Description
Workshop Structure:
Week 1
Designing Your Business
- Exploring the purpose of your business
- Introduction to planning and creating a sustainable business
- Identifying and aligning goals
- Where is your business right now
- Keeping your business on track: checks and preventative measures
- Breaking down the all important Promise, Vision and Mission in detail
Week 2
Structuring Your Business – “To Do Kit”
- Reflections from week 1
- Creating a structure for sustainability and growth
- Basic business roles
- Simplifying theories and processes
- Providing guidelines and check sheets
Week 3
Strategy as Practice – Maintaining a Sustainable Entity
- Reflections from week 2
- Exploring critical success needs and operational functionality
- The influences of macro and micro economics – broader sustainability and an integrated approach
- Impact of your corporate culture and operating style on your business and its stakeholders
- The role of ethics and a values based approach in business
Week 4
Turning Your Business into a Company
- Reflections from week 3
- Company forms in South Africa
- Creating and structuring a private company
- Covering broader company roles
- Basic overview of The Company’s Act and it’s legal and operational implications
Weekly Morning Format
08:30 – 10:00 Session 1 (1 ½ hours)
10:00 – 10:30 Tea/Comfort Break (1/2 hour)
10:30 – 12:00 Session 2 (1 ½ hours)
Attendees: Up to 20
Included: Content of all presentations; workbook material; refreshments


