12 Free Online Management Courses with Certificates

1. Leadership and Coaching/Management Styles

The Leadership and Coaching/Management Styles course on EdApp will walk you through different leadership styles and assist you in selecting the strategy that will work best for the dynamics of your team. You'll discover how to use each style and pick the one that works best in various circumstances, such as crises and emergencies. The lessons cover various leadership philosophies, methods for developing a winning recruitment plan, ways to foster a healthy work environment, and best practices for onboarding new employees.

As part of EdApp’s mission to democratize learning, this course is free to take and can be even edited and customized to fit your organization’s branding. EdApp’s drag-and-drop authoring tool makes first-time users easily acquainted with the app as it has a low learning curve. The microlearning template library can also be used to easily add and present content.

• Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson
• Scope: Leadership styles, leadership theory, implementing different leadership styles, identifying effective leadership approaches, developing leadership skills as a coach

Created by EdApp

3. Performance Management

You can better understand the formula for efficient performance management and the most effective team-building techniques by enrolling in EdApp's Performance Management course. It offers trainers advice on how to define roles, assign tasks, as well as provide, receive, and process feedback so that everyone on the team feels involved, respected, and inspired to give their best effort. Additionally, EdApp has included some advice on how to constructively deal with someone who is underperforming as well as a step-by-step manual on how to motivate them to increase their output. Expect a series of gamified quizzes to assist you in retaining the information and ingraining it into your long-term memory.

• Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson
• Scope: Understanding performance management, establishing role clarity, giving, receiving, and processing feedback, managing underperforming employees

Created by EdApp

5. How to be Authentic in your Management Style

In this training, managers will learn how to lead with authenticity by exhibiting qualities like honesty, sincerity, and integrity. EdApp’s How to be Authentic in your Management Style course begins with an overview of true leadership qualities and shows learners how to put them into practice through words, deeds, and beliefs. Additionally, it highlights how crucial it is to treat everyone equally. Learners will know about many forms of behavior and communication as well as some fast tricks for using them to establish more sincere connections. The final lesson is a "practice and learn" activity where they can assess their performance and put what they've learned to use.

EdApp is an all-in-one training software where you can take your learning anytime and anywhere. Courses are perfectly-formatted for screens of any size thanks to their responsive design. It’s also not a problem if learners don’t have access to the internet all the time. Courses can be downloaded so they can still complete their lessons even when they’re offline.

• Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson
• Scope: Authentic leadership, how to establish a good relationship with your staff

Created by EdApp

6. Supervision and Management Skills

This course equips managers with the tools and techniques they need to effectively manage and supervise team members. Delegating tasks, establishing expectations, giving feedback, handling conflicts, and many more subjects are among those covered. Additionally, it emphasizes servant leadership and supports team members who aspire to take on leadership positions. Although you can complete this course for free, there’s a fee if you want to receive a certificate. 

• Length: 3-4 hours
• Scope: Delegation, conflict resolution, workplace relationships

Created by Alison

8. Managing Social and Human Capital

It should come as no surprise that a company's most valuable resource is its workforce, particularly if the industry is labor-intensive. Managing Social and Human Capital, a course offered by The Wharton School on Coursera, is helpful if you want to develop your people management skills. This course will discuss how to manage choices, distribute responsibilities based on strengths and limitations, motivate employees, use rewards effectively, and change organizational architecture when necessary. 

• Length: 7 hours
• Scope: Motivation and rewards, systems of work, managing decisions, organization architecture

Created by Coursera

10. Four Cornerstone Management Skills

Everyone needs a basic understanding of management skills even if they’re not holding a managerial position. In EdApp’s free online management course, you’ll learn about the four cornerstone management skills. These are the fundamentals of problem-solving, decision-making, action planning, and execution. There are four lessons in this course explaining each of the skills that you can take at your own pace, anytime.

Following a microlearning design model, the content of this training performance management program has been divided into short but concise, highly-targeted parts. Unlike traditional online courses, you can complete this EdApp program in just minutes, and not days or weeks.

• Length: 5-10 minutes per lesson
• Scope: Problem-solving, decision-making, action planning, execution

Created by EdApp

12. Supervision and Management Skills

Alison’s no-cost online class on Supervision and Management Skills will teach your managers how to lead their teams, handle middle management tasks, and practice servant leadership. They’ll learn how to delegate tasks, develop connections, and become inspiring motivators. The course also covers supervisory techniques, conflict resolution, and how to deal with unique challenges.

• Length: 3-4 hours
• Scope: Supervising others, team building, middle management, servant leadership

Created by Alison