ENTREPRENEURSHIP: GETTING STARTED

ENTREPRENEURSHIP: GETTING STARTED

1. SCOPE

This unit standard introduces time management that will enable learners to be efficient workers in a selected business sector. The focus is knowledge, skills, values and attitudes in relation to the learner`s own context and experience of the world of work.

The qualifying learner is capable of:

• • Creating, maintaining and using a task list to follow up and assist in completing tasks.
  • Receiving and capturing diary information on line, or process it manually.
  • Scheduling time to complete tasks according to specific deadlines and reporting incomplete activities timeously.
  • Planning and following a work schedule.

This unit standard is for learners who are required to identify and develop within themselves, the personal characteristics of an entrepreneur that ensure the successful operation of a new venture. The unit standard also introduces the learner to the economic, administrative and behavioural (psycho-social) barriers that contribute to the success in starting and sustaining an enterprise. The learner will develop strategies to work effectively in a group and set personal goals in an entrepreneurial context.

Learners credited with this unit standard will be able to:

• • Describe entrepreneurship.
  • Describe the characteristics of a successful entrepreneur.
  • Develop individual entrepreneurial characteristics.
  • Explain methods to enhance an entrepreneurial profile.

2. PROGRAMME ENTRY REQUIREMENTS / LEARNING ASSUMED TO BE IN PLACE

Learners should:

• • Hold a GETC or equivalent qualification
  • Be competent in mathematical literacy NQF level 1.
  • Communication at NQF Level 3.

3. DURATION

3 Days

4. UNIT STANDARDS REFERENCE

14342    Manage time and work processes within a business environment    NQF 2   4 credits

263356    Demonstrate an understanding of an entrepreneurial profile    NQF 4   5 credits 

5. COST

Please refer to office for formal quotation.