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LinkedIn Learning: Critical Thinking

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ASU currently provides access to LinkedIn Learning for all working learners and professional staff. Below are recommended trainings through LinkedIn Learning aimed at improving Critical Thinking skills.

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• Check to see if your institution offers a subscription to LinkedIn Learning. As a reminder, this is a subscription based service.
• Have your working learner(s) complete this critical thinking course either on their own or in a team setting.
• Take time to discuss and reflect on what your working learner(s) learned from the critical thinking course.
• Set goals for improvement moving forward centered on critical thinking skills and based on what they learned.
• Check-in on the goals set and add supplementary LinkedIn Learning courses as you see fit.

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LinkedIn Learning's most popular class of 2021 is about unconscious bias

If the theme of 2020 was adjusting to living and working under the new realities of the coronavirus pandemic, many people saw 2021 as a blank slate to picture and work toward a better version of themselves, in the workplace and beyond.

That's the takeaway from LinkedIn Learning's report of its top 20 most popular classes of 2021, which for the first time saw an array of courses geared toward diversity, equity and inclusion topics as some of the platform's most-viewed online classes.

Some 4.6 million people watched LinkedIn Learning's top 20 courses this year, with the No. 1 course being "Unconscious Bias," taught by Stacey Gordon, an executive advisor and diversity strategist.

It joins three other DEI-centric courses to crack the annual top 20 ranking, including Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences; Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging; and Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues.

The "impressive and heartening" pattern "speaks to how many people are committed to making progress in this area," Dan Brodnitz, LinkedIn Learning's head of global content strategy, tells CNBC Make It . "Learning is aspirational. When we see strong learning patterns emphasizing DEI courses, we see that as an aspirational signal from individuals, managers and organizations" of where they hope to improve.

The influx of activity is driven by both individuals seeking out courses on their own, as well as companies or managers who may connect workers with the courses, Brodnitz adds. Overall, he says, the pattern signals a broader acceptance that progress in workplace equity needs to be made, and a greater movement toward bridging those gaps.

Social values impact workplace learning

Other courses that top the most-watched list are focused on improving interpersonal skills, such as public speaking, effective communication, personal branding and speaking confidently.

Though none of them cracked the top 20, Brodnitz notes an uptick in viewership for courses on wellness topics, such as developing a mindfulness practice and leading during times of grief.

Activity in these areas underscores the way employees are viewing professional learning not just as a way to gain office skills (think, learning how to delegate or use a new online tool), but to bring broader social issues into the workplace, whether that's DEI, stronger interpersonal connection or prioritizing wellness at work.

While the lines between work and home have dissolved over the years, the pandemic has provided a unifying moment where "this blurring between personal and professional is a trend that's here to stay," Brodnitz says.

As far as hard skills, some of the most popular technical courses this year include classes on Microsoft Excel, Python and SQL, which Brodnitz says tend to remain steady year-to-year.

Changes in the future of work spur online learning

LinkedIn Learning saw a 53% increase in global hours spent learning this year, after an already jampacked 2020 when online learning skyrocketed as home-bound office workers sought out videos to help with time management , work-from-home productivity and online communication tips.

That the platform continues to see growth indicates employees "are making learning a priority in a dramatic way," says Brodnitz. He attributes much of this year's new activity to what he calls the "Great Reshuffle," where employees are quitting jobs and taking new ones — sometimes in a different industry or profession — at a rapid clip.

So far, the future of work in 2022 remains as chaotic as ever, with forecasts of office reopenings, larger shifts to hybrid work and innovations in remote operations hanging in the balance. Brodnitz says future online learning patterns will reflect learning to work and lead through ambiguity.

"Anybody who prognosticates far from this moment is playing an interesting game," he says, and "it's important to watch the signals for the next few months and build a system that's quick and responsive to the moment."

To that end, LinkedIn Learning is offering full access to its top 20 most popular courses of 2021 for free until October 15. Here's what will be available.

1. Unconscious Bias

Instructor: Stacey Gordon

Course description: Identify some of the most common forms bias can take, and uncover strategies for identifying and overcoming those personal or even organizational biases. 

  2. Strategic Thinking

Instructor: Dorie Clark

Course description: Managers and leaders learn how to use strategic thinking to guide teams and develop solutions to key business problems.

3. Excel Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)

Instructor: Dennis Taylor

Course description: Discover techniques to navigate multiple worksheets, and formatting shortcuts across the platform to help save time.

4. Communicating with Confidence

Instructor: Jeff Ansel

Course description: Learn how to organize your thoughts, breathe properly, use your body and words to express ideas, and understand how to overcome anxiety.

5. Speaking Confidently and Effectively

Instructor: Pete Mockaitis

Course description: Adapted from the podcast "How to Be Awesome at Your Job," discover ways to control your focus, ensure consistency in your delivery and establish recovery methods in the face of difficult situations.

6. Confronting Bias: Thriving Across Our Differences

Instructor: Verna Myers and Arianna Huffington

Course description: Discover how to create inclusive environments where everyone can thrive, and how to overcome saying the wrong thing — or nothing at all — and counter unconscious bias in our words and actions.

7. Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging

Instructor: Pat Wadors

Course description: Managers and executives are invited to learn how to drive the conversation on DIBs — Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging — to include the third element to an important conversation and understand the best path to hire and retain diverse talent, listen to employees, and integrate DIBs into your employee experience.

8. Learning Excel 2019

Instructor: David Rivers

Course description: Learn the features and capabilities of Excel to begin creating and opening workbooks, entering text and numbers, working with formulas, basic formatting, inserting charts, and sharing and printing workbooks.

9. Critical Thinking

Instructor: Mike Figliuolo

Course description: Practice a series of techniques to define a problem and the tools to begin solving for the solution. Plus, develop this skill across your team.

10. Time Management Fundamentals

Instructor: Dave Crenshaw

Course description: Develop habits to be more organized and reduce clutter in your workspace; stay mentally on task and eliminate the to-dos you have floating in your head; and develop a time budget to focus on your most valuable activities.

11. SQL Essential Training

Instructor: Bill Weinman

Course description: Learn key functions like creating tables, defining relationships, manipulating strings, numbers, and dates; using triggers to automate actions; and using subselects and views.

12. Learning Personal Branding

Instructor: Chelsea Krost

Course description: Create consistency in your routine to promote yourself, and opportunities to monetize your brand. 

13. Agile Foundations

Instructor: Doug Rose

Course description: Embrace an agile mindset can help you prioritize customers over shareholders and create a more horizontal team framework that welcomes input from all.

14. Communicating about Culturally Sensitive Issues

Instructor: Daisy Lovelace

Course description: Gather insights on how to ask better questions, respond with more empathy and extend a meaningful apology. 

15. Customer Service Foundations

Instructor: Jeff Toister

Course description: Learn how to help your customers feel more valued to keep them coming back, provide the right help at just the right time and use customer feedback to improve the experience for everyone on both sides of the transaction.

16. Interpersonal Communication

Course description: Learn to grapple with tricky situations (like how to deal with interruptions), respond to critical feedback and effectively communicate across cultures.

17. Python Essential Training

Course description: Create more efficient and effective scripts, and put yourself in a position to be in demand.

18. Delivering an Authentic Elevator Pitch

Instructor: Tatiana Kolovou

Course description: Prepare to make a powerful, memorable first impression at any moment in person, on the phone or even online.

19. Excel: Advanced Formulas and Functions

Course description: Learn critical shortcuts to speed up your work, and practical examples in real-world scenarios.

20. Online Marketing Foundations  

Instructor: Brad Batesole

Course description: Learn best practices for developing and distributing video content, mobile marketing and influencer marketing. Explore ways to enhance the buyer's journey by improving your own digital skill set.

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The 8 Best LinkedIn Learning Courses on Professional Development

A professional development program can enhance your skills, knowledge, and approach at work. Here are the best LinkedIn Learning courses for it.

Professional development is crucial for reaching your full potential in your career. It provides a solid foundation for advancing in your career and building your confidence over time. LinkedIn Learning is one of the best learning platforms with premium-quality short courses taught by industry experts.

The subscription comes for $26.99/month annually or $39.99/month if you decide to go for a monthly subscription. In this article, we have enlisted the best LinkedIn Learning courses that will help you grow professionally and shine in your job role.

1. The Six Morning Habits of High Performers

Habits make you who you are. Inculcating proactive habits early in your career helps you develop as a professional. Moreover, an effective morning routine sets you up for success for the rest of the day. This audio course is perfect for developing your morning rituals for personal development leading to professional success.

The short 23-minute course is an adaptation of the podcast—How to Be Awesome at Your Job, and includes six best morning practices of successful people that changed their lives. Pete Mockaitis, the course instructor, is one of the highest-rated keynote speakers and the author of the best-selling book—Miracle Morning. The course is among the most popular in the category, with a rating of 4.5 and around 3,810,618 learners.

2. Confidence: How to Overcome Self-Doubt, Insecurity, and Fears

Your career success and overall job satisfaction highly depend on your confidence levels. Low self-esteem may have a negative impact on your career growth and limit your earning potential. Moreover, it can cause you to undermine your success and develop self-doubt over time.

TJ Guttormsen, the instructor of this course and a communication coach by profession, takes you through various practical exercises that boost your confidence levels and help you in understanding your emotions.

Next, TJ guides you on overcoming the most common challenges you face, including imposter syndrome, people pleasing, and more. Further, the course advances towards understanding others and concludes with action steps on building confidence. The 1-hour course has a 4.7 rating on the platform and over 62,094 learners.

3. Critical Thinking for Better Judgment and Decision-Making

Critical thinking is crucial for making better decisions at work. If you're leading a team, critical thinking skills enhance your problem-solving abilities, creativity, and help achieve better results from your team.

Becki Saltzman, the instructor of this course, goes in-depth into improving your critical thinking, starting by explaining various common elements of thinking. Next, you’ll learn how to overcome your poor judgment and techniques for improving your decision quality.

Finally, she concludes by helping you tackle common critical thinking challenges and spot fallacies. The 56-minute video course is one of the popular courses in the category, with a 4.7 rating and 997,034 learners.

4. Enhancing Your Productivity

Imagine ending your workday with a sigh of satisfaction, knowing that you have achieved everything you set out to do. Enhancing your productivity will help you reach your goals faster, help you manage your time better , and drive better results.

The 45-minute video course focuses on two key factors in improving your productivity—irreplaceability, and focus. It starts with understanding your valuable activities and comparing those with your colleagues’ most valuable activities. Next, the course discusses strategies for focusing on activities that will help you become irreplaceable and make a contribution to your organization.

Dave Crenshaw, the instructor of this course, is an author and business coach specializing in productive leadership. The course has a 4.5 rating with around 171,444 learners at the time of writing.

5. Communicating with Confidence

It's essential to be a good communicator at work to effectively convey your ideas to others. Moreover, every aspect of your life is affected by your communication skills, whether it's a presentation, a meeting, or a one-on-one interaction.

The course helps you with various strategies to become a better communicator. It helps you tackle common challenges that hold you back from being a good communicator, including fear of public speaking and anxiety.

Moreover, the instructor of this course, Jeff Ansell, shows you various ways to use your body language and gestures to sound more confident. Jeff has advised numerous CEOs at major companies as a top-ranked speaker, author, and veteran coach in PR and Journalism. The 1-hour and 16-minute video course has a 4.7 rating and is taken by 1,242,560 learners.

6. Leading Productive Meetings

Leading productive meetings is essential to communicating, collaborating, and getting the most out of your team. This course helps you by guiding you with the best practices and ways to make meetings more productive . The course instructor, Dave Crenshaw, begins by covering six principles of successful online meetings.

Next, he explains the essential to-dos before, during, and after the meeting. Dave also guides you on keeping your attendees engaged whether the meeting is held online, in person, or a combination of both. The 1-hour video course has a 4.7 rating and over 9,737 learners on the platform.

7. Being an Effective Team Member

Effective teamwork allows you to learn, collaborate, and share responsibilities that help you achieve goals faster and reduces stress for everyone. At the same time, being a team player helps you build trust among your colleagues and contribute to achieving maximum results for the team.

This short 31-minute course guides you on the importance of being a team member. The course instructor, Daisy Lovelace, a Professor and Corporate Consultant, summarizes the key attributes of being an effective team player. Additionally, she offers tips and techniques that help you adopt the behaviors that make you a reliable teammate. The course has a 4.6 rating and is enrolled by 533,754 learners.

8. Rediscovering Your Joy, Energy, and Purpose

It's common to feel uninspired, lack motivation, and experience burnout at times. To keep your energy up and to ensure self-care, you should re-evaluate your purpose and discover the things that bring you joy.

The course instructors, Amy Ahlers and Samantha Bennett, have coached thousands of people and helped them feel more inspired in their lives. They guide you through some easy techniques that help you in your journey of discovering your purpose. The course starts with evaluating your current state and understanding yourself.

Next, the course advances towards various strategies by the instructors on reconnecting with your interests and gaining your lost spark again. Finally, you’ll learn essential tips on helping you with sustaining the positive changes for the long term. The 47-minute video course has a 4.7 rating and over 2,350 learners on the platform.

Grow as a Professional With the Best LinkedIn Learning Courses

The above-mentioned LinkedIn Learning courses will help you inculcate proactive habits, communicate effectively, lead productive meetings, boost your productivity, and so much more.

Choosing the course that resonates with you the most is the best place to start. Make sure you follow the practices outlined in the course to maximize your results and grow as a seasoned professional.

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As a management student, critical thinking is essential. It entails dissecting, assessing, and interpreting data as well as challenging presumptions and identifying biases.

Looking at its importance and my ability I decided to complete this course to challenge my thinking mindset in a critical way. Fundamentally, developing critical thinking as a management student after this course gave me the analytical, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities necessary to successfully negotiate the complex business dynamics of today not to an advance level but to the point of developement.

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