Free Online Resources to Keep Your Skills Sharp
We've posted a few times about the need for continuing education for managers. Learning a foreign language and keeping your skills sharp can improve judgment, broaden your point of view, and keep you competitive. But managers, we know, are also incredibly busy. If a night class or a weekend course seems like a laughable suggestion given your schedule, there are other ways to keep learning. Besides the good old fashioned book, Newly Corporate today offers a round up of free online courses and resources to help professionals with hectic lives learn some basic Spanish, recap their physics for fun, or dive into key business skills for managers.
Among the most promising courses:
- UC Irvine's "Fundamentals of Business Analytics"
- Mango Languages free online introduction to French or Brazilian Portuguese
- UC Berkeley's YouTube courses including "Physics for Future Presidents"
- Utah State University's "Macroeconomics for Managers"