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Practical Skills for Business training (it's free!)

Have you been made redundant recently and/or been unemployed for less than 6 months?

Are you interested in starting your own business or becoming self employed?

If you are able to commit to four days over a period of 4-6 weeks and to undertake assignments between these days, then Practical Skills for Business could be the ideal course for you to prepare yourself for being your own boss - and to gain a qualification.

The workshops and completion of the relevant exercises provide candidates with an NCFE Level 2 customised training award, and, on production of a suitable business plan, the Chartered Management Institute Introductory Certificate in Business Start Up, which is a Level 3 qualification. However, the primary aim is to provide candidates with the skills and knowledge to start a viable and sustainable business. The emphasis is very much on practical skills that can be used within the business on an ongoing basis.

The next course will be running in February/March at STANTA'S offices in St Albans.

Call us on 01727 837760 or e mail advice@stanta.co.uk to reserve a place or find out more.

 

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 - Fri 12th February
• Using on-line PR, RSS and article marketing to raise your business  profile - Fri 26th February
• Advanced social media for non-techies - Fri 19th March

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, or via audio download supported by scheduled conference telephone sessions? Would you do more? Could you improve your business performance?

STANTA, an authorised reseller of learndirect Business eCourses, now offers a range of training courses:

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 (for which STANTA is an accredited examination centre: Number 2632).                                                             

To see the full 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

Audio download with telephone coaching: for start-up and small businesses needing to develop their business strategy, sales skills and change or develop their direction, Certain Change offer very substantial discounts through STANTA on their programmes:

• Business Builder

• Profit Builder and

• Sales Skills

These are delivered in a series of downloadable audio modules, supported by manuals/workbooks and with telephone conference coaching seessions.  Because they are delivered over an extended period, and are supported by phone-in sessions, it gives time for ideas to be put in practice and for people to develop new approaches and skills.

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.