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Learning Tools
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Are financial models your friend or foe?
As Australian leaders in Financial modelling, Plum Solutions pride themselves on keeping our finger on the pulse of changing consumer and company trends. We are genuinely interested in what YOU THINK - if you can't live without your Excel models, love or hate Excel, think Financial Modelling is a complete waste of time, or you have no idea what it is, we'd like to hear about it!
As a special thank you for taking part, you will get a $50 training voucher and the most complete and insightful response will receive a copy of "Practical Financial Modelling" by Jonathan Swan. Survey ends 31st October 2008.
http://www.plumsolutions.com.au
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Up to 80% off business magazine subscriptions
Did you know you can order your business magazine subscriptions through Amazon and save up to 80% in the process? Titles like Harvard Business Review, the Financial Times and Smart Money are all available. We'll profile some of the special offers in the coming weeks - in the meantime if you want to do the legwork yourself you can search on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=pe_25390_9549990_fe_txt_1/?ie=UTF8&
amp;node=602320
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Mastering the numbers in your business - financial modelling made easy
It's absolutely crucial in any leadership role that you understand how to work the numbers and build a business case. If this is not your strong point, we strongly suggest you contact Plum Solutions. Danielle Stein Fairhurst at Plum Solutions is a great supporter of sphinxx leaders and runs a Financial Modelling Support Centre - a help desk for clients having excel or modelling trouble - as well as a range of training courses to help you master the financials in your business including:
- Financial Modelling in Excel - Learn to create your own dynamic and reliable financial models
- Budgeting & Forecasting in Excel - Create budgets, rolling forecasts, reports and scenarios
- Data Analysis & Reporting - Discover how to “tame” your data and make it work for you!
http://www.plumsolutions.com.au/
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Get the rap on new business books
Book Rapper shows you how to position your revenue radar to reap greater profit. Read the innovation book Reviews and apply the Action Plans mapped out each month in Book Rapper.
We select the 12 books that will have the biggest impact on you and your business. We Review the book, unravel the key ideas and translate these into simple Action Plans for you to implement. Our concise RAPs (Review + Action Plan) can be read inside an hour. Discuss them with your team to implement a time-efficient and cost-effective innovation program.
http://www.bookrapper.com/
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HBS Leadership Initiative
Harvard Business School offers a range of short courses up to 5 days in duration targeted at various leadership segments. Some of the offerings include Leadership Best Practices, High Potentials Leadership Program and The Women's Leadership Forum.
www.exed.hbs.edu
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Executive book summaries
Tough to find time to read that latest business book? Chances are that between the demands of your work and the desires of your personal life that growing pile of latest release management books keeps slipping down in the priorities of your "to do list". If you want a way to stay abreast on latest releases in business and management publications, executive books summaries may be just what you need. For a small fee someone else reads the book for you, and in return you receive a written and audio summary outlining the key themes, models and case study examples. Among the options on offer are Soundview Executive Book summaries www.summary.com or for an Australian accent, try
www.mino.com.au
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Learn to write & be published
If you want to learn how to write the Sydney Writers' Centre can help you enhance your writing skills and find an outlet for your work. Their writing courses are taught by successful authors and journalists. Short courses include magazine writing, creative writing, memoir writing, and children's book writing. Seminars are also offered in travel writing, business writing, publishing and editing. Many students find success and get published.
www.sydneywriterscentre.com.au
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