Start Your Own Business هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

تفاصيل الدورة

This is a comprehensive dynamic, practical course at the end of which the participant will be able to:

• Decipher if their idea is feasible
• Understand what is involved in starting and running a successful business
• Assess themselves for the job of starting and developing their own business
• Set realistic goals and targets for themselves and translate to business goals
• Use the toolkit provided to them on this course to start to develop and grow a successful business
• Prepare a business plan - template is provided in soft and hard copy (long and short versions made available to Trainees in soft copy)
• Have a list of useful telephone numbers and contacts
• Know supports available – local and national
• Network effectively - place and presentation. Building relationships.
• Make sales – open and close sales, useful negotiation techniques
• Use the internet and technology to promote your product or service
• Collect money - Cash management and debt collection including cashflow forecasting
• Plan and conduct basic market research
• Register the business with the appropriate places, e.g. companies office
• Choose an appropriate business structure for their business idea
• Understand difference between company and sole trader
• Cost and price a product/service
• List sources of finance and assistance available to start-up businesses
• Use simple, practical promotion and advertising techniques
• Understand up to date tax obligations, deductible expenses, allowances and reliefs.
• Be aware of safety legislation and minimum requirements
• Operational issues, e.g. supplier profiling, premises, quality, insurance, technology
• Be aware of employment legislation and implications of taking on employees
• Time management (linked to costing)
• Work Life Balance
• Intellectual property and introduction to legal protection of same
• Other ways of getting into business: Buy an existing business, franchising