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This short course will introduce you to business diversification and what you need to consider when thinking about developing a new product or service.
This course will introduce the social media essentials that you need to be executing in order to make your campaigns a success.
This course explores why people skills are important, exactly what they are to you, and how you can further benefit your mentees, and your mentoring experience in this arena. You will also be exploring what your role as a mentor means in relation to developing the people skills of your mentees. People skills in both business and life can be developed. These are not inherited traits.
This innovative programme is designed to help you unravel and navigate your way through all the essential elements of developing and growing your own business.
It is common practice for an enterprise to be built around a business plan outlining how conditions in the market place provide an opportunity for a company to establish itself and grow. But what if those conditions change?
This short module is all about the practical and legal steps you need to take when starting a business. They’re not all relevant to everyone and some are a matter of common sense but it’s worth working through them for your peace-of-mind.
To bring money into your enterprise you need to identify your customers and sell you product or service to them. This chapter is all about methods of selling; how to present your business and make those sales.
In order to ensure your business makes a profit from the start it’s essential to plan the financial side of things. Although this may sound daunting, in fact the maths itself is pretty simple and this module will lead you through the process step-by-step.
This module has been developed to give an overview of the skills you will need to be an effective volunteer mentor.
This module will help you to take all of your market research and use it to build a marketing plan by looking at what you want to achieve over the next five years, and then putting together a strategy to make it happen.
This module gives you some ideas of how to gather detailed and useful information about what your customers want, and this will become your market research. Here, we will show you the sorts of questions to ask to get the most valuable answers, as well as how to analyse your results to see where there are gaps in your information, to guide you towards building an in-depth and useful information bank.
This module, 'Your sort of business', is focussed on the business itself. If you haven’t already decided, what sort of business will it be? Will you set it up from scratch or buy it? Could your business be a franchise?
The business owner is the most important person in a new business. So, before you start thinking about the type of business you could run, the services you’d offer, the clients you’d have etc., you need to work out why you want to start a business.
One skill that all successful entrepreneurs and business owners need to possess is how to negotiate a good deal for their business. This doesn’t necessarily mean being a ‘wheeler-dealer’ or someone who can sell ice to an Eskimo, but it is about developing the negotiating techniques that provide a win-win situation for everyone involved.
As much as we would like it to be the case, having a great product or providing a fantastic service is not enough to create a successful business. In order for a business to grow and develop, it needs to understand the market it operates in and the customers it serves.
In this short course, Understanding how to access help and support in business, we will show you the most common forms of support, advice and help that a business can draw upon as it grows, so that should the time come, you will know where a business should go in order to get the support it needs.
Welcome to the Professional Award in Enterprise Mentoring, a distance learning course that provides an introduction to the role of the mentor and aims to ensure that, as a new mentor, you have the right level of knowledge and understanding to undertake the role.
