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“How to Start My Own Business”
Learn how to build a wealthy business from the beginning!
Know all you need to ensure a successful beginning for your business!
Receive coaching and get to build a competitive advantage for your business!
Main goal
Beneficiaries of this workshop will gain the required knowledge and the necessary basic skills to start and develop a business in all different aspects of it (strategy, marketing, operations, technology, legal, quality management, accounting, finances, human resources, etc.).
Objectives
At the end of this elearning workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Learn to analyze the industry and prepare a strategy for the business.
2. Identify the probable challenges that may face when developing the business.
3. Acquire skills in developing a business plan.
4. Learn how to attract the right people to work in your business.
5. Get to know the basics of financial reporting and accounting.
6. Discover what are the most common difficulties faced by entrepreneurs and learn how to overcome them.
7. Learn to define the core concept of your business and how to make sure you don’t get lost in the way.
8. Discover what are your strengths and weaknesses for starting up your business.
9. Learn how to create a competitive advantage for your business
Get information on all aspects regarding management of a small start up business.
Training Modules
Session 1: Defining the Business and needs
In Session one, participants define the concept of their business ideas and have a discussion of the different aspects of a business. Also, it is defined a first draft goal to what level of the business development each student would like to achieve and what the challenges would be.
For those participants that don’t have a business idea, a case study is provided.
Session 2: Understanding the Key Success Factors and Potential Challenges
In Session two, participants learn the key elements to prepare a business plan and address the potential challenges and opportunities (strategic options) of the business itself when starting up. A few tools are chosen to apply them on a defined aspect of the business planning.
This module concentrates on getting ready to develop the preparatory stage of a business start up.
Session 3: Competences required for starting up my business
In Session three, participants discuss about the required skills and competences required to starting their businesses based on their particular situations and context. Also, are defined the business resources, however, the focus of this lesson is on human resources. Participants become aware of the necessary skills and attitudes required to develop a business and identify ways to overcome potential obstacles to their personal growth in relationship to the business (Emotional Intelligence).
Session 4: Goals and milestone setting
In Session Four, all students set up concrete start up goals to be achieved in certain aspects of their start up businesses; for this, students also create a concrete plan to reach them. Different tools and resources to be use are reviewed. This module concentrates on defining what students will do to start the business. Participants become aware of the emotional charges and how it can affect the business start up operations. (Emotional intelligence)
Session 5: Knowing My Business
In Session Five, students acquire more theoretical knowledge on how different tools and resources work in early stages of the business start up in order to ensure a proper understanding of them. Student learn how to use their intuition. This module concentrates on developing the “know how” and becoming more competent with various needed skills.
Session 6: My Business Plan in Action
In Session Six, students learn more in depth about the different strategies and tools included in their start up plans by sharing their experiences and knowledge and getting feedback on how to improve their business plans. This module concentrates in reinforcing the capacity to implement the personal startups plan and get results.
Session 7: Running my business
In Session Seven, students discuss about their experiences on the tools and resources used in their start up plans. Students become aware of the most important issues to keep in mind when developing their business plans. This module concentrates in the key factors of success in use for their business plans.
Session 8: Follow Up Session (Aprox. 2 months later)
In Session Eight, students get together to share their experiences on the implementation of their start up plans and learn from each other as well as from the instructors. Also, students get motivated again to continue or start to use other tools and techniques.
This module concentrates in providing the necessary support to all students in order to achieve the goals set in the personal start up plans.
Other Course Considerations
Participants will learn as much as they get involved with their business ideas and/or business start up initiatives. We encourage all participants to apply the knowledge, tools and techniques as they learn them along with the coaching sessions that are provided on a need basis.
In this workshop we use two level educational materials: basic or for beginners and complex or for advanced students. In this way, if a participant already knows a certain topic or is particularly interested in a topic, has the opportunity to go deeper in knowledge and practice a more complex technique.
Students have access to case studies (basic & advanced), forum topics, assignments, quizzes, technical notes for every technique (basic & advanced), recorded presentations for every session, charts, summaries, videos and booklets. All this is provided in digital form; if desired, you may get them in hard copy for an additional fee.
Every participant to this workshop has a particular situation in his/her life, therefore, some tools and techniques may work better than other even though the end result or goal expected is the same for all, which is to be successful in starting up a business.
So, this workshop has been structured using the constructivist model in which the course content seeks for a way of expression in the personal situation of every student. The student acquires and develops new skills and aptitudes while applying the knowledge and techniques in their business ideas and/or start ups.
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