On-site training at your workplace

On-site training removes the two things that most often stop people applying what they learned: unfamiliar machines and unfamiliar data. When the class runs on your own equipment with your own files, the exercise and the job are the same thing, and there is no translation step on the Monday afterwards.

It also surfaces problems a public class never sees. Half the value of an on-site day is usually the twenty minutes where somebody opens the workbook the whole department depends on and the instructor says "you know this can refresh itself, don’t you". You do not get that in a room full of strangers with a sample file.

Scoping is a conversation rather than a form. We ask what people are doing by hand, what breaks, and who is carrying the workload — and then build the day around that. Sometimes the answer is a standard course delivered on-site; often it is a mix that does not exist on the public schedule.

PowerConcepts has been doing this since 1998, and the client list on our services page runs from municipalities to national charities to manufacturers. Vancouver Island and the Okanagan are local; anywhere else in Canada or the US is quoted with travel included, and for most teams at that distance the live online format below works out better anyway.

When this is the right format

• The team shares a system, a set of files or a process you want everyone doing the same way
• People are in one place, or in two or three places you would rather not fly them out of
• The training needs to touch real data that is not leaving your network
• You want the instructor to see how the work is actually done, not how it is supposed to be done

If none of those describe your situation, the other two formats are Live online training and Excel for teams. For one or two people rather than a team, the public course schedule is usually better value.

The material most often covered

For this format the material most often requested is Office 365 training — the umbrella hub for Microsoft 365 training. Pick the application you need — each has its own courses and its own skill path.

Corporate scoping is not limited to one hub, though. A single engagement regularly mixes applications: Excel for the finance team and Teams for everyone else is one of the most common combinations we quote.

Organisations of this shape

Two of the client profiles worth reading alongside this: Sun-Rype and City of Vernon. Both describe the training problem rather than reporting engagement results, for reasons set out on the case studies page.

Getting a quote

Scoping is a conversation rather than a form. Tell us what is not working — one or two sentences is enough to start — and we will come back with something concrete. Having your team take the skill assessment first is genuinely useful: the spread of scores across a department tells us more than a job-title list does.

Talk to us about your team