Entrepreneurial Development Program
Empower Your Business Journey with Targeted Learning
Turn your business vision into reality! The Entrepreneurial Development Program equips startups, established, and aspiring entrepreneurs with the skills, knowledge, and practical insights needed to build, manage, and sustain a successful business.
A Learning Pathway Designed for Growth
Entrepreneurs face three key challenges in building a sustainable business. Our program is structured to help you overcome these barriers through a range of practical, skills-based learning modules.
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Market Access – Learn how to identify opportunities, develop marketing strategies, and understand customer needs.
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Business Execution – Gain insights into business cycles, organizational structures, joint ventures, and supply chain management.
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Long-Term Sustainability – Develop skills in financial planning, risk management, governance, and compliance.
Customize your learning experience! Each course is designed to strengthen a specific skill set, allowing you to address key areas based on your business priorities.
Build the Skills You Need to Succeed
Entrepreneurship is a journey — equip yourself with the right skills to navigate it successfully! Our short learning courses offer flexible, targeted training designed to address the real challenges entrepreneurs face in starting, running, and growing a business.
Choose from 14 courses and 42 modules covering essential business topics such as strategic planning, financial management, marketing, legal compliance, and leadership skills.
Learn at your own pace while staying engaged in your business operations.
Overview of the Short Learning Courses
1. Starting Your Business – Critical Factors to Consider
Learn the fundamentals of entrepreneurship, from business structures to action plans and financial modeling.
Contents:
Module 1: Being an entrepreneur
Module 2: SMME challenges in South Africa
Module 3: Institutional business options
Module 4: Develop and implement an action plan for the new venture
Module 5: Research the viability of the business concept
Module 6: Introduction to financial modeling
Contents:
Module 1: Being an entrepreneur
Module 2: SMME challenges in South Africa
Module 3: Institutional business options
Module 4: Develop and implement an action plan for the new venture
Module 5: Research the viability of the business concept
Module 6: Introduction to financial modeling
2. Strategic and Business Planning
Develop a winning business strategy with practical insights into planning and project management.
Contents:
Module 1: Strategic planning for SMMEs
Module 2: Business plans for entrepreneurs
Module 3: Project Management Principles
3. Marketing for Sustainability
Master the art of branding, marketing pitches, and customer engagement.
Contents:
Module 1: Entrepreneur's value proposition
Module 2: Your marketing pitch deck
Module 3: Marketing your business
4. Monitoring Business Performance
Implement an eight-point plan to stay on top of your business operations.
Contents:
Module 1: Be on top of your business: an eight-point plan
5. Financial Management for Startups
Gain critical financial skills, including budgeting, auditing, and securing funding.
Contents:
Module 1: Financial management for startups
Module 2: Management accounting for start ups
Module 3: Raising funding for your business
Module 4: Preparing your annual financial statements
Module 5: Interpret financial statements
Module 6: Annual audit matters
Module 7: Preparing your annual budget
6. Legal Matters and Compliance
Understand contracts, intellectual property, and legal frameworks essential for business owners.
Contents:
Module 1: Business legal environment overview
Module 2: Compliance for entrepreneurs
Module 3: Contract management and disputes
Module 4: Intellectual property rights
7. Business Tax Basics
Navigate tax obligations with confidence and ensure compliance.
Contents:
Module 1: Business tax for entrepreneurs
8. Organizing and Scheduling Business Activities
Improve workflow efficiency with value chain and process optimization techniques.
Contents:
Module 1: Your value chain
Module 2: Business processes and your workflow
9. Managing HR and Office Administration
Develop leadership skills in delegation, outsourcing, and team management.
Contents:
Module 1: Human resources
Module 2: Administration and record keeping
Module 3: How to delegate and grow capacity
Module 4: How to outsource and grow capacity
10. Risk Management and Mitigation
Learn strategies to identify and minimize business risks.
Contents:
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Module 1: Risk management for startups
11. Supply Chain Management
Optimize logistics and streamline business supply chains.
Contents:
Module 1: Supply chain management for your business
12. Personal & Management Skills for Entrepreneurs
Enhance communication, teamwork, negotiation, and leadership capabilities.
Contents:
Module 1: Knowing your strengths, weaknesses, personality- trades, and leadership style
Module 2: Negotiation skills: negotiate an agreement or deal
Module 3: How to motivate and build a team
Module 4: Leadership motivation
Module 5: Communication skills
Module 6: Managing meetings
Module 7: Teamwork
13. Information Technology Essentials
Understand the role of IT in business and digital transformation.
Contents:
Module 1: Information technology for startup entrepreneurs
14. Standing on Your Own – Where to Get Assistance
Gain practical guidance on where and how to access support—financial, technical, and advisory—from government and private sector resources.
Contents:
Contents:
Module 1: Where to get assistance as a small business owner or when starting a business
Why Choose Our Short Learning Programs?
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Flexible & Focused – Learn only what you need, when you need it
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Practical & Actionable – Apply new skills directly to your business
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Advisory Support – 12 months of free expert consultation after course completion
Start learning today!
Take control of your business success!
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