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3-Hour Excel Automation Boot Camp: Top Ten Excel Functions, Lookup Functions (VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, MATCH, INDEX), Basics of Excel Macros with an Introduction to VBA

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OVERVIEW Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day to day activities in Excel. While there are hundreds of functions available, there are 10 functions that all Excel users should know. Whether you are an office worker, or a small business owner using Excel to keep track of your finances or just the casual user, these Excel functions can be very important time savers and enhance your ability to create better performing spreadsheets! Learning about the lookup functions in Excel will allow you to match data between databases. VLOOKUP enables you to quickly and easily look for a value down a column of data and return a value from the same row in a different column. Perfect for when working with large tabular data. INDEX and MATCH work in a similar way but provide more flexibility. You’ll learn how to create a macro the easy way by using the built-in macro recorder. You’ll then progress on to learn how to make simple changes to a macro using the built-i

HR Audits: Effective Assessment of the Key HR Issues in the Light of COVID-19 Pandemic

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OVERVIEW HR audits are designed to help organizations focus their attention on their human resource management practices, policies, procedures, processes, and outcomes by providing them with a structured and systematic series of questions about key compliance, risk management, internal auditing, and human resource management issues. As an auditing process, HR audits are designed to help organizations identify potential and actual problem areas, help assess the effectiveness of HR management activities, help assess weaknesses in HR internal control processes, and help assess human capital’s strategic and compliance related risks. HR audits then typically provide suggestions for corrective action. Importantly, HR audits consider human capital related risks and opportunities from an enterprise risk management (ERM) perspective. That is,  HR audits process takes a holistic approach in assessing human capital risks and attempts to indicate the interrelationships and interactions betwee

Moving From An Operational Manager to a Strategic Leader in 2020

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OVERVIEW Gain the insights and skills to know where your business stands today and where it’s heading tomorrow.  In today’s unpredictable business environment, strategic leadership is not just for top management alone. It’s for: • Managers who want to increase their competitive advantage by anticipating their customers’ priorities, needs and expectations • Managers who want to distinguish operational data from strategic data, creatively develop sources of information and increase their staffs’ flexibility and responsiveness • Managers who want to broaden their perspective, improve flexibility without compromising quality and increase their department’s value to the organization • Every manager who wants to anticipate, initiate and manage change for maximum competitiveness! If you want to move from being a good manager to being a great manager, you can’t afford to miss this webinar. Because strategic leadership is a blending of attributes that every superior manager requires

Achieving Work-Life Balance in the New Normal

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Data Visualization in Excel: How to Communicate Insights More Effectively

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  While Excel is a very versatile tool for data visualization and includes chart templates, it does not incorporate design best practices. Our upcoming webinar helps you develop better graphs and charts in Excel by incorporating the art and science of data visualization. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Apply the 3Cs (Concise, Clean, Clear) to improve your data visualization in Excel ·          Illustration of step-by- step improvements of three data visualizations ·          Before and after data visualization examples using Excel LEARNING OBJECTIVES You’ve looked at the data and created a few charts in Excel. Now you’re ready to send out your report. Wait. Have you ensured that your graphs are compelling? Do they follow design best practices? This hands-on webinar will give you the tools to immediately elevate your Excel data visualization skills. WHO WILL BENEFIT Anyone who needs to communicate with data. This includes: . Business/Data Analyst

How to Survive an Emotionally Toxic Workplace and Build Emotional Resiliency

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OVERVIEW Too often we find ourselves overwhelmed and frustrated ... and not know where to turn or what to do. We find ourselves replaying an incident - or the whole day - on our way home from work. Then more replays when we get home - we're stressed and exhausted. We want to be able to get our work done, have good relationships with our co-workers and be able to go home and relax. This webinar will show you how to protect yourself from the painfully obvious toxicity, how to identify the very subtle toxicity in its infancy and how to build resilience at work. You'll learn key tips, tools and techniques to respond to almost any situation. It’s about going from overwhelmed and feeling helpless to empowerment. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND Workplaces can be cauldrons of emotions … which can lead to the environment becoming toxic. Emotions are natural human responses to events. We're encoded to tolerate a certain amount of emotional stress - after a point, the emotional st

Essential Elements of Effective Coaching to Boost Employee Performance and Growth in 2020

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Coaching is a process of helping another individual realizes their inner potential, delivering fulfillment to both the individual and the related organization. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to develop effective coaching skills and what you can do to become a more effective coach. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Use the G.R.O.W. coaching process to facilitate beneficial coaching conversations ·          Importance of effective communication skills in coaching and mentoring ·          How coaching helps in formulating career development plan for employees LEARNING OBJECTIVES In this webinar, you’ll learn the essential elements of effective coaching and what you can do to become a more effective coach. WHO WILL BENEFIT • Senior HR executives • HR leaders • Members of the senior executive team • Directors, coordinators and supervisors • Anyone leading and driving leadership and organizational culture transformation Speaker Profile: Au

How to Deal with Toxic People - 9 Strategies to Protect Yourself from Toxic People and Energy Vampires

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Toxic behavior in the workplace is like an infectious disease - it spreads and infiltrates teams and relationships. Our upcoming webinar discusses how to identify toxic behavior in the workplace, how to get rid of energy vampires and how to develop a specific plan to confront and incapacitate them to make the workplace safe and harmonious. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          The 19 toxic tactics deployed by energy vampires at work ·          The protection matrix – how to use situational analysis to defeat toxicity ·          How to get work done, have effective communications and not let them control your life LEARNING OBJECTIVES Energy vampiring (people who suck all the energy out of other people) and toxicity typically start out very subtle and nuanced. When left unchecked, the behaviors will metabolize into all aspects of interactions, eventually impacting everyone even close to the situation. Once a pattern has been established dealing with the disc

Employee Accountability: Top Techniques to Achieve the Results You Want

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If your employees aren’t taking responsibility to do their jobs and go the extra mile, you need to rehash your management strategies. Our upcoming webinar discusses techniques for cultivating employee accountability in the workplace and how to turn around those who insist on not taking responsibility. The webinar covers the following key areas: ·          Why and how to take action to turn non-performers around and how to clarify expectations ·          How and when to change your own behavior to tweak the culture of your team to be more accountable ·          How to apply a conversational road map to help non-performers get on board LEARNING OBJECTIVES Larry will give you tools to create an environment where everyone WANTS to do their very best and you’ll pick up tips on how to turn around those who insist on not taking responsibility. The webinar will help you learn the techniques for cultivating employee accountability in the workplace. WHO WILL BENEFIT • Team leade