GTI Courses

PowerPoint 2016, Level 2 provides advanced concepts and skills for PowerPoint 2016 power users: how to use advanced formatting features, and animation and transition techniques, add and format media, track corrections and work with multiple presentations, create custom slide shows, and work with security and sharing options. This course, along with the preceding one, maps to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for PowerPoint 2016.

Excel 2016 Level 2 builds on the basic concepts and skills of our Level 1 course to provide more advanced tools for analysis and presentation of complex, realistic data in Microsoft Excel 2016: how to manage complex workbooks, build more complex functions, use data analysis tools, make an impact with powerful chart and presentation features, and collaborate with other users.

Advances in technology have made it possible to store ever-increasing amounts of data. Along with this, the need to analyze that data and gain actionable insight is greater than ever. Most users have experienced working with Excel and creating basic PivotTables to summarize data. Excel is capable of doing much more. Students will not only be able to summarize data, but also organize the data in a way that can be meaningfully presented to others. With PowerPivot, students will learn to organize, manipulate, and report on data in the best way possible.

This course will provide the concepts and skills to use some more advanced features of Microsoft Word 2016, including enhanced formatting, references, editing, and sharing, and saving to various formats. This course, and the two others in this series, map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Word 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

In this course, you will expand your knowledge of relational database design, write advanced queries, structure existing data, validate data entered into a database, and customize reports. Extending your knowledge of Microsoft Access 2016 will result in a robust, functional database for your users.

Communicating ideas and information is the cornerstone of organizational operations. And, electronic forms of communication have made the transfer of knowledge quick, easy, and inexpensive. The ability to harness the potential of electronic forms of communication is critical in nearly every type of organization. But, in many, if not most, organizations, people work with a wide variety of devices running on a wide variety of platforms. And sometimes, what works well or looks good on one device, won't work at all on another device.

Excel 2016 Level 2 builds on the basic concepts and skills of our Level 1 course to provide more advanced tools for analysis and presentation of complex, realistic data in Microsoft Excel 2016: how to manage complex workbooks, build more complex functions, use data analysis tools, make an impact with powerful chart and presentation features, and collaborate with other users.

Conflict is an inevitable and often destructive part of workplace interactions. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Everything DiSC® Productive Conflict helps you understand your conflict behaviors—and those of the people you work with—to improve your workplace relationships and results.  A pre-class assessment will also be taken a minimum of two weeks prior to class, to be completed 3-4 days before the class meets.

This course provides the basic concepts and skills to start being productive with Microsoft Word 2016, including how to create, format, and set up a document, and how to add graphics and tables. This course, and the two that come after, map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist and Expert exams for Word 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.

Outlook 2016 is an instructor-led course manual that covers the basic concepts and skills to begin using Microsoft Outlook 2016: How to read and send e-mail, manage contacts, track tasks, and schedule appointments. The course also provides more advanced concepts and skills for Microsoft Outlook 2016 productivity: how to organize Outlook items, use advanced message properties, and collaborate with others. This course and the previous one map to the objectives of the Microsoft Office Specialist exam for Outlook 2016. Objective coverage is marked throughout the course.