Entrepreneurship Development Category
To whom –
Young enthusiastic person who are willing to start Business and already engaged in business
Objectives –
participants will be able to reveal their entrepreneurship skills, brush up their business knowledge, Develop the business Ideas and Build up a business plan
Key areas –
Achievement Motivation Technique (AMT), Entrepreneurship development, Best practices of successful entrepreneurs, Management functions & Preparing business Plan.
Fees – Totally free
Note – Special attention for age below 40 years
To whom –
Young People who are seeking business Ideas
Objective –
participants will be able to identify business opportunities among suitable business ideas which they can start as a business
Key Areas –
Introduction to business sectors and models, Selecting business ideas, Feasibility Study, SWOT Analysis & Implementation of business ideas.
To whom –
People who are looking for new business opportunities
Objective –
By the end of the Programme, participants will be able to change their thinking patterns to encourage and run a business creatively
Key Areas –
New Trends of Entrepreneurship, Creativity, Innovations
To whom –
People who are willing to develop positive attitudes
Objective –
By the end of the programme, Participants will be able to develop attitude, knowledge & skills and, motivate & change their thinking patterns related to business
Key Areas –
Positive thinking, Characteristic of entrepreneurs & Preparing of action plan
To Whom:-
Young people who are seeking to start a new business
Objective:-
By the end of the Programme, participants will be able to develop Attitude, Knowledge & skills regarding to business
Key Areas:-
Attitude development, Basic management knowledge, Rules & regulations of business field, Costing, Experience of success entrepreneur, Importance of bookkeeping
Management skills development category
To whom –
The young people who are running a business with employees
Objective-
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to develop the knowledge of management functions
Key Areas –
Planning, Organizing, Leading & Controlling
To whom –
Small business owners who are having managerial issues
Objective –
By the end of the Programme, participants will be able to develop knowledge and skills of Business Management
Key Areas –
introduction of management, steps of management process, categories of management
To whom –
Business owners who have employees
Objective –
By the end of the Programme, participants will be able to develop the ability of managing employees
Key Areas –
Basic Human Resources Management, how to motivate employees, HR tools, HR strategies, rules and regulations, evaluation and welfare
To whom –
Managers and supervisors who are seeking better problem solving and decision making skills, and want to take their critical thinking to the next level by using their experience and intuition to make the right moves and decisions
Objective –
participants will be able to build and expand decision making skills, critical thinking and creative problem solving skills, Employ creativity and lateral thinking as business tools, Analyze and solve actual problems facing them at work, Gain confidence in asking the ‘right questions’ and overcoming the stress of making complex decisions, Demonstrate and build credibility with upper management
Key Areas –
Problem Solving tools, methods
Innovation and technology development category
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need technical knowledge individually.
Objective – To improve quality of productions
Key Areas – Depend on requirement.
To whom -Entrepreneurs who need knowledge of information technology.
Objective – To apply IT knowledge for maximizing the organizational targets.
Key Areas – What is Information Technology, Application of IT for Business,
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need to develop production process.
Objective –To develop effectiveness and efficiency of the production process.
Key Areas – What is the production process?, How to develop production process according to the organizational objectives / targets.
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need effective layout.
Objective – To develop proper production environment
Key Areas – What is a layout?, How to develop a layout?, Benefits of accurate layout
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need to develop productivity of their businesses
Objective – To build effective and efficient business environment.
Key Areas – What is productivity? How to apply productivity methods? How can maintain productivity continuously?
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need business standards.
Objective – To obtain the business standards.
Key Areas – What are standards?, Benefits of standards, the process acquiring the standards.
Finance management and finance literacy development category
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need to keep basic accounts.
Objective – To keep accounts accurately.
Key Areas – What is accounting , The importance of keeping accounts, What are the basic documents related to the accounts , How to prepare trial balance, According to trial balance prepare final accounts, Analyzing etc.
To whom – Entrepreneurs who didn’t know the cost for their productions (goods and services)
Objective – Make them aware how to calculate cost for their productions
Key Areas – Cost, Costing, Calculate the cost for own products
To whom – Entrepreneurs who didn’t have a plan for their businesses.
Objective – To prepare a practical plan for the own business.
Key Areas – What is a plan, The importance of a business plan, Format of a business plan, How to collect data for the plan, To prepare final business plan, How to forward to the financial institutes
To whom – Entrepreneurs who have lack of financial management skills
Objective – To manage cash within the business to maximize profit
Key Areas – What is a cash flow, How to manage cash flow to maximize profit.
To whom – Entrepreneurs who didn’t keep records for stocks.
Objective – To keep sufficient stock to run the business smoothly.
Key Areas –
What is stock, How to keep stock records, How to manage stocks to maximize profit, Importance of the stock record keeping.
To whom – Entrepreneurs who didn’t know how to keep transactions
Objective – To practice and keep transactions
Key Areas –
What is transaction, The importance of keeping transactions, How to write (keep) transaction, How to keep transactions according to the IYB (Improve Your Business) system
At the end – Practice to keep transactions
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need to manage working capital.
Objective – To calculate and manage accurate working capital
Key Areas – What is working capital, How to manage working capital profitably.
Marketing development category
To whom – Entrepreneurs /SMEs those who don’t have sufficient market opportunities for their products and services.
Objective – Identifying Entrepreneur’s products and services at the grassroot level and getting steps for market development.
Key Areas – Evaluating business, Product/ service and individual entrepreneur identify training and technical needs , advising and assist to improve their Business and personal skills.
To whom – Micro and small entrepreneurs those who are producing mass scale production and having lack of market opportunities
Objective – To make a linkage between micro and small entrepreneurs with large scale buyers
Key Areas – Improve product and service quality and production capacity, Creating various market and business opportunities creating a business linkage among SMEs
To whom – Micro and small scale entrepreneurs those who are eager to find regional, national and international market opportunities
Objective – Gathering entrepreneurs those scattered regionally and islandwide to one market place and create periodical market opportunities through delivering sustainable market explorer
Key Areas – Sharing experience, Make a linkage between micro and small scale entrepreneurs with large scale buyers
To whom – Micro and small scale entrepreneurs those who are having lack of quality regarding product appearance and packaging
Objective – Make readiness of the SMEs’ products for market by improving appearance and packaging
Key Areas – Improve product appearance, Creating package of product in an attractive the customer, Improving hygiene factors and durability
To whom – SMEs those who are not having proper brand and willing to develop a brand
Objective – Uplift the product/ Service through developing a recognized brand at competitive market
Key Areas – Emphasizing importance of brand to SMEs, Creating brands and facilitating to promote their brands
To whom –
For owners of small and medium scale enterprises who wish to enhance their knowledge and competencies in marketing management
Objective –
Increasing business growth through developing marketing skills and capacities of SMEs owners
Key Areas –
Importance of Marketing, Customer/competitor analysis, Marketing audit/SWOT analysis, Marketing concept and marketing mix, Market segmentation and target marketing, Market research, Strategic marketing plan formulation etc
To whom – SMEs owners those who don’t have a marketing plan for their businesses
Objective – Creating a well defined marketing roadmap to achieve their business goals within a time frame
Key Areas – An introduction to market research and market planning, Identifying target market, Positioning, Competitive analysis, Market strategies, Preparing marketing plan with budgeting
To whom – SMEs owners those who have lack of skills and capacity of customer care and customer handling
Objective – Improve the skills in customer caring for maximizing the profit of business through delighted customer
Key Areas – Importance of customer care, Service skills that matters, Patience, Attentiveness, Clear communication skills, Ability to use positive language, Time management skills etc
To whom – SMEs owners those who have lack of essential marketing tools like business page/ website, Business logo, Visiting cards etc.
Objective – Create a sustainable market for SMEs through developing essential marketing tools for business
Key Areas – Creating business logo, Creating business page, Creating visiting cards, Knowledge of operating business page etc.
Enabling environment
To whom – Entrepreneurs who have problems regarding business matters such as Business registration, Financial problems, Standards, Barcodes.
Objective – To direct and overcome specific problems
Key Areas – According to the situation ( it depends on the problem)
To whom – Entrepreneurs who have labourers.
Objective – To make awareness about labour rules
Key Areas – Who is the labourer, What are the labour rules, How to apply labour rules for own business
To whom – Entrepreneurs who need to know business laws and regulations.
Objective – To make them aware about business laws and regulations
Key Areas – What is a business and categories of business, Explain business laws and regulations according to the business categories.
Business and follow up consultancy
To whom – Entrepreneurs who completed SED Programs and who wants help to develop their businesses.
Objective -To get the idea about ongoing businesses (Product or Service), Understand their problems and give them solutions to develop businesses.
Key Areas – Get idea about the current status of the business
To whom – Entrepreneurs who completed SED Programs and who wants help to develop their businesses.
Objective -To get the idea about ongoing businesses (Product or Service), Understand their problems and give them solutions to develop businesses.
Key Areas – Visit the business places and get idea about , location, Quality of product or service product lay out, Production process, Stock controlling system, Packaging , etc.
To whom – Who need consultation to develop their businesses
Objective – To develop the business (Quality and Market share)
Key Areas – Understand the business ( by doing the situation analysis ), Developed the action plan and advise them to follow it up and develop Quality, Brand, Market, etc.
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