Here’s what’s happening in the world of business and IT skills training.

What 1,451 UK organisations actually bought training in from 2019 to 2026, what they paid, who placed the order and how big their employer was, with the national skills-gap figures beside our own. Excel is 44% of orders, SQL has fallen from a third to under 4%, Power Automate is one order in ten, and two in five buyers sit in L&D or HR. Updated each October; free to cite.

Thirty-four Excel formulas with the syntax, a worked example and the mistake people make with each: SUM to SUBTOTAL, IF and IFS, XLOOKUP and INDEX-MATCH, SUMIFS and COUNTIFS, the text and date functions, and the dynamic array functions in Excel 365. Read it on the page, copy any formula, or download the two-page printable PDF. No sign-up.

This free, printable Excel Skills Self-Assessment helps you quickly gauge your level and pick the right next step in your learning path. It contains 15 multiple-choice questions spanning navigation, formulas, lookups, tables, PivotTables, charts, dynamic arrays, Power Query, and more. You’ll score yourself and interpret the result to see whether you’re Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced - then follow tailored course recommendations based on your score.

Use a copy-and-paste DATEDIF formula to calculate age from a date of birth in Excel. This guide also covers fixed reporting dates, YEARFRAC and the input checks that prevent bad results.

In this guide, we explain variance as a measure of how widely data points deviate from the mean and shows why understanding this spread is useful for deeper insight and risk assessment. It walks readers through calculating variance in Excel, distinguishing between the VAR.S function for a sample and VAR.P for an entire population, then demonstrates each with a car-sales case study.

The Power BI Training Course – 20 Questions Checklist is a practical, printable tool to compare Power BI courses across providers objectively. Use it to score curriculum quality, delivery format, hands-on practice, certification prep, and after-course support so you can choose with confidence.

This blog explains how Excel’s LOOKUP functions—particularly XLOOKUP and VLOOKUP—can retrieve data based on multiple criteria. It walks through a step-by-step example of finding an employee’s sales in a specific region, showing both an XLOOKUP formula and a VLOOKUP alternative that uses a helper column.

Microsoft 365 Copilot can super-charge Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams, but IT managers must align licensing, data governance, and clear business goals before launch. In this article, we discuss how engaging stakeholders early, piloting with a small cross-functional group, and phasing the rollout lets teams refine guidance and measure real productivity gains. Role-specific, hands-on training - prompt-engineering tips, quick-start resources, and “Copilot champions” - converts into confident daily use while resolving emerging user challenges.

The blog explains how to evaluate Microsoft 365 Copilot (and Copilot Pro) using a clear ROI formula and data from Forrester’s Oct-2024 TEI study. It outlines three benefit areas - go-to-market (potential revenue lift up to 6%), operational efficiency (cost reduction up to 0.85%), and people/culture (attrition down up to 20% and onboarding faster up to 25%) - plus hard-to-quantify gains like compliance and security. A five-step method and example calculation (~205% three-year ROI) show how to model low/mid/high scenarios and decide whether to adopt based on workflow fit, readiness, and budget.