I was recently asked, “Who are your typical clients?” I thought this was a good opportunity to open my client spreadsheet list, create a pivot table and create a pie chart to find out the answer (isn’t that what you would do too?!) I can’t work out if the answers are surprising or expected? In […]
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Most people appreciate that there is a big difference between theory and practice. At school I thought I really understood the theory behind Momentum in A level Mechanics, but it turns out putting this to practice in the exam was not quite so easy! The same applies in Microsoft Excel, I regularly meet people who
So often, training companies offer full day courses as a standard. There are occasions where a full day course is the only viable option. However, from a learning point of view, shorter half-day courses are so much more beneficial. There are less last minute cancellations when people attend short courses, even if there is an
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If ten people said they wanted a “basic Excel training course”, what are the chances that they all start with the same level of ability, require information on the same topics, apply the knowledge in the same way and all learn the topics at exactly the same pace? Zero, that’s the chance. Someone’s basic is
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Spreadsheet risk is a type of operational risk defined as “the risk associated with deriving a materially incorrect value from a spreadsheet that will be used in making a related decision”. In other words, incorrect value on spreadsheet = potentially wrong decision In other words, spreadsheet = potential disaster! What can you do to help