Business and Management
Project Management
Project managment has been described as the art of ‘planning, organizing and managing resources to achieve a specific goal’. Good project mangement skills can mean the difference between success and failure for an organisation – and project management is definitley a skill that needs to be learned through training – you may be a born [...]
Time Management
Do you ever find that you start the day with a list of 10 things that you want to get done, but by hometime you have only achieved 2 or 3 of the items on thei list? And you are left wondering what happened to all that time – where did it all go. Time [...]
Supervisor
Workers who are good at what they do will often find themselves promoted to a supervisory level – but just because they are good at the core task (whether it be engineering, programming or customer service), this does not mean that they will naturally go on to be good supervisors. Whilst the core job will [...]
Management
The importance of good management can never be underestimated – you are paying your workers every hour of their working day, and the return you get for that money is, by no insignificant amount, determined by the effectiveness of the manager that is overseaing and manageing the work that they do. Effective management training will [...]
Leadership
Leadership is about so much more than management. Leadership is not easy to define, although you know it when you see it and you can definitly notice it missing when it is not there! Leadership demands all the skills of management such as good communication, organisation, flexibility and the ability to think on your feet [...]
Selling
Selling is absolutely central to the life of your business – after all, if you do not have sales you do not have a business. Effective sales techniques can make the difference between success and failure, and effective sales comes from effective sales training – so it is not hard to see why sales trianing [...]
Finance
Accountants seem to have developed a language of thier own to describe what are actually perfectly straightforward concepts when they have been described in a straightforward way. Do you sometimes find yourself a bit out of your depth when your accountant starts talking about liquidity ratios, net present value or return on capital employed? If [...]
Employee
Employee training is a vital requirement for maintaining a well skilled workforce that can drive your company forward. In an ideal world companies would hire people who already have the training and skills required to do thier job effectively but the reality is that employee training is nearly always required to bring your staff up [...]
Communication
Good communication skills is absolutely core to succeeding in business. To be a good manager you need to be able to communicate well with your employees. Good comunication with every stakeholder in the business is vital – whether they be a client, supplier, customer, employee or shareholder. Being an effective communicator takes real skill and [...]
Accounting Training
Accounting training can be very useful for entrepreneurs who are thinking of starting, or ahve already started, running their own business. You do not need to be a fully qualified accountant – but without some handle on the numbers, it doesnt matter how good an ideas person you are – you will struggle to survive. [...]