Learning Microsoft Office can significantly benefit your daily workflow, productivity, and efficiency. Microsoft Office skills are indispensable across industries and professions, which gives them an advantage in the workplace.

• Higher productivity

  • Chances are, there are Microsoft Office applications that you use every day. Imagine how much time and energy you could save formatting documents in Word, or working with data in Excel, if you knew the right shortcuts and tips to get there faster.

• Global compatibility

  • Microsoft Office is used by companies around the world. Learning Microsoft Office gives you transferable skills that you can use in any office environment.

• Team training

  • Businesses can schedule training for one person, the entire team, or specific departments. 

  • Training is customized to meet the needs of the company.

  • Onsite and offsite training is available.

Microsoft Office Solutions

• Microsoft Office 365

  • Microsoft 365 is a product family of productivity software, collaboration, and cloud-based services.

• Microsoft Office Outlook

  • Mainly used as an email application, Outlook is considered a personal information manager, coordinating your calendars, task managers, contacts, notes, journals, and browsing sessions.

• Microsoft Office Excel

  • A superior spreadsheet program that can be used to organize, format, and calculate data.

  • You can create formulas to aggregate large amounts of data, graphs, chart data, create macros, and develop pivot tables.

  • Helps you create custom reporting.

• Microsoft Office Word

  • The most widely used word processing program.

  • It includes an array of features for document creation and editing, including spell check, a rich text editor, and page features such as justification, paragraphs, and indentation.

  • You also benefit from the what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) display – as the screen displays everything in the same way as the document will look when printed.

• Microsoft Office PowerPoint

  • Helps you create professional presentations.

  • A variety of features to streamline and enhance presentations, such as: transition effects, timers, and software integrations.

• Microsoft Office Publisher

  • A desktop publishing program, emphasizing page layout and design.

  • The program includes templates for frequent business needs, like business cards, calendars, and brochures/newsletters.

• Microsoft Office OneDrive

  • Share files, folders, and photos with anyone with ease. No more large email attachments or flash drives—just send a link via email or text.

• Microsoft Office Teams

  • Meet, chat, call, and collaborate.

  • Remove barriers between spaces, places, and people with small business software that empowers teams to work together all in one place.

  • Share files, co-author, and edit content simultaneously. Automatically save everyone’s changes, and form ideas together in Microsoft Whiteboard. 

• Adobe PDF Editor

  • Edit text and images in a PDF.

  • Make scanned text editable through Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

  • Create PDFs and verify accessibility in a few quick steps.

  • Create and apply custom actions to any PDF to save time and keystrokes.

How to prepare good board reports

1. What is a good board report?

• • • The primary purpose of the board report is to inform the governing board of important happenings within the organization, typically highlighting the time frame between the last and current meetings.

    • Governing boards may meet monthly, quarterly, semiannually or even annually. As part of their oversight duties, every board member should read, comment, and ask questions about the board report. 

2. How to write minutes for effective meetings.

3. Is there a difference between the board’s, committee’s, and director's reports?  The answer is yes. It is important to understand what is included in each report. 

• The Executive Board selects a committee to research a specific issue or perform a certain task. The committee then, writes a report detailing its actions, which is integrated into the governing board's report. 

• The executive director’s report provides a more comprehensive overview on the entire company or organization, including performance data from every management team and department. 

• The board's report summarizes the committees reports and executive director’s report into one easy-to-follow governing board report.