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Exploring Excel's Top Ten Essential Functions

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  Excel functions can greatly enhance your ability to perform tasks in day to day activities in Excel.  While there are hundreds of functions in 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! Why Should You Attend This webinar will get you started with functions.  You will learn not only HOW to use these functions, but WHY they do what they do. Knowing the "why" helps you to do more with Excel.  Attendees should have basic knowledge of creating Excel calculations using the basic mathematical operators and know the difference between relative and absolute cell references. This course is for beginner to intermediate Excel users. Objectives of the Presentation  Formulas are equat...

Tips and Tools for Managing Excel Lists and Databases

  Microsoft Excel has become the de facto spreadsheet application for business. But do you sometimes feel like you have rows and rows of data and it is hard to make heads or tails of it? This instructor-led online class will help you learn how to manage databases in Excel and get the most out of them. For 90-minutes, our Excel expert will lead you through a full array of powerful and easy-to-use database commands and methods critical to effectively working with Excel databases. In this must-attend webinar, you will learn how to improve your Excel database skills so that you can better summarize information-making better, more-informed business decisions. Why Should You Attend Learn how to manage databases in Excel with this webinar. Learn the tools that will help large amounts of data seem more manageable and easier to sort through and analyze. Become a master at working with databases in Excel. Objectives of the Presentation   » Easy-to-use methods to ...

Performance Reviews: A Step-By-Step Process for Conducting them Meaningfully and Effectively

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  One of the most critical areas of employee relationships and one of the biggest challenges management faces today-is conducting effective performance appraisals and determining appropriate merit increases. Learn to give performance appraisals that help motivate employees to achieve goals and increase their value to the organization. Why Should You Attend By attending, you will understand how to even more effectively:   » Would you like to conduct more effective performance reviews?   » Would you like to know how to give people “bad news” in a way which will not hurt but in fact improve your working relationships?   » Would you like to be able to suggest improvement in a way which encourages rather than discourages? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then come laugh, listen and learn as Chris DeVany leads us all through those important topics, key questions and answers we all need to be able to address effectively to improve our team member...

10 Essential Team Needs During Crisis and Uncertainty : Keys to Encourage Engagement, Productivity and Combat Burnout

  Many of our teams were having difficulty coping with stress and were facing burnout and mental health challenges long before COVID-19 came along. Through COVID-19 we are seeing that their stress is heightened even further, and our teams and colleagues will continue to be at risk. Research shows that failing to meet the essential needs of your team will result in burnout, mental health challenges, increased absenteeism, disengagement and lost productivity. Leaders who understand their team’s essential needs will have teams that can thrive during this uncertainty. Why Should You Attend Successful leaders know that healthy employees are a competitive edge and they know that small shifts can have a major impact. By focusing on these 10 Essential Needs, this interactive training will help you to choose the most effective strategies to help your team move forward through this crisis, minimize their negative stress symptoms and reactions, and protect their mental health now and in t...

NEW FDA Proposed FSMA Rule on Food Traceability

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This 60-minute webinar will cover the proposed FDAtraceability requirements and techniques useful in the event of quality deviation investigations and potential FDA Recalls.  A variety of technologies at various price levels that are used for tracking and recall will also be covered to set the food industry stage for a more solid entry into artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things (IOT) A integrated food safety system model that uses traceability, food safety and recall data will be presented to demonstrate how computer technology can be used to reduce the time to recall products and reduce the impact to human health. The model is based on the FDA FSMA concept for risk reduction and uses predictive modeling to point investigators in the right direction in the minimum time. We will discuss this mega-trend setter that has been creeping up for the past several years. At the end of this webinar, the speaker will handle your specific questions related to the topic. ...

Getting the Right People on the Bus (How to Attract and Hire the Best

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  Many companies today do not take advantage of the selection science that is available to them to make sure that the people they hire into particular job roles have a high probability of success. You can save significant costs and add to your organization’s bottom line by properly using proven screening tools and other attraction and selection practices. Learn how to improve your selection and hiring practices so you don’t suffer from “Bad Hire Nightmares”. If you want to increase the probability that you will hire the right talent for your organization, who will succeed and get results for your company, join us to learn how. Get away from ‘gut feel;” and go beyond behavioral interviewing to learn how you can assess temperament, behaviors, thinking style, and a variety of other demographic measures to better ensure success in bringing the right talent onboard quickly. Areas Covered in the Session   » Who to attract to your organization and how  » Ho...

Project Management Essentials: The 8 Keys To Bring Every Project In On Time and On Budget

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  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 By attending, you will understand how to even more effectively:  » Understand the essentials of project management  » Plan for identifying project needs  » Practice scheduling and teaming  » Create the necessary plans which will allow you to more effectively manage projects to success  » Help you to more effectively manage others’ expectations   » Keep projects on track   » Gain knowledge and skills you can app...