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Workforce Development Courses

Workforce development courses can help you learn talent acquisition strategies, employee training techniques, performance management, and skills gap analysis. You can build expertise in creating effective onboarding programs, implementing mentorship initiatives, and evaluating workforce effectiveness. Many courses introduce tools like Learning Management Systems (LMS) for training delivery, HR analytics software for performance tracking, and project management tools to streamline workforce initiatives.


Popular Workforce Development Courses and Certifications


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    Coursera

    Foundations of Effective Sales Pipeline Management

    Skills you'll gain: Sales Pipelines, Sales Development, Sales Process, Lead Generation, Sales Management, Sales Prospecting, Sales, Sales Strategy, Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Software, Automation

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Coursera

    Create User Stories in Trello

    Skills you'll gain: User Story, Kanban Principles, Agile Methodology, Agile Project Management, Productivity Software, Organizational Skills, Project Management Software, Prioritization, Project Management

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    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Coursera

    Power Pages for Beginners: Create Website for Your Company

    Skills you'll gain: Microsoft Power Platform, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), No-Code Development, Microsoft 365, UI Components, Development Environment, Web Content, Web Design and Development, Web Design, Content Management

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Scrimba

    Build a Multi-Page Website with Frontend Mentor, HTML, and CSS

    Skills you'll gain: Responsive Web Design, Web Design, Typography, Front-End Web Development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), UI Components, Figma (Design Software), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), User Interface (UI) Design, User Interface (UI), Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, Usability, Animations

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

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    Google Cloud

    Using Custom Fields in Looker Explores

    Skills you'll gain: Looker (Software), Ad Hoc Analysis, Dashboard, Data Analysis, Exploratory Data Analysis, Data Literacy, Database Application

    4.8
    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    6 reviews

    Beginner · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Coursera

    SQL CASE Statements

    Skills you'll gain: PostgreSQL, SQL, Query Languages, Data Transformation, Data Manipulation, Database Development, Data Management

    4.5
    Rating, 4.5 out of 5 stars
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    30 reviews

    Advanced · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    IBM

    z/Architecture Assembler Language Part 1: The Basics

    Skills you'll gain: z/OS, Computer Architecture, Mainframe Computing, Systems Architecture, Programming Principles, Data Structures, Computer Programming

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    Rating, 4.2 out of 5 stars
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    9 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Whizlabs

    Design and Implement Processes and Communications

    Skills you'll gain: Azure DevOps, DevOps, Agile Methodology, Continuous Delivery, Collaborative Software, CI/CD, Microsoft Azure, Software Development, Application Performance Management, Version Control

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Coursera

    Análisis de documentos con servicios cognitivos de Azure

    Skills you'll gain: Model Evaluation, Unsupervised Learning, Microsoft Azure, Machine Learning Methods, Data Validation, No-Code Development, Data Processing, Document Management, Cloud Services

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    Rating, 4.8 out of 5 stars
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    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Coursera

    Data Structures with C: Upgrade a Rocket Display Module

    Skills you'll gain: Embedded Systems, C (Programming Language), Embedded Software, Data Structures, Programming Principles, Data Management, Performance Tuning, Software Development

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    University of Colorado Boulder

    Impacts of Sustainable Operations and Supply Chains

    Skills you'll gain: Corporate Sustainability, Environmental Social And Corporate Governance (ESG), Sustainability Reporting, Sustainable Business, Sustainable Development, Business Ethics, Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, Procurement, Supplier Relationship Management, Labor Compliance, Compliance Management, Regulatory Compliance, Waste Minimization, Product Lifecycle Management, Stakeholder Engagement

    Build toward a degree

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    LearnKartS

    AWS Developer Associate Certification Prep

    Skills you'll gain: Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Amazon Web Services, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM), Containerization, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, AWS CloudFormation, Amazon DynamoDB, Kubernetes, Operational Databases, API Gateway, Database Application, Amazon S3, Cloud Security, Cloud-Native Computing, Event-Driven Programming, AWS Kinesis, Amazon CloudWatch, Virtual Machines, Servers, Virtualization and Virtual Machines

    4.7
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    Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular workforce development courses

  • Foundations of Effective Sales Pipeline Management: Coursera
  • Create User Stories in Trello: Coursera
  • Power Pages for Beginners: Create Website for Your Company : Coursera
  • Build a Multi-Page Website with Frontend Mentor, HTML, and CSS: Scrimba
  • Using Custom Fields in Looker Explores: Google Cloud
  • SQL CASE Statements: Coursera
  • z/Architecture Assembler Language Part 1: The Basics: IBM
  • Design and Implement Processes and Communications: Whizlabs
  • Análisis de documentos con servicios cognitivos de Azure: Coursera
  • Data Structures with C: Upgrade a Rocket Display Module: Coursera

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