Manager LinkedIn Courses

These are optional courses for new managers, or for those interested in taking a deeper dive into LinkedIn Learning's manager courses.

LEADING TEAMS

This course is designed to give you the insight and skills to build collaborative relationships within your team and throughout the organization.

Collaborative Leadership – 37m – Kinsey Gorman

In this course, Britt Andreatta shares how to boost your emotional quotient (EQ) to better lead teams, work with peers, and manage up.

Leading with Emotional Intelligence – 1h 2m – Britt Andreatta

Remote teams are here to stay, but how do we successfully manage and motivate individuals and teams who we rarely see? How do we keep enough control while still giving them enough freedom to enjoy their work and perform at their best?

Motivate Remote Teams – 2h 41m – Chris Croft

As a leader, you deal with so many personalities daily. To be an effective leader, you need to know how to motivate, lead, and persuade these diverse personalities.

Leading and Motivating Employees with Different Personalities 39m – Kwame Christian

Get tips for demonstrating credibility within a larger team, becoming a more collaborative leader, and burnishing your credibility regardless of your title. Plus, learn how to bounce back if your credibility has been damaged or you need to break a promise.

Developing Credibility as a Leader 35m – Dorie Clark

MANAGEMENT

When you bring people together, conflict is a natural part of the dynamic. How leaders choose to manage these inevitable disagreements can make the difference between a dysfunctional team and a successful one.

Managing Team Conflict - 1h 10m – Henna Inam

As a manager of a remote team, you may face unique challenges, but you also have unique opportunities to help your team thrive. 

How to be an Effective Remote Manager – 1h 9m – Mitch Simon

Harness the power of coaching in the workplace. Learn how to shift from a command-and-control style of management to a manager-as-coach style of leadership to transform employee engagement and bottom-line results.

Coaching and Developing Employees – 54m – Lisa Gates

In this course, leadership expert Sara Canaday shares the differences between managing, training, and coaching, and provides managers with coaching models and skills to support the development and growth of their employees.

Coaching Skills for Leaders and Managers – 34m – Sarah Canady

NEW MANAGERS

Managing new leaders comes with a unique set of challenges. Even the most outstanding individual contributor can struggle as they unpack their new role and tackle their increased responsibilities.

Managing New Managers – 20m – Sarah Canady

Of all the changes, promotions, and advancements you may receive at work, few are as impactful as the change from individual contributor to manager.

Coaching New Managers – 30m – Jenny Blake

Join management and leadership expert Todd Dewett as he provides practical advice to help you establish your identity as a leader, connect with your team, and become a successful first-time manager.

New Manager Foundations – 1h – Todd Dewett

If you’re new to management, you probably have one huge fear: that you’ll fail. While you probably became a manager because you excelled at your previous position, managing people brings a whole world of new challenges that require new skills.

Best Practices for New People Leaders 1hr 27m – Kirsten Blakemore

COMMUNICATION

In this course, Marlene Chism explains how to have difficult conversations, build your communication skills, and improve your relationships, teamwork, and business performance.

Having Difficult Conversations – 1h 7m – M.Chism

In this course, learn how to create a culture driven by meaningful feedback and deliver coaching and suggestions to help employees move forward. 

Delivering Employee Feedback – 27m – Todd Dewett

Most people are afraid of speaking in public, but effective oral communication is a key skill in business. Jeff Ansell provides simple communication tools, strategies, and tips that are easy to use and produce immediate results.

Communicating with Confidence –1h 16m – Jeff Ansell

In this course, Becki Saltzman shows how critical thinking improves your clarity of thought and conversation confidence, and explains how and when to communicate using critical thinking. 

Critical Thinking for More Effective Communication – 46m- Becki Saltzman

DIVERSITY & INCLUSION

In this course, leadership coach Vanessa Womack equips you with knowledge and impactful strategies that can help you successfully manage, counsel, and lead a diverse team. 

Managing a Diverse Team – 1h 36 – Vanessa Womack

In this course, Duke University professor Dr. Daisy Lovelace shares principles and strategies that can help you have more productive, meaningful conversations on topics related to diversity. 

Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues 55m – Daisy Lovelace

In this course, Arianna Huffington and Verna Myers discuss the impact of our cultural lens on our daily relations and how to counter bias in our words and actions.

Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Differences 40m- Verna Myers & Arianna Huffington

This course is a guide that can help you develop a diversity hiring strategy, increase your candidate pool, and remove bias from your screening and interview process.

Recruiting Diverse Talent as a Hiring Manager, the importance of diversity recruiting efforts 1h 4m – Christine Linder

LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

Emotional intelligence can help you build effective relationships at work. Executive coach and organizational psychologist Gemma Roberts explains what emotional intelligence (EQ) is and why it's important. 

Developing your Emotional Intelligence – 1hour – Gemma Leigh Roberts

Explore the four domains of emotional intelligence—self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and relationship management—as defined by psychologist and author Daniel Goleman.

Learn Emotional Intelligence, The Key Determiner of Success – 32m – Ann Cuddy

Why is compassion so powerful? Like many forms of spirituality and meditation, compassion practice has been shown by research to enhance your health, psychological well-being, relationships, and sense of purpose.

The Science of Compassion – 54m – Kelly McConigal

TIME MANAGEMENT

Great leaders focus on the most important priorities. But in a busy work environment, we have to learn to choose wisely. In this course, Dorie Clark equips leaders with tips for managing this balancing act with confidence.  Prioritizing Effectively as a Leader – 36m – Dorie Clark

When you begin to manage people, organizing your time reaches a whole new level of complexity—team members may need more time with you than you're anticipating, direct reports may frequently come by your desk with questions, and you may receive more emails than you can keep up with. As a manager, you want to make sure you're being productive with your time while setting a good example for your team.

Time Management for Managers – 1hr 8m – Dave Crenshaw