
PLAN, START AND GROW A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE CONCEPT
You have an idea to start your own business. You envisage a successful business to bring you the life and financial rewards you desire for success.
Planning, starting, and growing your business is a journey. The course will give you practical steps at each stage:
Stage 1 — Before you start a business
Understanding the qualities and skills of a business owner and the journey to success.
Stage 2 — Planning your business
Before you start your journey, important considerations set the foundation for success.
Writing your business plan is a roadmap to guide you through each step of starting and
managing your business.
Stage 3 — Starting your business
Congratulations, you have done the preliminary work to start your business. Starting your business requires a lot of work and dealing with many issues. We provide the strategies to guide you to working successfully in and on your business.
Stage 4 — Growing your business
Growth is a key goal for many small business owners. We provide the strategies to grow your business and plan for your business exit.
AUDIENCE
AIMS
People who are ready to plan and start a business and those in business who are seeking growth and success.
- Support individuals to turn their business idea into a vision, create a realistic business plan and grow a successful business.
- Create a realistic framework to plan and assess your business concept and provide strategies to grow a successful business.
- Assess the qualities and skills of a business owner, understand your Why for starting and being in business, and the reality of success.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
- Progress their knowledge and skills a each stage of business from planning, starting, and growing their business.
- Self-assess the qualities and skills of a business owner, and determine your readiness to start a business
- Understand your Why
- Assess the need for your business and your finances
- Determine the business structure
- Choose, register your business name and business
- Design a business logo
- Clarify and understand your target customers
- Research and know your competitors
- Assess the Now-Where-How of your business
- Write a business plan in a format that contains relevant information and important facts
- Create a Marketing Plan that is a blueprint for marketing your products and services and is a step-by-step guide to delivering your business's marketing strategy
- Apply the business principles of planning, starting, and growing to begin a coaching business
- Create an Action Plan to determine the actions, people, and time frame for the activity
- Plan for business continuity
- Launch your business
- Set yourself up for business payment, record keeping, automation of tasks and processes, hiring and managing employees, building professional relationships, and customer service
- Apply strategies to grow your business for success and
PLAN, START AND GROW A SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS
