Microsoft Interactive Training

At LearningLolly, we have an experienced team of industry advisors who can help you look at which of our Microsoft Interactive Training options will be right for you based on your future career plans.

We've searched the globe to find the very best interactive training available. It's supplied to you as a portfolio of discs, and the quality of the training means that there's no need to spend hours reading 'dry' technical manuals.

The way you learn is to watch and listen to video tutorials, then observe practical demonstrations and finally apply your new-found skills in interactive labs to consolidate your understanding. The Microsoft training environment you'll learn in has been developed by one of the worlds top Microsoft Gold Partners and has great student reviews.

Low Priced Microsoft Interactive Training

This excellent interactive training is only one facet of the LearningLolly experience. We know from many years working in the industry, to maintain momentum in any training process, students need some guidance from time to time to help get the occasional point straight.

So not only are we giving you the best training, but this is where we really dominate in our offering over other providers...

We supply access to a genuine 24x7 Support System which is provided from four offices around the world in different time zones. This way we can ensure you have access to our team of instructors whenever you need them.

Just log in, and they'll help you using a number of different options including 'over the shoulder views' demonstrating what to do. Feel free to contact us for more details on how we do this.

When it's time to prepare for your exams, you'll have access to Microsoft authorised exam simulations and materials.

This means you can practice, and measure yourself in exam conditions, so you'll know exactly when you're ready to take the real thing.

As you progress through the course and start to develop employable skills, we'll help you to prepare yourself for interviews, and introduce you to our job placement assistance package.

We hope by now you'll see the commitment and dedication that's been put in to creating the best possible training package for you. What we haven't mentioned is that we do all of this for several hundred (and sometimes thousands) of pounds less than our competition by keeping the overheads of the company to a minimum.

All in all, we believe that our Microsoft interactive training package is the one to use if you're serious about improving your career options in IT. To find out more click for a FREE info pack...

Frankly Speaking... thoughts for the day!

The Four Stages of Learning

Breaking down the different stages of learning can be really helpful when we're trying to work out where we are and how far we can go. It can be quite scary to look at the big goal - perhaps professional web designer with a large portfolio of clients who rely on our expertise, when it's as much as we can do to remember the names of the software we'll be using to learn!

We're going to look at four levels of understanding. Whenever we take on something new, we all go through these stages, and recognising them helps us to measure ourselves and our progress.

1. Unconscious Incompetent
2. Conscious Incompetent
3. Conscious Competent
4. Unconscious Competent

Career changers often start at stage one - Unconscious Incompetent. This is when we know we want to change, but we don't yet know what we don't know, what we need to know, how to learn it or where it might lead us! Sounds pretty desperate, but the important thing is knowing we want to change - everything else can be taught. The essential thing is to get advice. By talking things through with an experienced advisor, the stage one person can discover what's involved in the process; find out where they want to go and what they need to learn.

This moves us swiftly on to stage two - Conscious Incompetent. Now we're probably at the start of your training course. Having been taught the different options, we've decided on our career path, and we know what we have to learn - in other words we're conscious of what we don't yet know, or what we're currently incompetent at. It's important to understand this, to have the wisdom of knowing where we are. Understanding conscious incompetence means that we don't get so frustrated in our early stages of learning - we might not be very good at it (especially if it's been a while since school...) but we know we'll get better. Modern interactive learning accelerates this process, so we don't have to stay at this stage for long.

Stage three is Conscious Competent. We're in the flow of the learning environment, and are picking things up much faster. We still have to consciously think about what we're doing all the time, but we're able to learn competently. We'll probably complete our studies and successfully pass our exams whilst in this learning stage, which is likely to also extend into our working life too. Think about learning to drive a car. We'd got to conscious competency at the time of our test - still consciously aware of every maneuver but good enough to pass the exam. It wasn't until we gained more experience along with the knowledge that we moved into stage four.

In IT, we'll probably be four or five years into our working experience before we become Unconsciously Competent. We know what we need to know, and no longer have to consciously think about why we do something. Although school's never over for the true professional, (and certainly in IT the joy is there's always more to learn) achieving this lofty height of understanding makes all the hard work worth it.