Let's Talk Starting in Business (it's free!)
A free one-day course, in conjuction with Barclays, aimed at anyone wishing to start, or have just started their own business. Topics covered are:
- deciding whether to be a sole trader or a limited company
- how to write a good business plan
- sourcing finance
- managing cash flow
- taxation and VAT
- marketing
The next course will be in February (date tbc) at Barclays, St Peter's Street, St Albans from 9am to 3.30pm.
Call us on 01727 837760 or email us: advice@stanta.co.uk to book a place.
Pods, Blogs & Wikis seminars:
The next series of PB& W in 2010 will be:
- Advanced DIY Google Adwords and SEO -
- Using on-line PR, RSS and article marketing to raise your business profile -
- Advanced social media for non-techies -
These courses are led by Jason Sammon of FL1 Group and Sabra Swinson of Cerco Communications and take place usually on Fridays at the County Constitional Club, St Albans.
For more details, call Stanta on 01727 837760 or e mail us: advice@stanta.co.uk
Business Training with Learn Direct
You know it makes sense, but how can you get around to doing it?
The Government is well aware of the need to improve skills in the UK economy, and that doing so will result in improved productivity, and better success rates for business; most business people agree with this in principle, but even large companies do not always do enough about it, and for small companies, the day-to-day pressures mean that training needs are often ignored, or put off, whether it is for employees or an owner-manager.
But what if you or your staff could undertake training as and when there was a quiet moment, or in your own time at home on the internet? Would you do more? Could you improve your business performance?
STANTA is no longer offering these courses directly, but they can be accessed from the LearnDirect Business web site.
On-line and DVD/CD ROM from Learndirect covering:
- leadership
- general business management
- people skills
- finance
- ICT
- business law
- health and safety and including basic food hygiene (the RIPH Foundation Certificate in Food Hygiene and the RIPH Level 2 Award in Food Safety in Catering
To see the catalogue, follow the link: Learndirect Courses.
Also from Learndirect is the remarkable Harvard ManageMentor - an immense range of management support material covering 42 core topics from one of the World's top business schools, available to you to you 24/7 for a whole year.
Coming soon from Learndirect: Learning with Laughter. A range of Video Arts training programmes which make their critical business points with humour provided by top comedians. Video Arts products have been used by medium and larger companies for many years as training aids, but now an affordable version is available for the small business. Video Arts
STANTA also offer occasional seminars on special topics, and workshops on business planning held with Barclays called Let’s Talk Starting in Business. For more information, phone Ginny or Mel on 01727 837760 or click here Monthly Update.
