Every day in the UK thousands of people struggle to cope with software they have never been taught how to use, including the Microsoft Office suite. It isn't anyone in particular's fault, often its just happened that way.
Many people inherit material from the person who did the job before them, others pick up bits of information from colleagues and even more execute simple tasks in a laborious and time-consuming manner simply because they don't know any other way.
How does this make them feel? Frustrated and undervalued. And what does it do for their organisation? It makes it slow, makes it less competitive, increases staff turnover.
Tutorial videos are now available on CD
Many of our popular course are now available on CD as well as online. This means that for the first time, our customers will be able to view the tutorials without being connected to the Internet. It also means that this cost-effective means of training large numbers of people is available to organisations with a geographically dispersed workforce.
And yet the answer is so simple - hire a trainer! Of course you want someone who knows their subject, and someone who is trained to train other people. Most of all, you want someone who will deliver a cost-effective solution to the problem so that production improves and efficiency increases.
The effect can be dramatic, both on staff morale and on organisational efficiency. Motivation will become greater, working practices will become more streamlined, staff turnover will be reduced and your organisation will acquire a reputation for positive development which will make it more attractive to prospective employees.
Jobs will get done more quickly and more accurately, and the "upward spiral" will become infectious. But don't take our word for it, see what our clients have said about the positive impact professional training can have on an organisation here.
A better business!
Microsoft Office is one of the world's best-loved software suites, but very few people use more than a fraction of it's features. Increasingly, however, companies are demanding that their staff are capable of using sophisticated tools to prepare presentations, to produce analysis and reports and to track projects.
Our instructor-led Microsoft Office training can make that process as painless as possible for those involved, and represent a very cost-effective solution for almost any business that uses IT in the workplace.
Already know how to use Word, Excel or PowerPoint?
Need a quick boost to bring you up to date?
Then our Skills Refresher Courses might be exactly what you are looking for! We can tailor a course exactly to your requirements and deliver it to you at your desk if you are witin our local area. Visit our Skills Refresher page for more details.
Have you recently been upgraded to Office 2010? Do your team know where everything has moved to? Are you tearing your hair out trying to do what you've been doing for years?
Then our Office 2007 and 2010 rollout training is probably the MOST COST EFFECTIVE solution to your problem!
We can provide tailored training to get your team up and running with Office 2007 or Office 2010 in no time. Courses are instructor-led, concise and effective - we only use real-world scenarios to make the training as realistic as possible and allow you to adapt them to your own actual situation.
Visit our Office Rollout page for ore details.
Our MD, David Millard, is a full member of the Learning and Performance Institute and a Microsoft Certified Trainer with years of relevant industry experience who has worked extensively in both the public and private sectors. He is also a certified Assessor and Microsoft proctor.
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