LinkedIn Learning & Our Recommended Training
Hello, and welcome to our customized LinkedIn Learning recommendations. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard us talk about LinkedIn Learning, and the incredible amount of content that the University provides to you for free. That amount of content – 23,000 courses and counting! – can be really hard to sift through. With that in mind, we’ve created a currated list of recommended courses for you. Think of this as a great jumping off point to get your LinkedIn Learning journey started
University of Kentucky faculty and staff now have access to one of the world’s largest online professional developments tools!
LinkedIn Learning is an on-demand learning solution designed to help you gain new skills and advance your career.
LinkedIn Learning is available at no cost to all active faculty and staff (including temporary employees) at UK.
With LinkedIn Learning, UK employees will be able to:
- Access up-to-date content and expert-led courses.
- View courses on demand on both desktop and mobile devices.
- Get 24/7, unlimited access to more than 16,000 business, design and tech online courses.
- Learn in-demand skills.
- Sample content categories including project management, marketing, finance, data science, web development, product and manufacturing, video, graphic design, and user experience
Click here to get started today!
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Word Overview
Learn how to create, edit, format, and share documents with ease in this course, covering the basics of Word.
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Word Quick Tips
Do you just need a quick answer to an immediate “How do I …?” problem in Microsoft Word? This course provides on-the-spot solutions for the most common questions in Word - recommended for users of every experience level.
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Mastering Mail Merge
Discover how to use the popular mail merge feature to quickly build customized emails, labels, letters, and other documents. Recommended for intermediate users and above.
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Excel Overview
Looking to get started with Microsoft Excel? In this beginner-level course, follow along and learn about the basics of Excel.
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Excel Quick Tips
The most common questions about using Excel now have timely video answers. This set of quick tips offers helpful, condensed steps you can readily apply to keep on task—whether you're running calculations, setting up a new workbook, applying conditional formatting, fixing a sheet, collaborating with your team or much more.
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Excel Pivot Tables
PivotTables don't have to be scary! This powerful Excel feature cuts the time you spend on formulas in half. Knowing how to properly use pivot tables will take you from an Excel user to an Excel rockstar. Recommended for those that already hanve a base level of Excel knowledge.
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PowerPoint Essentials
PowerPoint helps you create and deliver engaging and professional presentations. Whether you want to learn the basics of this presentation software or enhance your presentation skills, you can find courses that match your needs and goals. Learn how to design, edit, and animate slides, add charts, graphs, and multimedia, and use PowerPoint features like themes, templates, and transitions.
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PowerPoint Tips and Tricks
PowerPoint just keeps adding new features you might not be aware of. The latest version comes with the cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) as well as design features that help your work smarter and visualize your ideas faster. Discover powerful tips and shortcuts that will help you leverage the latest features and take your PowerPoint game to the next level.
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PowerPoint: Designing Better Slides
Bad and boring PowerPoint presentations are often due to bad slides, and bad presentations are so prevalent that many people feel like the problem is PowerPoint itself. In this course, learn how to use PowerPoint to create better visuals that support and complement your message, improve the presentation environment, and cater to your audience's needs.
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Essentials of Outlook
Discover how to set up and manage email, calendars, and contacts in the Microsoft 365 version of Microsoft Outlook. Jess Stratton starts this beginner-level course with a tour of the Outlook interface and then covers all the tools and features you need to work as a team, track assignments, collaborate effectively, and enhance productivity.
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Outlook Quick Tips
Get quick answers to your most urgent Outlook questions. These short tutorials help users work faster and smarter with Outlook, the ubiquitous email and calendar app from Microsoft.
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Outlook: Time Management with Calendars and Tasks
Elevate your productivity with Outlook's cutting-edge calendar and task management features, including the latest AI-driven enhancements released in 2024. Let this course guide you through transforming your workflow using Outlook's robust toolset and time-management techniques applicable across various platforms.
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Adobe Acrobat Basics: Features Everyone Should Know
You use Adobe Acrobat Pro on a regular basis to look at documents created using software you may not have. Most people think that’s all Acrobat does, but it has little known features that can completely change the way you work. In this course, learn an overview of these delightfully useful features so that you can work more efficiently to quickly accomplish your daily tasks. Learn how to open a variety of graphic file formats directly in Acrobat Pro, combine a variety of files into a single PDF, change the order and orientation of pages, pull selected pages, extract images from existing PDFs, make edits, turn form layouts into interactive fillable forms, and more.
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Adobe Acrobat: Creating Forms
Learn how to take static PDF documents and turn them into interactive forms with Acrobat DC. This course shows how to add a variety of interactive form fields—everything from text and check boxes to radio buttons and list boxes—and how to trigger actions with buttons.
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Creating and Giving Business Presentations
In this course, you'll learn some secrets to creating unforgettable business presentations. It will guide you through everything you need to know, from shaping your vision and structuring your content to crafting visually stunning slides and weaving in a powerful story.
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Master Confident Presentations
The key to a great presentation is confidence. Learn the difference between simply giving (and surviving) a presentation and delivering a confident and engaging talk your audience will love. In this training course, you'll get a series of tips and tricks, emphasizing practical techniques you can use before and during a presentation to maximize its effectiveness.
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Storytelling for Technical Presentations
Technical information can be dry and hard to understand. But that doesn’t mean your presentation has to be. Storytelling can transform technical talks into dynamic and energizing presentations. In this course, you can learn the top reasons why audiences tune out and discover techniques to make your complex material more memorable and engaging.
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Speaking Confidently and Effectively
Learn how to build on your presentation skills to gain a competitive advantage in your career. Professional speaker Diane DiResta shares tips and tricks for leveling up your presentations and boosting your executive presence.
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Customer Service for Internal Employees
In this course, learn skills and techniques for providing outstanding internal customer service to colleagues within your organization. You'll learn how to build positive workplace relationships, communicate effectively, and serve coworkers who can be difficult to work with. He also provides techniques for managing—and exceeding—expectations for internal service, and solving problems quickly and effectively.
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Business Etiquette: Phone, Email, and Text
Business etiquette skills are just as important today as ever—they impact an individual's communication, confidence, and career. In this course, etiquette expert Toni Purvis guides you through essential etiquette for business communications. Learn about email etiquette, with topics including subject lines, using gender and pronouns respectfully, tricky elements of bcc and cc, and crafting an email that in content, tone, and timing takes the recipient into consideration.
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Discovering Your Strengths
Understanding what you do best is essential to succeeding professionally. But often we are unclear on our own strengths. Join leadership expert Dave Crenshaw on a journey of self-discovery, as he walks you through a simple framework to identify your strengths. Discover your natural gifts, your passions, your skills, and your greatest abilities. Dave shares specific exercises to help you pinpoint what you should focus on doing (and what you should avoid) to develop your strengths and increase your value as an employee.
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Increase Your Flexible Thinking Skills
he ability to switch mental gears quickly and efficiently isn't just a boon for workers needing to pivot after a setback. This facility—also known as cognitive flexibility—is critical to everyone’s mental and physical health. Employees of all stripes need the ability to pivot, adapt, and challenge their automatic assumptions in order to increase their adaptability, resilience, and creativity. In this course, clinical psychologist and best-selling author Andrea Bonior teaches science-backed techniques for improving cognitive flexibility.
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Make Work Meaningful
There’s can be an emptiness that many feel about their work. They are disengaged because they feel that they're not doing what they are supposed to be doing with their life. In this course, instructor Dave Crenshaw helps professionals go beyond “getting stuff done” by adding the element of personal motivation to seemingly mundane workday activities.
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Time Management Fundamentals
What would you do if you had an extra 10 hours per week? Sounds impossible? In this course, productivity expert Dave Crenshaw shows you how to get more done in the shortest time possible and give you more of that precious free time. The course lays out the theoretical and practical foundations for being more productive and explains the obstacles that can get in the way.
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Secrets of Effective Prioritization
In this course, Sam Bennett—best-selling author, successful entrepreneur, and expert in creativity and productivity—shows you how to make that time by learning the secrets of effective prioritization.
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How to Set Goals When Everything Feels Like A Priority
Sometimes it can feel like you’re working on everyone's else's to-do list instead of your own. How can you make space for accomplishing the goals that are important to you? Join best-selling business author and consultant Dorie Clark as she shares practical advice on how to prioritize effectively so that you can get meaningful things done.
