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Growing A Business

  • Course Code CEI-GAB
  • Duration 5 days

Course Delivery

Additional Payment Options

  • GTC 1

    GTC, Global Knowledge Training Credit, please contact Global Knowledge for more details

Public Classroom Price

$20.00

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Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

    Event at company

  • Public Classroom

    Traditional Classroom Learning

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Course Overview

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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. The entire curriculum takes about 35-40 hours to
complete.

Course Schedule

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Target Audience

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The Growing a Business workshop is designed for entrepreneurs who own and operate a small to medium-sized business.

Course Objectives

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After you complete this 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
  • 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

Course Content

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  • Growth and Expansion
  • Leadership for Growth
  • Business Innovations, Opportunities and Risk
  • Feasibility Analysis
  • Strategic Alignment Plan
  • Budget Forecasting
  • Organizational Change Management
  • Operational and Expansion Management