Microsoft Office Software: Online Computer Training for Your Business
Current Situation
Microsoft Office is currently on the computers of 80% of all Small/Medium Businesses and over 86% of Large Businesses. However, studies show that the average Microsoft Office user only uses 10% of the available functionality. How can you educate employees to increase their productivity? What are the options?
Onsite Training
This option is when your company hires a firm to travel to your facility and hold a classroom or seminar style education.
¬Pros:
• Instructor is available for questions
• Some firms are able to customize some of their materials to fit your needs
• If your facility has a training room equipped with computers, attendees can have some hands on training
Cons:
• Extremely expensive
• Employees are away from their workstations for several hours, an entire day or several days
Offsite Training
This option is when your company uses a training firm that has its own facility or employees attend a seminar. Generally, your employees are placed in a classroom or seminar setting with employees from other companies.
¬Pros:
• Less expensive than Onsite Training
• If you pick the right firm, computers will be available for hands on training
Cons:
• Expensive
• Employees are away from their workstations for several hours, an entire day or several days
• Travel costs
• Courses are for a broad audience with will cover topics that may or may not be relevant to what your employees need.
Self Paced or Computer Based Training (CBT)
This option is when employees follow a training program at their own pace. Materials can be presented in book form or on a computer.
¬Pros:
• Less expensive than Onsite and Offsite Training
• Employees can take their time learning the material
Cons:
• Employees are unable to direct questions to an expert
• Employees are not accountable to finish the materials within a given timeframe and they may or may not complete the exercises.
• Training materials are not flexible.
• Topics and exercises may or may not be relevant to the employee’s specific needs.
Printed and Online Manuals
There are several books and online resources that an employee can read in order to learn how to utilize Microsoft Office
¬Pros:
• Less expensive than Self Paced or CBT
• Employees can take their time learning the material
Cons:
• Very time consuming to read a 500 page text book
• Very time consuming to perform online searches to find answers to questions
• Employees are unable to direct questions to an expert
Your Best Option – Customized and Cost Effective
A select few training firms offer a cost effective training methodology that allows for customized training by leveraging the Internet.
• Very inexpensive
• No travel required. Employees can remain at their workstations
• Customized to what your company needs
• Training sessions can be from one hour to several hours. You decide which works best
• Focus on a particular discipline or set of responsibilities and the training will focus on what is needed instead of covering irrelevant topics.
• Direct interaction with the instructor
• Follow up with employees to make sure they understand the materials
Microsoft Office is an extremely powerful tool that is not utilized to its fullest extent. You have already purchased it…why not leverage it? No need to go out and buy new software. You already have the tools to increase productivity and boost efficiency.
Next Steps
Start to do more with less costs
1. Learn what Microsoft Office can be doing to improve your business
• What areas of the business need to be more efficient TODAY?
• Use the Microsoft Office tools to help realize much higher productivity
2. Start leveraging Microsoft Office
• Your company has already purchased Microsoft Office, why not use it?
• Did you know that there is more to Outlook than just a tool to read email?
• Excel can be leveraged well beyond the basics that you’re doing today
• PowerPoint and Access can be also be utilized to help your business grow
3. Unlock Microsoft Office
• The average employee knows less than 10% of what Microsoft Office has to offer
• Learn to use Microsoft Office to handle your business processes
Keynetx, Inc can help you realize all of the advantages of Microsoft Office, simulate high productivity, and show you ways to leverage Office to see revenue increases up to 150%.
There is no need for you to rush out and spend thousands or even millions of dollars on new software. You already have what you need at your fingertips.
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