When you decide to start working from home, you may find out you’re missing a few of the required skills needed for what you want to accomplish. In that case, you will have to find out how to learn the skills you need to know.

* Look Online – There are a lot of courses today that you can take online, through accredited colleges as well as unaccredited sources. Remember, unaccredited doesn’t mean the source is bad; it just means that a college hasn’t accredited it. Many professionals who have become successful go on to teach courses to people on how to do what they do. Often, if you really want to be successful it helps to go to someone who has done it and is successful.

* Read Books – It’s amazing what you can learn from the old-fashioned book. Go to your local library, or check out Kindle books on Amazon if you prefer to read books using the newest technology. Books can teach you a lot of information that you didn’t even know you needed to learn.

* Find an Internship – There may be someone who needs help and is willing to train you through an internship agreement. You want to find an internship program that really teaches you something and doesn’t just use you for labor, but it can be a great way to learn.

* Bid Low – Bid low on jobs that you’re not totally sure how to do, understanding that you’ll learn as you go. You might find out that you’re more capable than you thought, and you will get some work experience under your belt. Do make sure you have the right tools for performing the job and know how to use them, though.

* Watch Videos – YouTube has an amazing variety of videos that you can learn from without paying a dime. You can learn how to paint, sew, build a membership website, and more, all from YouTube videos.

* Lynda.com – This is a website that you pay a membership to in order to learn about something. You can learn anything from Excel to coding, to design and more on Lynda.com. A few of the business skills you can learn are time management, project management and email marketing.

* Udemy – This is another course platform like Lynda.com but you will pay for individual courses. You can learn how to put together a WordPress website, and you can learn how to create a course to sell on Udemy.

Link to Udemy – https://www.udemy.com/

* Practice – Any skill you want to learn needs to be practiced. A course, a book, or even an internship is not going to help as much as putting the skills you learn into practice. When you learn a new skill, do that skill. Do it again and again until it becomes second nature.

Finally, another way to find places to learn new skills is to ask your community. If you want to be a graphic designer, go to forums and groups that have graphic designers who are experienced. Ask them how they learned. You can do the same thing with pretty much any type of skill you want to learn. Go to where those with the skill hang out, and ask them how to learn.