BUSINESS PLAN DEVELOPMENT COURSE -START YOUR BUSINESS

Start Your Business (SYB) –Business plan development

This is a follow-up course after an entrepreneur has generated a concrete business idea, but not yet sure on how to start a business.

The course helps to assess their readiness to start a business and examine whether your business idea has the prospect to evolve into a profitable enterprise by making a robust business plan. Successful completion of this course Start Your Business (SYB) enables learners to develop bankable business plans, Initiate actual start-ups and create businesses that meet market demands.


GENERATE YOUR BUSINESS IDEA

 

Generate Your Business Idea - (GYBI)

This course is suitable for anyone who wants to start a business but still searching for a feasible business idea. After this module, Learners will be able to come up with many feasible business ideas and make informed choices on any concrete business idea ready for implementation. The course shall prepare entrepreneurs at the business Ideation stage to be more creative in the process of generating an idea and then developing, communicating, and implementing it.

 


PEOPLE AND PRODUCTIVITY STRATEGY-HOW TO MANAGE EMPLOYEES FOR HIGHER PRODUCTIVITY

The People and Productivity course helps business owners learn how to select the right people and motivate them to be more productive by providing a ‘decent work’ environment.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

·         Explain the link between people and productivity as well as the link between people and competitiveness

·         Identify the key productivity indicators of your business and the factors that influence them • Select the right people for your business

·         Motivate people to become more productive

·         Build a safe and healthy workplace

·         Define a productive workplace culture

·         Identify and solve the problems of troubled employees

·         Maintain good external relations in order to support your business


BUSINESS MARKETING STRATEGY

Have you started your business already, but have troubles in some aspects of business management?  Improve Your Business (IYB) is the existing entrepreneurs’ guide to good principles of business marketing and management. This Marketing course explains how entrepreneurs can increase sales by attracting and retaining customers and increasing business profits in the long term.

After undertaking this marketing course, you should be able to:

•        Explain the power of customers to your business

•        Identify how marketing helps you create customer loyalty

•        Project a good image of your good or service in the minds of the customers

•        Use the Marketing Mix to consistently build a positive image for your business



BUSINESS RECORD KEEPING COURSE

Record keeping course teaches entrepreneurs how to maintain records that are important for their business in order to boost business performance.

Welcome to the Record Keeping course for Small Business training. By taking this training, you are taking an important step toward building a better business.

Objectives

After completing this training, you will be able to:

  • Explain the concept of record-keeping and why record keeping is important to a small business.
  • Identify record keeping practices, rules, and tools which are commonly available to a small business.
  • Explain how these record keeping practices, rules, and tools work.
  • Identify benefits a small business derives from proper record keeping.
  • Explain record keeping basics for a small business.
  • Identify software products available for small business record keeping.

BUSINESS NEGOTIATION SKILLS

This negotiation skills course will teach the learner how to master the art of negotiation by introducing you to the techniques and stages of smart negotiation, used by experienced business professionals.

This course is ideally suited to anyone with an interest in becoming a more capable negotiator. Study a variety of effective negotiation techniques, along with how to handle objections and avoid dead-ends. Learn how to influence and persuade without crossing the line into pushiness, with the ultimate goal of closing more sales.

Advanced negotiation skills can be advantageous throughout life. At its heart, negotiation is about influencing outcomes in a manner that ensures maximum benefit or value for you personally. In Business/sales, negotiation works toward closing the deal in a mutually satisfactory manner.

Those who master the art of negotiation are able to make the opposite party believe that they have scored the best deal. When in reality, it’s the seller or business that’ has come out on top. Powerful negotiators influence outcomes to work in their own favour, while carefully ensuring that everyone involved in the deal/sale leaves feeling satisfied.


PRICE AND COSTS MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

This module introduces the learner to all costing and pricing concepts and strategies that existing Business needs to employ to reduce operational and production cost as well increase on profitability.

BUSINESS OPERATIONS AND PLANNING STRATEGIES

This module on Business Operations and Planning strategy explains how entrepreneurs can run their business more efficiently if they prepare plans for the different areas of operation

STOCK BUYING AND INVENTORY MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES

This module on Buying and Stock Control explains business purchasing procedures and inventory management in order to make business investment efficient.


BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY ANALYSIS TOOLS FOR STARTUPS

This course introduces the entrepreneur to important tools used to conduct an opportunity analysis for the business.  

Business Opportunity analysis is very important to both the prospective entrepreneur and the existing business owner.