LinkedIn Makes its 20 Most Popular LinkedIn Learning Courses Freely Available Throughout August

Looking to up your skills for a job change or career advancement in the second half of the year?

This will help – today, LinkedIn has published its listing of the 20 most popular LinkedIn Learning courses over the first half of 2022. In addition to this, LinkedIn’s also making each of these courses free to access till the end of the month – so now may well be the best time to jump in and brush up on the latest, rising skills in your industry.

As per LinkedIn:

“As the Great Reshuffle slows and the job market cools, professionals are getting more serious about skill building. The pandemic accelerated change across industries, and as a result, skills to do a job today have changed even compared to a few years ago. Professionals are responding by learning new skills to future-proof their careers and meet the moment.” 

LinkedIn says that over seven million people have undertaken these 20 courses this year, covering everything from improved communication, project management, coding, strategic thinking and more.

Here are the top 20 LinkedIn Learning courses right now, which you can access via the relevant links:

1. Goal Setting: Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) with Jessie Withers
2. Excel Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365) with Dennis Taylor
3. Interpersonal Communication with Dorie Clark
4. Cultivating a Growth Mindset with Gemma Leigh Roberts
5. Project Management Foundations with Bonnie Biafore
6. Using Questions to Foster Critical Thinking and Curiosity with Joshua Miller
7. Essentials of Team Collaboration with Dana Brownlee
8. Unconscious Bias with Stacey Gordon
9. Learning Python with Joe Marini
10. Communicating with Confidence with Jeff Ansell
11.  Speaking Confidently and Effectively with Pete Mockaitis
12. Learning the OWASP Top 10 with Caroline Wong
13. Power BI Essential Training with Gini von Courter
14. Strategic Thinking with Dorie Clark
15. SQL Essential Training with Bill Weinman
16. Developing Your Emotional Intelligence with Gemma Leigh Roberts
17. Communication Foundations with Brenda Bailey-Hughes and Tatiana Kolovou
18. Agile Foundations with Doug Rose
19. Digital Marketing Foundations with Brad Batesole
20. Critical Thinking with Mike Figliuolo

If you’ve been thinking about upskilling, now may be the time – or maybe it’s just worth taking some of the programming courses, for example, so that you have a better understanding of how to communicate between departments on projects.

Or you could take an Agile course. If, you know, you don’t trust your own management ability.

The courses are available for free till August 31st via the above links.