From the essentials of Excel to more advanced cloud-based tools, these five courses have been specially selected by the Chevening Alumni team to help you improve your digital skills in the workplace.

No matter what career field you’re in, any successful Chevener will find themselves needing tip top digital skills. With this in mind, we’ve curated a selection of free, online courses to help you upskill in digital tools used in the modern workplace.

 1. Excel Basics for Data Analysis

IBM via Coursera | 11 hours of learning

Spreadsheet tools like Excel are an essential tool for working with data – whether for data analytics, business, marketing, or research. This course is designed to give you a basic working knowledge of Excel and how to use it for analysing data.

2. Pivot Tables for Beginners

Udemy | 1-2 hours of learning

A pivot table is a tool used in Excel to wrap up or summarise information sourced from bigger tables. With this course you can easily learn to create basic Pivot Tables in Excel 2016 with real-life examples.

 3. Conditional Formatting in Excel

Great Learning| 1-2 hours of learning

Learn conditional formatting in Excel in this free online training designed for beginners. This free conditional formatting course is taught hands-on by Excel experts. Learn about Data Bars, Color Scales, Cells Containing and more.

4. Microsoft Power BI – The Ultimate Orientation

Udemy| 1-2 hours of learning

Microsoft Power BI is interactive data visualisation software developed by Microsoft. Get oriented with the basics of the programme with this free online course.

5. Salesforce Basics

Coursera| 23 hours of learning

Salesforce is the world’s number one customer relationship manager system. This free course will provide you with an in-depth overview of Salesforce for beginners.

 

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