Workshop on Entrepreneurial Skills Development Program

Program Overview:

The workshop is designed to equip participants who are aspiring to go into their own businesses with entrepreneurial skills and insight necessary for developing, building and managing their own businesses. Entrepreneurs with good business skills can go far. Consider the pros and cons of different management styles and hone your managerial skills. Achieve long-term objectives by polishing your business skills, improving your strategic thinking. The main objective of this program is to build a model of skills development for entrepreneurs, which will be the focus of this program.

For whom:

Executives, Managers and others planning to retire and want to establish their own businesses, it will be beneficial to who are still working and hope to set up and run their own businesses someday.

Learning objectives:

At the end of the program, participants should be able to:

*assess their capabilities and mold their attitudes towards entrepreneurship activities

*select and develop venture ideas that will lead to the establishment of viable businesses

*encourage an entrepreneurial culture.

*learn different technical business skills as listed below

*learn how to write an acceptable business plan that would command sponsorship

  from supporting financial institutions.

Course outline:

Day 1:  Understanding Entrepreneurship

-Why People go into Business o Advantages & Disadvantages of Self-Employment

-Assessment of Entrepreneurial Abilities o Skills Requirements / Development

-Generating Business Ideas

o Analysis of Business Ideas o Carry out Feasibility Study For Business Ideas

-Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs

-Reasons for Business Failure, -Legal Aspect of a Business

o Types of Business Registration

Day 2: Marketing Your Products

-What is Marketing, o Learn and Know about your Market o Adequate Profit Margin?

o Components of Marketing (4Ps) o Customer Care o Costing o Pricing

-Managing Business Records, -Writing Your Business Plan

Day 3: Technical Skills Acquisition on Various Entrepreneurship Endeavors

-Agro-Allied Businesses: Fish Farming, Grass-cutter Farming, and Poultry Farming.

-Soap Making:        Bar Soap – Liquid Soap, -Various Production Processes

– Technical Skills Acquisition on Various Entrepreneurship Endeavors:

How to produce Face / Dusting Powder, Insecticide, Custard Powder,

Air-Freshener, Washing Bleach, Petroleum Vaseline., GSM enabled

Businesses: Printing of Recharge Cards.

Methodology: Class Discussion, Lectures, Case Studies and video play back to reinforce learning