Whether you want to design a font for your small business, an event, or your passion project, this course can help you get started. Join instructor Nigel French as he helps you create your very first font using Fontself Maker, an extension for Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop that allows you to create OpenType fonts with minimum fuss. No prior knowledge of font design is required. Nigel demonstrates how to combine the power of Illustrator with Fontself Maker to create a variety of striking fonts. He shows how to make a hand-drawn font, explaining how to adjust your hand-drawn letters within Illustrator and then drag your letters, numerals, and punctuation into Fontself Maker to make your font. He also explains how to create a geometric font; add a new style, like bold or italics, to an existing Fontself font; turn your font characters into icons; and more.

Often, creative professionals find themselves in their current roles due to a combination of aptitude for a particular craft—photography, for example—and an insatiable curiosity that drives them to cultivate a diverse skill set. In today's market, where photographers often need to know design and designers often need to know how to take great pictures, these varied skill sets are crucial. Essentially, the more you know, the greater your professional value. In this course, get a high-level overview of some of the most popular creative fields—including graphic design, photography, video, and UX design—and learn which techniques you need to know to stay competitive. Join instructor Jim Heid as he shows the tools needed for various kinds of work, the skills that you'll need to get the most out of those tools, and the LinkedIn Learning courses that allow you to explore these tools and skills at your own pace.

Creativity is a powerful skill that you can learn and develop. In this course, Genein Letford, a top creative thinker and strategist, shares strategies for creative thinking that you can utilize as a leader. Genein dispels the myths about creativity and shows you how you can use creative thinking strategies to build your self-awareness. She explains how to open your creative senses, leverage your curiosity, and unleash your imagination. Genein walks you through a series of powerful creative thinking exercises. Finally, she discusses how to apply creativity to business and build a more creative culture in your organization.

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You are a creative person. Despite what your inner critic may have told you, you absolutely can solve complex business problems without a roadmap. The potential is there; whether or not you tap into it is up to you. In this concise course, Seth Godin—the author of 20 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, and The Practice—lays out how to help your team let go of the fears that hinder your creative progress and start creating work that matters. Learn how to combat preconceived notions about creativity, including the idea that creativity is a gift bestowed upon a select few. (Spoiler alert: it's not.) Discover how to tap into your team’s creativity by embracing the possibility of failure, cultivating practical empathy, and exploring the root causes of writer's block and impostor syndrome. Plus, get tips for making creative problem-solving a habit that sticks.

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Billions of people turn to social media for community and connection. But to the entrepreneurs highlighted in this series, these platforms are also a virtual land of opportunity. In this special series from the creators of the Hello Monday podcast, examine the ways in which creatives are using social media platforms and other innovative tools to start, grow, and scale their small businesses. Jessi Hempel and LinkedIn News editor Michaela Greer team up to host this series, connecting with successful creatives who leveraged online tools to turn their passions or hobbies into full-time businesses. Hear real-world stories of how people reworked their old side hustles, grew their audience, navigated a shifting industry, and more—all using tools that weren't initially designed for commerce.

The Certified in Risk and Information Control (CRISC) certification is an established, well-recognized credential from ISACA, the organization that has issued over 200,000 certifications to cybersecurity professionals in 188 countries. A CRISC certification shows employers that you understand how to identify and manage IT risk in an enterprise and that you’re capable of implementing and maintaining the controls necessary to address risks. This series of courses provides you with insights and content around the four IT risk management domains. In this first course of the series, instructor Jerod Brennen focuses on governance in IT risk identification. Jerod goes over basic definitions and information for IT risks, then covers how you can protect your organization’s people, processes, and technology from threats and vulnerabilities. He also addresses enterprise risk context and shows you techniques to engage your stakeholders and improve your risk posture.

The Certified in Risk and Information Control (CRISC) certification is an established, well-recognized credential from ISACA. A CRISC certification shows employers that you understand how to identify and manage IT risk in an enterprise and that you’re capable of implementing and maintaining the controls necessary to address risks. This series of courses explains the four IT risk management domains. In this course, instructor Jerod Brennen focuses on IT Risk Assessment. Jerod covers risk assessment fundamentals, then goes into how to determine risk rankings. He goes over methods to analyze risk scenarios for your organizational structure, policies, technology, architecture, and more. Jerod discusses how to analyze the effectiveness of your current controls, including leveraging assessments and performing gap analysis. Jerod concludes with useful advice on communicating your risk assessment results and updating your risk register.

The Certified in Risk and Information Control (CRISC) certification is an established, well-recognized credential from ISACA, the organization that has issued over 200,000 certifications to cybersecurity professionals in 188 countries. A CRISC certification shows employers that you understand how to identify and manage IT risk in an enterprise and that you’re capable of implementing and maintaining the controls necessary to address risks. This series of courses provides you with insights and content around the four IT risk management domains. In this third course of the series, instructor Jerod Brennen focuses on the third CRISC domain: Risk Response and Mitigation. Jerod covers the tasks you’ll be tested on when you sit for the exam, including consulting with risk owners, creating a risk action plan, selecting risk management controls, assigning control ownership to establish clear lines of accountability, and registering risk profile changes.

When an IT incident affects your organization, what you say, when you say it, and how you communicate it is crucial to protecting both your organization’s reputation and its long-term operations. Fortunately, handling hairy situations doesn't have to be guesswork. In this course, instructor David Pultorak covers the best ways to leverage the CCC® model, which gives you a shared approach, a common language, and best practices for improving communications during critical situations. David explains the different areas, results, phases, and layers of the model, to make it easier for you to navigate challenging moments—from breaches, to hacks, to misunderstandings gone awry on social media. He goes over how to communicate during the incident and how to follow through during the aftermath. David also discusses factors that influence your ability to respond well during different phases and he concludes with ways you can improve your responses.

In order to be a successful leader, clear communication is a key aspect to your effectiveness. After a conversation with you, do people feel clear on your position, or confused? Are they confident that you’ll welcome different perspectives, or are they uncomfortable voicing disagreement with you? In this course, Becki Saltzman shows how critical thinking improves your clarity of thought and conversation confidence, and explains how and when to communicate using critical thinking. Becki gives advice on how to construct good arguments and recognize bad ones, how to maintain productive communication even when you disagree, and how to recognize the difference between debating and negotiating. Whether you’re a seasoned leader or new to a leadership role, by the end of this course you’ll have new ways to communicate more effectively through critical thinking.

Cross-selling is the practice of selling an additional product or service to an existing customer. It can generate a significant opportunity, as the relationship already exists, but ensuring the additional product or service sold to your clients enhances their value is critical. This course helps you understand cross-selling and its benefits and develop and execute a cross-selling strategy that works for your business. Sales and leadership coach Jeff Bloomfield also explains how to align sales and marketing to achieve improved sales, consistent messaging, and data-driven insights.

CSS has lots of magical corners that can save you tremendous time. Come find them! In this course, web designer and developer Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how to address specific challenges with a bite-sized approach that lets you find what you need quickly. Morten covers topics such as containers, typography, layout, and more. In each video, he teaches a technique that you can apply in your web styling, something concise and quick that can make your complicated projects simpler.

In recent years, web animation has grown into a powerful option for enhancing user experience on the web, and CSS animation has become a core skill for web designers and developers. In this course, Val Head leads you through the CSS animation skills you need to bring motion into your interactive projects. Val introduces CSS transforms and transitions—the foundation of most CSS animations—and shows how to keyframe simple animations and adjust their timing, fill-mode, and direction. She also covers looping and chaining animations, animating HTML and SVG elements, optimizing animation performance, best uses for CSS animations right now, and the current level of support and performance and how we can expect that to change in the future. Val presents the lessons as a short series of building block animations—common things you might want to do with animations—then puts those techniques together in a small project of an animated infographic so you can see them all in action.

With Grid and Flexbox, CSS is changing dramatically. Whereas in the past, creating complex layouts required all sorts of CSS hacks, JavaScript, or both, now you can use Flexbox and Grid—tools designed specifically for layouts—to create responsive web pages with precise, custom layouts. In this course, Emily Kay covers the basics of Flexbox and Grid separately, from syntaxes to properties to how they work in general. After that, she details instances where you may need to use both to accomplish your layout goals. As Emily shows, when you use Flexbox and Grid together to combine their separate strengths, you can create and display complex web content in a beautiful, user-friendly way.

CSS is a toolkit for image manipulation. Whether you want to create distinctive visual effects or simply make the most of available bandwidth, the options for manipulating images in CSS will let you create reusable graphics solutions. In this course, instructor Morten Rand-Hendriksen shows you how much you can edit images in a browser using pure CSS. Morten explains the importance of proper HTML image markup and how to crop, fit, and position an image. He discusses how to use the clip-path property to create a variety of shapes. Morten shows how you can use and combine filters to edit and add effects to your image. He concludes by walking you through several practical examples of how to use what you learned, as well as some important best practices and caveats.

Change is a certainty throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC). To enhance the security state of their organization’s software, information security professionals must create a lifecycle management program that lays out how to apply clear security standards throughout the SDLC. In this course, the sixth installment of the CSSLP Cert Prep series, instructor Jerod Brennen dives into the subject of secure software lifecycle management, helping prepare you for the sixth domain of the Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) exam: Secure Software Lifecycle Management. Jerod discusses how to define your strategy and roadmap, manage security in both adaptive and predictive methodologies, and promote security culture within your organization. He also discusses the importance of generating and maintaining software security documentation, developing security metrics, applying lessons learned to enable continuous improvement, and more.

The Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) is a globally recognized certification from (ISC)2. In this course, part seven in an eight-part series, instructor Jerod Brennen provides insights and context around the seventh domain of the CSSLP certification exam: Secure Software Deployment, Operations, Maintenance. Jerod teaches you the essential components of an operational risk analysis. He shows you how to securely store and manage credentials, secrets, keys, certificates, and configurations. He covers bootstrapping, environment hardening, and applying the principle of least privilege. Then he steps you through the security testing you should perform post-deployment. He discusses obtaining the security approval needed to operate your production app and performing information security continuous monitoring (ISCM). In conclusion, Jerod walks you through how to maintain your software, including how to scan, track, and triage vulnerabilities.

Sometimes, when we think of an ambitious person, we imagine someone with unfettered drive to achieve what they want, no matter the cost. And sadly, for some people, this unhealthy sort of ambition is a reality, and it can affect a person’s mental or physical health, relationships, and happiness. But there’s also a healthier version of ambition, one that can lead to greater levels of performance, deep personal learning, and a gratifying sense of purpose. In this course, best-selling author and management consultant Ron Carucci teaches you the three components of healthy ambition: Performance ambition, growth ambition, and achievement ambition. Ron shows how to balance the right degree of each component, and avoid the pitfalls of too much, or too little, of any of them. If you’re looking to reinvigorate your sense of what your future could hold, join Ron in this course.

Virtual meetings, presentations, and corporate reviews might be here to stay. Are you ready to present yourself at your brightest and most positive, online? In this course, Joan Kuhl—a master communicator, corporate trainer, and champion of women in the workforce—shows you how to cultivate and polish your authentic presence anytime, anywhere. Joan explains how to overcome imposter syndrome by owning your own success and becoming your own champion. She discusses identifying and owning your strengths, as well as how to identify a key area of insecurity and reframe your thoughts into positive. Joan covers being seen, heard, and valued in the workplace, both on and off the screen. She describes several strategies for overcoming politics and conflict in the workplace. Joan goes into techniques to manage your reputation, then concludes with ways you can thrive in challenging times.

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If you are a customer service manager or a sales manager, you know how important it is to identify a customer’s value to your company. But how do you assign the value? How do you determine what is most valuable to your company? In this course, instructor Noah Fleming walks you through ways to define, create, and evaluate customer value. Noah explains both the way the business defines customer value and the way the customer defines value. He goes over a number of simple ways to create customer value and ways to measure customer value. Then Noah dives into the value narrative, covering steps like understanding value over price, reviewing your company messaging, and reshaping your value narrative. He finishes up with some advanced tips, such as proactively extracting customer value, considering current value vs. future value, and sorting from low value to high value.