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How to Improve Emotional Intelligence

If you want to know how to improve your skill at shooting hoops or playing the guitar, you practice. If you want to learn more about how to use Microsoft® Excel®, you take a class and complete examples that help you with your tasks. Can you improve your social, interpersonal…
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What’s Your Emotional Intelligence?

Have you run across someone recently who is not familiar with the term “Emotional Intelligence,” sometimes referred to as EQ? It’s a term heard more frequently in business environments. Yet, do you know your EQ score? If you are the curious type, there are many ways – online and off…
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Developing Emotional Intelligence

As a business leader, you are constantly looking for ways to improve yourself. You take courses and read the top business publications to increase your knowledge. You stay abreast of technological advancements in your industry and look for ways to improve your communication and presentation skills. However, what if someone…
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Learn How to Find Duplicates in Excel and Either Use or Remove Them

It's a common scenario: Data is combined from multiple sources, records are entered by multiple users or you simply have multiple transactions with the same information. The end result is that you need to find and manipulate duplicates. Excel gives you several ways to do this, depending on your data…
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How to Unlock Specific Cells in Excel

When using a shared document you may only want to allow specific cells to be changed. Here are some steps to help you keep certain cells unlocked while the rest of the document is protected. Step 1: Select the cell(s) you would like to leave unlocked. Step 2: Go to…
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Using the Excel Pivot Table Grouping by Month to View Data Differently

PivotTables have some useful "hidden" features that can make interpreting your data even easier. One such feature allows you to view data by date groupings (such as month, quarter, even week and hour of day). By grouping within the PivotTable itself, you avoid constantly changing your source data and creating…
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Excel 2013: How to Create a PivotTable from Multiple Sheets

Once you become a PivotTable fan, you will start to see lots of uses for this powerful analysis tool. But what can you do when the data you want to use is in separate tables in multiple sheets across your workbook? Excel 2013 introduced a method – called the Data…
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How to Add Calculated Fields to a PivotTable in Excel

PivotTables are great tools for grouping, summarizing and totaling information from raw data. Once you have created a table, then you are ready to get even more out of your information by using the summarized data in additional formulas or calculations. The way Excel does this is through Calculated Fields.…
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Strategic Thinking Training, Generate Highly Effective Managers

Companies that have traditionally rewarded employees for productivity understand that there might be another factor that makes management more effective: Strategic thinking. In fact, the Management Research Group (MRG), an assessment design consulting company, found that a strategic approach to leadership is 10 times more important to the perception of…
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Become A Strategic Thinker with Creative Thinking Games

You probably wear many hats as a leader in your organization. In fact, we’re sure it’s easy to get bogged down by all the different roles you play. Additionally, you may feel overwhelmed by the minutiae and repetitive tasks associated with your job. If this describes your situation, we encourage…
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