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Excel Dashboard Tips

Hi folks. Today I'm going to be exploring the topic of Dashboards. Think about your car’s dashboard. It displays a lot of information about your car and it needs to be read at a glance — that is, your focus should be on the road ahead, not on the dashboard! It indicates your speed and mileage, fuel status, engine temperature and so on.

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Top 3 Tips to Write a Great Project Proposal – MCI Solutions

Proposals are particularly important documents to write well. An effectively written proposal can be the difference between winning business for your organisation – or not.

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Should literacy and numeracy skills be a priority for L&D?

The warnings are clear – as we move further and further into the brave new digital age, Australian businesses are suffering because many of their staff don't have basic literacy and numeracy skills.

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Top Tips for Writing Engaging Email

Email – do you love it or loathe it? It’s an integral part of our working and personal lives these days, yet its content is not often interesting or engaging. Sometimes an email is useful, but it can be hard to tell because the gold can be buried deep in the long, late-night ramblings of your correspondent.

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Ditch the wide vocabulary – For Easy and Effective Business Writing

When I first discovered Structured Writing’s consistency principle, I was surprised. That’s because I prided myself on my writing and editing skills, and often found myself recommending to others that they revise their writing by changing words that they’d used repetitively to other words.

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How to write reports in half the time and get better results

Do you find it takes you forever to write the reports you need to write? And do you find you’re not getting the results from your reports that you’d like?

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Productivity boosters in Office 2016

I am a Microsoft Office trainer and facilitate a variety of courses in Office 2016. There are a number of new features that are easy, save you time, and assist you in presenting information more effectively and professionally. Listed below are just a few of these new features and benefits to help you improve your productivity.

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Removing performance management processes: the implications to managers and individuals

For some time now, organisations large and small have been questioning the performance management process and its benefit to them in providing greater organisation performance.

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The 5 key abilities of a great facilitator

Adrienne Evans is a Senior Capability Consultant who has developed and facilitated learning programs for over a decade. She shares with us what she believes to be the key attributes of a great facilitator.

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Creating Stunning Graphic Design with Adobe

The dozen or so programs available within the Adobe Creative Suite, available now by subscribing to the Adobe Creative Cloud, or CC for short, are world-leaders in digital production software. Some programs, for example InDesign and Photoshop, are used for creating static page and flyer-type documents, whilst other programs within the suite are used for web design and video editing.

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10 inspiring books for growing leadership skills

To be a great leader in today’s complex business world you need a wide range of knowledge, skills and tools in order to effectively understand, manage and inspire others.

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3 tips for irresistible business emails

Not so long ago, email put me in the doghouse. I annoyed a former colleague by unintentionally failing to act on an emailed request from her. “I did send you an email about it…” she grumbled as I quickly filtered through the long pile sitting obstinately in my inbox.

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