Is one of your goals to get promoted this year? Advance your career by learning new skills. Below is a roundup of the LinkedIn Learning courses recently-promoted professionals watched more than others. 

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Advance your career with the right skills. Here is the #1 course recently promoted professionals have watched: Make the Move from Individual Contributor to Manager.

Course description: Before starting a new management role, it's important to prepare for a shift in mindset, priorities, and expectations. Join instructor Dr. Carolyn Goerner as she explores specific strategies for new managers to expand personal focus beyond individual performance and look to the broader success of the team. Carolyn discusses methods for successfully managing former peers, initiating difficult conversations, delegating work, talking about money, discussing performance, and more.

Manage like a pro before landing a promotion: New Manager Foundations.

Course description: 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. Learn how to survive your first 30 days, build trust, and develop authority. Todd also details how to manage change, discusses the importance of diversity and inclusion, and explores how to build resilience through stress management. This course was designed to prepare you to confidently tackle your responsibilities at work and increase your value to the organization while improving operational effectiveness.

Do you know how to lead? Learn all the tips with this free course: Lead Without Formal Authority.

Course description: Leadership isn't just a skill for managers. Demonstrating leadership is important for employees at every level of an organization. There are opportunities to lead every day, whether you hold a formal leadership position or not. In this course, leadership and personal development experts Lisa Earle McLeod and Elizabeth Lotardo outline how individual contributors or SMEs can exhibit leadership by influencing, inspiring, mentoring, and motivating others. They also help you overcome unique challenges such as how to communicate when you think your boss or team is headed in the wrong direction.

Focus on the right skills, including focusing on you. Here's a course to help: Improving Your Focus.

Course description: In our hectic world, time management alone doesn't cut it. To truly increase your efficiency, it's crucial that you improve your focus as well as tend to your calendar. In this course, productivity expert and best-selling author Dave Crenshaw helps you develop the survival skills to both avoid daily distractions and stay focused on what's most valuable. Curate your digital and physical space to strengthen concentration, discover ways to keep your mind on task, and protect your relationships—both at work and at home—by focusing on what's most important.

They say feedback is a gift. Learn the skill that keeps on giving with this course: Giving and Receiving Feedback.

Course description: All professionals are trying to get better at what they do. No matter where you work, or what your role, the only way to improve is with feedback. Giving—and receiving—feedback is a skill that's relevant to every member of an organization. Watch this course to learn how to give and receive high-quality feedback. Whether it's with peers, managers, colleagues, team members, friends, or family, the same principles apply across the board. Instructor Gemma Leigh Roberts shows how to give effective feedback, ask for feedback, and use the responses you receive as a tool to improve personal performance. These tips will help lead you into a cycle of continuous development, and a growth mindset that can help propel your career and your relationships forward.

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