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The Top Skills Business Professionals Have Right Now

via LinkedIn Learning Path

Overview

Did you know? Skill sets for jobs are expected to change 41% by 2025. To help you stay up to date, we compared the top skills business professionals had in 2015 to those they have for the same job today. Start learning the new top skills to prepare for your next career move.
  • Explore today's most important business skills.
  • Learn the skills most relevant for your role.
  • Keep up with your peers and advance your career.

Syllabus

Courses under this program:
Course 1: Marketing Foundations (2019)
-Learn the foundational elements of any successful marketing endeavor. Find out how to develop, implement, and measure an effective marketing strategy.

Course 2: Asking Great Sales Questions
-Learn how to ask sales questions that lead to high-quality interactions with customers and clients.

Course 3: Serving Customers in a Continuously Changing World
-Discover the customer-focused solutions you need to deal with the challenges of a post-COVID world, including safety protocols, distribution issues, and aggressive attitudes.

Course 4: Lean Accounting Foundations
-Learn the basics of lean accounting. Find out how to help your organization maximize capacity and improve the bottom line by tracking and reporting key metrics.

Course 5: Business Development: Strategic Planning
-Use strategic planning to develop your business. Learn how to clearly define your vision and goals, create strategic initiatives, and implement your plan.

Course 6: Digital Marketing Foundations
-Learn the key skills, strategies, and techniques of digital marketing—a key skill to support the success of your brand and business.

Course 7: Social Media Marketing: Strategy and Optimization
-Learn how to optimize your social media marketing mix and refresh your strategy for Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and other popular platforms.

Course 8: Finance Foundations
-Get a basic introduction to the world of finance, from analyzing risk and return and obtaining financing to understanding how markets and banks operate.

Course 9: Sales Management Foundations
-Get the skills you need to become an outstanding sales manager. Learn how to recruit, select, retain, and manage salespeople and meet your organization's sales revenue goals.

Course 10: Leadership Tips, Tactics, and Advice
-Lead with intention using the leadership tips, tactics, and advice in this audio-only course.

Courses

Taught by

Drew Boyd, Jeff Bloomfield, David Brownlee, Joshua Rischin, Meridith Elliott Powell, CSP, CPAE, Brad Batesole, Martin Waxman, MCM, APR, Jim Stice and Lisa Earle McLeod

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