Data Analytics for Business: How to Turn Data into Results

The Benefits of Continuing Education for Employees and Organizations

How to Calculate Compound Interest in Excel

How to Use the Excel PV Function to Calculate Present Value

Employee Recognition Best Practices: A Manager's Complete Guide

Signs of Burnout: When "Just Breathe" Is a Bust

Active Listening Skills: A Complete Guide to Listening with Purpose

The Management Training Gap: Why 60% of New Managers Fail

Corporate Team Building Action Plans

How to Develop Leadership Skills and Styles

Three Key Dimensions of Organizational Goals

Employee Retention – Making the Case for Staying

Simple Actions that Build Employee Motivation

Growing the Team: Training for Small Businesses

Becoming a Manager: Stepping Up the Corporate Ladder

How to Create a DEI Program for Employees

What Does an Effective Employee Training Program Look Like?

How to Delegate Effectively

Sizzling Summers: Staying Safe and Healthy

Create a Drop-Down List in Excel

Working with Data: Improving Organizational Outcomes

Learning From Failure

Learning from a Hybrid Team: A Case Study in Transition

Four Practical Ways to Celebrate Global Diversity Awareness Month

How to Freeze a Row in Excel

Leading A Team to Success in Five Steps

Tips: Preparing to Give a Performance Review

Developing Your Leadership Skills in Diversity and Inclusion

Temporary Teams Are Typically Required When Solving One Problem

Developing Leaders and Managers: A Case Study

Workplace Stress Evaluation: Tips for Managers

Employee Engagement: A Case Study

Team Building: Activities and Art

Discover the Best Mentoring Plan

Excel Template or Macro? When to use each!

A lot of Excel users are confused about when to use macros and when to create templates.  A macro is a recording of formatting changes and other steps that can be replayed quickly. A template is a pre-formatted spreadsheet with headers and formulas – awaiting your data.

Understanding the Project Management Process

Successfully guiding projects from initiation to implementation requires a balance of knowledge, skills, tools and techniques. One of the best ways to make sure a project has the best possible outcome is to understand the processes involved in effective management. Projects can be divided into six phases.

Excel PivotTable Percentage: Which Customers Are Costing You A Fortune?

Let's suppose you have sales by state, and each state belongs to a sales region. What percentage of your sales come from each region?

How to Transfer Data from Excel to Word Automatically

Excel lives up to its name when crunching numbers or organizing data. See how you can transfer Excel to Word automatically.

Excel Macro Tutorial for Beginners

While Macros aren't really the Superman of Excel features, they can make you look like a superhero. Here's a brief tutorial to get started.

How to Calculate Median in an Excel PivotTable – Almost!

A frequent question that comes up when working with Excel PivotTables is how to calculate median using the table's filters and analysis.

Setting Organizational Goals: A Framework

We often think of New Year’s resolutions in personal terms – thinking about and writing down goals or activities we would like to achieve and do in the coming months and year. It is also a good time for organizations to engage in developing or refining organizational goals, either to mark the start of the new year or a new quarter.

COUNTIFS – Excel’s COUNTIF for Multiple Criteria

In Excel 2007 Microsoft gave us the COUNTIFS function and long chains of COUNTIF in formulas became a thing of the past.

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?

Employee Engagement Survey Questions

Guide to Using $ in Excel Formulas

There might be times when you do not want Excel to adjust all or part of your formula automatically. For example, you may have a table of standard multipliers that you use in the formula and want the same cell to always be used to multiply. The answer: an absolute reference.

Use Excel Auto-fill for Formulas and More!

You have a standard salary multiplier for overtime hours that you want to calculate the same way every time. The formula you generate needs to appear along an entire row of data, and across several worksheets, but you don’t want to type it out each time.

Women in Leadership

How to Make a Pareto Chart in Excel

The Pareto Principle, named for Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, suggests that 80% of problems can be traced to as few as 20% of root causes. This can be valuable, even vital information when you are trying to figure out which of many problems to tackle first, or in a complicated troubleshooting environment.

What does Professionalism Look like?

What does professionalism look like? It looks well-informed, prepared and even-handed.

5 Tips & Tricks for Better Time Management and Multitasking

Everyone’s trying to find the secret formula for cramming as much work as possible into every workday. Too often, though, the result of our super-scheduled, overly tight timelines is that we obsess over double-, triple- or quadruple-tasking and lose focus on our projects so we don’t get much actual work done.

Creating a Flowchart in Excel

Have you been tasked with creating a flowchart to document a business process?

Using the Age Formula in Excel to Calculate Age

Have you ever needed to calculate a person’s age from a birthdate in Excel? Or find the number of years since the last audit?