Micro-Entrepreneurship Micro-Entrepreneurship Training Course: Module 1

This topic will cover the basics for beginners in business and Enterpreneurs interested to understand reasons and habits that compromise their business performance:

This course will be very important for any one without prior business training, as well as anyone who has experienced business closure or reduced business income.

This will cover the following topics:

• Key characteristics of successful businesses
• Key signs and symptoms of a business destined to fail
• Skills for effective Business Management
• Practical session in diagnosing self-enterprises / case studies

This topic is a technical part of the training, and will provide the potential or practicing entrepreneur with technical skills essential in setting up and running a profitable micro enterprise.

This course is compulsory for anyone intending to start up a business and for any one already running a business without prior business training or exposure.

This will cover the following topics:

• Identification of existing business opportunities
• Business Planning
• Developing a Business Plan
• Practical session to develop an individual business plan
• Product Costing
• Product Pricing
• Marketing your microenterprise

This topic is also a technical part of the training and will equip the potential or practicing entrepreneur with technical skills in managing their business finances as well as protecting the business income.

This course is also compulsory for anyone intending to start up a business and any one already running a business and is unable to show growing trends within their business.

This will cover the following topics:

• Financing your business
• Sources of business finance & Capital
• Record keeping within your business
• Types of business records & documents
• Managing business finances
• Personal financial Literacy
• Using financial records to advice your business
• Managing business risks
• Decision making & Personal Development

This topic aims to equip the potential and already existing entrepreneur with organizational skills as well as build their skills to manage the human relations within their business for them to succeed.

The topic is important for any entrepreneur who intends to grow their micro enterprise into a lasting business.

This will cover the following topics:

• Identifying your business employees
• Recruitment and retention of good employees
• Elements of communication in the business set up
• Planning your business succession
• Practical exercises on good and bad leadership within the business

This topic is a practical session that equips entrepreneurs, both new and experienced with information on business support systems within their areas and networks. It will also build their skills in creating networks that will support their business operations as well as growth.

The topic is important for any entrepreneur who intends to grow and expand their business to improve their income as well as build a lasting business.

This will cover the following topics:

• Introduction to business partnerships
• Building networks to grow your business
• Identification of practical existing partnerships and networks within the business location
• Practical session on identification of specific networks around individual businesses (Spider web exercise)
• Statutory requirements / partners in the business industry
• Practical session on business requirements by: City Council, KRA, and other relevant bodies governing the business environment

This topic is vital for all entrepreneurs with an existing or intending to have a business partner / partnership. The entrepreneur will build their skills in choosing a business partner, as well as putting systems into place to ensure a successful partnership.

This will cover the following topics:

• Choosing a good business partner
• Systems required for a business partnership to be successful
• Practical session on successful & failed business partnerships

This topic is important to every entrepreneur, as they all have a great role in the decision making process in their county, and country. An entrepreneur must work in touch with the government of the day, to ensure that the laws passed are favourable to their business. The topic will also build the skills of the entrepreneur to participate in advocacy.

This will cover the following:

• Understanding the general business environment
• The role of advocacy in business

Building advocacy skills