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How to Audit Formulas in Excel: The Formula Auditing Toolbar

The formula function in Excel is one of the most useful things any business owner or employee can use, especially when large volumes of data need to be evaluated. Sometimes you are given completed worksheets that you need to do extra analysis on. It is sometimes difficult to see where…
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Creating a Radar Chart in Excel

Sometimes it is very useful to see the magnitude of many variables for several different independent variables in one chart. The easiest way to do this is to create a radar chart, also known as a spider chart or web chart in Excel. A radar chart in Excel is set…
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Informal Leadership: Leaders from Unconventional Places

Who are the most important leaders in your organization? Make a list of the top five to ten. Chances are good that your list consists exclusively of team leads, supervisors, managers and executives. Unfortunately, this means you’re forgetting some of the most important and influential figures your company depends on…
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Leadership Principles: Culture Shock 2015

Between November and February, pop culture pundits across the country tell us what trends to expect in the coming year in everything from clothing to language. Business is not exempt from these predictions, and articles abound that intend to tell you what to expect from various corporate topics in 2015…
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Inclusive Leadership Style

How inclusive of a leader are you? Take this quiz to find out. A member of your team asks you how to tackle a project.  You say: Do it Just. Like. This. There are lots of possible approaches, but I’d do it like this. Hm. What were some of your…
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How to Convert Text to Number in Excel: 2 Ways

Excel is the go-to program when you need to organize data, create formulas and share information with the team. That being said, working with data in numerous places and applications can make the data import not as seamless as one would hope. Let’s say you transferred data from an external source into Excel and…
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