Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The Small business man's dilima

In South Africa there are all sorts of Business clubs , Entrepreneur Clubs and small training institutions that try to give directions and to offer help to Small and Medium Business owners and start up entrepreneurs.
Should you wish to start a business and grow this into something of value to you and your family and prospective employees you need to run this business professionally.  Medium to large corporations have normally access to all sorts of training providers either in-house or external.  When utilizing external  providers the businesses normally has an HR division that have the time and expertise to establish the credentials and expertise of these providers.

Small business does not have this luxury but still need this training and expertise to either start their business with some experts behind them or they may need to develop the business and obtain some skills they might not have.

Start ups especially need a business plan - This is very seldom a proper document and if it was needed for obtaining finance it was most probably drafted by an outsider for that purpose and the business owner has not made it his own.

As business knowledge developers we have brought together experts in the field of small business to bring  a unique business course to the market - Details can be found on this blog.

The partners in this venture is Optima (full details here : www.optima.nu) and The Academy for growth acceleration (Pty) ltd (South African Services Seta accreditation pending).

This course will enable both prospective Business owners and existing ones to sharpen their axes for the challenges of the business world.   The contents of the course focuses the following three aspects of Small business and we see this as the most challenging :

1.     Develop an Understanding of Business ownership
2.     Develop the business processes
3.     Instill sound business management Principles

Details of these courses will soon be available and posted on this blog

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