Training doesn’t just offer new skills; it encourages the correct and most efficient use of the program, often saving the company millions every year. It also gives staff the confidence to know that they are competent users of the program and they become more able to explore the more advanced features for themselves.

CASE STUDY

During a one-day Intermediate Excel course in London, after the topic of Sub-Totals had been covered, one of the 6 delegates said to Marie*, "You have just saved me every Friday for the rest of my working life in this company!" She went on to explain that at the end of each week she would spend the entire day manually creating subtotals in a very large spreadsheet, not realizing that Excel would do these for her at the press of a button. 

This prompted the delegates, at the end of the day, to work out how much time they had saved as a result of their training, and then to convert this time saved into money saved in salary hours. They did the calculations, in Excel, and came up with an extraordinary figure.

They worked out that the 1-day training course had
saved the company (the equivalent of) N6,250,000**

Not just that year, but every year.