Every Monday many of us step into the office and smell for smoke.  Putting down Monday morning fires effectively takes a great deal of talent and skill.  Even more it takes a great deal of technical capabilities to deal with fires effectively if we want to insure that the Monday morning fire drill does not distract us from the goals of the week.

There is no better way to get away from the trap of the Monday morning Fire drill Routine than by boosting your technical prowess.  With that in mind, I’d like to offer some exceptional products from the Softduit store that can help you take three steps forward so that when the firedrill makes you take that step back, you’ll still be ahead of the game.

These products can be foundt at Softduit Shopping within the DVD>Cotinuing Education Section (Don’t get distracted by the Comedy Section, save that for Friday afternoon.  There are many great tools in this section that can help you, I’d like to focus on the items that will help the data crunchers.  Afterall if you can provide an answer and all the detail to support it in seconds rather than minutes, hours, days or weeks, most of your fires will barely have time to smoke.

Access 2003 Level 1 and Level 3 ( Level 2 is currently on Backorder) Learning how to use Access to manage dynamic data in your organization can save you hours of processing time in spreadsheet manipulations.

There’s never a better time to start learning how to work with a database, however if your immediate need is to get better at working with spreadsheets, the Softduit store has DVD’s with 8 levels of skills sets to help you achieve more faster, more efficiently and with greater accuracy.  Not to mention offer up better methods for communicating the Right answer once you have calculated it.

I always looked at these types of course from the perspective that if I could learn something in 2 hours that would reduce the amount of time I need to complete a task by 1 hour every week, I’m getting paid off in dividends.  In real life, I usually have found that I learn in 2 hours enough tricks to save me 35 hours a week. 

Here is a run down of the Areas covered so that you can identify which items might fill a particular competency void and prepare you for greater things.

1. Excel 2003 Level 1
2. Excel 2003 Level 2
3. Excel 2003 Level 3
4. Excel 2003 Level 4 Charts & Graphs
5. Excel 2003 Level 5 Database Functions
6. Excel 2003 Level 6 Additional Topics
7. Excel 2003 Level 7 Special Topics
8. Excel 2003 Level 8 Tips & Tricks

The Training that Keeps on Giving

The great thing about purchasing training DVD’s is that you can share them with your employees and coworkers.  Just as you move up the chain after learning more technical capabilities, you’ll start to take on more direct reports and employees.

These employees will not always have your technical skills and so the best way to make sure that your team is effective, is to get them trained up.  You may not always have the time nor budget to train them or send them to training, but its very easy to loan them a DVD and have them study it 20 minutes a day or even on their own time(if they are motivated and trying to get ahead, this can be a great way to evaluate their dedication and drive.)

This will also prevent many new managers of falling into the trap of saying, “Ah give it here, I can do it myself faster.”  That may be true, but if you give your employees the tools to learn how to do it as fast as you can, just think how much more you can all achieve together.  There’s never a better day than today to start working with a smarter more effective team!

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