Excel

At work more and more employees are being asked to use Excel. Unfortunately a great many of them don't know what Excel is, much less have any experience with it. My answer, "let's train them!" Surprisingly enough after I complained for weeks and weeks the powers that be finally said, "OK, go for it." Also, one of our Team Leads is certified to teach Microsoft and has taught many, many classes. I knew she was all for training our employees Excel so together we created a handy-dandy guide and instructor outline.

We've taught four separate classes so far. Some employees were thrilled to be exposed to Excel, others were indifferent, and a few who already know Excel were concerned it would be a waste of their time... but we managed to show them a few new tricks.

It's so fun to be able to do more than just my typical work duties, and it's a great opportunity to be of service to the employees in a different capacity.

The Team Lead I'm working with is great. She's provided some excellent feedback to help me improve and is very supportive. I even learned some new things about Excel!

We're discussing expanding the training to also provide classes on Word and possibly PowerPoint - assuming that the powers that be agree. I suppose if I nag enough eventually they'll say yes to get me to shut up. Ah the power of persistence!