How to Evaluate Training Effectiveness with Excel AI Analysis in Minutes

Training employees is easy. Measuring whether it worked? Not so much. Between feedback scores, quiz results, and cryptic comments, HR teams are often left guessing if a session was valuable—or a waste of time.

In this post, we’ll use Excelmatic, an AI-powered Excel analysis assistant, to turn post-training data into real insights. With just four questions, you’ll get clean stats, department-level views, and even filtered feedback comments—without writing a single formula.


The Dataset: A Typical Post-Training Summary

Here’s what your data might look like:

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Looks familiar? Now, let’s make sense of it.


Excelmatic in Action: 4 Questions, 4 Insights


1️⃣ What’s the average feedback score per training?

Prompt: Please calculate the average feedback score by training topic.

💡 Result: Excelmatic returns:

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Now you can instantly spot which sessions are getting love—and which might need a reboot.


2️⃣ Who didn’t pass the quiz?

Prompt: Please list all participants who did not pass the quiz.

💡 Result:

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This quick table helps you follow up with participants who need a refresher—or re-training.


3️⃣ How do departments compare on feedback?

Prompt: Please summarize feedback scores by department and generate a bar chart.

💡 Result: Excelmatic outputs a clean summary + chart:

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Now you’ve got a visual dashboard showing which teams got the most from training—and where learning impact is low.


4️⃣ What are people *really* saying?

Prompt: Please extract feedback comments that mention ‘difficult’, ‘complex’, or ‘too fast’.

💡 Result:

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Boom—instant red flags. No need to read every comment manually.


What You Can Do With These Insights

  • Identify training that needs improvement
  • Offer support to employees who struggled
  • Share successful sessions company-wide
  • Build a feedback dashboard for leadership
  • Save time (and your sanity) during HR reporting

Final Thoughts

Let’s face it—training data is useless if no one acts on it. With Excelmatic, you can turn a plain spreadsheet into a real-time evaluation tool that works for HR, L&D, and business teams.

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