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Courses That We Offer
VACID Africa Institute is an international knowledge institution that integrates ICT Learning with entrepreneurship, agribusiness and cottage industry development.
We acknowledge that learning in most of the developing economies is skewed towards skills formation and development. We also acknowledge that skills need an infrastructure within which they need to be exploited productively. Indeed, skills alone have to be interwoven with the operating economic fibre of their location for employability. Employability of skills, whether by an existing organization or one created by the person possessing the skill is very much dependent on what tools one has available to them. This is where ICT knowledge, business knowledge and entrepreneurship come in. Providing an operating environment such as a productive sector like agriculture, education, health, nutrition, transport or any other is a requirement.
VACID Africa Institute is a product of research and integration of productive sector focus to the policy directions of national economies. We have designed courses with our partners to create relevance in skill orientation by mixing this with technologies. We have formed collaborations that will expose all our learners to what can enable them create sustainable wealth/employment generation vehicles – their own businesses.
Starting a Business –
Businesses start and fail as fast as they are started for lack of the right sklills and preparedness. The preparedness comes from training, backed by mentorship and coaching. We do not just train, we incubate businesses and coach the owners to follow known paths to survival.
Join this programme to start your own business by learning through a pace that is determined by your speed and which leaves you with cases studies you can review as regularly as you can once the course duration expires. This is a high intensity seven week (55 Hours) course
After participants have completed this course they should be able to:
After participants have completed this course they should be able to:
Asses global trends and determine opportunities
Develop a mission statement and develop a continuation plan
Describe essential leadership qualities and personality traits for an entrepreneur
Describe how to work positively with employees and customers
Explain how to generate a product / service idea and develop it
Describe types of business risks and how to assess them
Describe how to apply IT to a business and participate in effective use of technology for business purposes
Explain methods of generating a product / service idea and determining its feasibility
Describe market strategies and planning
Conduct a SWOT analysis
Conduct competitive analysis and break-even analysis
Analyze cash-flow patterns and interpret financial statements
Explain how to track performance of a business plan
Plan a budget for short, medium, and long terms
Determine financial necessary to sustain and expand a business
Explain the nature of business records, including accounting standards and legal reporting requirements
Develop a personnel organizational plan
Exhibit leadership skills and encourage team building
Establish operating procedures and plan business layout
Optimize supply chain solutions to meet the business plan
IExec Enterprise Essentials –
The iExec Enterprise Essentials workshop is a Cisco leadership and management course designed with the objective of demonstrating the value of information and communication technology (ICT) solutions to owners, non-IT managers, and leaders in for-profit businesses, whether they are small, medium, or large. The programme is specifically designed to empower leaders and "agents of change" by equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to create a lasting business impact within their organization.This is a high intensity seven week (52 hours) course
After participants have completed this course they should be able to: