Training Schedule
One-Day Business Experience Course (BEC)
The one-day BEC accomplishes several goals. First, it is a way for the entrepreneurs to explore practical business skills. Secondly, it challenges them to apply these skills immediately into their businesses. Regardless of each entrepreneur’s business background – or lack thereof – there is something that can be learnt and practised by all entrepreneurs. All those who participate in the BEC will receive a Certificate. Course Content:
- Understanding our Markets
- Costs and Profits
- Advertising
- Income-Generating Investments
- Budgets
Business Growth Course, Part 1 (Module 1)
Business:
- Week 1: Branding
- Week 2: Understanding my Costs
- Week 3: Using Record-Keeping Charts
- Week 4: Record-Keeping Results
- Week 5: Networking
- Week 6: Planning Advertising and Promotions
- Week 7: Understanding my Profits
- Week 8: Sourcing Raw Materials / Survey
- Week 9: Review & Graduation
Discipleship:
- Week 1: Pursuing Truth and Wisdom
- Week 2: Learning to Develop Character
- Week 3: Created for Work
- Week 4: Money Matters
- Week 5: Made for Relationship
- Week 6: My Spiritual Hunger
- Week 7: Conversation with God
- Week 8: Stewardship in My Life
- Week 9: Experiencing God
Business Growth Course, Part 2 (Module 2)
Business:
- Week 1: Creating a Marketing Mix
- Week 2: The Art of Selling
- Week 3: Making a Savings Plan
- Week 4: Negotiating
- Week 5: Managing my Time
- Week 6: How to Register my Business
- Week 7: Setting Goals for Growing my Business
- Week 8: Review / Survey
- Week 9: Graduation & Celebration
Discipleship:
- Week 1: The Father Heart of God
- Week 2: Making Sense of Pain
- Week 3: Discovering Jesus
- Week 4: More Than Religion
- Week 5: A New Beginning
- Week 6: Exploring the Holy Spirit
- Week 7: Becoming a Person of Character
- Week 8: Designed to Worship
- Week 9: Graduation & Celebration
Business Growth Course, Part 3 (Module 3)
Business:
- Week 1: Running a Formal Business
- Week 2: Bank Accounts
- Week 3: Market Research
- Week 4: Adjusting Our Prices Each Year
- Week 5: Balancing Business and Family
- Week 6: How to Buy and Sell on Credit
- Week 7: Practicing Record-Keeping
- Week 8: Review / Survey
- Week 9: Graduation
Discipleship:
- Week 1: Experiencing God Together
- Week 2: Hope Beyond Tomorrow
- Week 3: Persevering in Difficult Times
- Week 4: Working Through Conflict
- Week 5: Experiencing Forgiveness and Freedom
- Week 6: Understanding Grace in Our Lives
- Week 7: Becoming a Disciple
- Week 8: Called to Serve
- Week 9: Graduation
Business Growth Course, Part 4 (Module 4)
Business:
- Week 1: Selling to Export Markets
- Week 2: Creating Invoices
- Week 3: Keeping Customers
- Week 4: Business Communications
- Week 5: Business Partnerships
- Week 6: Insurance for My Life
- Week 7: Hiring and Working with Employees
- Week 8: Review / Survey
- Week 9: Graduation
Discipleship:
- Week 1: Becoming Generous
- Week 2: Humbling Ourselves
- Week 3: Another Way to See Conflict
- Week 4: My Spiritual Gifts
- Week 5: Focusing on God
- Week 6: Growing my Faith
- Week 7: Understanding the Bible
- Week 8: Sharing My Faith
- Week 9: Graduation