Summary

Escalating your personal or professional development begins withen visioning a brighter and more meaningful future. What do you want to achieve? What do you want to get better at? Individuals who create a personal vision, welcome new challenges and expand their comfort zones are destined for greater things. In addition, everyone benefits when relationships flourish. Taking an introspective look at your interpersonal skills to determine specific ways to work better with others is a first step to ensuring positive interactions. To develop effective business professionalism, this workshop is aimed at equipping individuals with the proper vision and interpersonal skills for success.

Context

Success occurs when a person intentionally defines who they want to be and what they want to achieve. Ambitious people have a clear picture of where they are going and a plan to get there. Part of being our best also involves how we relate with others. Building and nurturing interpersonal relationships often takes an intentional effort to connect with others and manage our interactions with them.

In this workshop, you learn best practices for building professional relationships. Not only will you learn ways to adjust your approach for dealing with others, you will set targets for implementing what you learn so that your relations benefit from incremental improvements and trust. The workshop lays the foundation for success by encouraging you to think big and providing tools and tips to get there.

This training will empower participants to:

• Identify opportunities to improve professional relationships.

• Understand and apply a cycle for growth and change.

• Develop a motivating and achievable vision.

• Adopt best practices for improving interactions with others.

• Create professional connections that can facilitate success.

Competency Categories:

Interpersonal Skills—Consistently builds strong, long-term relationships both inside and outside the organization.

Communication—Practices active listening supported with relevant oral and written information.

Vision—Future oriented. Applies imagination and wisdom to develop a picture of what could and what should be in terms of ultimate success.

Influence—Consistently directs situations andinspires mutual agreement and an all-win outcome.

External Awareness—Sees things from different points of view and recognizes the impact that actions have on others. Keeps up todate with issues and trends that affect areas of responsibility.

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This course covers basic skills including basic parts of an Excel window, formatting, alignment, indenting, merging cells; creating a simple spreadsheet with formulas, functions, format painter, absolute reference, freezing columns and rows, split windows, copy & paste, paste special, using multiple windows of the same file, printing options, creating charts and graphs, non-adjacent cells, and mail merges.

Excel Level 1 is a great introductory class for those who are starting their Excel journey or would like to know more. Participants should already know how to find a file given a path, have basic math skills, know how to use a mouse and keyboard. Objectives in Level 1 are formatting, inputting data, creating formulas and functions, format painter, absolute reference, viewing and printing options, comments/notes, creating a template and how to use an Excel database to create a mail merge using Word.

This course covers naming a range, specialprinting titles of rows & columns, paste between work-sheets, pasting values and links, viewing and workingwith multiple work-sheets, 3D formulas,  protecting a workbook \ worksheet, & cells, checking for duplicates, Excel as a database, autofilters, slicers,and creating a graph with two axis.

Excel Level 2 is a continuation of Level 1, participants should have those skills before taking Excel Level 2. Course objectives are how to work with multiple files and worksheets, naming a range and benefits, sorting and filtering data using Excel as a database, tables and their benefits, data validation, sub-totals, Pivot Tables, conditional formatting, graphs with two axis and sparklines.

This comprehensive 6-hour course will teach you how to summarize data using these powerful Excel tools, enabling you to create summary reports and charts. With Power Query and Power Pivot, you'll learn to import data from multiple sources, manipulate it, and then review the consolidated data in a pivot table using multiple tables.

This class is a perfect for those who having been using Excel for years but don't know how to use these advanced features for data visualization and analysis.

Power BI (Business Intelligence) works with many data sources (Excel, Access, SQL Server, and etc.) todevelop an interactive data visualization, or dashboard, giving valuable insights for business reviews and decisions. Those who work with data from multiple sources, to create reports regarding data analysis, marketing, sales, inventory control, production, education, and etc. will benefit most from this course.Requires experience with Excel or other computer applications dealing with data, and different database type software. You should be comfortable developing reports such as PivotTables and charts in Excel.

This course provides advanced tools for solving real-world problems in Microsoft Excel 2019: lookup and decision-making functions, auditing and error-handling, array functions, date and text functions, importing and exporting, what-if-analysis, and macros.

Excel Level 3 is a continuation of Level 2, participants should have those skills before taking Excel Level 3. Course objectives are If Statements, Lookup Functions, Date and Text Functions, What-If Analysis, Exporting, Importing using Power Pivot, Simple Macros and Form Tools.