Wicklow entrepreneurs invited to ‘start your own business’ course

LOCAL Enterprise Office Wicklow will run a start your own business course, which will begin in September and consist of a ten-week programme.

The objective of the start your own business programme is to assist participants in assessing the viability of business ideas and in understanding the essential elements required to start up and run their own businesses.

Participants will be provided with what is required of an individual to start their own business and get to know the process of idea generation and how to assess an idea for profitability and success.

You will learn how to research and assess new business ideas particularly using on-line tools which are quicker, less costly and often more effective.

Session content will include online activities and exercises, individual and pair and group exercises, discussion and written exercises, case studies and examples on handouts, and work with a flipchart, LCD projector and smartboard, depending on availability.

In each session, the concept of innovation is referred to. Participants will be encouraged that they do not have to reinvent their product or service, but perhaps take an alternative approach to their business model. Developing new operational techniques to improve efficiencies in a long-established industry, for example.

Networking amongst participants and implementation of the business plan will also be encouraged and facilitated through in-workshop group activities, emails from The Entrepreneur Academy team and through Moodle. In addition to training materials and hand-outs distributed to participants, trainers will give reference materials to participants, some of which can be sourced on Moodle that will be set up for them by The Entrepreneurs Academy.

The online course via Zoom begins on Thursday, September 5 at 7 p.m. and costs €50 and you can book your place at the Wicklow Local Enterprise Office website.

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