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Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions |
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Power Excel: Analyzing Data to Make Business Decisions – 2 days You Will Learn How To - · Leverage features of Microsoft Excel to facilitate business decisions
- · Develop intelligent worksheets to quickly identify Key Point Indicators (KPIs)
- · Perform "what-if" analysis for developing budget and project plans
- · Consolidate and process multidimensional worksheets
- · Summarize and analyze large amounts of data using PivotTables and Excel features
- · Automate Excel processes and enhance worksheet models
Course Benefits In today's fast-paced business climate, it is vital that decisions are made quickly and accurately. In this course, you use Excel techniques to build sophisticated spreadsheets. You learn to perform "what-if" analysis, apply functions, manipulate PivotTables and present your results to make better decisions for planning, budgeting and more. Who Should Attend Business and technical professionals making decisions based on data analysis, or anyone who wants to increase their knowledge of intermediate to advanced features in Excel. Experience with Excel at an introductory level is assumed. Hands-On Training Hands-on exercises provide you with practical experience using Excel. Exercises include: - · Performing statistical and financial calculations
- · Reducing speculation with "what-if" analysis
- · Summarizing data contained in 3-D worksheets
- · Defining the best combination of values to solve complex business problems
- · Designing formulas that capture errors and require less maintenance
- · Creating interactive data reports with PivotTables
- · Developing macros to simplify data analysis
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Effective Time Management |
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Effective Time Management – 2 days You Will Learn How To - · Integrate proven time management techniques into your daily processes
- · Make informed decisions about what you do and when
- · Apply a structured whole-brain process to shape your current and future commitments
- · Proactively schedule tasks, construct weekly plans and daily to-do lists
- · Adopt strategies and techniques to handle procrastination and interruptions
- · Develop a personal action plan to reap the most benefit from your efforts
Course Benefits The productivity of individuals and organizations hinges greatly on their ability to plan and manage time efficiently. Harnessing this critical resource increases both employee output and organizational competitiveness. In this course, you gain the personal insight and practical skills to develop and implement a framework for successful time management. You adopt proven tools and techniques to make better day-to-day choices about investing your time and achieving your goals. Who Should Attend Those who want to increase their productivity by proactively choosing how and when to invest their time, and those wishing to develop more balance and control over their time commitments. Extensive individual and group activities immerse you in a real-world environment based on your own unique time management situation. Activities include: - · Identifying your personal time style
- · Constructing and applying an Issues/Impact matrix
- · Mapping and analyzing current commitments and preferred future situations
- · Formulating WISE goals
- · Modeling interpersonal techniques to handle interruptions based on a video scenario
- · Collaborating with others to create best practice guidelines
- · Developing a customized post-course time management toolkit
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Communication Skills - 2 days You Will Learn How To
- · Achieve results in your communications with others
- · Build collaborative relationships that emphasize trust and respect
- · Communicate effectively using simple, concise and direct language
- · Enhance your active listening skills to anticipate and avoid common misunderstandings
- · Eliminate the roadblocks that undermine your ability to communicate effectively
Course Benefits Communication skills are an essential element every employee and manager must have as part of their standard tool set. In this course, through interactive workshops, self-assessments, role-playing activities and video simulations, you gain practical experience initiating and responding to various forms of communication. You learn to handle situations based on a flexible, genuine and self-confident approach. You also gain the skills to collaborate with others and hone your communications toolkit. Who Should Attend Those looking to strengthen their communication and collaboration skills and work confidently with others. Activities throughout this course immerse you in an ongoing simulation including a media-rich experiential learning environment that allows you to practice the communication techniques, tools and strategies presented. Program include: - · Experiencing the difference between one-way and two-way communication
- · Defining your communication style
- · Demonstrating active listening skills
- · Revealing personal filters with simulation games
- · Overcoming cross-cultural barriers through case studies and role-playing
- · Assessing your relationship with others
- · Generating checklists to enhance your performance back on the job
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Influencing Skills - 2 days You Will Learn How To - · Apply influence strategies to gain commitment from others and foster collaboration
- · Define desired outcomes for win-win results
- · Dynamically adjust your approach to others to gain buy-in
- · Achieve goals by enhancing trust and cooperation
- · Deal effectively with challenging behaviors to overcome resistance and inertia in others
- · Use knowledge and competence rather than position and status to influence others
Course Benefits Professionals are often faced with the responsibility of completing a project without having the necessary authority or resources to meet the challenge. Harnessing the skills to effectively influence others can be the difference between success and failure. In this course, through practice sessions, video simulations, self-assessments and role-playing activities, you acquire the specific skills, behaviors and attitudes necessary to achieve desired results without relying on the use of authority. Who Should Attend Managers, project managers and individual contributors who rely on influence rather than authority to achieve their goals. An ongoing simulation throughout this course offers media-rich experiential activities that allow you to practice a variety of influence skills, tools and strategies. Program include: - · Uncovering your leadership capabilities
- · Assessing your use of influence strategies
- · Dealing effectively with resistance
- · Identifying different applications of power and typical outcomes through video simulations
- · Applying leadership and influence skills in a group setting
- · Assessing your political know-how
- · Using win-win approaches to persuade others to act
- · Building trusting relationships and rapport
- · Listening for multiple points of view
- · Getting commitment in challenging situations
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Delivering Dynamic Presentation |
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Delivering Dynamic Presentation - 2 days You Will Learn How To - · Deliver dynamic, effective presentations that are concise and clear
- · Create strong openings and closings
- · Build audience rapport through eye contact, vocal delivery and body language
- · Apply innovative design techniques to create powerful presentations
- · Prepare an effective presentation by organizing key points into a coherent story
- · Capture and maintain audience interest and attention using interactive techniques
Course Benefits The ability to convey facts and information in a clear, concise and engaging manner is a crucial part of delivering an effective presentation. This course provides the knowledge needed to plan and deliver well-structured, polished presentations. You learn practical techniques to communicate and reinforce your message, allowing you to focus on audience needs and objectives. Who Should Attend Anyone who needs to develop the ability to create and confidently deliver memorable presentations using visual support, whether it be with paper or electronic media. Some previous experience with PowerPoint is helpful. Workshop Course Participants build well-structured and effective presentations. Workshops include: - · Improving fundamental presentation skills
- · Leveraging the three modes of communication
- · Identifying audience expectations
- · Capturing ideas using mind mapping
- · Organizing the presentation story
- · Selecting the key impact points for your presentation
- · Building audience involvement using interactive techniques
- · Emphasizing main points with visual highlighting techniques
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