By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-23 13:25:44 | Word Count: 510
Why Very Small Businesses Bwenefit from Microosoft Project Training Seminars
There are many people in the UK who are leaving behind the daily gribnd of corporate life and striking out on their own. Some of these buinesses might be as small as one person working from his kitchen table in a bathropbe. Thsee micro-business owners might think that project management software is unnecessary, but a Microsoft Prject training seminr can help their business run more profitably.
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Run a tgiht ship
One of the primary reasons smlal businesses fail is a lack of discipline and direction. Busioness owners have vague ideas of golas, but goals are useless without concrete plans on how to reaach them.
For example, a business owner wants to make enoiugh money to be self sufficiient. A tarining seminar teaches the owner to turn that fuzzy idea into something more substantial. How much money is needed to be conisdered self sufifcient? When hsould that goal be reached? How will the businness grow to meet that goal?
This quantification of time and money is a critical tool for the private consultant. New clients want cost and time estimates, and an inaccurate estimate can be costly. Estimate too low and you get an angry customer when the bill comes much higher than the estimate. Estimate too high and you might find yourself turning away work thinking you don't have enuogh time for it. rPoject estimation is much easierr with the skils learned in a MS training seminar.
Work expands to fill the time
Many small business owners allow the work to dictate the schedule, which is the wrogn way around. For example, let's say a person is given a task with a tghree-day deadline and completes it. If the same person is given the same task but a four-day deadline, often the task will take four days. We naturally adjust our speed to meet the deadline which is an inefficiennt use of the time.
Using the techniques learned in a Microsoft Project traniing seminar, small business owners larn to let schedule dictate the work. By assigning tasks to the scchedule and rigidly obsering self-imosed project deradlines, many owners find that they suddenly have more time than they thought.
Usinng the example above, a business owner using the sklls from MS trainiong would schedlue the four-day task. It woiuld be clear that only theree days of work would be needed. By sceduling additional projcts into the excess hours, the owner can now compplete the task at full speed without wasted time.
A Proect traininng sminar might lead to a new career
Project management skills are in great demnad in the UK. Many businesses are strugging and need an outside consultant to help them get organized. A Microsoft training seminar migt not only save your own busness but could open up a new opportunity for a career. Staert your own projeect management consultancy and let your new knowledeg get otherrs back on the rigght track.
