Topics Covered

Self-Employment

• Self assessment – what it means to be self-employed?
• Basic understanding of the rules of self-employed?
• Legal obligations of the self-employed
• Understand the demand of running your own business
• The importance of Time Management when Self Employed
• Understanding Financial Business Models and the supports available to people starting up a new business

Running Your Own Business

• What it means to be your own boss?
• Defining goals, actions and results
• Developing an organisational culture that innovates
• Being a team leader
• How to encourage learning

Idea Generation

• Scanning the internal and external environment i.e. SWOT analysis etc.
• Evaluating solutions to identified problems
• Recognizing an opportunity
• Learning from success and failure

Market Research

• Market research and what it means for your business
• How to conduct market research effectively
• How to develop the ideal survey
• Train participants in data analysis of surveys, questionnaires and interviews
• Use of data in the development of the idea.

How To Write A Business Plan

• What is a business plan?
• Why it is important?
• Product/service offering
• Competitors
• Sales projections and finance strategy