How to Start Your Business - A Short Course for Women - Online Course - Community Learning

Important update: Bookings will close 7 days before the course starts.

Date	11 November - 16 December 2020
Sessions	Wednesdays: 10:30am - 11:30am
No. sessions	6
Venue	Online Courses, Nottingham View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 30
Cost	Free

An exciting new partnership between Inspire Learning and We Are Radikl will inspire the growth of women founded businesses through a FREE six week online course.

Against a backdrop of Covid19, 1 in 4 women are now starting their own businesses, building purpose, profit and flexibility into their working lives.

The aims of this six week, online course are to:

Fuel Confidence: 6 in 10 women cite confidence as their biggest challenge when they start their businesses.We know that confidence directly impacts the actions and decisions you’ll make about your business.Which is why on this course we’ll begin by understanding your self limiting beliefs - the thoughts that are holding you back and which risk slowing you down. We’ll share with you a tried and tested approach to moving your own SLB’s out of your own way!
Build Know-how: no-one is born knowing how to build a successful business but there is a lot of learning out there in the world! We believe in short-cutting that learning so that you don’t have to spend hours googling the answers - figuring it out for yourself. During this course we’ll guide you through a programme where our sole purpose is to help you to lay the foundations for a successful business (however you define success for yourself!)
Make Connections: 75% of women founders work from home. This can be an isolating experience at a time when we need to fuel our own confidence and belief in the businesses we’re creating. As a cohort-based course you will have the opportunity to learn in the company of other women who are also starting their businesses from their kitchen tables and in doing so make connections that will help you and your business to grow.
Inspire you! This course has been designed, created and is delivered by women who have stood where you’re at. Women who have made the leap and who have wished there was a safety net there to catch them. There is no golden ticket when it comes to entrepreneurship but there is the opportunity to learn from the wisdom and experience of women whose only focus is to help you to build the business you dare to dream about.

All resources and course content will be delivered online and be hosted on the Thinkific platform (provided by we are radical).

Learners will need:

Access to a desktop or laptop.
All workbooks are editable online with the option to print.
A pen and notebook
Learners will need to protect 6 hours of learning time (in person + self-directed and supported with workbooks) each week.
All live content will be recorded and available to watch on replay, therefore the six hours do not need to be protected in a single block of time

During the course you will:

Get really clear on the ‘why’ of your business by understanding the needs it must meet for both you and your customers
Tip out your ‘think big business idea’ so that it fuels your resilience and your motivation to get started
Learn how to understand your self limiting beliefs and follow our five step approach to moving them out ofyour own way
Create your first business plan and in doing so understand the financial goals your business needs to achieve in its first year
Create your first Finance Tracker so that you can begin to manage costs and revenues into your business
Learn how to fuel your Creative Confidence & in doing so get clear on how to get your product or service in front of your ideal customer

This course has been created for women who know that they want to start their own business and who have an initial idea they would like to develop. It’s likely that you will be in your first 0-6 months of starting up. No prior business knowledge is needed - you just need to be curious and ready for the adventure of learning how to start your own start-up!

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking. If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been a resident in the UK for the past 3 years. Some exceptions may apply if you are living in the UK with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

In addition, we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in devolved areas (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, Greater Manchester, Greater London, Liverpool City Region, Tees Valley, West Midlands and West of England) so full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas.