Which version of Excel?
As to the size of the class, somewhere between five and ten people can usually be accommodating in a training room with reasonable facilities. You will need to ensure that you have a conference or training room equipped with a computer for each delegate and a projector which can be connected to a computer used by the trainer to demonstrate each technique.
If your staff are trained on an older version of Excel and then have their software upgraded to 2007, the differences are so significant that many of them will need retraining!
Which topics should be covered
Ideally, training courses should be attended by users with a similar level of experience and with similar requirements. If you have a mixture of skills levels, it is best to split the training into separate sessions to cater for people's different needs. It is also important to limit attendance to those people who can attend for the entire duration of the training. Having delegates nip in and out of a training session is disruptive and doesn't really benefit anyone.
A general rule of thumb is that the bigger the leap you are asking people to make, the smaller the class needs to be. For example, if you decide to get your staff trained on the use of Excel macros and none of them have ever done any programming, then you should restrict the size of the group to between three and six people. By contrast, if you have a group of people who have been using the program for some time, but have never been formally trained and need to be given a better idea of what the program can do, you could probably have a larger group of, say, between seven and ten people.
Which version of Excel?
Ideally, training courses should be attended by users with a similar level of experience and with similar requirements. If you have a mixture of skills levels, it is best to split the training into separate sessions to cater for people's different needs. It is also important to limit attendance to those people who can attend for the entire duration of the training. Having delegates nip in and out of a training session is disruptive and doesn't really benefit anyone.
If your staff are trained on an older version of Excel and then have their software upgraded to 2007, the differences are so significant that many of them will need retraining!
Who should attend
If your staff are trained on an older version of Excel and then have their software upgraded to 2007, the differences are so significant that many of them will need retraining! - 15634
As to the size of the class, somewhere between five and ten people can usually be accommodating in a training room with reasonable facilities. You will need to ensure that you have a conference or training room equipped with a computer for each delegate and a projector which can be connected to a computer used by the trainer to demonstrate each technique.
If your staff are trained on an older version of Excel and then have their software upgraded to 2007, the differences are so significant that many of them will need retraining!
Which topics should be covered
Ideally, training courses should be attended by users with a similar level of experience and with similar requirements. If you have a mixture of skills levels, it is best to split the training into separate sessions to cater for people's different needs. It is also important to limit attendance to those people who can attend for the entire duration of the training. Having delegates nip in and out of a training session is disruptive and doesn't really benefit anyone.
A general rule of thumb is that the bigger the leap you are asking people to make, the smaller the class needs to be. For example, if you decide to get your staff trained on the use of Excel macros and none of them have ever done any programming, then you should restrict the size of the group to between three and six people. By contrast, if you have a group of people who have been using the program for some time, but have never been formally trained and need to be given a better idea of what the program can do, you could probably have a larger group of, say, between seven and ten people.
Which version of Excel?
Ideally, training courses should be attended by users with a similar level of experience and with similar requirements. If you have a mixture of skills levels, it is best to split the training into separate sessions to cater for people's different needs. It is also important to limit attendance to those people who can attend for the entire duration of the training. Having delegates nip in and out of a training session is disruptive and doesn't really benefit anyone.
If your staff are trained on an older version of Excel and then have their software upgraded to 2007, the differences are so significant that many of them will need retraining!
Who should attend
If your staff are trained on an older version of Excel and then have their software upgraded to 2007, the differences are so significant that many of them will need retraining! - 15634
About the Author:
The writer of this article is a developer and trainer with On-SiteTrainingCourses.Com, an independent computer training company offering Microsoft Excel Classes in London and throughout the UK.
