Training Metrics: Chart the Quantity of Training Completed by Month

This page contains examples of charting the quantity of training completed per month using both Grand Avenue’s internal charting tool and Excel. Questions to help determine the appropriate training record search criteria are at How do I select the correct data to show my training metrics?

Collect Training Data

Training metrics using Grand Avenue’s internal charting tool

Click Generate Chart for Results to create a chart of training records.

Open

Select “Generate Chart for Results”

Select the chart options shown below and click Generate Chart.

Open

Training Completion by Month Charted Using GAS Internal Charting Tool

Training metrics using Excel

Charts generated in Excel from exported data take more time to create but have a full range of flexibility in how the data is presented.

Click the Export Results to Excel link on the search results page.

On the next page, click the Export Results to Excel button. Open the exported CSV file and save it as an Excel Workbook (*.xlsx). In the Excel workbook, click Insert → PivotTable. When prompted, place the PivotTable on a new worksheet.

Select the PivotTable Fields shown below.

1. Drag the Months (Training Completed Date) field to the Rows box.

2. Drag the Training Completed field to the Values box.

Here’s the PivotTable generated from the fields selected above.

Select the Pivot Table and click Insert → PivotChart. Here’s the corresponding PivotChart.