LinkedIn Learning Featured Training

Current Cornell faculty, students, and staff have access to free online training and development with LinkedIn Learning.

Learn to make Better Decisions with LinkedIn Learning

Learn to make better decisions to improve different aspects of your life.

Course: Overcoming Cognitive Bias

The best decisions are made when you fully understand your bias. In this course, listeners can learn about cognitive bias and how it hurts our ability to think rationally and make effective decisions.

Course: Decision-Making in High-Stress Situations

Find out how to calculate costs, avoid the pitfalls of consensus-driven decisions, and successfully make strong judgment calls.

Course: Critical Thinking for Better Judgment and Decision-Making

Learn how to upgrade critical thinking to avoid deceiving fallacies, spot misleading cognitive biases, craft better arguments, hone judgment, and improve decision-making.

Course: Decision-Making Strategies

Learn the art and science of decision-making. You’ll learn the four styles of decision making—autocratic, participatory, democratic, and consensual—and which styles are best suited for specific situations.

Skillsoft Featured Training

Current Cornell faculty, students, and staff have access to free online training with Skillsoft at Cornell.Percipio.com.

Learn to Work with Difficult People with Skillsoft

We’ve all been there – a co-worker, group project member, or even family member just seems to mesh with you as well as water does with oil. Here are some resources to help you learn how to navigate these difficult situations and emerge as a better person.

Course: Remaining Tactful and Diplomatic under Pressure

In this course, you'll learn to navigate challenging situations with tact and diplomacy. You'll learn how to get along with co-workers, give feedback to bosses and direct reports, compose tactful emails, and negotiate diplomatically.

eBook: How To Deal With Difficult People: Smart Tactics for Overcoming the Problem People in Your Life

This book will help you navigate the bullies, nit-pickers, manipulators and complainers who drive you mad at work.

Channel: Difficult Conversations

Many people avoid difficult conversations. Explore different techniques for handling these situations while preserving your relationships.

Audio Book: Failure to Communicate: How Conversations Go Wrong and What You Can Do to Right Them

In Failure to Communicate, Holly Weeks shows how to master the combat mentality, emotional maelstrom, and confusion that poison difficult conversations.