Friday, 7 December 2012

Can I save Time by teaching Microsoft Excel


I have been training people how to use Microsoft Office for fifteen years and in particular Microsoft Excel. I also teach Time management, Presentation and Project Management skills. I used to call myself an IT trainer but now I call myself a time saver trainer, why?

When you teach computer sessions to a varying array of companies as as often as I do , it becomes very clear that the majority of people attending computer courses spend a large amount of their time creating documents, analysing data and presenting reports. On many occasions, I have listened to groups explaining either what they do daily, weekly or monthly, realising the amount of time that I could save them with some simple instructions.

There are large employers out there with very competent staff in key roles that unfortunately do not realise the money they would save if they invested in training sessions geared to save time. I believe all IT training must be tailored with saving time in mind. It is nice to know how advanced features work and how to make things look pretty, but can trained personnel get their work done any quicker when they return to the work place?

The business should benefit from training not just the individual. Time is the key, time means money, time saved is money saved.

 

Let Excel talk to you

Look at www.itseasy.co.uk to find out how to use Microsoft Excel's speech feature. 

Saturday, 7 July 2012

9th/12th Royal Lancers (PoW)


We will not lie down and fade away, we will not be quiet, we will not be made in to dust, we have stood tall for nearly three hundred years, we don’t fade, we don’t go away, we are the 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales’). 



We were at Waterloo, we are the Delhi Spearmen, have you heard about us?  We were with Wellington did you know, we were in the Crimea did you know that?  We have been to Afghanistan before and again we serve.  The South Africans know about us, do you?



World War One saw us on horses with Lance, the Germans knew us. Do you?

World War Two saw us near Dunkirk holding the line, at the Battle of Alamein and in Italy.  We have been to Northern Ireland once or twice, seen the desert sun and the forests of Europe, we are the 9th/12th Lancers do you know us?? We will not lie down, we will not fade away, we are the 9th/12th Lancers.

Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Oh well what can we do??

I have just found out that a training company that I have recently worked for and owe me money have gone bust. Tell me that the MD, CEO and the rest didn't know that before they booked training, less than 10 days prior. The staff don't know what is happening they are still asking me training questions. What a joke and a moral disconnect they must have. Why do we allow people to do this? I know they will reform and try again regardless of the people they destroy on the way to getting rich. God help us.