Course Descriptions
Projections Consulting, Inc. offers efficient solutions for professional education that prepare your team to face the demands of changing workplaces and technologies. Contact us to schedule convenient and engaging sessions that equip your employees with the skills they need to make your next project a success. Our programs include:
BUSINESS ANALYSIS COURSES
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Demand Management
This class is intended for managers, supervisors, executive management, and anyone who has to make decisions concerning supply, supply management, and overall business operations.
This class highlights some of the core principles, processes, and techniques to improve your ability to understand and more effectively perform demand management.
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Gathering and Managing Project Requirements
This course is designed for professionals who need an advanced and detailed approach to understanding, gathering, and defining business and technical requirements.
This class focuses on the skills necessary to thoroughly gather requirements from stakeholders, procedures, system components, and various business documents. Participants will learn the best practices to write specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, and traceable requirements statements.
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Leading Change
This interactive course teaches students how to develop the skills to proactively address change and meet the challenges of transition in the workplace.
Students will work to overcome the problems encountered when making changes in the organization. Students will also learn how to develop the ability to effectively handle organizational changes by examining the transition process and understanding their own and others, needs and responses to each phase.
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Managing, Supporting, and Guiding Employee Performance
This course is designed for employers who want to manage employee performance more effectively by understanding the performance appraisal process more fully, identifying coaching strategies, and maintaining and providing positive feedback and communication.
This course helps managers prepare for a formal performance meeting and identify the value of the employee while working toward developing, supporting, and guiding the employee to reach their full potential.
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Supply Chain Management
This course is beneficial to operations, strategic planning, and general management
professionals.
This course is an introduction to the supply chain concept and will explore the management of supply chains to improve an organization's overall supply efficiency.
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COURSES
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Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)
In this class, you will learn how to use the Scrum framework in an Agile project and how to work as a ScrumMaster and Scrum team member. Throughout the class, practical exercises and discussions will be applied in order to increase the learning.
Participants will learn about Scrum roles, artifacts, and meetings, such as Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, Daily Scrum, burndown charts, and Retrospective, as well as the challenges in implementing Scrum, including the required discipline and hard work.
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CompTIA A+
Technology is ranked as the #1 source of US jobs. Are you looking to kick start your career, improve your existing IT skills, or increase your chances of getting that IT job.
The CompTIA A+ certification is an entry-level certification that is recognized internationally, which means you can prove your proficiency without the limitation of borders. The certification has been divided into two separate tests – 220-1001 and 220-1002.
At the end of this course, you will completely prepare to take the test and pass it with flying colors.
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CompTIA Cloud Essentials +
CompTIA Cloud Essentials is an internationally recognized, vendor-neutral certification that measures the knowledge needed to help streamline cloud implementation, to create a common language for staff, and to improve productivity across varying levels of business professionals.
Cloud Essentials ensures that you and all other necessary staff members—not just the IT specialists—understand the fundamental approach to cloud computing and the work it takes to move and govern the cloud. CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ validates the candidate has the knowledge and skills required to make clear and conscious decisions about cloud technologies and their business impact by evaluating business use cases, financial impacts, cloud technologies, and deployment models with knowledge of cloud computing.
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CompTIA Cloud + (Azure & AWS)
Learn the basics of Cloud Computing and prepare for the CompTIA Cloud+ Certification. Cloud+ is part of the CompTIA Infrastructure Pathway.
This class helps you to understand what it means to take your business and network solutions into the cloud. If you want to learn the basics of the cloud on a pathway to AWS or Azure Certification, this course will give you the foundational knowledge to begin your journey.
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CompTIA Network +
CompTIA Network+ is a vendor-neutral networking certification that is trusted around the world.
It proves a technician's competency in managing, maintaining, troubleshooting, installing, and configuring network infrastructure. CompTIA Network+ certified individuals are in-demand worldwide. CompTIA Network training will help you to start your networking career or improve on your existing networking skills.
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CompTIA Security +
The CompTIA Security+ SY0-501 course enables you to gain the knowledge and skills required to install and configure systems to secure applications, networks, and devices.
You'll be able to perform threat analysis and respond with appropriate mitigation techniques. You'll participate in risk mitigation activities and operate with an awareness of applicable policies, laws, and regulations. Upon successfully validating your skills by passing the certification exam, you'll be able to perform these tasks to support the principles of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
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ITIL® V4 Foundation Certification
This course provides IT leaders, practitioners, support staff, and staff interfacing with the organization's digital and information systems with a practical understanding of the key concepts, common language, principles, and practices that enable successful management of modern IT-enabled services.
It also prepares delegates for the ITIL Foundation Certificate Examination. The course is based on the best practice service value system featured in the latest guidelines.
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PMI® Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM)
This course is intended to prepare project managers and experienced project team member for the Project Management Professional (CAPM®) Certification Exam offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
This course uses lectures, hands-on exercises, discussions, graphs, mock exams, and videos to cover all exam topics in detail. This course also provides tips, tricks, and recommendations for taking the exam. Extensive practice testing is conducted to familiarize and make you more confident with the types of questions you will encounter on the exam. Testing helps you to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses. Finally, you will develop a comprehensive personal study plan to pass the CAPM® Certification Exam.
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PMI® Project Management Professional Exam Preparation (PMP®)
This course is intended to prepare project managers and experienced project team members for the Project Management Professional (PMP®) Certification Exam offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI®).
This course uses lectures, hands-on exercises, discussions, graphs, and videos to cover all exam topics in detail. This course also provides tips, tricks, and recommendations for taking the exam. Extensive practice testing is conducted to familiarize and make you more confident with the types of questions you will encounter on the exam. Testing helps you to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses. As a result, you are able to develop a comprehensive personal study plan to pass the PMP® Certification Exam the first time.
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PMI® Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP®)
This course is designed for project managers as well as project participants and line managers who work directly with risk management and who wish to prepare for the PMI® Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) exam.
The PMI-RMP credential acknowledges the individual's unique expertise on the project team while demonstrating the recognition and value the role provides to the project management profession.
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PMI® Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP®)
This course provides the skills required to schedule and deliver critical projects on time while helping you prepare for the PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP)® exam.
You learn how to establish realistic project plans by identifying resource needs, defining the work, and calculating the Critical Path. You also learn how to track and report project status to stakeholders using EVA. After class, you have access to sample templates and spreadsheets for your own use in developing estimates, schedules, and tracking information.
PROJECT MANAGEMENT COURSES
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Agile Project Management
This course is designed for Program managers, project managers, and team members interested in applying the Scrum project management approach within their organizations.
Agile Project Management Using Scrum provides context for what agile project management is, its benefits, and how it differs from traditional project management. It also introduces roles, processes, and techniques to overcome the challenges of working on agile projects.
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Assessing Project Performance with Earned Value
This course will introduce you to the concepts of Performance Measurement using Earned Value Systems.
Earned Value Management is a technique used to quantitatively assess the real progress of a project by understanding the work that was completed, the time taken to complete it, and the actual costs or effort to complete the work. You will learn the fundamental tools and techniques for everyday efforts of measuring project performance and how to convey this information to management and stakeholders.
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Developing A Project Management Office
To compete in the current challenging economic environment, successful organizations are embracing project management as part of their overall strategy to achieve business results.
Learn how a properly organized and managed Project Management Office can help your organization to achieve business success.
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Identifying, Analyzing, and Managing Project Risk
Risk cannot be avoided. So, the best way to manage an unavoidable situation is to plan for and identify the potential obstacles and possible solutions.
This class revolves around the advanced practices for identifying, communicating, managing, and controlling project risks. This class is very interactive and includes discussions, hands-on exercises, scenarios, and case studies.
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Introduction to Change Management
Traditionally, change management was considered a senior executive job function.
Today, differing roles often have to balance the reality of implementing changes. Employees who have an understanding of the dynamics of change are better equipped to analyze the factors at play in their own particular circumstances and to adopt practical strategies to deal with resistance and the effects of change on their projects and their stakeholders. This course will help you assess change and provide you with strategies for managing the change.
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Practical Time Management
It doesn't matter if you use a paper notebook or the fanciest smartphone; mastering your use of time will help you achieve more and be more productive.
Everyone has the power to take control of their time. In this class, you will learn the basic principles of time management and discover the personal style that works best for you. You will learn how to set priorities, identify your "time traps," control your use of time, discuss and understand the Pareto principle, develop an overall time management plan, and make every minute count by using these practical planning aids. This class also briefly covers tips and techniques for effectively managing email, the Internet, the telephone, personal interactions, and paperwork to use time productively.
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Project Cost Estimation & Management
This course provides tools necessary to develop reliable software project cost estimates by assessing necessary project resources, applying one or more cost estimating methods, and adjusting the estimates based on resource availability and project risk.
Students learn a process for evaluating the quality of cost estimates prepared by others.
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Project Management Fundamentals
Through the use of a simulated case study, you learn how to successfully plan, manage, and deliver projects using best practices in a 5-step process.
You also learn how to implement project management processes, develop leadership skills, and respond to real-world scenarios. At the end of the course, you have access to templates and checklists for use back at the workplace. This course is compliant with the Project Management Institute's® (PMI's®) current Project Management Body of Knowledge® (PMBOK®).
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Understanding Project Scheduling
This course is designed for project managers, project team leaders, program managers, project coordinators, and all professionals in a project support or management role who want to create and manage schedules more effectively
This course uses hands-on exercises, templates, discussion, and case studies to introduce and reinforce scheduling concepts and techniques. Project management software is not utilized as a part of the learning curriculum for this class.
SOFT SKILLS COURSES
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Analytical Thinking and Problem Solving
This course will improve your ability to analyze issues more effectively and to solve problems in a comprehensive way.
Learn analytical thinking strategies and principles that will strengthen your understanding of problems and your ability to reach decisions that are relevant, thorough, properly aligned to available resources, and considerate of all stakeholders.
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Communication Across Competencies
This course is designed for professionals who want to learn how to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization and all education levels.
Increase the chances your message will get the attention it needs by going with the flow. This class reviews the four main types of communication flow in organizations, whether in businesses or not-for-profit organizations.
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Communicating Across Generations
This course is designed for all employees.
To improve workplace interactions, you will need to understand the fundamental differences between the generations and which communication methods work best with each.
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Communication Across Cultures
This course is designed for any professionals who wants to learn how to more successful
manage and navigate the business environment in a global setting.
This course covers all types of oral and written communication, from meetings to negotiations, telephone calls to emails, and deals with situations ranging from working in international teams to managing conflict.
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Developing Your Emotional Intelligence
This course is primarily designed for professionals who want to learn how to capitalize on their emotional intelligence to improve business relationships and personal satisfaction.
Learning the techniques to manage your reactions and raise your level of emotional intelligence will result in more positive and constructive relationships and a more satisfying and productive professional and personal life.
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Diversity in the Workplace
This course is designed for individuals, managers, directors, human resource professional and others who are interested in creating a smooth-running, innovative and
supportive multicultural environment.
In this course, you will learn skills and techniques to improve relationships, performance, and productivity in a multicultural environment.
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Effective Business Writing
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. You will have the critical skills to improve your spelling, punctuation, usage, and style while avoiding the pitfalls of business writing. You will also be introduced to the ten key techniques for effective communication that will help you grow more confident in your ability to express yourself clearly.
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Effective Communications in the Workplace
Communication is the common denominator of self-empowerment that every human being shares, regardless of race, class, gender, socioeconomic level, or environmental circumstances.
Communication happens intentionally and unintentionally. This class will teach you how to improve your workplace communication skills through hands-on exercises, demonstrations, videos, and role-playing scenarios to better relay your messages professionally, accurately, and with purpose.
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Handling Difficult People and Situations
It's a well-known fact that dealing with difficult people has its own complexities.
Nothing is clear-cut when dealing with emotions. When emotions are on the rise, logic flies out the window. We sometimes get the urge to lash back and give them what they deserve. However, in the business setting, better management of difficult people is essential to improve inefficiencies, avoid delays, minimize decreases in productivity, and improve employee morale and interaction. This course outlines strategies that can be used to strengthen your coping mechanisms for more successful interaction and outcome.
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How to Conduct Productive Meetings
Meetings are often poorly planned and executed events that produce no meaningful business results.
This course is designed to provide practical tools and advice for anyone planning or facilitating a meeting. You will learn how to ensure that a meeting is necessary, the presentation is professional and effective, the participants contribute in constructive ways, and the outcome is measurable.
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Increasing Your Creativity at Work
One of the most important and valued traits in an employee is creative problem solving and new idea generation.
In business, creativity can help launch major projects, bring fresh insight to routine tasks, and generate new perspectives to improve job performance. Creativity isn't a mystical force or extraordinary talent possessed by a lucky few. Rather, creativity is an ability everyone has to one degree or another. Even better, it is a skill that can be developed.
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Leadership Development
This course is suitable for High-potential leaders, Team Leaders, Managers, Supervisors, Executives and Team Members and anyone else who is or will be responsible for managing teams or individuals.
Effective Leadership Development can help organizations and individuals improve and build upon what's currently happening in the organization and increase performance, motivation, and overall effectiveness for the future. This course is designed to provide participants with the critical skills needed to enhance future success while impacting bottom-line results.
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Listening: The Forgotten Skill
This course uses an interactive learning approach with work-sheets, charts, graphs, and self-tests to help you pace and monitor your own progress.
You will learn how to develop your active listening skills and put them to work for you--professionally, socially, and personally.
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Management Fundamentals
This course is based on actual day-to-day interactions between managers and direct reports.
You will learn and use the crucial foundational skills to shift from being an individual contributor to a well-respected manager who can achieve team success and drive performance. You will identify and discover how to adjust your management style to tackle new challenges. Interactive activities will take you through the paces of motivation, delegation, coaching, communication, performance management, and leadership. You will be able to improve on key weakness areas, play to your strengths and get the best results from every member of your team.
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Overcoming Procrastination
The focus of this course is on understanding why and how we sabotage our own best intentions with needless delay and how we can reduce this procrastination.
Based on psychological research, this course provides a concise summary of key concepts and strategies for change. You will learn about the psychology of self-regulation failure and how to achieve your goals more successfully.
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Returning to Work Post-Pandemic
Navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath will be one of the biggest business challenges of our time.
To keep operations going while minimizing the risk to employees, most companies have adapted new ways of working that have left their offices, factories, stores, and other facilities relatively empty. As restrictions are being lifted, organizations must determine how and when to start the complex task of returning to the workplace. This course identifies strategies to take your organization from crisis to recovery.
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Technical Writing for Professionals
No matter how brilliant an idea, if it isn't conveyed clearly, its value is never realized.
This training session is designed for scientific, medical, and technical professionals who must produce technical documents as part of their work. Covering a comprehensive list of topics, this onsite program will teach participants how to communicate complex information with clarity, conciseness, and force.
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Working Well Under Pressure
This course is designed to help individuals learn how to work well under pressure for optimal performance by understanding and using simple, achievable stress reduction techniques.
Organizations are determined to get more and better work out of fewer people, and most employees are routinely told they must work smarter, faster, better, longer, and harder. The workplace holds many potential stressors. To perform well under pressure, employees must develop stress management skills.
TECHNICAL COURSES
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Adobe Acrobat
In this course, students will learn the basics of creating PDF documents and modifying PDFs within Adobe Acrobat. Students will access PDF documents and learn to navigate the interface, use tools, menus, navigation bars, as well as change preferences.
Students will create PDFs by various methods and learn to combine PDFs. In addition, students will learn to navigate PDFs, search, create bookmarks and links, comment in a PDF, send for review, modify text and images, and work with pages. Students will also learn to optimize PDFs by reducing size, create and use actions, export PDFs to Word, Excel, or RTF formats, redact content, and protect PDFs.
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Adobe Captivate
In this Adobe Captivate class, you will learn how to capture content, create assessments, design quizzes, add interactivity and animations.
This Adobe Captivate training class teaches you how to quickly start using this popular application for screen capture, video presentations, and authoring e-learning content.
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Analyzing Data Using PivotTables
This course is designed for students who already have foundational knowledge and skills in Excel and who wish to begin taking advantage of some of the higher-level functionality in Excel to analyze and present data.
Whether you need to crunch numbers for sales, inventory, information technology, human resources, or other organizational purposes and departments, the ability to get the right information to the right people at the right time can create a powerful competitive advantage.
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Adobe Illustrator
This course focuses on Adobe® Illustrator® CC (2019), the component within CC used to create "drawn" graphics, while enabling its users to integrate content from other domains (such as photo-oriented graphics and animation, which belong to Adobe® Photoshop® and other applications).
With Illustrator's many easily used tools, you will discover that not only can you unlock the same creative impulses you've always had as you've picked up a pencil to sketch out an idea, but also capture those multiple ideas and "what ifs" during the creative process in ways that you never imagined.
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Customizing and Using Microsoft SharePoint Server
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Introduction to Cyber Security
This course is intended for beginners in Cyber Security Department. Also intended for anyone interested to learn about the Cyber Attacks and its preventions.
In this Introduction to Cyber Security, you will learn to protect your organization from social engineering attacks and cyber threats through disaster recovery methods that ensure continuity of operations.
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Introduction to Excel Macros: Recording, Running, and Editing
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Introduction to Microsoft Teams
This course is intended for all the aspiring office 365 teams job career personnel. Also intended for beginner to advanced students wanting to lean Microsoft teams.
Learn everything you need to know on Microsoft Teams and become more productive in your organization.
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Introduction to Zoom
This course is for beginners who need to use Zoom for work, teaching, learning or just interacting with friends and family.
The course provides a simple hands-on training to master the Zoom video conferencing platform to have a professional event. Zoom has many fantastic tools and features that can be used to an online encounter into a world class engagement. Quickly switch from beginner to confident user!
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Mastering Microsoft Project
This three-day instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to plan and manage projects using Microsoft Project.
Through a variety of hands-on learning exercises and labs, students will use the basic concepts required to plan and manage a small- to medium-sized project day-to-day, including how to level resources and capture both cost and schedule progress.
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Microsoft Excel, Level 1, 2
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This course is intended for students who have little or no familiarity with Microsoft Excel or more experienced Excel users who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
In this course, students will create and edit basic worksheets and workbooks. Students will also gain the necessary skills to create, edit, format, and print basic Microsoft Excel worksheets
LEVEL 2 -DOWNLOAD FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is intended for students who have basic skills with Microsoft Excel who want to learn intermediate-level skills or students who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
This Intermediate Microsoft Excel course is meant for students who want to advance their skill set by learning to work with advanced formulas, lists, and illustrations.
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Microsoft Outlook, Level 1, 2
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This course is intended for students who have little or no familiarity with Microsoft Outlook or more experienced Outlook users who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
This Microsoft Outlook introduction course gets students up and running quickly working with messages, calendars, and contacts
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This course is intended for students who have basic skills with Microsoft Outlook who want to learn higher level skills or students who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
This Microsoft Outlook course builds on basic skills in Outlook and teaches students to work with some of the more advanced features of Outlook
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Microsoft PowerPoint, Level 1, 2
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This course is intended for students who have little or no familiarity with Microsoft PowerPoint or more experienced Word users who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
This Introduction to PowerPoint course is designed for students who are interested in learning the fundamentals needed to create and modify basic presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.
LEVEL 2 -DOWNLOAD FULL COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is intended for students who have basic skills with Microsoft PowerPoint who want to learn advanced-level skills or students who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
This Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint course for users who want to build upon their basic skills.
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Microsoft Visio, Level 1, 2
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Microsoft Word, Level 1, 2, 3
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This course intended for students who have little or no familiarity with Microsoft Word or more experienced Word users who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
This Introduction course is designed for students new to working with Microsoft Word in Windows. Students will learn to create, edit, format, and print Microsoft Word documents.
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This course is intended for students who have basic skills with Microsoft Word who want to learn intermediate-level skills or students who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
Students in this Intermediate Word course should already be able to create, edit, and print Word documents on Windows.
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This course is intended for students who have intermediate skills with Microsoft Word who want to learn more advanced skills or students who want to learn the topics covered in this course.
In this course students learn advanced techniques, such as working with tables of contents, footnotes, and endnotes.
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Power BI: Introduction to Data Analysis
This course is designed for professionals in a variety of job roles who are currently using desktop or web-based data management tools such as Microsoft Excel® or SQL Server® reporting services to perform numerical or general data analysis.
As technology progresses and becomes more interwoven with our businesses, more
data is collected. This era of "big data" is a direct result of the popularity and growth of
cloud computing, which provides an abundance of computational power and storage, allowing organizations of all sorts to capture and store data. Leveraging that data
effectively can provide timely insights and competitive advantages.
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Working with Enterprise Project Server
This course is designed to cover major features and aspects of Project Server.
The goal of this course is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively manage projects and understand the workflow of Microsoft Project Server.
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