Be Your Own Boss

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How to work for yourself

The good news is anyone can be their own boss, as long as they understand what it takes and are committed to their own success.

This course takes you from considering whether being self-employed is right for you, through compiling your business plans and dealing with the obstacles that can get in your way, to learning and putting into practice the skills and techniques that consistently work for successful entrepreneurs..

This is a highly proactive and practical course that will help you to:

  • Decide whether self-employment is what you really want
  • Identify the opportunities that are right for you
  • Write a complete and effective business plan – with a step-by-step guide
  • Work through the practical stages of setting up a new business
  • Recognise and overcome the obstacles that prevent you from getting started or hold you back from realising your business’s full potential
  • Practice and perfect the skills that have created success in business for others

This course will be your indispensable companion as you work to make the dream of running your own business a reality. It will not only put a solid foundation under your new venture, you will refer to it again and again as your fledgling business starts to grow.

Take the first, vital, step towards realising your ambition to-day!

Modules in Be Your Own Boss (Requires Registration)

Module 1: Are you up for it?

Module 1: Are you up for it?

First let’s focus on what you really want from your own business and find out exactly you what you need to do to succeed on your own.

Module 2: What's Your Big Idea?

In this 4-step process we’ll test and refine your business ideas to make sure it’s practical and realistic, that it’s right for you and -most importantly – that it will work.

Module 3: Business Planning

Creating a business plan sounds terrifying, but it needn’t be. Take these 10 easy steps and you’ll have a plan that will convince investors and act as a blueprint for your new business.

Module 4: Getting Started

There are many practical tasks to be completed before you can launch your new business – this detailed checklist explains them all and makes sure you leave nothing out.

Module 5: What's Holding You Back?

You have a great idea and a killer business plan, you know exactly what you need to do. So where is your business? Is something stopping you from pursuing your dream?

Module 6: The Secrets of Success

Starting a business is just the first step. Making it work is a longer game. Find out 23 secrets of building a successful business and learn how to apply them every day.