Volume 3 / Issue 7 / July 2023
Copilot in Power BI
This short video gives a brief overview of how Copilot in Power BI will allow users to describe what they need and refine the results. Ask questions, and Copilot will help you get to the correct information.
Microsoft 365 Copilot Event Summary
Creating PowerPoints, Excel Spreadsheets, summarizing meetings, and drafting emails are just a few of the incredible features that Microsoft's Copilot offers. Click the link here to see a few of the highlights.
Excel to Planner Integration
Using Power Automate, learn how to create a Flow that will integrate Planner Tasks with an Excel Spreadsheet. This quick video may give you hours back in your week!
Excel Analyze Data Feature
"Analyze Data in Excel empowers you to understand your data through natural language queries that allow you to ask questions about your data without having to write complicated formulas. In addition, Analyze Data provides high-level visual summaries, trends, and patterns." Click here for the article and video.
How to Use Chat GPT to Build Skills
Take advantage of Chat GPT's information access and use it to create entire curriculums to learn new skills, facts, and even languages! The learning possibilities are endless. Click here for the video.
Leadership & Learning from Craig
As anticipated, the adoption of AI in our world is here and being applied in all aspects of business. With good technology advancements, there are also challenges that come into play. We need to be aware of the negative aspects while we capitalize on the positive components. Cybercrime and Scammers are using AI so please be cautious, use common sense, and question things that don’t make sense.
As we continue on this AI journey, we need to sharpen some of our other “soft skills”. I ran across this article about increasing soft skills and your emotional intelligence levels to stay ahead of the AI adoption curve. Here is a summary with a link to the full article.
In recent years, the concept of “emotional intelligence”—the ability to accurately perceive and manage your own emotions as well as others’—has gained a foothold in the C-suite and management. Numerous studies have pointed to the importance of displaying emotional intelligence in the workplace, and the Covid-19 pandemic only strengthened the case for it. Still, many corporate leaders struggle with emotional intelligence and other soft skills, like empathy. Increasingly though, some C-suite executives, managers and founders are seeking out soft skills through leadership training and other development opportunities. Leaders say that honing these kinds of skills may give executives a leg up in a future dominated by AI technologies.
Full Article Link - Soft skills training might give execs an advantage in an AI-driven future
I think the article highlights some great points, and as we adopt AI into our world, we have to remember to keep growing ourselves with these soft skills, leadership skills, and emotional intelligence levels. We still need to be ourselves and include a personal touch, while letting AI increase our knowledge and sharpen us as individuals.
Action Item
Thats it for now, just start using it ONE TIME per Day. The power of One Thing will help you with this change bwe must all get used to, just like we did with the internet.
Enjoy the journey,
Craig C. Sroda
