Computer Skills for Executive

Course Overview:

To provide the senior executive with both excellent IT and business skills.

Learning Objectives

At the End of this course, you will know how to:

• Improve on your typing skills
• Communicate effectively using technology alternatives
• Create business documents and presentations using Microsoft word and Power point
• Analyze financial and related data using Microsoft Excel

Course Content

• Keyboard Skills –Learn how to touch type accurately, using the correct keyboard technique
• Keyboard Speed Development – Develop your typing speed to improve productivity using graded copying exercises and time dictations.  A number of stages are available of up to 70 wpm
• Effective Business Communication – Learn to communicate effectively in business – via letter, email, telephone and personal presentations
• Microsoft Word – Introductory and intermediate word processing skills to a good employable standard
• Microsoft Word Expert – Learn advanced word processing skills including mail merge, graphs, macros, creating an index and table of contents to mention just a few
• Microsoft Outlook – Learn how to share, manage and schedule information electronically
• Microsoft Excel - Introductory and intermediate spreadsheet skills to a good employable standard
• Microsoft Excel Expert – Learn advanced spreadsheet skills, covering areas such as importing and exporting data, creating and using templates, linking workbooks, data management, using analysis tools and pivot tables
• Microsoft PowerPoint – Gain competency in creating slide presentations.  Areas covered include formatting, inserting tables, pictures, sound, hyperlinks, applying transition and timing effects for a slide show