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Individuals today have started signing up for short courses to learn additional skills in their free time. Learning these additional skills help individuals in innumerable ways. 

Short Courses offer individuals with essential skills thus making them versatile. This not only makes one competent but also adds weightage to the resume and gives an additional qualification to advance one’s career. 

We have compiled for you a list of the most basic short courses that you must take to change the monotonous course of your life.

1. Leadership and Management

In today’s excessively competitive world, skills that can gain you an upper edge and uplift the graph of your career are leadership and management. If you a working professional who is tired of a monotonic schedule and desire to improve your work environment and make a distinguished mark in front of your superiors, you must instill leadership qualities. Becoming a problem solver, identifying the waste in your business process, coaching peers on lean tools and techniques and most importantly selling your ideas are few skills that make a matchless leader. If you have doubts about possessing these soft skills, do not worry, these days many programs offer to teach courses to make you an excellent leader and ingrain management qualities. Take a short course in this area for a better professional life. 

2. Successful Negotiation

Negotiation is an art that a person must learn to reach better places in life. In the course of our lives, we come to face thousands of situations that put our negotiation skills to test. Whether buying a house or car, deliberating contracts for business or reviewing salary with our boss, our success in these activities will be heavily dependent on our ability to negotiate. Not many care to develop negotiation skills, well, their loss. People coming from a commerce or humanities background know how influential it could be, to possess the power of persuasion. If a simple skill can save your hard-earned money, and most importantly make things go according to your own will, you must possess it. Many prefer to learn this wonderful skill online, sitting in the comfort of familiar surroundings, at their own pace since numerous websites provide it and make this course easily accessible for all. Enroll today. 

3. Microsoft Office

From making impactful PowerPoint presentations for projects, preparing precise charts to the organisation of data in the most accurate and systematic format, Microsoft Office is a software that every individual should excel at. This is one software that makes every task smooth and helps in functioning smooth. Whether you need it to outshine at presentations, meetings, seminars, competitions or projects, Microsoft Office is at your rescue. Every office uses this software, and not just offices, schools, colleges and even self-employed individuals, all make use of this software on a daily basis. Hence, this is the most basic of all skills that one should master. Almost every online learning website provides a course to learn this program. Equip yourself with this must-have ability to ace in your professional life.

4. Communication Skills and Public Speaking

Communication skill is the most important skill that can make one successful in life. People with sound speaking ability, are always preferred in every department, whether it is a job interview, a promotion or just in civic life. Unfortunately, speaking well is a soft skill which is not taught to us properly in our early lives. Communication is indispensable in our professional as well as personal lives, it defines an individual’s personality and thus makes it very crucial for each one of you out there to brush up your vocal skills and master the art of communication. Many websites provide a variety of courses in this area, many of them can be accessed for free. Enroll yourself for this class today!

5. Graphic Designing Skills

With most businesses and every other venture going digital, one must know the basics of graphic designing. This basic skill aids in creating logo design, icons, characters, textures, text-based graphics, illustrations & full graphic design. In the age of digitalization, when all companies, big and small, are going online and expanding their reach, they need people who are skilled in graphic design and can make their boring looking content, interesting and eye-catching. This is a very basic course which is easy to learn. Even if you don’t need it to work as a professional graphic designer, you require it for running successful blogs, a perfect illustration of designer content and so much more. If you are interested in design and want an extra qualification to add to your resume and make it stand out, take a short course to learn any one of the software like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Indesign, Corel Draw or any other basic designing software.

6. Digital Marketing

Almost every company today, big or small, has gone online to expand its reach among prospective consumers. This said company employers are always on the lookout for qualified professionals who can help them expand their online reach. Understanding this demand, many individuals today are opting to pursue a career in digital marketing. However, those with other qualifications too can pursue a certificate course in digital marketing buy choosing to sign up for a short course. Under this, you will be exposed to various aspects that fall under the premise of digital marketing like SEO management, online advertisements, social media management, data management, etc. With this, you either land up as a freelancer with some company and cal also develop a blog of your own.

I hope you all found this helpful and will enroll yourself for these short courses which though basic, every individual must take to have a speedy and smooth acceleration towards success.