Excel Empowerment Workshop

Women living with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) need to have IT skills in today’s digital age. Excel is one of the most commonly used software for data entry, analysis, and management. Having Excel skills can help women with chronic illnesses track their condition, manage their daily activities and improve their professional skills, making them more competitive in the job market. Equipping them with additional skills like these is essential in empowering women. Therefore, as part of our EmpowHer project, we facilitated an Excel workshop for women living with chronic health conditions. The workshop was held on 13th April 2023, and it was facilitated by Keisha Archibald, the Business Development Manager at Ezone and was the second workshop in Ms Archibald series on Navigating the Digital World.

The workshop was practical, allowing attendees to work on a budget which allowed a range of topics to be explored, including how to sort and filter data, formulas, concatenation, rules, combining information from multiple cells, and more. The step-by-step nature of the workshop and the interactive nature of the session made it very engaging and enjoyable.

All attendees were very satisfied with the workshop with the presenter’s knowledge being highlighted as one of the most beneficial aspects as well as the step-by-step nature of the workshop and being able to practice Excel and learn how to navigate through the different features.

Participants reported feeling ‘more confident’ using Excel as a result of the workshop and stated that were  ‘very likely’  or ‘likely’ to use the skills learned. When asked about what skills they plan to use, the responses varied from using Excel to create a budget and present business reports to improving daily work skills and creating charts and graphs.