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Useful Information
BUSINESS PLAN
YouTube Animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_AuOixzFRw
Suggested reading to improve your skills:
- How to Build a Startup( https://www.udacity.com/course/ep245)
- Free Online course on Business Plan Basics (http://www.openlearningworld.com/innerpages/Business%20Plan%20Basics.htm)
- Strategic Management – Implementing and Evaluating Strategy (https://alison.com/course/strategic-management-implementing-and-evaluating-strategy)
- Foundations of Business Strategy (https://www.udemy.com/foundations-of-business-strategy/)
- How to write a Business plan (https://www.investopedia.com/university/business-plan/)
MARKETING
Youtube video:
Marketing
Suggested Reading To Improve Your Skills
Fundamentals of digital marketing
https://learndigital.withgoogle.com/digitalgarage/course/digital-marketing
Free Content Marketing Certification Course
https://academy.hubspot.com/courses/content-marketing
Social Media Marketing
https://alison.com/courses/social-media-marketing
The Business of Social
Introduction to Marketing
https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-marketing-ubcx-busmktg1x
RISK MANAGEMENT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OOTsqTu6v8&feature=youtu.be
Suggested free training:
https://alison.com/course/diploma-in-risk-management – This is a free online training course for risk management, if you are registered in the website. The course covers the key topics of the risk management. You will learn about the various forms of risk that risk professionals use to protect their business against and the fundamental tools that they use to do so. You may have some difficulties to open the training with google chrome, and you can use the Microsoft edge and Mozilla Firefox.
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/0273/414e984921493c37eac97e9a8f920cfba85e.pdf –
This is paper, which presents four educational Risk Management case studies. You can see in the studies are shown how some central Risk Management methods may be used in practice and give insight in the general principles of Risk Management. The whole process from risk identification to evaluation of implemented solutions is described.
http://www.theseus.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/63227/Duong_Lap.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y –
This is a paper studies the risk management processes in micro, small and medium sized companies concerning project risk management. You can see a model of project risk management as a effective solutions for small businesses. The paper reviews risks, process of risk management, the role of risk management in corporations, project risks and the management processes.
MOTIVATION AND SUPPORT
Intellectual output 2: Online self-assessment tool
Training
- Employee motivation training course – https://www.businesstrainingworks.com/onsite-courses/employee-motivation-training-course/
- Training program leadership and motivation – https://www.slideshare.net/piyeriisc/training-program-leadership-and-motivation-presentation
- Motivation courses – https://courses.independent.co.uk/search/motivation-courses
- Entrepreneur motivation training – https://www.scribd.com/document/204234901/Entrepreneur-Motivation-Training
- Motivated entrepreneurs – https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/303553
- Motivational theories – https://entrepreneurshiptheories.blogspot.com/2017/08/need-for-achievement-achievement.html
- Entrepreneurial motivation – https://myventurepad.com/entrepreneurial-motivation/
- Entrepreneurial motivations and entrepreneurial mindsets – https://www.coursera.org/lecture/innovative-ideas/entrepreneurial-motivations-5z51V
Animated video
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNxZ_LM7asg
STRESS MANAGEMENT
Free Lifestyle Management E-Course: https://www.carolespiersgroup.co.uk/free-downloads/
Online Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR): https://palousemindfulness.com/?utm_campaign=elearningindustry.com&utm_source=%2F5-online-courses-manage-work-related-stress&utm_medium=link
Managing stress in the workplace – Interactive online workshop: https://info.unum.co.uk/managing-stress-in-the-workplace-interactive-online-workshop?utm_campaign=elearningindustry.com&utm_source=%2F5-online-courses-manage-work-related-stress&utm_medium=link
Coping with Stress Course: https://thiswayup.org.au/how-we-can-help/courses/coping-with-stress/
Stress Management – Techniques for Coping with Stress: https://alison.com/it/corso/stress-management-techniques-for-coping-with-stress
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/FoFsm6W15uY
ADAPTABILITY
Youtube Animated video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jamGkPRNBe8
Suggested reading to improve your skills:
- “Introduction to Change Management” course (https://alison.com/course/introduction-to-change-management)
- “Change management” course (https://alison.com/course/diploma-in-change-management-revised)
- “Adapting to change” course (https://www.lynda.com/Leadership-Management-tutorials/Adapting-change/585229/666647-4.html)
- “Managing disruptive change” course (https://courses.edx.org/courses/course-v1:RWTHx+MTI001x+3T2017/course/)
- Case study on adapting to change (https://knowhownonprofit.org/organisation/orgdev/development-1/copy_of_case-study-on-adapting-to-change)