what's going on everyone today we're going to look at the top 10 udemy courses for project managers I love the udemy platform because all of their courses are extremely affordable from ten dollars to Fifteen dollars and they're very high quality which I highly highly recommend and it's allowed me to personally accelerate my own career and learn many of the skills that I use for my job as a project manager udemy is also having their Black Friday sale this week where you can get exclusive access to all of their courses for up to 85 percent off so I highly recommend that you take advantage of their Black Friday deals by using my links in the description bar down below with the coupon code that I'll be providing don't forget that if you take any of these courses through udemy you can use these as pdus to renew your cap them or your PNP certifications now the first course we'll be looking at is deeply practical project manager management this is the first course on project management that I ever took and it taught me everything I needed to know to Be an Effective project manager what I love about this course is that the author Dr William Stewart continues to update it even to this day and you're learning the how-to of project management from a well-seasoned veteran who has been doing this for many years it's a comprehensive course that teaches you the entire project management process and includes many attachments and exercises to help you practice and you also go through real life examples to put you into the mindset of a project manager highly recommend this course because you're truly getting your money's worth out of it since it contains close to nine hours of lessons with more than 200 video lessons the second course is the project management course beginner to project manager now what you'll notice with udemy is that the prices are extremely inflated costing more than a hundred dollars do not pay the full price when you're seeing that pay the discounted price because it's going to be so much more cheaper when you wait for a coupon code or a sale like this week for example so if you want any of these courses make sure to use my links and the coupon code in the description bar down below so for this course when you're learning about project management it's extremely helpful to learn from different sources so that you can have different perspectives with how to lead and manage your own projects what I love about this course is that it's very well structured and it contains more than 15 actual project management templates and documents that you can use to learn the skill sets of a project manager the videos are animation based and very engaging so it's much easier to learn the knowledge in bite-sized chunks the third course is Ultimate agile scrum Master certification training this is the exact udemy course that I used study and pass my professional scrum Master exam what I love about this course is that there are downloadable slides of the key Concepts along with MP3 files that you can listen to anytime you're doing your chores or your errands this course walks you through everything about scrum that you need to know to become a certified professional scrum Master it's a very well structured course that allowed me to pass my own scrum Master certification in less than one week the fourth course is Scrum for beginners plus scrum Master certification preparation I took this course along with the previous one to develop a robust knowledge of scrum what I really like about this course is that it's very engaging and it's also animation based so you can easily finish this course in a few days the practice questions in this course are extremely helpful and they're what I used to earn my scrum certification in less than one week the fifth course that I recommend to everyone is learn jira with the real world examples if you're leading agile projects and you work as a scrum Master you need to know how to use jira to manage your Sprints and how to input information into the software jira is the most common tool in the industry for managing agile projects and this course helps you get up to speed very quickly in a matter of a few hours I love how in-depth this course is at close to 12 hours and it completely goes in detail about how to work with an agile Team how to administer jira to users and how to set up your own jira cloud instance these are all really important things that you need to know if you want to be able to lead agile projects manage daily tasks as well as different boards for your scrum team the next course we're looking at is business analysis fundamentals now depending on the role that you have in your company you might be the one responsible for collection require payments from the customer and also creating a business case this course is perfect for you because it literally walks you step by step through the entire software development life cycle and also how to collect and analyze requirements for the projects that you're working on these are very important skills if you're leading your team to collect requirements and also to properly Define your project scope the next course I recommend is leadership practical leadership skills so I took this course to level up my skill set with how to lead others in my company as an engineer before I was very focused on the technical side and I didn't know how to lead others or how to be a good manager I immediately took this course and I learned invaluable lessons which has helped me to this day become an engineering project manager what I really like about the instructor Chris Croft is how he breaks down everything in bite-sized chunks and it's very easy to understand with his real life examples the eighth course we're looking at is management skills new manager training this course is actually one of the very first ones that I took when I became a project manager I knew that I needed to develop my own leadership skills and how to have the right discipline with leading others and resolving team conflicts you're truly getting your money's worth out of this course because not only is it 12 hours long but you're also learning from a well-seasoned veteran who's been doing this for many years it also covers a lot of real life examples that you can immediately apply to your job so for example communication delegating tasks to other people how to develop and motivate your team members how to have difficult conversations with your team and how to facilitate conflict resolution the next course is write better emails tactics for smarter team communication everyone needs to know how to write professional emails especially if if you're a project manager and you have to report up to leadership the different status updates for your projects it's very important to establish your brand and your credibility with the emails that you're writing and this course teaches you everything that you need to stand out and also to send emails the right way highly recommend checking this course out because you can finish it very quickly and immediately apply this to your job the day after the 10th course is visually effective Excel dashboards as a project manager you're going to be responsible for creating project dashboards for your leadership as well as status updates and unfortunately figuring out how to do all of this inside of excel can be very overwhelming this course walks you step by step with how to use Excel to create different types of dashboards so that you can apply this to your own projects now I know that this video is for the top 10 udemy courses for project managers but I have to throw in in a few extra bonuses the first bonus course that I recommend is Excel charts visualization secrets for impressive charts inside this course you'll learn all the secrets of the trade with how to make your exotic charts visually appealing to show all the data that you need for management what I love about Layla's course is that she includes cheat sheets and Excel files that you can play with as you go along with the course you'll learn how to design your tables and your charts so that it brings attention to the most important elements during your presentations the second bonus course that I recommend is Microsoft Excel data analysis with Excel pivot tables after having worked as an engineer and a project manager for many years pivot tables are everywhere and you're going to use this anytime you're analyzing large sets of data especially if you're importing or exporting data from other software sources as project managers you need to know at a bare minimum how to analyze raw data in Excel how to create a pivot table and how to create interactive charts and dashboards and using these tables with over 90 lessons and close to seven hours of content this course is well worth the investment to get up to speed with one of the most timeless tools that we all use in today's industry the next bonus course I recommend investing in is Excel Essentials for the real world now I'm a huge fan of Layla's Excel courses and this by far is a very comprehensive course that walks you through everything you need to learn all the essentials for using Excel if you're looking to learn new tricks or more advanced strategies check out this course as well so udemy was the first platform that I use to take courses to learn everything that I could to advance my own career because all the courses on udemy are so extremely affordable without breaking the bank and they also really helped me improve my skill set in in leadership project management and also how to use Excel and PowerPoint I genuinely hope that these courses help you out just as much as they helped me out when I was starting out in my career thank you so much for watching I really really appreciate your support now if you want to learn the exact steps to become a project manager watch this video next and I'll see you soon