Strategy for Management Consultants & Business Analysts

If you are a product manager committed to creating impactful products that resonate with all users, have you ever paused to wonder— "Who am I unintentionally excluding?" Do you want your product to succeed not just in the mainstream market but across diverse cultures, abilities, and communities worldwide?Inclusive Product Development Design for Product Managers is designed specifically for you, empowering you to build products that are accessible, usable, and welcoming for everyone. Through engaging video lectures, real-world case studies, and interactive quizzes, you'll learn to embed inclusion into every phase of your product lifecycle.In this course, you will:Master core principles of inclusive design and development.Develop inclusive user personas and scenarios to guide product decisions.Implement accessible design and development practices, including cutting-edge AI and Generative AI tools.Evaluate global perspectives and diverse user needs.Recognize and proactively avoid common pitfalls and failures caused by exclusion.Integrate DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) collaboration techniques into your user research process.Apply proven tools and frameworks that make inclusive product creation seamless.Inclusive design isn't just ethically essential—it's also smart product strategy. Products designed inclusively have broader reach, better customer satisfaction, an

Do you struggle to answer the question, ‘So, tell me about yourself’?Does talking about yourself make you feel awkward?Do you get tongue tied when trying to sell yourself in an interview or when pitching for new business?If this sounds like you, then this class is definitely going to help you overcome these challenges.Why Do we Struggle?So many people struggle to pitch themselves. Typical reasons for this include not knowing what we should be saying, how to structure our story, how long it should be or even where to start.What's the Impact?You see, struggling to ‘sell yourself’ or communicating to others what you are, what you do and most importantly, what makes you valuable, can have a serious impact on your career or business.It often means underselling yourself, confusing your audience, missing out on amazing career or business opportunities and getting paid far below what you really deserve.What's Covered in This Class?In this class, I’m going to show you the formula for creating a simple, yet powerful personal sales or elevator pitch.This formula has helped so many of my clients feel confident pitching themselves in interviews, commanding a room in a meeting and feeling confident in promoting themselves for career progression.I’m going to teach you:A step-by-step technique to help you unpack yourself to define the key ingredients of your pitch including, what you are, what you do and just what makes you valuable.How to thread it all together in a clear, coherent and compelling story that you can deliver in a confident way.How to effectively position yourself in the market.How to get super comfortable talking about yourself because you're going to be genuine and authentic.How Will Th

Be a brilliant writer at workDo you have to write as part of your job? Do you write emails, letters, reports, newslettes, buisness plans, bids, blogs, social media posts or press releases?Most of us have to write at work - but very few of us have any training in how to do it well. Very few of have even stopped to think about how we can improve what we write. Good writing can boost your career prospects, whether you're looking for work or trying to move up the ladder.This short but highly effective course introduces you to the techniques that will improve your writing instantly and dramatically. You'll discoverThe common mistakes that everyone makes - including youThe simple changes that will transform your writing in minutesEasy ways to make your writing more engaging and attention-grabbingHow to keep your writing simple but stylishHow to replace the jargon, cliches and acronyms that are ruining your writingQuick tips to help you learn to spell ANY wordEssential grammar and punctuation to boost your confidence (and impress your boss).The course uses a mixture of videos and articles and it's very interactive. Writing is all about doing so we make sure you get plenty of chance to practise with assignments and quizzes. There's a workbook to download, and we'll provide you with model answers to check when you've done them.Are you ready to begin?

Power BI is a business analytics solution that lets you visualize your data and share insights across your organization, or embed them in your app or website. Connect to hundreds of data sources and bring your data to life with live dashboards and reports.Discover how to quickly glean insights from your data using Power BI. This formidable set of business analytics tools—which includes the Power BI service, Power BI Desktop, and Power BI Mobile—can help you more effectively create and share impactful visualizations with others in your organization.In this beginners course you will learn how to get started with this powerful toolset. We will cover topics like connecting to and transforming web based data sources. You will learn how to publish and share your reports and visuals on the Power BI service.You will learn how to import data, create visualizations, and arrange those visualizations into reports. You will learn how to how to pin visualizations to dashboards for sharing. You will also learn how to use DAX language( Data Analysis Expressions) to perform calculations on data models.Topics include:Connecting to SQL Server and PostgreSQL DatabasesConnecting to Microsoft Access Database FileCreating reports with data visualizationsModifying existing reportsCreating and managing data dashboardsCreating Power BI datasets, dashboards, reports, and workbooksConnecting to web based data sourceConnecting to Excel datasetUsing Query EditorJoining tables and creating tablesFormulating via DAX logicUsing quick measures and dynamic measuresUsing conditional statementsPerforming various transformation on connected datasetWe will also be performing some data analysis using Excel

This course focuses on the skills needed for ER report writing in a professional way. You will learn the powerful method for transforming thorough research into a professional writing that’s clear, concise and compelling. Financial Institutions make thousands of reports everyday. How can you make your report stand out? Only by creating a compelling report. It's designed to take you through the stages of producing a real research report. All the assignments contribute to that aim. If you want to use the course in this way, you can have a real report, ready to publish, by the time you have finished. The course starts with simple ways to write and ER report. You’ll learn a method to help you produce reports more efficiently, and techniques to benchmark your work against objective quality criteria. The tools and techniques you’ll learn have been tried, tested. Effective research reports aren’t successful just because of the words you use – or what you know. Good writing means figuring out what you’re trying to say and why it matters to your clients. So, you’ll learn how to formulate your investment ideas quickly and efficiently, and how to support those ideas with logical arguments and coherent explanations. You’ll also be able to organize your ideas to fit the strategies we all use as readers to seek out what matters to us. All of these tools and techniques will save you time as a writer - and save your audience time as readers. You’ll also learn how to construct powerful paragraphs and stunning sentences, so that you can communicate your expertise without baffling your reader. And how to add warmth to your words so you forge a deeper connection with busy clients. Finally, you’ll learn simple techniques for proofing and polishing your work - so you can weed out embarrassing errors that could undermine your credibility as an analyst.

This course will deep dive into the Design Thinking Concept and Process to help aspiring social entrepreneurs jumpstart their entrepreneurship journey. Each phase of the Design Thinking Process will be thoroughly discussed such that the students can apply the concept and execute the process themselves. Towards the end of the course, in the Course Exercise section (Project Time), the students will be able to apply what they have learned from the lectures within the course through a guided project wherein they need to fill-out an "Innovation Guide" template provided. After completing this Innovation Guide, the students will have a clear idea already about the product or service offering or solution that they will work on for their target customers or users that is addressing a particular problem. The completed Innovation Guide will be a helpful reference as well for the students as they start their own social venture.The following course contents will be available to the students: IntroductionIntroductionWhy do we need Social Innovation?Design Thinking ProcessDesign Thinking OverviewPhase 1: Listen and ObservePhase 2: Identify the Problem (Customer Persona)Phase 2: Identify the Problem (How Might We Statements)Phase 3: Generate Ideas and SelectPhase 4: Build a SamplePhase 5: Test the SampleCourse ExerciseProject Time (with a downloadable "Innovation Guide" Template)What’s Next?