How Can I Stop Forgetting Important Tasks?

Q: I keep finding myself forgetting to do important tasks and have missed the occasional meeting at work. What would you recommend for forgetful youth workers like me?! A: Personally, I ‘d recommend using Google Calendar. It’s a great tool to keep track of your schedule, no matter where you are. I find it to [...]

How Much Should I Charge For A Youth Retreat?

Q: How much should I charge for a youth retreat? Quite a lot of the young people I work with are from low-income families, so I don’t want to set the price too high. I want to be sensitive to how much their parents can afford, but don’t know the best way to address the [...]

How To Use Charts and Graphs To Track Individual Youth Attendance

Over the past few weeks we’ve been showing you the many ways in which you can use Excel – and subsequently the charts and graphs feature in Excel – to track youth attendance.  It’s valuable for many reasons, but two main ones are for proving outcomes in monthly and annual reports and to provide quantitative [...]

How To Create A Line Graph To Track Youth Attendance

We’re currently working our way through a series that shows you how to use Excel to track your youth work attendance and how to use bar graphs, pie charts and line graphs to create visuals of that data. These charts and graphs can be very useful in monthly and annual reports and when showing data to [...]

How To Use A Pie Chart For Youth Attendance

We’re currently working our way through a series about how to use Excel to track youth attendance and to create charts and graphs using that data. You may be asking yourself, ‘why are they showing me the same information over and over just in different formats?’ Despite Stephen‘s ‘pie’ joke, we’ve actually only shown you how [...]

How To Create Charts Based On Grade Level Attendance

We’re currently working on a series about how to use Excel to track youth attendance. Last week we showed you how to track youth ages from one year to the next. This week, we’re going to show how you can use the data to create charts and graphs to track youth grades by attendance from [...]

How To Create Charts And Graphs Of Youth Attendance

Last week we showed you how you can use Excel to track youth attendance. This week, we’re going to show how you can use that data to create charts and graphs of youth attendance. This can be especially useful when producing end-of-year / end of youth program reports, as the charts and graphs can be [...]

How To Run A Silent Auction – Part 4

For the last few weeks, we’ve been advising on how to run a silent auction – check out part 1, part 2 and part 3. Today is the fourth and final part of the series: After The Silent Auction 1. Unpaid items – At the end of the auction, there could well be some items [...]

How To Use Excel To Track Youth Attendance

Woohoo! Excel Spreadsheets! I can feel your enthusiasm oozing from my screen even now as you read these words. I know, it’s hard to let go of your friend, the Word Document Table, but I promise you, there is room in your life for Excel. It may not be your friend now, but after a [...]

How To Run A Silent Auction – Part 3

For the last couple of weeks, we’ve been showing you how to run a silent auction – check out part 1 and part 2. Today is the third part of the series: At The Silent Auction 1. Check up on volunteers – Volunteers should have been advised before the silent auction what tasks they were responsible [...]