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5 Project Management Skills that Could Transform Your Work

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5 PROJECT MANAGEMENT SKILLS THAT COULD TRANSFORM YOUR WORK

Project management skills are a truly valuable asset to have. Whether you’re running your own business, looking to change lanes in your career, or trying to develop the value you add to your job role. Project management is a huge part of being an effective force at work and the skills required are invaluable.

The same principles apply no matter what project you have at hand. It might be pulling together a marketing campaign or planning an office move.   Launching a new service or making any kind of organisational change. Where there is a project, there should be good project management.

You can learn these tenets through a specialist training provider like STL. Good skills in this area can help you get the deals you want, effect the change you need to and get ahead of the competition. They are certainly skills worth learning.

You may think that you already know the basics of project management. Create a stakeholder map, set a budget, create a Gantt chart and you’re set, right? But there are some essential skills which are often overlooked which can make or break a project. Get these small touches right, and you’re likely to be a success.

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Making Your Money Stretch Further in Business

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MAKING YOUR MONEY STRETCH FURTHER IN BUSINESS

When it comes to making money in business, we’re often focused on pushing sales. While increasing customer numbers and orders can make a positive difference to the balance sheets, it’s also crucial to keep an eye on running costs. If you’re making a lot of money, but your expenditure is high, this will affect your profit margins. If you’re keen to make your money stretch further, here are some steps to take. 

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Starting a New Business – Tips to Get You Off the Ground

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STARTING A NEW BUSINESS – TIPS TO GET YOU OFF THE GROUND

Starting a new business can be a very enjoyable experience, but it can also cause lots of headaches. Not only will you need to have the skills in the area that you are specializing in, you will also need to develop your communication and administration skills. You will need to become an expert in analyzing information, as well as have a good working knowledge of all of your obligations as a business leader.  

Today we will look at some ways to help you get off the ground.

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Ways to Make Your Business Look More Professional

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WAYS TO MAKE YOUR BUSINESS LOOK MORE PROFESSIONAL

Whatever it might be that you are trying to achieve with your business, you can be sure that one of the main things you will want to do is to make sure that it looks as official as possible to the outside world as a whole.

When your business looks professional, people are going to be able to respect it much more easily, and will be able  to trust it much more readily too. The question here is, how to ensure that your business is really going to look official, and that is something which can be surprisingly hard to do at the outset. However, with the right understanding, you should be able to make your business look official in no time, and in this article we are going to take a look at what you need to do towards that.

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Tips for Starting an International Business

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TIPS FOR STARTING AN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS

Starting an international business online will take a great deal of dedication, hard work and persistence. Nothing will come easy However, if you are willing to push yourself and really focus on what you want to achieve then there’s no reason why you can’t come out on top.

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The Benefits of Training Your Staff

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BENEFITS OF TRAINING YOUR STAFF

When setting up in business, once you’ve got your staff hired, even if it just be one staff member, it’s easy to forget about them. Obviously you’ll know that they’re there, and you’ll probably think about all of the things you want them to do in the day, but you won’t actually think about what they need.

There’s so many different ways that you can improve your employees so that not only do they become better people, but they also become better for your company. Surely you want people who have more skills and knowledge, so that the job they’re doing is the best that it possibly can be for your company. Plus, you want employees who feel like they’re actually progressing with your company.

There are two major reasons why companies have such a high turnover. One of them is because they’re not progressing, and the other is because they just fall out of love with the role. So, we’re going to show you the benefits of training your staff, the skills they need and how you can provide them!

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Small Business Tips – Keeping Your Operating Costs to a Minimum

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SMALL BUSINESS TIPS – KEEPING YOUR OPERATING COSTS TO A MINIMUM

They say you have to spend money to make it and in the world of small business that may be true to a certain extent. However, you certainly can’t throw the stuff around willy nilly and expect to end up in profit. In fact, everything you spend needs to be deducted from what you make before you can work out your profits. That means keeping your outgoing operational cost to a minimum is pretty essential. Keep reading for some top tips of exactly how to do just that.

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