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Training Packages

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Introducing Learning Packages

We believe that training should be a purposeful part of how you support your team. However, choosing the right training, making sure it fits your budget and ensuring that it matches your objectives can be difficult.

That is why we created learning packages – to help you take the guesswork out of determining the best training for you and your team. Each package is designed with results in mind – to be more productive, effective and guide you to greater success. Once you have selected your package, visit our public training calendar to see when your courses are offered.

Please note: The pricing below is for courses booked from our public training calendar. If you are interested in a private or customized session for your team, please get in touch with our training coordinators.

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Software Training Packages

Microsoft has so many amazing tools to help your team’s workday run smoother, so let us help you optimize how they are used!

Each of our technical packages includes:

  • 1 year of after-training support
  • Exclusive package pricing
  • Certificate of completion
  • Participants have one full year to complete their series

Package A: Excel Complete

You Are
Someone who uses Excel every day in your role and wants to be more productive and efficient in how you use this tool.

Key Results
Not only will you gain a strong foundation in what Excel has to offer, but you will also gain real-world, practical experience to accomplish your daily tasks with more ease and less frustration.

Cost
$1,050 plus HST

Required Courses
*NOTE – The mandatory courses are shown in the order that we recommend they be taken.

Excel Level 1
Become comfortable creating, editing and formatting worksheets and workbooks. Learn great tips to become more efficient and familiarize yourself with formulas, functions, and cell references.

Excel Level 2
Gain an understanding of using advanced Excel formulas and functions and how to enhance spreadsheets with data tables, data filtering, and charts and graphs.

Excel Level 3
Streamline your workflow by automating tasks through Conditional Formatting and Macros. Advance your data analysis through Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, and Slicers. Work with multiple workbooks through linking and data consolidation.

Choose 1 Elective

Excel Tips & Tricks Level 2
Learn some powerful time-saving tricks that can increase productivity as you work on your spreadsheets. For example, create multi-tiered drop-down lists, make your conditional formatting more flexible with checkboxes and drop-down lists, and create Gantt charts.

Advanced Formulas and Functions
Learn how to use Date, Logical, Lookup, Text, Math, Statistical, and Database Functions and understand Array formulas. Gain a deeper understanding of how to use Excel as a dynamic and powerful analytics tool.

Package B: Creating Powerful Dashboards

You Are
Someone who must present data in such a way that makes the conclusions and next steps clear, attractive and easily digested.

Key Results
Create powerful interactive dashboards by integrating Power Query and Power Pivot. Take your dashboards to the next level by either learning how to create amazing custom data visualizations, master charts and graphs in Excel, or by learning advanced formulas for ultimate dashboard automation.

Cost
$2,384 plus HST

Required Courses
*NOTE – The mandatory courses are shown in the order that we recommend they be taken.

Power Query
Learn how to connect to external data sources, reshape and cleanse your data, pivot and transpose your data, and create custom calculated columns.

Power Pivot
Handle large volumes of data from several sources in a single Excel file, perform powerful data analysis and create a sophisticated data model. Then, learn to summarize the data through Pivot Tables and Pivot Charts.

Dashboards in Excel
Learn how to present your data in an Excel dashboard visually. Learn all the Excel features needed to analyze, summarize and display your information using a visual decision-making tool.

Choose 1 Elective

Custom Data Visualizations in Excel
Create next-level dashboards by creating beautiful, customized charts using Excel’s graphics tools. Motivate action using powerful visualizations such as Speedometer Charts, Animated Spheres, Battery Charts, and Heat Maps.

Advanced Formulas and Functions
Learn how to use Date, Logical, Lookup, Text, Math, Statistical, and Database Functions and understand Array formulas. Gain a deeper understanding of how to use Excel as a dynamic and powerful analytics tool.

Mastering Charts & Graphs in Excel
Learn the key principles of data visualizations and gain comfort with Excel’s tools like formatting options and custom templates. Gain expertise on all the chart types within Excel, from Pies, Columns, and Line Charts to more advanced options like Histograms, Waterfalls, and Geospatial Heat Maps.

Package C: The Office Basics

You Are
Someone who uses many of Microsoft’s products, but needs help using them to their full potential.

Key Results
Choose four courses that best match your needs to power up your workday.

Cost
$1,050 plus HST

Choose any four of the following courses:

Excel Level 1
Become comfortable creating, editing and formatting worksheets and workbooks. Learn great tips to become more efficient and familiarize yourself with formulas, functions, and cell references.

Excel Level 2
Gain an understanding of using advanced Excel formulas and functions and how to enhance spreadsheets with data tables, data filtering, and charts and graphs.

Excel Level 3
Streamline your workflow by automating tasks through Conditional Formatting and Macros. Advance your data analysis through Pivot Tables, Pivot Charts, and Slicers. Work with multiple workbooks through linking and data consolidation.

Word Level 1
Learn how to use Word to create and edit simple documents, format documents, add lists and design elements, and preview and print your documents.

Word Level 2
Improve your understanding of Word by learning how to create custom templates, organize information into tables, insert and modify charts, add visual elements, organize and arrange content, and merge documents.

Word Level 3
Learn how to create and work with lengthy documents, use Word’s reference tools, collaborate with others and create forms and macros.

PowerPoint Level 1
Create presentations using a variety of slide layouts and content, including the use of slide transitions and basic animation skills.

PowerPoint Level 2
Learn more of the advanced tools and techniques available to create customized design templates and to modify presentations using tools such as slide masters and advanced animation.

Outlook Level 1
Feel completely comfortable with using and customizing the Outlook interface, creating and sending messages, managing contacts, using the calendar, managing tasks, and using notes.

Outlook Level 2
Become comfortable in configuring advanced message options, using advanced message management options, managing activities using tasks, editing electronic business cards, sharing your workspaces with others and managing email security.

Teams Complete
Increase your productivity, communication, and flexibility as you acquire the skills you need to create and manage teams, share ideas quickly, communicate with chats, audio, or video, schedule meetings, and even add apps to integrate other services.

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