Microsoft Partner Skilling: Empowering Innovation and Transformation

Welcome to Microsoft Partner Skilling

In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, continuous skilling is essential to stay competitive. Microsoft Partner Skilling provides the knowledge, tools, and training you need to build expertise in AI, cloud, sales, pre-sales, and delivery roles.

With a variety of learning opportunities—including skilling playbooks, expert-led sessions, hands-on events, and on-demand content—you can develop the capabilities to drive business transformation and maximize customer impact. Wherever you are in your learning journey, our skilling resources help you stay ahead and succeed in an ever-changing industry.

The Importance of Skilling in 2025

The stakes of skilling have never been higher. In 2024, 71% of employees sought more frequent skill updates, and 80% urged their organizations to prioritize upskilling and reskilling investments, according to TalentLMS. Developing cutting-edge skills is no longer optional—it’s a competitive necessity. Microsoft partners can leverage this enthusiasm for learning to drive innovation and growth.

Organizations and individuals are particularly focused on AI skills, security knowledge, and decision-making enhancement. The most in-demand skilling topics in 2024 were AI and machine learning, cybersecurity, and data literacy and analytics. Companies met this demand with expanded investments in training programs, bootcamps, immersive experiences, and self-guided learning.

Partner Skilling playbooks, newsletters, and guides

Microsoft provides partner playbooks, newsletters, and guides to keep you up to date on technical knowledge and training opportunities. These resources are updated monthly, so be sure to check out the latest version:

📌 Download the latest Partner Playbooks, Newsletters and Guides

• Biweekly partner skilling update – Stay updated by subscribing to this Newsletter:  EMEA – English (EN-GB)
  • Learn about the latest in technical and sales enablement events

• Partner skilling playbook (with AI & Copilot)
  • Learn about enablement offerings to help skill your organization.

• Project Ready Workshops and sales/presales catalog
  • Complete catalog of Technical Deployment Partner Project Ready Workshops.

Build Expertise with Partner Project Ready Workshops

Prepare your team for real-world customer scenarios with our Partner Project Ready Workshops. These multi-day skilling events help developers, solution architects, and data scientists build their design and deployment capabilities.

📌 Register today to build the skills that will help you become project-ready faster on the Microsoft Partner Skilling Hub:

• Partner Project Ready Workshops: Azure 
  • Master Azure cloud solutions through targeted training, including certifications and technical workshops, to drive innovative solutions and accelerate business growth.
• Partner Project Ready Workshops: Business Applications
  • Boost your proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform with in-depth training and certifications to help you optimize client processes and boost organizational efficiency.

• Partner Project Ready Workshops: Modern Work
  • Elevate your skills in Modern Work solutions through comprehensive training and certifications to transform workplace productivity and collaboration, empowering your team to achieve more with Microsoft 365.

• Partner Project Ready Workshops: Security
  • Learn how to support and protect customers with security training and certifications covering ransomware, threat signals, and more.

Join the in-person Regional Skilling Tour

Gain hands-on experience with Microsoft tools and learn best practices from experts to enhance your business and technical skills at the Regional Skilling Tour. This event series across EMEA is designed to provide actionable insights, foster collaboration, and equip you with the resources needed to excel in an evolving digital landscape.

📌 Why attend?
✔️ get skilled on the latest technologies
✔️ accelerate delivery and consumption to your customers
✔️ practical L300 technical sessions with hands on labs

📌 Upcoming Events: Find all upcoming in-person events here: Regional Skilling Tour Events

Get Hands-On with Microsoft AI Partner Training Days

Join Microsoft AI Partner Training Days to:

• Build skills needed for the era of AI: Accelerate AI technical and sales capabilities.
• Experience hands-on learning: Engage in immersive workshops and technical sessions that will help to discover how these technologies can enhance their solutions and drive innovation.
• Choose your AI adventure: Choose one of three tracks designed to help their organization to master AI technical implementation and drive AI sales success.
• Get expert guidance: Connect with Microsoft AI technical and sales experts across generative AI, cloud-scale data, and app development.

Event overview

This single-day, large scale, in-person skilling event, targets a large pool of sales and technical personas within our partner ecosystem. Training Day will provide exceptional opportunities to engage with Microsoft AI technical experts, hear about the latest trends in AI from Microsoft executives, and participate in sales and technical training with hands-on-labs and legal track on Responsible AI!

📌 Training Days are held worldwide throughout the year.
Microsoft AI Partner Training Days

Meet skilling requirements faster with Certification Weeks

Build your AI and cloud skills and accelerate your path to certification with advanced, role-based Certification Week events. For beginner and intermediate learners, Certification Weeks offer expert-led training that helps you master the intricacies of Azure AI. Participation in Certification Weeks also helps organizations meet Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program skilling requirements.

Organizations with Microsoft Certified Individuals are qualified to offer specialized services, which helps distinguish them from competitors and increase customer satisfaction and loyalty—while unlocking further opportunities and incentives from Microsoft.

Certification Weeks occur around the globe and throughout the year. Register today to enhance your technical capabilities:

• Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Azure
  • Accelerate your path to Azure certification and stand out in the cloud and AI market with advanced skills in generative AI, data science, and infrastructure.

• Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Business Applications
  • Boost your proficiency in Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform with in-depth training and certifications to help you optimize client processes and boost organizational efficiency.

• Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Modern Work
  • Elevate your skills in Modern Work solutions through comprehensive training and certifications to transform workplace productivity and collaboration, empowering your team to achieve more with Microsoft 365.

• Certification Week for Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program: Security
  • Learn how to support and protect customers with security training and certifications covering ransomware, threat signals, and more.

LevelUp

LevelUp sponsored by Microsoft is an on-demand, self-paced LMS that provides skilling resources for Technical Project Ready with labs and Sales Ready skilling for the Microsoft Cloud Solution Areas and GTM Solution Plays.

Partner Skilling Desk

Cosell Operations Service for Skilling:

The Co-sell Operations Service for Skilling is a new service where partners can submit skilling related questions to our agents. The agents will respond within 24 hours.

This service helps partners understand the skilling offers available to them in their area and ensures they have the resources they need to build skilling capacity and capability.

For any questions or support: AskSkilling.