace the 80% rule.

Skills: Time Management

Tags: Management · Todd Dewett, Ph.D. · Busy · Executives · Tips · Embrace · Rules · Protection · Protect · Availability

Overcoming DEI Leadership Challenges

Organizations have faced an unprecedented amount of pressure to deliver against DEI strategy, which has caused an influx of DEI roles and responsibilities. Toni Howard Lowe covers some of the core challenges diversity, equity, and inclusion leaders face.

Skills: Leadership · Diversity & Inclusion

Tags: Pressure · Unprecedented · Companies · Strategy · Diversity · Equity · Inclusion · Common Barriers · Communicate · Accountability

Quick Scripts for Difficult Conversations

Professionals often want to have the hard conversations, but they may stumble over the actual words. In this course, executive coach Alisa Cohn presents scripts that you can use in the most common, most delicate, and most difficult workplace scenarios.

Skills: Interpersonal Communication · Difficult Situations

Tags: Stumble · Words · Leadership · Development Expert · Alisa Cohn · Workplace · Scenarios · Compassion · Feedback · Diplomatic

Acting Decisively

Whatever your role — whether you're a manager or an individual contributor — acting decisively is a key skill. As a manager, your employees need clarity about your team's overall strategic direction, as well as what you want and expect from them.

Skills: Decisiveness

Tags: Contributor · Manager · Employees · Clarity · Strategic Direction · Career Expert · Dorie Clark · Roadblocks · Decisive Action · Courage

How to Be an Inclusive Leader (getAbstract Summary)

The course covers the multiple barriers many employees often face, and ways to become a better leader and build a more equitable workplace. An equitable employment environment doesn’t just let everyone bring their full self to work without fear.

Skills: Team Leadership · Diversity & Inclusion

Tags: Leadership · Inclusivity · Diversity · Jennifer Brown · Barriers · Equitable · Employment · Competitive · Workforce · Issues

Learning LinkedIn

Learn to harness the power of LinkedIn to connect with professionals, companies, and groups in your industry and beyond. Discover how to share updates and publish content, contribute your own thought leadership, and customize your profile options.

Skills: Linkedin

Tags: Industry Professionals · Professionals · Companies · Groups · Leadership · Network · Communicate · Communication · Actionable · Actions

Nano Tips for Aspiring Product Managers with Cherie Luo

Join Cherie Luo, senior product manager at LinkedIn, as she provides advice for aspiring product managers. What exactly a product manager does, how they spend time, traits of product managers — and then advice on how to get a job as a product manager.

Skills: Product Management

Tags: Impact · Advice · Product Managers · Product Management · Greatness · Traits · TIME · Products · Companies · Industry Knowledge

Nano Tips for Delegating as a Manager with Lorraine Lee

Discover strategies for successfully delegating tasks and responsibilities as a new or experienced manager, gathering insights to lead a successful team from virtual keynote speaker, consultant, and executive coach Lorraine Lee.

Skills: Delegation

Tags: Addressing Mistakes · Strategies · Delegating Tasks · Success · Challenges · Expectations · Results · Focus · Accountability · Keynote Speaker

Nano Tips to Uncover Your Strengths with Shadé Zahrai

Explore the power of uncovering your inner strengths and managing your weaknesses to promote personal growth. Join peak performance researcher and behavioral strategist Shadé Zahrai to learn the secrets of identifying and evolving your strengths.

Skills: Strengths Development · Personal Development

Tags: Shadé Zahrai · Personal Growth · Inner Strengths · Strategist · Researcher · Behavioral · Evolution · Mindset · Uncover · Strength