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The first step for creating a company is having a good business idea. This module intents to provide a set of tools and techniques to help you convert your business ideas into a concrete plan to start your company
Upon completion of this module you should be able to:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
Why are you starting this business?
This module aims to raise awareness on the personal motivation when creating a new business and understand the different impact of motivation for entrepreneurship.
Upon completion of this module you will:
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Be able to answer some basic questions and get the best out of the answers:
Before you do anything, you should choose a legal form for your company.
This module aims to provide all the necessary information on how to start up your social enterprise: understand the different legal forms of social businesses and be aware of the practical steps to set up a social business
Upon completion of this module you will:
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This module intends to help you understand the financial aspects for setting up a new business: different types of cost structures and types of costs, key issues regarding financial administration and where to find financial information, services and support.
Upon completion of this module you will:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
A business plan is a fundamental tool that any startup business needs to have in place prior to beginning its operations. This module intents to help you understand the need for a business plan and the distinctiveness of a social business’ plan and where to find support regarding business planning.
Upon completion of this module you will:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
Every social enterprise is yet a business and if there is nothing to sell there is no business. Thus, sales remain key activity of any person willing to become a successful entrepreneur. This module intents to provide you tips on how to improve your sales skills.
Upon completion of this module you will:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
Promotion is one of the most important marketing variables for product/service success and for entrepreneurship in the marketplace. This module will help you understand how to promote your business and be able to identify the best options and channels to promote and develop a marketing strategy for your business
Upon completion of this module you should be able to:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
The objective of this module is to help you understand the techniques that can be used for strategic planning to facilitate the development of a good strategy. It also aims to help you to formulate and implement this strategy and evaluating the progress.
Upon completion of this module you should be able to
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Why do we need leadership in an organisation?
This module intents to help you understand what leadership is, understand the need and importance of leadership in an organisation and help you to provide a social vision and empower others to fulfill.
Upon completion of this module you will:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
Why is location important?
This module will help you select the best location for your business by understanding why location is important for social enterprises and which are the main factors that affects the location of a social enterprise
Upon completion of this module you will:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
Once you have started your business it is crucial to create an operation plan to follow in order to grow your business activities and in fact grow the profit. This module intents to help you to develop a practical understanding and awareness of running day-to-day activities of social business and to develop networking capacity and how to build a higher profile.
In this module we examine the relationship between the sustainability of a social enterprise and the job performance of its employees.
Knowledge
Competences and Skills
A social enterprise differs itself from typical enterprises by the impact that it has on its beneficiaries and society. But what do we mean by social impact? In this module we will help you understand what is social impact and why it should be measured, be aware of the Social impact measurement tools and resources and understand outcomes.
Upon completion of this module you will:
Knowledge
Competences and Skills