In the office we hardly thought of using specialist software to project manage workflow. My company used to run on paper and the good old box file system. We were always adding shelves and buying more stationary in our office, a method that - over time has become very messy and disorganised not to mention a drain on expenses!

When I expanded my business recently I switched to the paperless office method of working. Even though we haven’t taken down the shelves just yet it has changed our methods of thinking about how we work. The recent expansion of our team has included the addition of an I.T administrator who is taking care of our new network of computers. He’s been useful in training my staff for the changeover and recommending various software packages that will improve our office system to run more efficiently.

This week we had a ’show and tell’ on Prince2. Prince2 training is a government backed project management initiative that has over the years been developed, improved upon and filtered down to small business owners such as myself.

Myself and the team have been greatly impressed with James’s presentation and I am considering sending them on a Prince2 training program. After some intense research we have found Pentagon IT to offer some very reasonably priced prince2 project management training programs and have recently expanded them to major cities throughout the UK to include Liverpool prince2.

I know that the staff training is going to be very useful in:

Saving ourselves money and improving our offer to our clients.

Workflow in the office has much improved.

Organizing accounts (should save them some leg work chasing up live accounts all the time!)

I’ll keep you posted on the outcomes here!