Essential Secretarial Efficiency (Award)

You'll start with improving your keyboard skills by taking one of our speed development courses. This will teach you how to touch type accurately at approximately 60 words per minute.

You'll then move on to the SpeedWriting course, which is a great way to learn how to take down minutes and notes quickly and precisely at speeds of over 40 words per minute.

Finally, you can choose Microsoft Word or Microsoft Word Expert (depending upon your current level of experience), which will ensure you'll be confident in this most important and popular word processing software.

The Essential Secretarial Efficiency Award has been designed specifically to help you improve your keyboard, note-taking and Microsoft Word skills. So if you're working in office admin and want to take your skills to the next level, this is just the course for you.

On completion, you'll be able to type at up to 60 words per minute – a good working standard, take notes accurately and efficiently using the SpeedWriting system and fully understand and be confident in Microsoft Word.