In financially troubled times, the media are filled with advertising from numerous individuals and organizations offering to sell you their “secret ways” to make millions — usually with a guarantee that it can be done with ease and almost overnight.
In financially troubled times, the media are filled with advertising from numerous individuals and organizations offering to sell you their “secret ways” to make millions — usually with a guarantee that it can be done with ease and almost overnight.
The offer provided below is of a very different kind. It is a three-semester training program based on time-tested and proven methods that will guide you in the process of creating a realistic and workable plan to build an increasingly profitable enterprise. Simultaneously, you will learn to develop a new style of thinking and acting that leads to genuine and lasting prosperity.
This program cannot be accomplished with “ease,” and certainly not “overnight.” It requires dedicated study, a reasonable amount of time and some serious effort. It offers no guarantees for success but it provides you with the tools and the training to utilize them in ways that have produced success for many persons before you.
The methods taught in this program were developed in a project at the Entrepreneurial Education Foundation Center in Denver, Colo. In the 1990s, with major grant funding from the Kaufman Foundation, the Center launched an extensive research program that gathered data from leading colleges, universities and business training institutes around the country. A team of experts was assembled to review the data and build it into a program to train a new breed of business leaders to use the skills and knowledge that the research program had uncovered. The core data from this effort has been designed into a training program offered at Kauai Community College.
In a series of modules, this program teaches candidates how to integrate principles and practices derived from the essential disciplines of financial planning, business assessment, development, management and marketing and to apply them in creating profitable ventures.
The first module in this Entrepreneurial Training series is called Business Planning and Development. It will be offered in a class that begins Sept. 8, from 4 till 7 p.m. It runs for six consecutive Wednesdays and meets at KCC in the Trade Technology Building, Room 114.
The four major areas of this introductory module focus on developing an understanding of: 1) the logic and defining characteristics of the entrepreneur, 2) how an entrepreneur determines the feasibility of a new venture before launching it, 3) how the venture is planned to increase its successful penetration into a targeted market, and 4) how the entrepreneur builds a dedicated management team to guide the enterprise along a pathway to profitability. This first module establishes the foundation for the training that follows.
Other modules in the following weeks of the program provide in-depth training in the detailed planning of specific ventures, the skills of business management and growth, and how to obtain financing for-profit and non-profit ventures.
The “guarantee” our program offers to is provide candidates with the best training available and to guide them in acquiring the skills and knowledge that have traditionally produced successful entrepreneurs. The “guarantee” we request from candidates is that they will dedicate the necessary time and personal effort needed to learn and apply the data acquired from the training in planning and launching promising enterprises of their choice. Our combined commitment then becomes to develop and implement the kinds of ventures that will regenerate the economy and contribute to the prosperity of our island. If you wish to be a part of this formula, give us a call.
Tuition is $90. Enrollment in the first module is limited to 30 students. Tuition assistance is available to qualified applicants. To register call the KCC OCET office at 245-8318.
For more information, contact Glenn Hontz, program director, at 246-4859 or via e-mail at hontz@hawaii.edu.
