LinkedIn Learning is an online educational platform that provides access to over 16,000 videos and 5,000 courses on various topics created by experts in the field. UNCG instructors, staff, and students can review the videos and complete courses as part of UNCG courses or for professional development. Course completion can be documented on your personal LinkedIn profile.
LinkedIn Learning offers courses, learning paths, and playlists aimed at leadership. The UTLC has cultivated a few opportunities, but supervisors can use LinkedIn Learning to explore number of important topics. Please note that LinkedIn Learning requires UNCG credentials.
Administrative Tasks
Leadership: Tips, Tactics, and Advice
From goal setting to setting up one-on-ones, this pathway explores the foundational tactics and strategies for the day-to-day leading and managing a unit.
Using Project Management Approaches to Developing a Department Budget
Departmental leaders have to approach budget processes using forecasting data, balancing current institutional context with disciplinary expectations, and individual unit goals. This pathway uses a project management approach to developing and exploring budgets, from strategies to address competing priorities to identifying return on investment.
Improving Your Leadership Communication
Precise and powerful communication is essential for quality of leadership. In this pathway, you will learn the foundations of communication for leadership, meeting the communication needs of your team, communicating difficult and challenging news, and more.
General Leadership
Leadership Foundations: Leadership Styles & Models
Foundations of leadership exploring different styles, characteristics, and approaches to authentic leadership.
Developing Your Leadership Philosophy
Just like teaching philosophies, a leadership philosophy can help you map your priorities as a leader. This pathway will help you examine for essential aspects of leaderships, determine what motivates you as a leader, explore strategies to meet your goals, and craft your philosophy for leading.
Leadership: Practical Skills
Exploring what makes a good leader, this pathway presents strategies for connecting with your team, developing a leadership style, delegating, encouraging autonomy, and more.
Collaborative Leadership: Building collaborative relationships
Collaborative leadership invites team members into a shared leadership model. This pathway explores crucial skills of collaborative leaders, strategies for fostering collaboration, and developing trust within the team.
Change Leadership: Leading in Change
Change has becoming a constant element of the higher education landscape. This pathway explores assessing landscapes, developing and evaluating strategies, effective leadership approaches in change, creating space for choice and action, and more.
Developing Mental Toughness for Leadership: Prepare your mind for leadership
The transition from faculty to academic leadership can shift relationships, partnerships, and more. Preparing for rapid change, managing colleagues, and leading in moments of tension requires a mental toughness to move forward. In this pathway, explore the strategies and approaches of success team leadership in challenging moments.
Leading and Motivating People with Different Personalities
Leading teams often comes with a variety of personalities and personal needs. Understanding how to meet the individual needs of each faculty and staff member takes time and practice. In this pathway, you will explore different employee personality types, how to approach each team member as an individual, and managing the load of differentiate leadership.
Strategic Planning
Introduction to Talent Management
In this pathway, the facilitator shows you how to establish and articulate your organization’s core competencies, vision, mission, and strategic filters. Using these criteria, he shows how to prioritize competing initiatives, how to allocate resources to best support those initiatives, and how all of these factors combine to create a compelling strategic plan.
Introduction to Talent Management
Are you looking for a step-by-step guide on facilitating a collaborative group through a strategic planning process? Check out this course, which covers everything you need to know, from the early stages of ideation through implementing key objectives and defining metrics for actionable success.
Talent Management
Introduction to Talent Management
In this pathway, we will explore recruiting top talent, identifying and investing in talented team members, succession planning, and more.
Essential Lessons for First-Time Managers
Management and leadership are different, but both essential. In this pathway, you will explore the differences between management and leadership, building relationships with team members, identifying key performance indicators (KPI) and developing strategies, and more.
Difficult Situations: Solutions for Managers
When leading a team, conflict can be unavoidable – from conflicting ideas to challenging relationships. This pathway explores strategies for navigating difficult situations from conflict to personnel changes.
The Manager’s Guide to Difficult Conversations: Leaderships Skills and Mindsets
The hardest part of management is addressing difficult topics with your team. Avoiding difficult feedback, addressing challenging behavior, or sharing bad news can lead to more challenges in the future. In this pathway, you will explore how and when to start the conversation, managing emotions, strategies for getting to the heart of the issue, and more.
Understanding GenZ from a Manager’s Perspective
GenZ is beginning their careers in academia and bringing new perspectives on work/life harmony and institutional values. In this pathway, you will explore the difference between GenZ and other generations in the world of work.