Evolving into the Manager Role

In this course, students will use Adobe Acrobat Pro DC to convert technical documents to PDF files, enhance PDF documents, create interactive PDF forms, and prepare PDF files for commercial printing.

Adobe Acrobat Pro DC puts the power of the Portable Document Format, literally, at your fingertips. By taking advantage of the functionality and features available in Acrobat, you will ensure the integrity of your documents regardless of who views them.

This course is aimed for experienced practitioners who desire a clear understanding of Strategic Business Analysis, who would like to understand what comprises this work, and the objectives for performing it.

Students will learn to map business processes easily and efficiently using the industry standard - BPMN which stands for Business Process Modeling Notation from the Object Management Group (OMG). Students will learn the best practices in process mapping using the latest industry standards (BPMN) so that both the business and IT stakeholders will be able to understand the models and map processes consistently through-out their organization.

Requirements can change frequently during a SharePoint project, and therefore projects need a streamlined, flexible approach to requirements change management. SharePoint professionals want to develop systems and services which are both high-quality and high-value, and the easiest way to achieve this is to implement the highest priority requirements first. This enables the projects to maximize value for their stakeholders.

In this course, participants will learn to apply several practical, systematic methods for analyzing incidents and problems to uncover root causes. Understanding of these techniques will be reinforced by classroom exercises.

In this interactive 2-day course, you will learn how to enhance and refine your elicitation skills. Working in small groups, you will practice new techniques and discuss strategies that your organization should be using to better define stakeholder needs.

This course provides a strong foundation in the mechanics of use case diagramming and writing textual descriptions of use cases. In this highly interactive workshop, you will learn how to enhance and refine your use case skills, how to involve your stakeholders in the use case process, and how to develop use cases that provide valuable information to the designers and testers.

This course looks at the issues which drive the need for a UAT process & describes the components of the process. It is designed to help Business Analysts to develop an understanding of their role, the process, and the deliverables associated with UAT.

This workshop will also give all participants an understanding of how change is implemented and some tools for managing their reactions to change.

In this course, students will create a basic report by connecting to a database and modifying the report's presentation.

In this course, students will create complex reports & data sources using the tools in Crystal Reports 2016. Students will not only create more complex reports including sub-reports and cross-tabs, but will also increase their speed and efficiency.

Organizations use reporting tools to access data sources and generate customized reports. SAPCrystal Reports 2020 enhances report building and report processing techniques with a variety of features that add value to a presentation. In this course, you will create a basic report by connecting to a database and modifying the report's presentation. Data presented without any formatting or structure holds little or no meaning for interpretation. Crystal Reports 2020 helps you build advanced reports with ease.

In this course, you will create complex reports and data sources using the tools in Crystal Reports 2020. You will use subreports and cross-tabs, SQL queries.. By creating subreports, cross-tabs, and running totals, you will turn raw data into meaningful, customized reports that will help your business run more smoothly.

Technology and the data that it both collects and makes accessible is now interwoven with businesses and lives. The era of "big data" has exploded due to the rise of cloud computing, which provides an abundance of computational power and storage, enabling organizations of all sorts to capture and store data. Leveraging that data effectively can provide timely insights and competitive advantage. Analyzing data to find issues, insights, and opportunities is now a critical part of many job roles. Beyond the analysis, data analysts in all job roles must be able to effectively present and communicate their findings in visually compelling ways. Microsoft Excel is designed for this purpose. Excel can connect to a wide range of data sources, perform robust data analysis, and create diverse and robust data-driven visualizations to show insights and trends, as well as create reports. These capabilities enable people who use Excel for data analysis to turn data into thoughtful action.

Though businesses increasingly rely on technology, technological skills alone do not guarantee success in the workplace. You must still develop your ideas, express them clearly, and persuade others of their viability. This course offers effective strategies to sharpen your writing skills by structuring your ideas logically, exercising diplomacy in letters and reports, and shaping your arguments. In contemporary business environments, information overload makes it necessary for you to communicate clearly and concisely. Trying to make sense of a disorganized email message can be frustrating given the number of emails you have to answer daily. By analyzing your audience, organizing your writing, and employing effective persuasive techniques, your writing will make an impact.

Time is a form of currency, and the ways you talk about it illustrate its value: people say ?Time is money,? and ?My time was well spent,? or ?It's a waste of time.? Like most professionals, you've probably struggled with managing time effectively. In this course, you will acquire day-to-day time-management tools that will help you more effectively use your time so you can direct your energy towards fulfilling your short- and long-term professional and personal goals. Your time is a precious and limited resource. Too often, you may feel frustrated that there aren't enough hours in the day to accomplish everything you hope to do. Effective time managers enjoy the satisfaction of directing their talents and energy towards productive, goal-centered activities. By identifying improved time

This first course will take the attendees from the creating of a Foxit PDF, into editing, and then delivering the documents.

There are many authors of PDF documents that want to take their knowledge of FOXIT to the next level.   This course will allow those authors to become professionals in the FOXIT product.

This one-day course will provide attendees with the skill set to be able to create simple to complex forms using Foxit Editor.  Attendees will learn the ‘how’ and maybe the more important the ‘why’ to create forms.  Students will be provided will a series of documents that they will review before sending to Foxit to be made into workable, sensible, concise and accurate PDF forms

As data acquisition, access, analysis, and reporting are interwoven with our businesses and lives, more and more data is collected about business and personal activities. This abundance of data and the computing power to analyze it has increased the use of data analysis and data visualization across a broad range of job roles. Decision makers of all types, including managers and executives, must interact with, interpret, and develop reports based on data and analysis provided to them. Microsoft Power BI software is designed for data analysis and the creation of visualizations. Data analysts prepare data, perform initial analysis, and create visualizations that are then passed to business data decision makers. These decision makers can use Power BI's tools to explore the data, perform further analysis to find new insights, make decisions, and create customized reports to share their findings.

A one-day, hands-on workshop for business analysts that covers the full capabilities of Power BI.

VBA (Visual Basic for Applications) enables you to enhance and extend the capabilities of Microsoft Excel and other applications in the Microsoft 365 application suite. You can use VBA to perform tasks that would be difficult or impossible to do using only worksheet functions, and you can automate a wide range of tasks so they can be performed faster, more consistently, and with less effort than performing them manually. This course will give you a good foundation for understanding, creating, and using VBA in your own Excel workbooks. You will learn how to use the macro recorder effectively, as well as how to write your own VBA code from scratch. You will use tools built into Excel to explore and learn VBA's capabilities and to optimize and debug your code.

In this course, you will learn the essential skills needed to organize your thoughts and select the best words and phrases to clearly convey them in writing.

This course is designed to familiarize students with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project Professional 2016 so they can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.

Welcome to Microsoft Project 2016: Part 2. This course is designed to familiarize you with the advanced features and functions of Microsoft Project Professional 2016 so that you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment.

Welcome to Microsoft Project 2019/2021: Part 1. This course is designed to familiarize you with the basic features and functions of Microsoft Project so you can use it effectively and efficiently in a real-world environment. This course covers the critical knowledge and skills a project manager needs to create a project plan with Project during the planning phase of a project. In other words, if your supervisor assigns you to lead a project, this course will enable you to draft a project plan with Project and share it with your supervisor (and others) for review and approval.

This course covers the advanced knowledge and skills a project manager needs to update a project plan in Project during the execution, monitoring, and controlling phases of a project. In other words, once your project plan is approved by the project sponsor, this course will enable you to manage the project so that it is completed on time, within budget, and according to scope.

Microsoft SharePoint online is a platform designed to facilitate collaboration, allowing you to use familiar applications and web-based tools to create, access, store, and track documents and data in a central location. As such, SharePoint has many distinct features and content structures that can be selected, added, and configured. In this course, you will learn how to create, configure, and manage SharePoint sites so that your team or organization can share information and collaborate effectively.

In many professional environments, people work collaboratively in teams. Information technology and applications facilitate this by enabling people to easily share, access, edit, and save information. Microsoft SharePoint is a platform specifically designed to facilitate communication and collaboration, enabling people to use familiar applications and web-based tools to create, access, store, and track documents and data in a central location.

From the earliest eras of human existence, visual images have been used to represent knowledge, data, and information. Beginning with the Paleolithic cave paintings and continuing to today's most complex computer networks, these images leverage the ability of the human brain to rapidly perceive patterns and trends from visual representations. In today's workplace, visual diagrams are an essential part of communication, from road maps to sales flows to process charts.

Microsoft Visio stands out among similar applications because of its unique ability to draw a wide variety of diagrams, flowcharts, workflows, and organization structures anything that can be represented by shapes connected by lines. Today, Visio is well integrated with other members of the Office family as well as Microsoft's cloud-based services. This greatly enriches the sharing and publishing of Visio drawings.

This course delivers the complete site owner story from start to finish in an engaging and practical way to ensure you have the confidence to plan and create new sites or manage your existing sites in SharePoint Online.

This course is intended for those interested in expanding their knowledge base and technical skills about Microsoft Project. Starting with the basic concept, you will gain hands-on experience with all the functions needed to plan and manage a small to medium-size project, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.

This one day course will expose attendees to the theory, best practises and the tools to create an accessible PDF file using the Foxit application.

Nintex is a leading workflow automation platform used to streamline business processes. Major vendors for this technology include Nintex itself, Microsoft, and Pega. It is employed across industries for efficient workflow automation, improving productivity, and reducing manual tasks.

After completing this course, students will be able to: • Communicate more effectively with collaborative writing tools and techniques • Recognize and apply grammatical best practices • Leverage concepts in sentence and paragraph construction • Structure agendas, emails, business proposals, and business reports

This course is designed for existing Microsoft SharePoint site users who need to create and manage a SharePoint team site. In this course, you will learn how to create, configure, and manage a SharePoint team site so that your team or organization can share information and collaborate effectively.

In many professional environments today, people work collaboratively in teams. Information technology and applications facilitate this by allowing people to easily share, access, edit, and save information. Microsoft® SharePoint® 2016 is a platform specifically designed to facilitate collaboration, allowing people to use familiar applications and Web-based tools to create, access, store, and track documents and data in a central location.

This course will address both the non-verbal, and verbal inter-actions that individuals can take to build better teams and become effective managers.

In the face of rapid, disruptive change, companies understand that command-and-controlleadership is no longer viable. As a result, many firms are moving toward a coaching model in which managers facilitate problem solving and encourage employees’ development by asking questions and offering support and guidance rather than giving orders and making judgments.

The objective of this course is to immerse students into accessibility issues and how to create easy to read and accessible Excel spreadsheets.

During this one-day course students will interact with a variety of Word documents and review components that would render the document inaccessible.

The use of PDF forms is popular within industry today. This course will not teach students how to make a PDF form, but rather how to make a PDF form that is accessible for everyone.

This one day session takes accessible document preparation to the next level. During this course students will move from creating simple Office documents, to PDF documents that are fully accessible and meet the current mandates. Attendees will learn a variety of techniques to make documents accessible and also learn about the pitfalls to avoid along the way.

This one-day course will take students into detailed feature of PowerPoint to insure accessible presentations. Attendees will work with some advanced tools and include narration and subtitling for both visually impaired and hearing-impaired audiences.

This course is to provide attendees with the basic concepts and compliances to meet current accessibility dictated by government branches.

Discover ways to craft effective and contextual prompts for Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 that create, simplify, transform, and compile content across Microsoft 365 applications.