Entrepreneurship Training
The Entrepreneurship Curriculum dubbed ‘Be Your Own Boss’ (BYOB) follows the design of the ‘Work Ready’ Curriculum The highly interactive BYOB curricula developed under the project will allow persons after two weeks (38.5 hours) to be able to start-up and successfully run their own business.
Additionally persons will be able to:
- Develop and fine tune their business ideas
- Understand and be able to identify and assess the characteristics and traits of a successful business owner as well as themselves
- Assess and analyze risk situations in business
- Conduct market research
- Compile marketing plan
- Identify costs associated with business start-ups
- Develop a winning business plan
- Access a manual that will serve as a guide
Be Your Own Boss
Course Objective
By the end of the training participants will be able to:
- Begin to develop their own business idea
- Identify the characteristics and traits of a successful business owner
- Assess their own characteristics, attitudes and skills related to being business owners
- Nurture the right characteristics, skills and attitudes needed to be a successful business owner
- Assess and analyze risk situations in business
- Brainstorm business ideas and analyze them for viability
- Conduct market research
- Understand the importance of differentiating from competitors
- Compile a marketing plan
- Gather written quotes from suppliers
- Identify steps to improve security
- Register their businesses
- Separate business from personal expenses
- Calculate profit
- Keep basic financial records
- Identify the cost associated with starting up their own business
- Understand the SKYE financing and mentoring option
- Develop their own business plan
