Broaden Your Career Future with These 5 Free Management Training Courses
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While many forward-thinking companies offer their employees optional career advancement training seminars and workshops, not all do. That shouldn’t stop anyone who wants to learn better management skills in their current role or even someone who would like to put themselves forward for that managerial promotion. Thanks to some stellar free online course options and training resources for industry professionals, users can get insight on how to be more effective and productive managers.
Here are five helpful and informative free online management training courses for anyone who would like to strengthen their management skills and broaden their career prospects.
1. Management Training Course
In this simple-to-understand course comprising five videos that only last five minutes each, students learn about subjects like managerial styles, delegation of tasks, building high-performance teams, building confidence, and constructive feedback.
Sign up: Management Training Specialists
2. The Manager's Toolkit — A Practical Guide to Managing People at Work
This flexible course allows you to study its 29 lesson hours at your own pace, with practical information on managing employees, HR theories, conflicts, decision-making, leadership, and performance management. Coursera has many other courses on leadership and management, many of which are also free.
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3. How to Be a Great Manager and Strong Leader
The 10 dedicated lessons in this course each have their own management theme like problem-solving or operations management. This in-depth course also covers other important management areas like hiring and firing, ethics and law, and finance and accounting. You’ll even get a certificate at the end.
Sign up: Master Class Management
4. Leading With Effective Communication (Inclusive Leadership Training)
The idea behind this managerial course by EDX Courses is to create managers who inspire employees and are able to have difficult conversations tactfully. The unique course subject covers strategies for transparent and authentic communication in the workplace and approaches for communicating effectively.
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5. Communication Skills — Persuasion and Motivation
In order to achieve company goals, a manager needs to be able to motivate their staff. This free course on Alison under its leadership and management section focuses on the skills and techniques of persuasion and motivation in any setting.
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