In-depth Microsoft Excel, Dashboard and Business Data Analysis Training In Abuja

Finally, next week, we'll be having for our Abuja peeps our unrivalled quality Excel training class designed for working busy professionals.

I've already booked my flight for the training class and we are at the last stage of planning. People have registered and many more have asked for a slot. But there are still some open slots; we operate on a first pay first given basis. So if you know anyone interested in the training, kindly forward this post to them.

The training is a very hands-on one and the participants will get business sample/practice data that will mirror the type of situations they will face at work. We cover all the deep and productivity boosting aspects of Excel. They will also get videos of the training we use for our online training students, with the practice and assessment files. 

The Lagos one is currently holding. In fact, I am making this post from the training room. We started yesterday. 12 people turned up, and the feedback has been great. Almost all the industries are represented: Oil and Gas, Maritime, Telecommunications, Banking. Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing and others. The knowledge share and network effect have added to the training value for the participants. And we have managers, business owners and mid-level to senior-level staff. All experienced busy professionals. The type we target with our training.

The details of the Abuja training is as follows:

Date: 18th Friday and 19th Saturday, March 2016 (9:00am to 5:00pm daily)
Venue: NULAI, Suite 9A, 2nd Floor, Right Wing, City Plaza, Plot 596 Ahmadu Bello Way, Garki II, Abuja

Training Outline

1)      Data Manipulation in Excel

a.       How Excel handles different data types

b.      Data consistency, starting with the end in view

c.       Building Datasheets that can easily scale

d.      Sorting

i.      Cascaded sorting

 ii.      Sorting across rows (left to right sorting, not the usual up to down sorting)

 iii.      Sorting and Conditional Formatting to identify trends

e.      Filtering

f.        Data cleaning 

 i.      Removing duplicates

ii.      Text-to-column

iii.      Grouping

 iv.      Data Validation

 v.      Conditional Formatting

g.       Data formatting 

 i.      Using Tables (and when to convert to tables)

 ii.      Formatting for printing

 iii.      Formatting for email

iv.      Data Review and formatting for 3rd party use

h.      Named Ranges

2)      Charts

a.       Chart types 

 i.      Line chart and when to use it

 ii.      Column chart and when to use it

 iii.      Bar chart and when to use it

iv.      Pie chart and when to use it

b.      Combining charts; when and how.

c.       Dynamic Charts, using filter.

d.      Best practices when making charts

e.      Sparklines 

3)      Pivot Table, Pivot Chart and PowerPivot

a.       Pivot Table

i.      Default Pivot Table

 ii.      Tabular Pivot Table

 iii.      Pivot Table Filtering

iv.      Making a very dynamic regular table from Pivot Table

v.      Calculations and Formula use with Pivot Table

vi.      Advanced Pivot Table tricks

b.      Pivot Chart

 i.      Pivot Chart and its limitations

 ii.      Dynamic Pivot Charts

c.       PowerPivot (for Excel 2010 and 2013) only

4)      Business Data Analysis

a.       Linking sheets 

b.      Duplicating sheets (better than copy and paste)

c.       Inserting sheets, labeling and coloring the professional way

d.      Freezing Panes and splitting windows

e.      Conditional formatting 

i.      To identify patterns

ii.      Using formulae

 iii.      To make extremely intelligent reports

f.        Lookup functions

i.      Vlookup 

ii.      Hlookup

 iii.      Looking up the last data or pattern in a particular row or column 

iv.      Overcoming the limitations of Vlookup and Hlookup using index and match functions

g.       Power Functions

i.      IF, IFERROR, AND, OR, ISBLANK, and others in the same family

ii.      TEXT manipulative functions to make a completely automated Dashboard

 iii.      COUNTIFS, SUMIFS, AVERAGEIFS and others, to make dynamic summary tables

iv.      MATCH and INDEX to do the impossible

h.      Other Functions

i.      Math Functions

ii.      Text Functions

iii.      Logical

iv.      Others

i.         Formula Auditing 

5)      Dashboards and Reporting

a.       Best Practices

b.      Excel Dashboards

c.       Data Visualization

d.      Having the audience/recipient in mind

e.      E-mails and Excel reports

6)      Excel to PowerPoint 

a.       Linking PowerPoint Charts to Excel

b.      Embedding Excel sheets in PowerPoint

c.       Making a Powerful PowerPoint Presentation

7)      Introduction to Excel VBA

a.       Recording Excel macros