Desktop Skills Training: Building Block of Success
Effective desktop skills training can boost an office workforce's productivity across a wide range of outputs. Employees who have mastered the desktop applications available to them can create higher quality reports, spreadsheets, and presentations. A desktop skills training program can also smooth an organization's migration to new software applications and reduce the demands placed on an in-house technical support operation.
An online desktop skills training program—conducted over the Internet or over an organization's internal intranet—can be especially advantageous. Online desktop skills training is more cost-effective than classroom based desktop skills training, and fits more easily into the schedules of a busy workforce. Since desktop skills are the desired outcome, there is also an obvious practical benefit to the training itself being conducted on the learner's desktop. Online desktop skills training also has the appeal of being environmentally friendly, since it requires no travel from instructors or learners, accommodates telecommuters, and produces no paper waste.
SkillSoft Delivers Superior Desktop Skills Training
SkillSoft is a leading provider of online employee training solutions and services. SkillSoft's award-winning catalog of online courseware features a comprehensive collection of desktop skills training courses. Within its Desktop Skills collection are dozens of desktop skills training curricula such as:
- PC Fundamentals
- Security
- Microsoft Windows 7
- Microsoft Office 2007
- Adobe
- Lotus Notes 8
Each of SkillSoft's desktop skills training curricula includes a range of multi-course learning paths. Its Microsoft Office 2007 curriculum, for example, features multi-course learning paths such as "Beginning Excel," "Advanced Excel," and "Excel for the Power User," as well as comparable paths for Word, PowerPoint, and so on. Each individual desktop skills training course is self-paced and targeted toward specific, measurable performance objectives. Each is packed with engaging content including rich multi-media presentations and frequent practice exercises. Many of SkillSoft's desktop skills training courses are available in localized versions in over a dozen languages.
For continuous on demand training and performance support, SkillSoft also offers its OfficeEssentialsTM collection of online reference books. This searchable collection of full-text reference books from leading publishers provides an efficient and trustworthy source of answers to the desktop skills questions that come up during the day-to-day work routine.
SkillSoft Leads in Customer Satisfaction
SkillSoft's commitment to delivering the highest-quality online training products and services has earned it the number-one customer satisfaction ranking in industry surveys for each of the last three years. SkillSoft provides more than 3,000 corporate, governmental, and educational institutions with a wide range of training solutions including presentation skills training, time management training, leadership skills training, diversity training, and green training, as well as IT-certification preparation solutions.
To learn more about SkillSoft's desktop skills training solution, as well as its other products and services, please visit the SkillSoft home page now.
