Why you really should follow an Office training now

You have a pressing question on Excel and your Excel-expert colleague can’t be reached via Microsoft Teams, just when you need him the most. Sounds familiar? Save yourself from wrinkles! Don't delay attending an Office training any longer. In this article, Global Knowledge tells you why now is the perfect time to attend an Office training.

Well, there you are - behind your laptop, watching how-to-make-a-Pivot-Table-in-Excel videos because your Excel-expert colleague is still not reachable on Teams. Normally, you’d have walked over to his desk, tapped on his shoulder, and got him to create a pivot table for you. But no such luck with Teams. While watching the video, your attention has already drifted away countless times—WhatsApping, chatting with a colleague on Teams, answering an email quickly and so on. By the end of the afternoon, the pivot table you needed is nowhere in sight!

Less concentration

The work-at-home situation brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic is severely testing our abilities to focus and retain attention. While following that how-to-Excel video wasn’t the most exciting experience, it’s even more difficult to maintain your focus now (especially with screaming children in the background). Besides, didn't setting up an Excel file go much faster when you could just ask your colleagues for help?

Now is the time to leave behind those frustrating afternoons messing around in an Office program and now is the time to follow an Excel training! With an extended lockdown, the return to "normal" office life has become even more uncertain. Nonetheless, your boss still expects you to put the figures neatly in an Excel file.

Stop frustrating yourself with stuttering videos punctuated by work-at-home chaos. Enrol for a training! If you’re still not convinced you need to attend an Office training, let’s give you four concrete reasons why you really should.

• 1. You cannot always consult colleagues now
  Let us quote the first example. Presenting your Office dilemmas to colleagues is a lot more difficult when you’re both behind your screens at your home offices. (Unless you've had Teams training, of course, because then you know how to take over a colleague's screen to show something).
  
  Besides, you shouldn't always be dependent on expert colleagues for your tasks, right? Of course, you can always ask for help. But when you're doing it the fifth time in the day, that might be taking it too far. Make sure you have the Office knowledge yourself. This way, you can complete your work without depending on your colleagues.
• 2. Start the new year on the right note
  2020 was not a pleasant year. The fact that you didn't know how to set up automatic replies in Outlook made it even more annoying—not just for others, but also for yourself. After returning from vacation, you had to face an overflowing mailbox.
  
  You can start 2021 well by following an Outlook training straight away. All those little issues for which you now have to Google—like setting your signature in Outlook, turning on out-of-office replies, automatically sorting mail—can be addressed at once in a training.
  
  The world is complicated enough now, and every bit makes the situation better (and less frustrating) for you.
• 3. Training helps you make better use of Office programs
  Knowing Office programs from simple features like editing an already sent Teams message to advanced Excel functions like VLOOKUP and SUMIF can make your life easier. But you won't find them without training or expert advice.
  
  Attending an Office training and learning the nuances of an Office program can make it easier to do your work. It also means you save time; time that you can use for your next project or to take a refreshing walk!
• 4. Refresh outdated knowledge
  Microsoft Office programs are continuously updated. If you took an Office training five years ago, your knowledge is outdated. That's why it's a good idea to do a one-day training at Global Knowledge to refresh your memory and to bring your knowledge up to date. Prefer to learn at your own pace? An eLearning course is also possible!

Benefit from a start guarantee

If you're still not convinced, here's one more reason why you should opt for Global Knowledge. Our Office training comes with a start guarantee, which means the training is guaranteed to start on the scheduled day! Want to know more? Click on the button below to view our start guarantee offer (currently only available in Dutch).