It’s no surprise that organizations, teams, and individuals all need technical expertise to succeed. Since today’s teams have limited time to build new skills for their key projects, there’s an increasing demand for technical training that can be covered in self-directed, always-on, digital resources—outside of the classroom. To help meet these team skill-building needs, we’re happy to announce Microsoft Learn for Organizations—a faster, more focused way to help close skill gaps and drive business success across your organization. This valuable resource features curated collections that help take the guesswork out of learning journeys so learners can apply new skills to quickly unblock projects. And this is just the beginning. We’ll make regular updates to include the latest technology and skills, adding collections, features, and more.

What is Microsoft Learn for Organizations?

Microsoft Learn for Organizations serves as the front door to all that Microsoft Learn offers for learners engaged in team training. It’s your trusted source to get your teams skilled up and ready to power AI transformation with the Microsoft Cloud. Its focus is on streamlining what it takes for teams to gain technical skills to meet project and business goals. Resources include:

• AI skill-building resources.
• Curated collections (for organization leaders and for learners) that link to:
  • Learning paths and other self-paced content.
  • On-demand videos and events.
  • Gamified learning opportunities and skills challenges.
• Instructor-led training (ILT) with Training Services Partners (TSPs) to help learners gain tech skills that translate from the classroom to the workplace.
• Credentials, including Microsoft Certifications and Microsoft Applied Skills.
• Success stories that explore how organizations achieve and benefit from a culture of learning.
• Connections to a global community of learners and experts to help broaden expertise.

Which collections are available?

Microsoft Learn for Organizations includes a number of self-paced collections to help jump-start team training and skill up your teams for success. The initial collections include:

• Build and modernize with AI. Help accelerate the benefits of AI at your organization by training everyone on this transformational technology.
• Accelerate developer productivity. Equip yourself with essential skills to harness transformative AI tools, fostering innovation and accelerating developer productivity.
• Get started with organizational skilling. Explore skill-building resources that you can use to start creating a learning culture within your organization.
• Migrate and secure Windows Server and SQL Server workloads. Build the skills to guide your organization’s migration to the cloud with a wide variety of training options for Azure.
• Migrate enterprise apps. Discover an extensive array of resources designed to help your organization efficiently migrate enterprise applications at scale.
• Migrate SAP. Find out how to support your organization’s SAP migration efforts with a selection of skill-building resources.
• Power business decisions with cloud-scale analytics. Uncover the potential of cloud-scale analytics to transform data into actionable insights at enterprise scale.
• Transform your organization with skills for business professionals. Find out how to strategically apply Microsoft solutions across your organization, using training to empower business users and leaders.

Who can benefit from this new skill-building resource?

This exciting new self-service resource is for all organizations—for-profit or nonprofit, large or small—that want to train their teams and get the most value from their investment in Microsoft products, solutions, and technologies. It can benefit:

• Team leaders who need to upskill team members to unblock key tech projects.
• Learning managers who are focused on employee development to help meet organizational goals.
• Anyone involved in coordinating training programs (formal or informal) who is interested in reducing barriers to technical skill-building.
• All learners, especially those who need to accelerate project outcomes with tailored training to fit their learning styles and their demanding schedules, along with a way to certify and validate their newly gained skills.

Ready to jump-start your team training and help close skill gaps?

When you train your teams, develop a learning culture, and promote continuous learning development, it’s good not only for team members but also for your business. Closing tech skill gaps is one of the best ways for individuals to meet their professional goals and for organizations to meet their business goals—it’s a win-win.

Microsoft Learn offers expert and engaging learning experiences that are relevant to real-world challenges that your team members face every day. And Microsoft Learn for Organizations meets your team members wherever they are in their learning journey, to help them gain the technical expertise they need to thrive, demonstrate their expertise through industry-standard credentials, and validate that their skills remain top-notch.

Go to Microsoft Learn for Organizations, explore the collections and other resources, share them with your colleagues, and join the community. Stay tuned for more details as we evolve Microsoft Learn for Organizations to help ensure that your teams can keep up with changing roles and responsibilities, take their skills and projects to the next level, and help drive project and organizational success.

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2024-02-20 23:00:00Z