Business Start-up, Planning and Development Workshops and Courses
Our two main business start-up courses are our Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur and Get-A-Head Start in Business courses. These run in a variety of venues across London, Kent, East and West Sussex and Surrey on weekday evenings or weekends.
Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur
Always wanted to start your own business? Have a passion you would like to turn into your profession? Or maybe you are doing it for someone else and you now want to do it for yourself? This one day introductory course will help you take an honest look at yourself and your idea. During the day we will explore questions like:
 What are your current strengths and skills?
Where are your gaps and how can you fill them?
What are your core motivations and values?
What does success or failure mean to you?
What is your vision?
How will your business idea help get you where you want to go?
What kind of planning do you need to do?
How can you find your potential customers?
How do you keep on top of the finances?
You do not need any previous business knowledge or skills to attend this course. Come as you are! The course usually runs on a Saturday from 10am to 5pm.
Forthcoming dates and locations: enquire
Get-A-Head Start in Business
This ten week course takes you through the business planning and start-up process in more detail, covering all the key areas you will need to think about before you get going. It is also suitable if you are already test trading or are pursuing your idea part-time. The topic areas covered include:
Why bother with business planning
Market research techniques
Identifying your customers
Creating a Marketing Plan
What are your Unique Selling Points and benefits
Using IT, e-commerce and the web
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats
How to price your goods or services
How to make financial forecasts
Basic tax and accounting
Raising finance
We recommend you do the one-day Discover Your Inner Entrepreneur workshop first if you are at a very early stage of developing your idea. Each session usually lasts 3 hours and courses generally run weekday evenings or Saturday mornings. The course is suitable for all types of business ideas, whether you intend to be a sole trader, partnership or limited company.
Forthcoming dates and locations: enquire
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