Learn how to use Adobe Illustrator 2021 in the first of three comprehensive training courses by industry pro Deke McClelland. Deke demonstrates how to work with artboards; how to draw with the Pencil, Curvature, and Pen tools; and how to organize color with swatches. Deke also covers drawing shapes, adjusting strokes, formatting text with variable fonts, painting freeform artwork with or without a tablet, and more.

Discover how to be the best Adobe Illustrator user you know with industry expert Deke McClelland. In this final installment of his comprehensive three-part One-on-One series, Deke explains how Illustrator works in meticulous detail. He makes sense of even the most complex topics by linking them to clearly defined tasks. He shows you how to get around Illustrator more quickly with keyboard shortcuts and customizations, then demonstrates the power of blend modes, opacity masks, the Brushes panel, seamlessly repeating patterns, gradient mesh, and the Puppet Warp tool. Deke also covers graphs, pictographs, logos, and 3D effects. Each chapter leaves you with a sense of real accomplishment that you can apply to your own marketable, eye-popping artwork.

Note: This course was revised for 2021. As Creative Cloud evolves, the training will be updated. Check back often for new videos, new feature reviews, and new ways to work.

LinkedIn Learning staff instructor and iMovie expert Garrick Chow shows you the tools you need to know to create high-quality, compelling video projects with iMovie, the popular video editing software from Apple. Garrick first shows you how to get your footage into iMovie from a camera or your hard drive, as well as how to navigate around the interface. Then, he provides an overview of the entire editing process—fine-tuning clips, adjusting color, adding titles and music, transitioning from one clip to the next, creating slow motion video, and more. At the end of the course, he shows how to export your movies to share with the world. Whether you’re new to iMovie or an experienced user who wants to learn about the newest features, this course gives you the tools to get up and running.

In the past several years, a series of devastating cyberattacks have periodically dominated headlines. While each attack affected different industries and governments, they shared the same root cause: unfixed—but publicly known—vulnerabilities. In this course, get a step-by-step process for finding, prioritizing, and mitigating the vulnerabilities in your own computing environment, no matter what technology stack you're running. Instructor Kip Boyle shows how to prepare for and create a robust vulnerability management program, explaining how to set program goals and secure funding by creating a compelling business case. Kip also covers how to conduct weekly vulnerability scans, as well as mitigate any vulnerabilities that crop up. Along the way, Kip shares case studies that illustrate how a real-world organization would approach each step in this process.

Change may be inevitable, but managing change poorly doesn’t have to be. Rather than dreading change, understanding and preparing for change will help you run better organizations and happier teams, and save you unnecessary stress. In this course, Eric Zackrison teaches you how to successfully navigate change in your organization. He covers the various sources and factors that necessitate change, and how understanding the type of change you’re experiencing is key to managing it. Eric also explains the importance of keeping stakeholders in the loop early and often, the perils of making changes just for the sake of making changes, and how to overcome other people’s negative reactions to change. With Eric’s framework for effective and lasting change, you will be able anticipate and plan ahead, navigating change wherever it lies on the scale between evolution and revolution.

The ability to switch mental gears quickly and efficiently isn't just a boon for workers needing to pivot after a setback. This facility—also known as cognitive flexibility—is critical to everyone’s mental and physical health. Employees of all stripes need the ability to pivot, adapt, and challenge their automatic assumptions in order to increase their adaptability, resilience, and creativity. In this course, clinical psychologist and best-selling author Andrea Bonior teaches science-backed techniques for improving cognitive flexibility. Discover how to build daily mental habits to increase adaptability and clear-thinking, as well as practice incorporating innovation into your daily life. Tune in to nudge yourself beyond your comfort zone and learn how to build and maintain cognitive flexibility over the long term.

Video conference calls have replaced many of our in-person meetings. This course is designed to help you improve your appearance and audio online as easily as possible. Instructor Derrick Story explains the advantages of digital cameras over built-in webcams and offers advice on whether or not to use your smartphone as a webcam. He shows you some things to look for in selecting the right camera and lens for you, then explains how you can adjust aperture setting, lighting, and color to look your best. Audio is just as important as video for conference calls, and Derrick steps you through how to select the right mic for your needs and shows how earbuds with mics and AirPods can be reasonable alternatives to USB mics. Creating a background that isn't distracting will help others focus on you and what you are saying. Derrick concludes by giving you useful tips on how to control your background and limit distractions.

Emotional Intelligence is an area of growth for anyone, regardless of their stage in life. Building a capacity to recognize, identify, and understand emotions within ourselves and others is crucial for greater interpersonal connection. This course from Chill Anywhere explains the four main areas of emotional intelligence and the concept of emotional literacy. The course goes into naming and recognizing emotions, understanding what an emotion feels like in your body, recognizing emotions in others, and becoming more authentic and present in your interactions with others.

Note: This course was created by Chill Anywhere. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

To be an effective leader, you need to learn how to communicate clearly. In this course leadership expert Colleen Hauk shows you how to become a precise and powerful communicator. Colleen first explains how to set yourself up for success by knowing the basics and exploring emotional intelligence. She then provides guidance on creating a connection and tapping into the senses of your audience. She also shows how to engage in dialogue, remain curious, and align your communication to specific goals. Finally, Colleen shares tips on effective communication in different circumstances, from one-on-one meetings, to group discussions, and virtual meetings. Upon completing this course, you’ll feel confident in your ability to communicate effectively as a leader.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

If your organization is the victim of a cyberattack, will you be ready to respond? An incident responder or digital forensics technician has to be prepared to properly collect digital evidence as soon as an event is reported. This course teaches you how to quickly triage affected systems, securely collect digital evidence, and create your collection report for further forensic analysis. Digital forensic examiner (DFE) Jason Dion explains how to build a portable toolkit of trusted tools, both proprietary and open source, to collect evidence from Windows machines: volatile data from workstations, non-volatile data from hard drives and USBs, and disk images. Jason also shows how to deal with encryption challenges, document your collection efforts, and build a finalized collection report.

The future of work is here. Meetings that once filled conference rooms are now fully online. Dining room tables have been turned into makeshift offices. And technology is playing an ever-increasing role in our day-to-day workflows. But what about our emotional well-being and sense of belonging? HR exec and talent consultant Pat Wadors contends that, in the midst of all this change, another concurrent shift needs to be happening—one towards greater inclusion. In this course, Pat explains how to build a compassionate, inclusive work environment where employees can thrive as they adjust to our new normal.

Discover how to apply inclusive design to your work. Learn about the difference between empathy and compassion and the role inclusion plays in the development of organizational resilience. Get tips for discussing mental health issues openly, and without judgment. Plus, learn how to take a cue from Maslow's hierarchy of needs to keep your employees' emotional well-being top of mind.

Navigating the working world as a woman leader is not for the faint-hearted. Female leaders are confronted with the complex challenges of navigating long-standing biases, as well as juggling the demands of work and life. In this course, executive coach and expert on workplace diversity and inclusion, Audrey Genevieve Daniels shares empowering and inspiring insights to show female leaders how to lead organizations with boldness and confidence. Drawing on her long experience leading organizations through change, Audrey shows female leaders how to use their stories as a motivational superpower to lead others and embrace the hurdles they overcame as a source of pride. She explains effective ways for women in leadership to be their own loudest cheerleaders and foster that positivity in their teams, and how to lead teams through a crisis with grace and strength and maneuver through the good and the bad with confidence, using obstacles as stepping stones to propel their leadership journeys.

This course was created by Madecraft. We are pleased to host this training in our library.

Creating an inclusive environment is not a passive act. Rather, it is a skill that can be learned and improved upon with humility, bravery, and dedication. Inclusive communicators are better able to recruit, retain talent, navigate conflict, and develop buy-in in their work environment. In this course, learn about the importance of fostering an inclusive mindset in the workplace and how to implement beneficial changes in your organization. Examine the research about the critical roles that diversity and belonging play in business. Find out how to cultivate spaces that are safe by acknowledging common challenges that can come from privilege, mistakes, ignorance, or insensitivity. Discover how to promote allyship. Dereca Blackmon covers each of these areas to help you grow as an individual and to help you support others.

How does diversity shape what your clients need from a sales relationship? Find out what can happen when you invest the time to understand your clients’ experiences. Instructor Meridith Powell explains how you can gain a set of tools to create awareness of your own strengths, challenges, and blind spots regarding diversity. Meridith explores how you can become aware of cultural differences and offers strategies to use when selling to someone unlike you. She goes into the strategic differences when selling to different cultures; tells you how to be prepared, aware, and ready to adapt to the customs of different clients; and teaches you what sales professionals need to know and understand about selling to different generations. Meridith concludes by pointing out the importance of expanding your view of selling to diverse cultures beyond the first sale.

Whether we are consciously aware of them or not, biases exist everywhere. Most people think of technology as inherently neutral, but when we examine the widespread technology used every day, we uncover unconscious biases built into the systems' foundations that impact our daily lives. Our lives are increasingly affected by these algorithms that determine things from what news we see, the products we buy, or what skin color triggers an automatic water faucet, to possibly life-altering moments like who is stopped by police. In this course, Muazma Zahid takes a look at the common biases we all experience, how they manifest in our work, and the steps you can take to remove those biases in code, actions, and products and build inclusive technology. As technology advancements continue to grow, identifying bias in the process is critical to building inclusive technology.

Given the tech industry’s role in everyday life—from products and services to employment—there’s almost no one untouched by tech companies. For this reason, bias and inclusivity in tech are so important. While companies are focused on new technology to shape a better world, inclusivity often gets overlooked. Many managers have a moment when they feel lost on how to handle inclusivity, and other moments when they feel like they are making progress. While there are many skills taught in engineering school, we learn inclusivity on the job and often outside of it. In this course, Nishant Bhajaria shows managers and leaders how to bridge that gap. He looks at the dimensions of diversity a leader can use to foster inclusion—from introversion vs. extroversion, to education and demographics—and provides strategies for developing an inclusive environment.

Learn how to conduct fair, objective, and productive code reviews and still like your teammates afterward! Instructor Adrienne Braganza Tacke explains why we conduct code reviews, the main pain points teams experience, and what your team needs to make code reviews successful. She explores objectivity and how to write constructive feedback, covers why your team needs a working agreement and how to create one, and offers tools and automations to make the process faster and easier for your team. Successful code reviews have an inclusive mindset, so Adrienne also steps through how to master writing any kind of code review comment, even constructive feedback, and covers how to formalize an enforceable code review process. With buy-in from the whole team and a clear, detailed process laid out, process loopholes should be minimized and hopefully eradicated for good.

Women and underrepresented talent leave the tech industry at strikingly high rates. Yet having a diverse workforce is proven to increase the success of a team, product, and business. What can you do to retain the talent your company recruits? This course explores shares best practices on inclusion that lead to increased retention in tech. Instructor and engineering manager Christine Chapman empowers leaders to maximize the investment in diversity on their teams by retaining the top talent they have hired. Learn why women and underrepresented minorities are often relegated to nonpromotable work, how to counteract bias when giving feedback, how to start a sponsorship program, and how to increase psychological safety in the workplace. Christine also explains how to lead and retain your high performers through times of change. Plus, find out how to continuously improve your HR pipeline by conducting exit interviews and soliciting and responding to feedback.

Inclusive leadership in technology can offer business, ethical, and social benefits. But what does it mean to be inclusive, why does it matter, and how do you get started? This course provides a bridge for technology managers and motivated team leaders to enter diversity, inclusion, and belonging (DIBs) training. Instructor Jessica Rose takes you through the case for inclusive leadership, what it means for a new team versus an established team, and the real challenges leaders can face around inclusivity. Jessica concludes with a look at the bigger picture in tech, reinforcing why it is everyone's responsibility to build a better future for technology.

The 2021 release of InDesign introduces only a few new capabilities—but the features it does introduce are worth checking out. This course was designed to give you a tour of the latest and greatest in Adobe InDesign, so that you can take advantage of these new features right away. Instructor Anne-Marie Concepción introduces Subject-Aware Wrap, a new way to automatically wrap text around the main subject of an image. She steps through the new HSB color model as well as the Find Color option in the Find/Change dialog box, which makes it easy for you to find where certain colors are used within your project and change them. Plus, she discusses enhancements to some of the tools that were released in the 2020.1 update of InDesign, including the new Share for Review commenting tools.

Like InDesign itself, this course will keep evolving. Check back for new videos every time Adobe releases an update.