In-depth Excel Training, Executive Dashboards & Business Data Analysis

This month's training is starting tomorrow and we already have confirmed participants from Nestle, DDB Lagos and Airtel. Others that showed interest but couldn't make the timing were from companies like SABMiller and Huawei. 

It's a very hands-on training aimed at professionals who would need excellent Excel and Business data analysis skills to boost their productivity and strategic creativity at work. So we focused more on getting sales managers and business analysts working for multinationals. 

Next month we are planning a very special training. It will cover how to make awesome and insights rich executive dashboards, how to build a template from scratch that will capture every relevant KPI and how to represent the different forms of data the business generates. It will also be an in-depth Excel training and the participants will go home with a DVD containing the videos of the training and the practice files used. You can register for the training here: In-depth Excel Training, Executive Dashboards & Business Data Analysis 

The content outline is:

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 it’s dangers 

b. Combining charts; when and how. 

c. Dynamic Charts, using filter. 

d. Best practices when making charts 

e. Sparklines 

f. Power Map and Power View (Excel 2013) 

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 

j. Goal Seek, Scenario Manager and Solver 

k. Excel Web Query 

l. Most useful Excel keyboard shortcuts 

5) Executive Dashboards and Reporting 

a. Best Practices

b. Executive Dashboards

i. Executive Dasboards 

ii. Balanced Scorecards 

iii. Determining the KPIs and tracking them 

iv. Strategic Insights & Analysis 

c. Data Visualization

d. Having the audience/recipient in mind

e. E-mails and Excel reports

6) Excel to PowerPoint and Word 

a. Linking PowerPoint/Word Charts to Excel

b. Embedding Excel sheets in PowerPoint/Word

c. Making a Powerful PowerPoint Presentation

7) Excel VBA 

a. Recording Excel macros