Business and Professional Development and Enhancement Training Programs
A. Business Development Training
Compulsory Courses:
- BDT-1. Starting a Business-From Idea to Startup-Preparation of the Business Plan (30-hour training course)
- BDT-2. Budgeting, Finance, Money Management and Tools (16-hour training course)
- BDT-3. Business Branding for Increase Visibility and Sales (16-hour training course)
- BDT-4. Operational Excellence: Valuing External and Internal Customers (20-hour training course)
- BDT-5. Social Media and Your Business (12-hour training course)
- BDT-6. Business Coaching For Entrepreneurs and Business Managers.
- BDT-7. Business Enterprise Management
- BDT-8. Sales, Marketing & Customer Care
Elective Courses
Select 2 Courses
Executive Coaching for High-Performance Top Managerial And Technical Teams And Individuals In Organizations
- B1- Business Development Advisory
- B2- Strategic Review and Planning: An Integrated Learning By Doing Approach For Enterprise Development
- B3- Adaptation Planning for Business Sustainability in a Dynamic Global Economy
- B4- Executive Coaching For High-Performance Top Managerial And Technical Teams And Individuals In Organizations
- B5- Business Continuity Planning For Natural Disaster Prevention and Management
- B6- Event Planning
- B7- Tour Guiding
- B8- Environmental Management for Enterprises
- B9- Customer Relationship Management
B. Micro-enterprise Management
Compulsory Courses: (16-hour training courses)
- MM 1: Managing a Micro-enterprise
- MM 2: Record Keeping & Accounts
- MM 3: Costing & Pricing For Micro-enterprises.
- MM 4: Sales, Marketing & Customer Care
- MM 5: Micro-enterprise Development
- MM 6: Business Planning: Critical Success Factor
- MM 7: Accessing Financing for Micro-enterprise Development
The course modules will focus on the following critical content material:
- Concept of micro-enterprise
- Causes of success or failure of a micro-enterprise
- The Development of Micro-enterprises
- Business Planning: Critical Success Factors
- Record Keeping & Accounts
- Costing & Pricing for Microenterprise
- Selling, Marketing and Customer Care
- Strategies for Effective Management of Revolving Fund / Micro-credit
- Fund Utilization and Management In Groups (Importance of savings mobilization and utilization)
C. Business Management Certificate
A student may seek to continue on toward the achievement of a Business Management Certificate by pursuing the following Group of Courses within a time frame of 3 months. Each course may be taken independently for which a Certificate of Achievement will be awarded in the course of study.
Optional Courses for the award of A Business Management Certificate
- Ethics, Compassion and Spirituality in Business Development (30-hour training course)
- Business Management, Enhancement and Sustainability Training (20-hour training course)
- Leadership Development Training (20-hour training course)
- Conflict Resolution and Management in Business (16-hour training course)
- Event Planning and Management (16-hour training course)
- Life Skills Training Program For Young Entrepreneurs and Professionals (16-hour training course).
D. Individual Training Program Areas
The following Training Areas may be taken as stand-alone courses for the award of a Certificate of Competence in each particular area.
Business Development Training Program
A course focusing on young entrepreneurs with new ideas. (30-hour program)
- Starting a Business: Identification of a Business Idea
- Resource Mapping and Stakeholder Analysis For New Ideas Project Design
- How to apply for a grant or loan
- Identifying and training in the use of Relevant Design Resources & Tools
- Preparing the Business Plan
- Building Credit Worthiness
- Basic Accounting Skills
- Types Of Businesses;
- Money Management And Financial Literacy
- Career And Business
- Managing Your Business
- Creating Your Business Brand
- Managing Employees
- Marketing And Social Media
- Office Management Practice
Budgeting, Finance, Money Management and Tools (16-hour training course)
- Budgets and Money Management
- Budgeting For Small Business
- Money Management And Financial Literacy
- Financing Your Business
- Introduction to Quick Books 1
- Introduction to Quick Books 2
- Tax Planning and Compliance for Small Business Operation
Business Branding for Increase Visibility and Sales (16-hour training course)
- Branding – Creating and Managing Your Corporate Brand
- Building Cooperative and Sustainable Teams
- Colours that Sell: Importance of Brand Colours
- Web Presence that Sells
Event Planning and Management (16-hour training course)
- Conference and Event Management
- Event Planning and Management
Operational Excellence: Valuing External and Internal Customers (20-hour training course)
- Creating a Talent Management Program for your Company
- Customer Relationship Management
- Managing Customer Service
- Inventory Management
- Diversity Training-Celebrating Diversity
- Facilitation Skills – Hiring for Success
- Strategies for Operational Excellence: Valuing External and Internal Customers
Ethics, Compassion and Spirituality in Business Development (30-hour training course)
- Business Ethics for the Office Business leadership
- Ethics and Compassion: The New Considerations in Growing the Bottom Line
- Discovering and Maintaining the Soul of Your Business
- Critical Thinking For Peak Performance
- Encouraging Creative Thinking and Innovation for Personal and Business Success
- Emotional Intelligence
- Identifying & adapting your leadership style
- Coaching as a Leadership Skill
- Conquering Fear and Speaking in Public
- Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness
- Personal Brand Maximization
Business Management, Enhancement and Sustainability Training (20-hour training course)
- Becoming Management Material
- Leading and Managing Your Team Through Change
- Business Sustainability Planning
- Managing Profit and Creating Wealth
Leadership Development Training (20-hour training course)
- Influence and Persuasion
- Leadership Development- Becoming an Authentic
- Leader
- The Leader as a Coach
- Effective Delegation Skills/ The Art of Effective Delegation
- Leadership skills for Supervisors-Coaching, Communication and Conflict Management\
- Developing Mentoring Relationships within Your Business
- Change and How to Deal with It
- Communication And Networking: Critical Factors In Business And Personal Success
Social Media and Your Business (12-hour training course)
- Leveraging Business Initiatives through Social Media
- Marketing and Sales
- Marketing and Social Media
- Building Relationships for Success in Sales
Conflict Resolution and Management in Business (16-hour training course)
- Managing Anger & Negative Emotions
- Employee Dispute Resolution
- Conflict Management-Dealing with Difficult People in the Workplace
- Stress Management for Business Leaders and Managers
Life Skills Training Program For Young Entrepreneurs and Professionals (16-hour training course)
- Visioning and Meditation skills
- Mental preparedness for success-in Life
- Self Branding Skills Development: Finding and Showcasing Me
- Improving Self Esteem and Self Worth
- Assertiveness Skills
- Leadership Skills Training;
- Motivational Skills
- Team Building Skills
- Ethics and Morality
- Social Responsibility (Compassion, empathy, gratitude, kindness, love)
- Anger and Stress Management
Other Services
In addition to our main Business Development Training Courses, we customize these services based on your agency’ needs.
- Computer Literacy (16-hour training course)
- Computer literacy for seniors
- Social media training for seniors
- Mentoring & Coaching Services
- Business Advisory Services
- Capacity Building Advisory
- Capacity Building through Tailored Training
- Business Strategic Review & Planning
- Business & Social Media
- Onsite Seminars
Course Duration
All training courses are short term, i.e. no less than 16 hours and no more than 30 hours, depending on content to be covered.
COURSE Objectives
Training Programs for the award of an Applied Professional Diploma in Business Development:
Based on its value proposition the OCDT provides practising technical and professional individuals with the opportunity to undertake advanced learning by doing knowledge enhancement skills that validate their practice experiences.
OCDT offers the Applied Professional Diploma Designation to persons trained through the OCDT system.
The Applied-Professional Diploma (AP. Dip)
This is an Internationally Focused Solution-based Diploma in which the focus is on applying theoretical knowledge in a practical manner, giving significance to practical solutions that work in the enhancement of professional competencies.
The Requirements to earn the Applied Professional Diploma, (AP. Dip) are:
- Minimum of Five Certificates of Competency within a modular approach to training that results in a single certification on completion of all modules of the training program, at the end of a designated time-frame, being between 3 months to 12 months. Note that on completion of each module the participant will be issued a Certificate of Competency.
- Execution, documentation and presentation (oral or written) of evidence-based results of an applied project focused on the primary area of learning or postgraduate practical application of learning to a solution-based cases-study of the learner’s choice. This case study will be reviewed and approved by the training facilitator of the course of study and submitted to the SLA for final approval.
- Follow-up steps through the SLA are the submission of a portfolio/case study within 60 days after completion of the theoretical aspect of the training event.
- Following the successful completion of the modular training program and the submission and approval of the practical portfolio /case-study project, the Applied Professional Diploma will be conferred on the successful participant.
OCDT SUITE of Courses for Business and Professional Development and Enhancement Training Programs.
These training courses/programs are offered by the OCDT from time to time at Training Workshop events. These courses will be implemented by OCDT in collaboration with our select training collaborators or by collaborator trainers/facilitators, where they already provide training in these areas as part of their training services or by the OCDT itself.
OCDT-Collaborators/Trainers Agreement
The conduct of all collaborative training will be based on the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the OCDT and the participating collaborator trainer/facilitator. Such an MOU will reflect the nature of the partnership. Where the collaboration involves the collaborator’ uses of OCDT space to train in his own course, a Space Rental Agreement will be entered into by the OCDT and the partner.
Collaborators/Training Facilitators may choose to teach more than one area in the suite of Training Program, within the various thematic areas below.
Certification
A student may select any training area or a group of training areas.
- If a specific training area is selected and successfully completed, the student participant will be awarded a Certificate of Achievement in the course of study, which will outline areas of training completed.
- If the student participant selects four or more training areas within 6 months (two semesters) time-frame, they will be awarded an Applied Professional Diploma in Business Development