Excel specialist and artificial intelligence (AI) and prompting for executives and project managers
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Certificates: Certificate "Excel Specialist"
Certificate "Artificial intelligence (AI) and prompting for managers and project managers" -
Additional Certificates: Microsoft Excel" certificate
Certificate "Microsoft Excel for advanced users" -
Examination: Praxisbezogene Projektarbeiten mit Abschlusspräsentationen
Modulprüfung Microsoft Excel -
Teaching Times: Full-timeMonday to Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:35 p.m. (in weeks with public holidays from 8:30 a.m. to 5:10 p.m.)
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Language of Instruction: German
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Duration: 5 Weeks
Artificial intelligence (AI) and prompting for managers and project managers
Basics of artificial intelligence (AI) (approx. 0.5 days)
What is AI?
How AI works and areas of application
Importance and relevance for managers and project managers
Prompting - Effective collaboration with AI systems (approx. 1 day)
Introduction to prompting and AI dialogs
Prompting strategies: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought, Multi-Prompting
Key components for effective prompting
Application in a management and project context
Recognizing pitfalls (bias, hallucination)
Use Cases and Applications of AI in Business (approx. 0.5 days)
Practical examples and tools such as ChatGPT and Gamma
Management Perspective – Workforce Development, Communication, Decision Support
Project Perspective – Project Planning, Resource Allocation, Monitoring, and Reporting
Legal basics (approx. 0.5 days)
EU AI Act and implications for companies and projects
Copyright, right of use, data protection, GDPR
Opportunities, risks and ethical issues (approx. 0.5 days)
Bias, hallucination and data quality
Responsible use of AI in the company
Effects of AI on the understanding of leadership (approx. 1 day)
Communication in the age of AI - human-machine collaboration
Preparing employees for the use of AI
Making management tasks more efficient with AI
AI-supported control, change management in hybrid teams
Project work (approx. 1 day)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Spreadsheet calculation with Microsoft Excel
Spreadsheet calculation with Excel (full-time 10 days/part-time 20 days)
Basics of table editing
Working with formulas and functions
Formatting cells, editing and printing tables
Filling, moving and copying (auto-fill, flash preview)
Sorting and filtering data
Calculating with date and time
Creating and editing charts
Chart templates and chart layouts
Manage workbooks (sheet protection, workbook protection)
Use individual print settings
Using Excel templates
Formula help and troubleshooting with AI
Microsoft Excel for advanced users
Spreadsheet Analysis with Excel (approx. 8 days)
Create Excel spreadsheets (structured ranges) and use them for analysis
Special filters for complex, multi-level criteria
Removing duplicates
Complex formulas and functions: cell references, nested functions, error handling, logical and conditional functions
Lookup and reference functions: VLOOKUP, HLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH (including AI-powered error detection for lookup formulas)
Working with names or named ranges
Text functions and data cleaning
Dynamic arrays and matrix calculations with cell ranges: FILTER, SORT, UNIQUE, SUMPRODUCT
Power Query: Import, clean, transform, and merge data from Excel, text, and CSV files
Creating, editing, and analyzing PivotTables and PivotCharts
Special features such as conditional formatting, data validation, and custom formats
What-if analysis: Goal Seek, data tables, Scenario Manager
Advanced chart types
Macro recording
Project work (approx. 2 days)
To consolidate the content learned
Presentation of the project results
Changes are possible, the course content is updated regularly.
You also understand the concept of spreadsheets and can use Excel quickly and confidently. You can work confidently with formulas and functions and create, edit and evaluate large tables. You will also be able to use pivot tables and make good use of references.
In addition, you have a basic understanding and practical skills in the application of AI technologies in a corporate and project context. You are proficient in using tools such as ChatGPT and Gamma and can develop strategies to understand, evaluate, and select AI systems. Furthermore, you are able to take legal and ethical considerations into account and successfully support employees and project teams in the use of AI.
This course is aimed at specialists, managers and project managers from all areas of the company who are involved in digitally networked, global work structures and want to use AI technologies to make processes and decisions more efficient.
In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel is in demand across all sectors, for example in banking and insurance, accounting and controlling, purchasing and supply chain management, logistics, production planning and control, and administration.
Additional know-how in artificial intelligence (AI) helps you as a specialist and manager to advance companies in the digital transformation and to use AI as a tool to improve efficiency, decision-making and innovative strength.
Your meaningful certificate provides a detailed insight into the qualifications you have acquired and improves your career prospects.
Didactic concept
Your lecturers are highly qualified both professionally and didactically and will teach you from the first to the last day (no self-study system).
You will learn in effective small groups. The courses usually consist of 6 to 25 participants. The general lessons are supplemented by numerous practical exercises in all course modules. The practice phase is an important part of the course, as it is during this time that you process what you have just learned and gain confidence and routine in its application. The final section of the course involves a project, a case study or a final exam.
Virtual classroom alfaview®
Lessons take place using modern alfaview® video technology - either from the comfort of your own home or at our premises at Bildungszentrum. The entire course can see each other face-to-face via alfaview®, communicate with each other in lip-sync voice quality and work on joint projects. Of course, you can also see and talk to your connected trainers live at any time and you will be taught by your lecturers in real time for the entire duration of the course. The lessons are not e-learning, but real live face-to-face lessons via video technology.
The courses at alfatraining are funded by Agentur für Arbeit and are certified in accordance with the AZAV approval regulation. When submitting a Bildungsgutscheinor Aktivierungs- und Vermittlungsgutschein, the entire course costs are usually covered by your funding body.
Funding is also possible via Europäischen Sozialfonds (ESF), Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV) or regional funding programs. As a regular soldier, you have the option of attending further training courses via Berufsförderungsdienst (BFD). Companies can also have their employees qualified via funding from Agentur für Arbeit (Qualifizierungschancengesetz).