Introduction
This course will help you to develop your entrepreneurial skills and start a business that could give you a livelihood that can support you and your family. Your business will contribute to the economic activity in your community and you may even go on to employ others. This would be a service to your community. Most people who want to work for themselves find it difficult to decide what business to start. If you wish to choose a company that suits you, you should start by thinking about yourself. You have the knowledge and skills that are needed by both the community and business. Your ideas are needed. You can produce something or provide a service that you can sell. If you’re already involved in some trade, this course will help you to refine your skills. As an entrepreneur, you will have to use your judgment and your sense of what is right and wrong. You have a responsibility to your community to be an ethical entrepreneur. This class involves you personally, and you need to be an active participant to benefit fully from it.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN
- Understand the traits, skills, attitudes, and drive necessary to be a successful entrepreneur.
- Identify personal strengths and weaknesses matching the profiles of successful small business owners.
- Develop personal growth plans to address weaknesses and capitalize on strengths in order to increase their potential to succeed in small businesses.
- Understand the needs of target markets related to potentially viable business ideas.
- Size the potential market for potentially viable idea.
- Develop initial sales, profit, competitive landscape, and future growth for potentially viable business ideas.
- Match potentially viable ideas to personal assessment profiles.
Mode of Delivery:
Both Classroom and Online Lectures with case studies
