Computer/Technical Skills
The truth is, many people aren’t investing in their career development. One-third of employees say they do nothing to upgrade or improve their current skill set. These people aren’t too worried about their future career. Many may be good at their jobs, too, but they’re either content where they’re at or just aren’t worried about their professional future. This means by taking advantage of professional development, continued education, and planning for your career, you’ve already got a leg up on a third of your peers. Because you’re going for it and taking ownership of your career, you’re much more likely to achieve success and meet your goals.
Trevor Antley. “What Is Professional Development and Why Is It Important?” WebCE, July 16, 2020, https://www.webce.com/news/2020/07/16/professional-development.
Microsoft Teams Essential Training
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour 56 minutes
Location
Discover the core features of Microsoft Teams and see how you can bring together colleagues, create conversations and content, and collaborate more effectively. Author Nick Brazzi walks you through the essentials of using Teams, starting with basic setup, creating new teams, and joining existing teams. Nick covers organizing teams and members and shows how to conduct conversations. He explains how to create scheduled meetings or initiate impromptu meetings inside Teams, and demonstrates file sharing. Finally, Nick walks you through customizing user settings, and explains how to use Teams on mobile devices.
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour 56 minutes
Location
Discover the core features of Microsoft Teams and see how you can bring together colleagues, create conversations and content, and collaborate more effectively. Author Nick Brazzi walks you through the essentials of using Teams, starting with basic setup, creating new teams, and joining existing teams. Nick covers organizing teams and members and shows how to conduct conversations. He explains how to create scheduled meetings or initiate impromptu meetings inside Teams, and demonstrates file sharing. Finally, Nick walks you through customizing user settings, and explains how to use Teams on mobile devices.
Get Started with Microsoft Teams
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Learn the basics and get started in Teams Are you new to Microsoft Teams or curious about best practices for getting started? Do you want to streamline business communication and collaboration? Join us to learn how to accomplish the fundamental tasks in Teams. Learn how to easily communicate with your co-workers, save time while working and collaborating, and see how teamwork and projects can be managed in a central space. In this training, you will learn how to: Set up your profile and notifications Use chat and calling for 1:1 and group conversations; Schedule and attend meetings; Align your workgroup and projects; Collaborate on files and tools.
Run Effective Meetings with Microsoft Teams
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Optimize the end-to-end meeting process within Teams! Have you spent significant time and resources to prepare for a meeting and felt it wasn’t productive and not much was accomplished? Join us to learn how to make your meetings engaging, productive, and meaningful. Use Microsoft Teams for your entire meeting experience. In this training, you will learn how to: Schedule and join meetings and initiate calls; Use collaborative tools such as sharing, whiteboards, meeting notes, recording, and more; Easily access important meetings and related content at any time; Assess which audio and video devices are best for your meeting needs.
Get Started with Microsoft Outlook
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Outlook lets you bring all your email accounts and calendars in one convenient spot. Get started by learning to navigate Outlook, customize your experience, and increase your productivity. Training Objectives: Learn to navigate Microsoft Outlook; Set up and access Outlook modules; Use advanced features of Outlook to increase productivity and manage time; Use Outlook mobile for on-the-go requirements.
Fundamentals of Outlook
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Microsoft Outlook lets you bring all your email accounts and calendars in one convenient spot. Get started by learning to navigate Outlook, customize your experience, and increase your productivity. Learn to navigate Microsoft Outlook; Set up and access Outlook modules; Use advanced features of Outlook to increase productivity and manage time; Use Outlook mobile for on-the-go requirements.
Make Your Life More Creative, Organized, and Secure with Microsoft 365
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
During this free workshop, you will learn how a Microsoft 365 subscription can help you run your life like a pro, by being more creative, more secure, and creating more time for the things that matter most in your life. Participants chose from a menu of key Microsoft 365 features to get hands -on information and demonstrations including: Office mobile app – PowerPoint, Word, Excel all together in one convenient app; OneDrive – one secure place for all your files and photos; PowerPoint – create wow presentations and documents without the stress; Microsoft Editor – bring out your best writer wherever you write.
Introduction to Microsoft Excel
Join us for a free, 60-minute training on Microsoft Excel for the new or novice user. The training will focus on overall navigation, formatting, simple formulas, charts and tables and an overview of printing. Training objectives: Navigate Excel ribbon options; Format Excel workbooks and worksheets; Use formulas, functions and validate to work with data; Learn print processes for excel workbooks.
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Fundamentals of Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel, the spreadsheet app, lets you create, view, edit, and share files quickly and easily. Get started by learning to navigate excel, organize data, and use basic formulas. Objectives: Navigate Excel ribbon options; Format Excel workbooks and worksheets; Use formulas, functions and validate to work with data; Learn print processes for excel workbooks.
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Intermediate Excel Skills - Dive Deeper into your data
Take a dive into the intermediate features of Excel formatting, functions, and accessibility. Attendees taking this course should have a strong understanding of Excel’s basic features, navigation, functions, and custom formulas. Objectives: Expand knowledge of notable functions in Excel; Understand a wide variety of cell formatting to manipulate and interpret data; Learn to create Pivot tables for data analyzation; Understand options to restrict and protect data in Excel; Utilize accessibility options in Excel using the Check Accessibility tool and how to add alternative text.
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 1 hour
Excel Essential Training (Office 365)
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Location
Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Other lessons cover how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, use the printing capabilities of Excel, and more.
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Location
Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Other lessons cover how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, use the printing capabilities of Excel, and more.
Excel Essential Training (Office 365)
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Location
Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Other lessons cover how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, use the printing capabilities of Excel, and more.
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
Location
Get up to speed with Microsoft Excel, the world's most popular spreadsheet program. Follow along with Excel expert Dennis Taylor as he demonstrates how to efficiently manage and analyze data with this powerful program. Learn how to enter and organize data, perform calculations with simple functions, and format the appearance of rows, columns, cells, and data. Other lessons cover how to work with multiple worksheets, build charts and PivotTables, sort and filter data, use the printing capabilities of Excel, and more.
Excel Weekly Challenge
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 3 hours 25 minutes
Location
There are countless books and courses that teach Microsoft Excel. However, true mastery requires practice. You have to apply what you've learned in order to make it stick. This series, with Excel MVP Oz du Soleil, provides weekly Excel challenges taken from Oz's experience helping clients with real-world problems. Each video begins with a challenge, such as inconsistent cell formatting, duplicate line items, or incomplete data. Pause the video and download the related exercise file to work out your own solution using the powerful features built into Excel. When you're ready, you can restart the video to see how Oz solves the challenge. In just a few minutes a week, you can learn the most popular and useful Excel formulas, functions, and features. Tune in every Friday for a new technique.
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 3 hours 25 minutes
Location
There are countless books and courses that teach Microsoft Excel. However, true mastery requires practice. You have to apply what you've learned in order to make it stick. This series, with Excel MVP Oz du Soleil, provides weekly Excel challenges taken from Oz's experience helping clients with real-world problems. Each video begins with a challenge, such as inconsistent cell formatting, duplicate line items, or incomplete data. Pause the video and download the related exercise file to work out your own solution using the powerful features built into Excel. When you're ready, you can restart the video to see how Oz solves the challenge. In just a few minutes a week, you can learn the most popular and useful Excel formulas, functions, and features. Tune in every Friday for a new technique.
Introduction to Cloud Storage in M365 (OneDrive & SharePoint)
Access, share, and collaborate on all your files from anywhere. Join us for this free, one-hour workshop that will introduce you to OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. There will be demonstrations and opportunities for Q&A. We’ll make it easy to learn how to store, access and collaborate on your shared work files, all while supporting your specific business needs. This training will provide an overview of cloud storage, including Microsoft 365 OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online. Training objectives: Understand the difference between cloud storage in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online; Synchronize cloud storage locations to a device; Share and manage access to files and folders; How to use modern attachments; Navigate OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online document libraries; How to recover previous versions of a file.
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Microsoft Planner
This course introduces how to use Planner to allow teams to work together effortlessly by organizing projects visually in an easy-to-use application that works seamlessly across all your devices. Objectives: Understand Planner navigation and Microsoft 365 integrations; See how to create and organize a plan; Share a plan and assign tasks; Learn to stay on top of tasks assigned to you; Learn to stay on top of the project using charts, calendars, and specialized views Work with Planner in Teams or SharePoint.
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Manage Time and Distribute Workloads with Tasks in Microsoft 365
In a free 1-hour workshop, learn how tools like Planner and To Do can help you to keep on top of tasks in your Microsoft 365 environment. During the session we will perform a live demonstration of the collaborative task management features built in to Microsoft Planner, the personal time and task management tools enabled by Microsoft To Do, and discuss how you can integrate these tools into your Microsoft Teams workflow.
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Fundamentals of Microsoft PowerPoint
Join us for a free, 60-minute workshop for a hands-on, interactive experience with PowerPoint 2019. Engaging, powerful and eye-catching presentations have never been easier. During this workshop you will learn how to make an impact by using all that PowerPoint has to offer.
Platform: Microsoft Stores Training
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
Skill Level: Beginner
Time: 1 hour
PowerPoint Essential Training (Office 365/Microsoft 365)
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Time: 2 hours 37 minutes
Location
You don't have to be a designer to create a great-looking presentation. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) to quickly create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations. In this training course, Jess Stratton shows how to get started with PowerPoint templates and themes or build a new presentation from scratch. She explains how to change the slide layout; add and edit text, images, charts, video, and animation; format slides for consistency; and add speaker notes and comments to ensure a smooth delivery. Plus, discover how to collaborate on changes and share presentations with others. By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the PowerPoint tools and follow a few simple design rules to draw attention to your message and deliver a presentation that shines.
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate
Time: 2 hours 37 minutes
Location
You don't have to be a designer to create a great-looking presentation. Learn how to use Microsoft PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) to quickly create, edit, and share professional-looking presentations. In this training course, Jess Stratton shows how to get started with PowerPoint templates and themes or build a new presentation from scratch. She explains how to change the slide layout; add and edit text, images, charts, video, and animation; format slides for consistency; and add speaker notes and comments to ensure a smooth delivery. Plus, discover how to collaborate on changes and share presentations with others. By the end of the course, you'll know how to use the PowerPoint tools and follow a few simple design rules to draw attention to your message and deliver a presentation that shines.
PowerPoint: Eight Easy Ways to Make Your Presentation Stand Out
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 36 minutes
Location
Making your PowerPoint slides more polished and engaging is easier than you think. In this short course, presentation guru Jole Simmons shares some helpful tricks to take your PowerPoint game to a new level. First, Jole teaches how to take both the presenter and the audience into account in your design approach. Next, learn to identify the main points of the story you’re trying to tell in PowerPoint. Find out how to go the extra mile in making design calls. Explore some ways to convey your information without forcing everybody to read what's on the slide. Learn how to break information into threes, for better learning retention. Jole also discusses how to make sure your presentation is inclusive and geared towards a variety of people. Then, discover ways to add life to your slides with a well-placed surprise. Jole explains continuity, flow, and how to bring it all together.
Platform: LinkedIn Learning
Skill Level: Intermediate
Time: 36 minutes
Location
Making your PowerPoint slides more polished and engaging is easier than you think. In this short course, presentation guru Jole Simmons shares some helpful tricks to take your PowerPoint game to a new level. First, Jole teaches how to take both the presenter and the audience into account in your design approach. Next, learn to identify the main points of the story you’re trying to tell in PowerPoint. Find out how to go the extra mile in making design calls. Explore some ways to convey your information without forcing everybody to read what's on the slide. Learn how to break information into threes, for better learning retention. Jole also discusses how to make sure your presentation is inclusive and geared towards a variety of people. Then, discover ways to add life to your slides with a well-placed surprise. Jole explains continuity, flow, and how to bring it all together.
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The SUNY CPD is a collaborative central resource for the SUNY community providing access to high quality professional development opportunities focused on the latest trends and established best practices in higher education to enhance the capability of SUNY faculty and staff and increase SUNY's competitive advantage.
SUNY Center for Professional Development
6333 State Route 298
East Syracuse, 13057
P: (315) 214 2440
https://cpd.suny.edu/