Payroll Theory - Virtual Session Reviews

Shelia was a great presenter and I enjoyed hearing her explain the course. I feel I have walked away with a good amount of knowledge and I feel more confident while using payroll and the legislations attached to it. I enjoyed the interactive parts of the course and Shelia has patience and understanding when unable to complete the task given. I really enjoyed this course.

CHALLENGES FACED IN THE ROLE

Hi there - apologies for this taking so long - I was not overly impressed with the 2 day course, there was a small amount of information that I learnt which was useful, but in my opinion, no real life material was used (example - P45's, actual payslips, P32's etc) all examples were done on spreadsheets - which in real life would generally not be the case, I appreciate not everyone will use the same payroll software so it would be difficult to pick one to show examples. I found the trainer whizzed around his spreadsheet doing formulas without actually explaining what he did. Whenever anyone asked a question he pretty much talked over the person. Just generally not impressed at all - very sorry.

Very informative, good explanations and showing of workings. Being new to Payroll this was very good for me and made a lot of what I have seen whilst shadowing in my job make sense. Thank you

VERY INFORMATIVE

Course content was disjointed and lacked direction, information was repeated to a point that time was wasted. For example, the first hour of day 1 was spent explaining what an employee is. This information could have been condensed down to a few minutes using briefer definitions and better visual resources. The majority of the time spent on excel spreadsheets, with the trainer writing some legislation and example in unorganized formats. This makes the information difficult to go back over after the live session has finished. My suggestion to fix this would be to focus more on creating premade resources that are easy to read (using tables and other diagrams) and having premade examples that the trainer works through during the session, as well as premade answers with workings that students can look at in there own time if necessary. Also practice questions and answers being provided to students to work through would be beneficial so they can practice their knowledge. I believe these changes could optimise the course, making the course length shorter. As well as making the information easier to understand and revise. I hope this constructive criticism is useful, and I hope you are able to improve the course for future students!

Very informative course. It is very useful to know calculations behind. Struggled to download SAGE, but got there in the end.

The initial course was set up by Softext. The service by these guys was very slow and caused a lot of stress and anxiety.

Great course - would say its more directed towards people with a base knowledge of Finance & Payroll. Maybe offer a 'beginner course with more one one one guidance' - for someone like myself who is brand new to Payroll and is still getting to grips with the basics. I've learnt a lot, but have found the calculations particularly difficult and would need more then the time allotted to fully comprehend it.

Sheila has been very informative and answers any questions we have, the sessions do contain a lot of information to digest all at once.