Refocusing training for regional communities.
Every regional town needs to support entrepreneurs.
It often seems like everyone is putting a lot into supporting startups and entrepreneurs in our regional, rural and remote communities. Much of it is misdirected and even unhelpful when refocusing training to improve communities and halt the decline.
Entrepreneurs are renowned for generously helping others create amazing possibilities, but only if they can support them.
No matter how many people you seek to educate or how many try a business, only a handful seem to succeed. Traditional training programs aren’t a good fit for entrepreneurs or people wanting to start or expand a business in regional areas.
For decades, we have been helping entrepreneurs, individuals, businesses and organisations across industries imagine and implement strategy and innovation initiatives through better planning practices.
We emphasise making strategic planning simple, engaging with the community and having fun. When you show people how to shape their approach to the future, they become empowered and will achieve the outcomes they seek.
Long training classes mean people drop out early. In contrast, short one-time training workshops usually attract few attendees as they impart insufficient practical knowledge, not the information and knowledge people seek.
Teaching theory has limited value for people under stress.
Most government training workshops focus on compliance, where participants only discuss complying with rules. This means participants don’t learn anything useful about how to run or grow a business, employ more people, or make a profit.
Experts who are too academic and focus on useless topics like formal business planning processes or taxation cause people to become bored and drop out, and nothing changes.
All too often, the experts don’t like the long trips to small towns in the regions, and they demand inconvenient hours for their training sessions, which means poor attendance.
Entrepreneurs create new conversations, leading to better relationships, well-being, health, businesses, and nicer living places. Many people look at themselves in the mirror and are unhappy with their reflections. You may want to help them avoid this and have no regrets at the end of their lives.
A simple process for training programs. Define the business outcomes you want to achieve.
Quotable quotes.
“The truth is, entrepreneurship can be more like a roller coaster ride than a cruise ship, but you will find life is never boring”. Peter Sergeant
“Everybody walks past opportunities and ideas daily, while experienced entrepreneurs can see many of them. Most people are not entrepreneurs, so they don’t see the opportunities presenting themselves”. Peter Sergeant