Note:
1st Mar & 15th Mar 2021
Category:
Start Your Own Business
Kickstart is a start your own Business Training programme which will assist participants to explore their business idea and to start the process of planning that business.
Course will be delivered over a two week period on line and consists of
- A three hour online group workshop
- An online one to one mentoring session with the trainer, followed by
- Final three hour online group workshop.
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Start Your Own Business - Kickstart
*** Please note you will receive the login details by email prior to the event.
Delivered online via Zoom by Leo Gibson of Mentor Consulting.
This programme consists of two online training workshops and a one to one mentoring session.
The Course is to assist participants to explore their business idea and to start the process of planning that business. It will be delivered over a two week period on-line and consists of:
- A three hour online group workshop
- An online one to one mentoring session with the trainer, followed by
- Final three hour online group workshop.
Outline Syllabus ·
- Introduction to Business: How and why businesses succeed and fail. Key success factors and potential pitfalls. Financial and other supports available ·
- Introduction to the Business Plan: The purpose of the Business Plan, it’s structure and the tone to strike. ·
- Undertaking a Feasibility Study: The purpose of a Feasibility Study and it’s structure. ·
- SMART goals: Participants will be encouraged to begin setting a series of SMART goals for their business. ·
- Customer Development: Participants will be encouraged to visit at least two prospective customers after the first half day session to verify their business concept with them and to possibly develop their first customers through these visits. ·
- LEAN Business Model: LEAN business concepts will be explained and case studies will be used as models for how they can apply the LEAN concepts to their own businesses ·
- Routes to Market: Various routes to market will be explained with an emphasis on digital marketing. ·
- Legal Issues: Issues such as Business Structures, Contract Law, Invoicing, Credit Control and Legal Processes will be explained. ·
- Next Steps: Participants will be encouraged to prepare Action Plans for the following two, four and six weeks and to establish a schedule for future such plans.
*****THIS COURSE IS RESTRICTED TO CARLOW BUSINESSES ONLY*****
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