As a University of Iowa employee, you have access to many on-demand learning opportunities that allow you to learn key technical and professional skills at any time. 

LinkedIn Learning

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LinkedIn Learning is offered for free to all UI employees and offers more than 100,000 technology and professional skill tutorials, trainings, and learning paths at any time, at your own pace.  

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Time Management
  • Managing Your Time, Todd Dewett. This course offers quick time-management tips suitable for everyone to get more out of their workday.
  • Getting Things Done, David Allen. This course teaches the art of the Getting Things Done® methodology, a renowned productivity system.
  • Productivity: Prioritizing at Work, Madecraft and Mike Vardy. This course helps unlock productivity by prioritizing tasks and working on the right things at the right time.
  • Adjust when schedules collide, Dave Crenshaw. This course teaches how to protect and adapt a pre-planned work schedule by anticipating conflicts between work and home demands.

Leveraging Microsoft Teams
  • Team Collaboration in Microsoft 365, Nicholas Brazzi. This course teaches the most efficient and powerful ways to collaborate with your team using Microsoft 365.
  • Microsoft Teams Essential Training, Nicholas Brazzi. This course covers the essentials of Microsoft Teams, helping users understand how to use this collaborative workspace app effectively.

Developing Writing Plans
  • The Three Bucket System: How to Get Your Writing Done Every Day, EverCourse. This course teaches a reliable method to kickstart and organize your writing practice, which can be very useful for planning and sustaining writing productivity over the summer.
  • Rapid Idea Generation Using AI, Christina Vo and Madecraft. This course helps you use AI tools for rapid idea generation and overcoming creative blocks, which can support your writing plan by keeping ideas flowing.

Strategies for Mid-Career Success
  • Creating a Career Plan, Dr. Chaz Austin. This course helps learners use strategic career planning to identify their dream job, set career goals, and define and market their personal brand.
  • Leading with a Growth Mindset, Karen M. Allen. This course shows how to apply a growth mindset as a leader in everyday situations and shift thinking to foster development.
  • Developing Leadership Presence, John Ullmen. This course teaches how to develop leadership presence to inspire confidence, stand out, and gain leadership opportunities.
  • Establish your personal brand, Jenny Foss. This course teaches that clearly defining and intentionally managing your personal brand is essential for building thought leadership and controlling how others perceive you. For example, a faculty member aiming to advance into leadership roles might define their personal brand around being a collaborative innovator who champions faculty support initiatives. They would then consistently communicate this identity in meetings, presentations, and networking opportunities aligned with university leadership priorities.