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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 buil...

OVERVIEW Three related Finance & Accounting courses are presented in this Webinar: Making of Financial Statements:      • Transforming transactions to statements      • Interactive exercises to illustrate the basic concepts of financial accounting      • Overview of entire accounting process in simple to understand steps Understanding & Analyzing Financial Statements     • Overview of three required financial statements          o Balance Sheet          o Income Statement          o Cash Flow Statement    • Key positive elements & red flags    • Using statements as the basis for key business decisions Key Business Ratios as the Road to Profits &Productivity    • Five categories of essential ratios    • Calculating ratios from their financial statement source    • Under...

OVERVIEW A leader does not necessarily manage, but a manager had better be a good leader. Why is leadership so important? Without leadership, nothing gets done. Leadership brings the vision and ideas,and sets the course or direction . Managers ensure execution. People don’t leave companies, they leave bosses. Leadership is the most important factor in staff retention and productivity. Often people are uninspired or disgruntled but don’t leave – they stay and become an anchor on the team, project or organization. What makes a good leader? Some people assert you have to be born a leader - in reality the skills, traits and attributes can be learned. Attend this webinar and you will learn how to develop leadership competencies and how to become a better leader – whether you are new to the game or are an experienced leader – you will find valuable ideas in this webinar. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND You want to be a better leader. This webinar will explore the traits of good ...

OVERVIEW With the arrival of Coronavirus, business leaders must plan and execute a thoughtful, comprehensive and purposeful business continuity and crisis management . This webinar explains how can we effectively address our current situation, what is business continuity management and what should a business continuity plan include.  WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND • Are you concerned about your businesses’ response to influenza pandemic? • What about lost productivity? • Would you like to develop and/or update your current pandemic business continuity plan? • Have you been concerned about your employees’ response to the coronavirus? • Would you like to be able to more effectively deal with current circumstances? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through these important topics,  key questions and answers we all need to be able to address pandemic threats effectively. AREAS COVERED 1. I...

OVERVIEW How do we manage projects and customer relationships effectively ?  How do we understand the full scope of a customer “project”?  How do we assemble the necessary resources to effectively manage a customer relationship and attendant projects?  To whom do we delegate specific responsibilities and when?  These are among a number of questions we discuss and about which we learn as we strive to effectively manage projects and the customers whose project we are managing. WHY SHOULD YOU ATTEND Would you like to get more (or all!) of the projects you manage on time and on budget? Are you concerned about people on your project teams not knowing enough about how to effectively manage a project? What about yourself? Would you like some help to more effectively manage your projects? Would you like to more effectively manage others’ expectations? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us a...

OVERVIEW Every employee is different and needs a different approach. There is no one-size-fits all when it comes to encouraging employees to perform and improve. Generic employee rewards and recognition program have a de-motivating effect. Learn to apply the latest understanding of  reward vs punishment psychology   and what engages today's employees, and get the results your organization needs. This webinar is designed to help you learn how to keep employees engaged and motivated. Every manager wrestles with this fundamental skill to thrive in a competitive market place. This persistent problem often comes down to not understanding human behavior in organization and how it operates, especially with four generations in the work place. You don’t have to become a psychologist, but you do have to master some fundamentals if you want to keep employees  inspired, engaged, and productive. If you continuously learn from each employee interaction and apply your kno...