Taster Sessions
We offer a free one hour taster session to organisations. This is a great way to meet us and see our teaching style, as well as learning something useful. Do email us to arrange a session. Here are some of our recent sessions. Perhaps one of them is of interest to your team?
Popular Excel skills
- Look up and reconcile data in Excel with the VLOOKUP and XLOOKUP functions
- How to build pivot tables in Excel and how to use them to summarise and analyse data efficiently
- Modern Excel 365 - why it makes previously difficult tasks so much easier
AI
- How to talk to your AI to get the best from it
- AI terms demystified: terms such as models, LLMs, prompts, skills, tools explained in plain English
Get started with Power BI
- An introduction to Power BI - and when to use it rather than Excel
- How to build your first interactive chart in Power BI
Get started with SQL
- An introduction to SQL for complete beginners. Learn how to query a database and get the data you need.
An introduction to Python
- An introduction to Python: why you should learn it in the age of AI
- How to write your first Python script and run it successfully
Some esoteric topics we’ve had the pleasure of delivering in our taster series
- Introduction to Git and GitHub - and why they are useful not only to coders
- The terminal. Why it is useful and why you should learn to use it
- An introduction to Claude: when and why to use the Chat, Cowork and Claude Code modes
- An introduction to Markdown: why it is useful, the essentials you need to know and some practical tips for using it effectively