Entrepreneur Workshops: Growing a Business

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The Growing a Business workshop is a practical, comprehensive business course on how to successfully grow a business. It is designed to empower small to medium-sized business entrepreneurs to expand their business by equipping them with the necessary knowledge, resources, and networking opportunities. Successful business ownership requires not only starting a business correctly, but also continually seeking ways to upgrade and expand, whether this involves re-organization, outsourcing, franchising, merging, or forming partnerships. Analyzing your market and revising your business plan pulls various components together to grow your business.

The workshop consists of leader-led instruction, small group work, and on-line learning.

After completing the Growing a Business course, you should be able to:

• Assess global trends and determine opportunities
• Develop a mission statement and develop a continuation plan
• Describe essential leadership qualities and personality traits for an entrepreneur
• Describe how to work positively with employees and customers
• Explain how to generate a product/service idea and develop it
• Describe types of business risks and how to assess them
• Describe how to effectively use technology for business purposes
• Explain methods of generating a product/service idea and determining its feasibility
• Describe market strategies and planning
• Conduct a SWOT analysis
• Conduct competitive analysis and break-even analysis
• Analyze cash-flow patterns and interpret financial statements
• Explain how to track performance of a business plan 
• Plan a budget for short, medium, and long terms
• Determine financing necessary to sustain and expand a business
• Explain the nature of business records
• Develop a personnel organizational plan
• Exhibit leadership skills and encourage team building
• Establish operating procedures and plan business layout
• Optimize supply chain solutions to meet the business plan