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With the growing concerns about the impact of COVID-19 on our customers’ operations, and our own, we recognised that it would be beneficial to expand our training offering to also include virtual training sessions. This allows individuals or teams to join a training course from wherever they are, while still enjoying the benefits of having a specialist trainer on hand to deliver the content and answer questions.

We appreciate that different organisations, teams, and individuals will have different needs at this time. Some may need direct support with Crisis Management and Recovery, others may be looking for ways to support staff and their mental wellbeing during this period of uncertainty. Others, still, may be experiencing decreased workloads, and are looking for virtual training services to help upskill employees in preparation for the future.

Our aim when designing our virtual training programme has been to provide the critical skills that will support individuals, teams, and organisations in responding to the unique challenges of the current situation, with a particular focus on Crisis Management and Recovery, Technical Tools Training, Mental Toughness, and Coaching, as these are the areas our customers have told us are needed right now. However, we are able to create bespoke training programmes according to your specific needs, so please do get in touch if there is anything we can do to support you at this time.

Our Virtual Training Programmes



Crisis Management and Recovery

A series of practical sessions designed to give you the skills, tools, and structure to remotely manage teams through crisis more effectively. Four key modules provide a strong foundation for leaders to manage through a crisis and lay the groundwork for recovery.

Topics Covered Include:

  • CMR Model
  • Crisis Leadership
  • Teaming in Crisis
  • Toolkit of practical resources

Technical Training

Take advantage of our virtual training sessions covering the most well-used technical tools. These practical sessions will quickly equip team members with the knowledge and skills to use these tools to their full potential, helping to improve productivity and reduce errors.

Topics covered include:

  • Excel
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Project
  • Primavera

Mental Toughness Courses

Support your employees in building their resilience and mental fortitude to handle the unknown and bounce back stronger when the unexpected happens.

Topics covered include:

  • Introduction to Mental Toughness
  • Mindset & Emotions
  • Decision Making Under Stress
  • Mental Toughness & Fatigue

Coaching

Work with a professional coach to focus on the areas of development that are most important to you or your team and build the mindset and skillset for career success at every level.

Coaching options include:

  • 1:1 personal coaching session
  • Team coaching
  • Executive coaching
  • Coaching conversations

Scheduled Virtual Training Courses

Please see below for our current schedule of publicly available virtual training sessions. We are adding new dates all the time, so please do check back regularly to see the latest dates, or contact us to register for updates.

We can also organise bespoke training courses for your organisation, at a time that is convenient for you. Bespoke training courses can be tailored to your exact specifications, either based on our standard range of courses, or designed exclusively for you depending on your requirements. Please contact us to discuss your needs.

Introduction to Mental Toughness: 7th April (12.30 - 13.30)

  • An Introduction to Mental Toughness
  • The importance of Mental Toughness in Crisis Management
  • Measuring your Mental Toughness
  • Lucy’s Kitbag – Three Top Tips to improve your Mental Toughness

Mental Toughness - Mindset and Managing Emotions: 9th April (12.30 - 13.30)

  • The 4 Cs of Mental Toughness
  • Understanding Mindsets
  • The Power of Optimism
  • Lucy’s Kitbag – Three Top Tips to manage your emotions

Mental Toughness - Decision Making Under Stress: 14th April (12.30 - 13.30)

  • Mental Toughness and Risk
  • Decision Making in Crisis Scenarios
  • Mental Toughness and Creativity
  • Lucy’s Kitbag – Three Top Tips for Decision Making in Tough Situations

Mental Toughness and Fatigue: 16th April (12.30 - 13.30)

  • How stress affects our energy levels
  • How fear affects our behavior
  • Managing our reaction to fear
  • Lucy’s Kitbag – Three Top Tips to overcome Fear & Fatigue

A Brave New World - Mental Toughness Survival Skills: 30th April (12.30 - 13.30)

  • Managing your Emotions
  • Visualising your Future
  • Anxiety, Control and Wellbeing
  • Mental Toughness Thinking Skills

Excel - Formulas Review: 30th March (9.00 - 9.45)

  • Building formulas
  • Ordering calculations
  • Absolute cell references
  • Using functions

Excel - Managing Multiple Worksheets and Linking Data Within a Workbook: 30th March (10.00 - 10.45)

  • Moving and copying worksheets
  • Inserting and deleting worksheets
  • Grouping worksheets
  • Changing the worksheet tab colour
  • Linking between worksheets

Excel - Transferring and Linking Data Between Workbooks: 30th March (11.00 - 11.45)

  • Linking between workbooks
  • Using copy and paste link
  • Creating formulas between workbooks
  • Updating and managing links
  • Changing source data
  • Breaking links

Excel - Conditional Formatting: 30th March (12.00 - 12.45)

  • Changing the cell format depending on set criteria
  • Databars, Top/Bottom Rules, Colour Scales and Icon Sets
  • Creating custom formula rules

Excel - Working With Data: 30th March (13.15 - 14.00)

  • Organising data using Excel tables
  • Sorting and filtering information
  • Table formatting
  • Adding calculations into table columns
  • Adding total rows
  • Removing duplicates
  • Converting to an ordinary range

Excel - Setting up Data Validation: 30th March (14.15 - 15.00)

  • Setting number and date validation
  • Setting drop down list validation
  • Setting custom validation

Excel - Analysing Information Using Pivot Tables: 30th March (15.15-16.00)

  • Creating and modifying a Pivot Table
  • Recalculating the Pivot Table
  • Filtering the Pivot Table
  • Searching the Pivot Table
  • Drilling down to underlying data

Excel - Pivot Table Customisation: 30th March (16.15 - 17.00)

  • Customising field names
  • Changing field formatting
  • Creating separate worksheet data from page/report fields
  • Pivot Charts
  • Using Slicers

VLOOKUP and HLOOKUP: 3rd April (10.00 - 10.45)

  • Constructing a simple VLOOKUP function to draw information from another source
  • Using HLOOKUP

Introduction to Macros: 3rd April (14.00 - 14.45)

  • Macro concepts
  • Recording macros
  • Example macros
  • Adding buttons to run macros

Logical Functions in Excel: 7th April (09.30 - 10.15)

  • Creating an IF statement
  • Using the AND plus OR functions
  • Nesting functions

Microsoft Project - Setting up your project: 8th April (9.15 – 10.00)

  • Project defaults
  • Project start date
  • Setting default hours per day/week
  • Setting daily working times

Microsoft Project - Building a Project Plan: 8th April (10.15 – 11.00)

  • Creating a work breakdown structure
  • Adding tasks and durations
  • Estimated durations
  • Setting milestones
  • Recurring tasks
  • Linking activities
  • Setting start dates and dependencies

Microsoft Project - Resourcing Your Project: 8th April (11.15 – 12.00)

  • Assigning resources
  • Filtering available resources
  • Managing resources
  • Resource properties

Microsoft Project - Task information: 8th April (13.00 – 13.45)

  • Constraint dates
  • Setting deadlines
  • Assigning task specific calendars
  • Task types

Microsoft Project - Updating Your Project: 8th April (14.00 – 14.45)

  • Completing work
  • Completing work per resource
  • Updating tasks
  • Updating the project
  • Rescheduling work
  • Change highlighting

Primavera P6 - Building an EPS Structure and Creating Projects: 31st March (09.00 – 9.45)

  • Creating EPS elements
  • Defining the programme structure
  • Navigating the EPS structure
  • Finding programmes
  • Creating projects
  • Setting project properties
  • Validating projects
  • Assigning project codes

Primavera P6 - Building a Work Breakdown Structure and Setting Top Down Budgets: 31st March (10.00 – 10.45)

  • Creating a Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
  • Creating WBS elements
  • Work package management
  • Allocating top down budgets

Primavera P6 - Detailed Activity Planning: 31st March (11.00 – 11.45)

  • Creating activities
  • Task types
  • Relationship types
  • Creating relationships
  • Adding milestones
  • Assigning activity codes
  • Using steps
  • Using the schedule function

Primavera P6 - Resourcing: 31st March (12.00 – 12.45)

  • Resource types
  • Creating resources
  • Resource attributes
  • Assigning resources
  • Switching resources
  • Split load resource assignment
  • Reduced hours resource assignment
  • Using roles

Primavera P6 - Checking Workload and Baselining: 31st March (13.15 – 14.00)

  • Reviewing workload
  • Dealing with resource conflicts
  • Assignments view
  • Creating baselines
  • Assigning baselines

Primavera P6 - Working With Layouts: 31st March (14.15 – 15.00)

  • Creating layouts
  • Customising columns
  • Setting filters
  • Sorting and grouping
  • Changing the timescale
  • Customising the Gantt
  • Creating activity code breakdown structures

Primavera P6 - Progressing the Schedule: 31st March (15.15 – 16.00)

  • Updating task status and remaining duration
  • Setting the data date

Primavera P6 - Printing and Reporting: 31st March (16.15 – 17.00)

  • Printing your schedule
  • Printing to other packages
  • Exporting and importing information
  • Primavera standard reports
  • Creating custom reports

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FAQs

We are starting off by running a series of sessions on using Microsoft Teams, to help organisations run virtual meetings more effectively.  These will be 30 minute sessions and will be free of charge.

We are also pleased to offer a series of free sessions on Mental Toughness, run by our Head of Leadership Development, Lucy Finney. These hour-long sessions will focus on a range of different topics to help your build and maintain your resilience and mental toughness during uncertainty.

In addition, we are also offering virtual sessions on some of our most popular courses including Excel, Microsoft Project, and Primavera P6 (see below for full details of dates, times, and topics) and we will be adding more dates and topics in due course. These sessions are charged at £35 per person, but discounts are available for bulk bookings.

Our aim to to provide the most valuable learning opportunities to our customers, and we can run virtual sessions on whatever you like, so please contact us let us know what you would like to see on the programme.

If you are looking to train up your team on a specific topic, please get in touch and we can create a bespoke virtual training package for your needs. Our virtual training offering can cover all of our subject areas including management and leadership, business skills, personal effectiveness, technical and office programmes, and project management.

Participants can join our virtual training sessions from wherever they are based, all they need is access to a computer and the internet. The sessions will be run via Microsoft Teams, but you don’t need to have Teams on your machine – we will send you a link to the web application if needed.

Once you’ve joined the meeting your trainer will briefly introduce themselves and the topic being covered. They will then do a quick demonstration of a skill, and provide you with an exercise to complete, to put your new skills into action. You are welcome to ask questions throughout the session, and if you are comfortable doing so, you can share your screen to get advice from the trainer.

In addition to a laptop and internet access (and a quiet place to sit), you’ll also need access to any software you’re attending the course on (Excel, Word, Project etc.). Other than that, you don’t need anything. Your trainer will provide all of the exercises on the day, and you’ll receive a digital copy of the workbook used during the course (not applicable to Microsoft Teams or Mental Toughness sessions).

Sessions on Excel, Microsoft Project and Primavera are 45 minutes long.

Our Microsoft Teams sessions are 30 minutes long, and our Mental Toughness webinars are one hour.

Each session will cover a specific topic (please see session descriptions for details), but questions are welcomed.

Each 45 minute sessions is £35 per person, but you can receive a 10% discount if you want to book multiple sessions – £125 for four sessions, or £250 for eight – that’s a 10% discount compared with booking each session individually. And you can mix and match sessions depending on what feel would be of most use to you.

All of our Microsoft Teams and Mental Toughness sessions are being offered for free.

If you would like to book a place, please email training@underscore-group.com stating the date and sessions you’d like to attend. Our booking team will get back to you to confirm your place and give you full details.

We can also run these sessions for groups of your staff at dates and times to suit you, just let us know what you would like.

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