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LinkedIn Learning

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

Course 3: 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 4: 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 5: Marketing Foundations: The Marketing Funnel
-Learn how the marketing funnel works. Use the funnel to explore the customer's journey on the path to purchase, and create more effective marketing campaigns.

Course 6: Leadership Tips, Tactics, and Advice
-Lead with intention using the leadership tips, tactics, and advice in this audio-only course.

Course 7: Communication within Teams
-Learn how to cultivate the communication practices of high-performing teams. Discover how to establish a team charter, communicate in different settings, and more.

Course 8: Digital Marketing Foundations (2021)
-Learn how to develop a targeted online marketing strategy that helps your business cut through the noise, engage potential customers, and adapt with the times.

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: The Secret to Better Decisions: Stop Hoarding Chips
-No more regrets. We all make decisions, and we can do better. In this breakthrough short course, best-selling author Seth Godin shows you how to avoid the most common trap.

Course 11: Be the Manager People Won't Leave
-Find out how to be a manager who demonstrates empathy and inspires loyalty from your workforce.

Course 12: Financial Basics Everyone Should Know
-Learn how to effectively navigate your finances to ensure you have a successful financial future. This course discusses savings, investments, insurance, and retirement.

Course 13: Social Media Marketing Foundations
-Learn how social media has changed the marketing landscape, how to best leverage social in an overall marketing strategy, and the best practices for social media campaigns.

Course 14: Create a Go-to-Market Plan (2020)
-Build a go-to-market (GTM) plan for your next product or service. Learn how to craft a winning product strategy, drive better channel performance, and evaluate KPIs and metrics.

Course 15: Time Management Fundamentals
-Get time management strategies to stay organized, keep a clear mind, and be more productive—in work and life.

Course 16: Corporate Financial Statement Analysis
-Learn the ins and outs of financial statement analysis—the examination of relationships among financial statement numbers—to gain insights into your company's past and future.

Course 17: Python for Engineers and Scientists
-Find out how practicing scientists, engineers, and students of science and engineering can use Python to help make their work more efficient.

Course 18: How to Make Strategic Thinking a Habit
-Learn how to make strategic thinking a daily habit, so that you can make the best use of your time, energy, and effort at work.

Course 19: 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 20: SQL Server Fundamentals: Master Basic Query Techniques
-This course provides a straightforward, concise resource for non-developers to learn enough about relational databases and SQL syntax to write simple queries.

Courses

Taught by

David Brownlee, Jeff Bloomfield, Joshua Rischin, Meridith Elliott Powell, CSP, CPAE, Brad Batesole, Lisa Earle McLeod, Daisy Lovelace, Drew Boyd, Seth Godin, Laurie Ruettimann, Michael McDonald, PhD, Brian Honigman, Deirdre Breakenridge, Dave Crenshaw, Jim Stice, Michele Vallisneri, Dorie Clark, Martin Waxman, MCM, APR and Julianne Thouin

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