Cash Flow
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can keeping track of your cash flow help your business?
Explore how to monitor and track your cash flow. Learn how to customize a spreadsheet to track your cash flow. Learn why cash flow is important to your business, and how to make decisions based on the research and results you gather.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Make decisions about how to manage your cash
Use spreadsheet software to track your cash flow
Profit and Loss
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you tell whether you are making a profit?
Learn to calculate profit and loss (P&L) considering all costs, including your hidden expenses. Find out how to customize a P&L spreadsheet to fit your business.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Find your hidden expenses
Calculate profit and loss
Digitalization and Its Impact for SMEs
Category:Management
Course Level Startup
Digitalization and Its Impact for SMEs is the first course from Five Leadership Course offered by Cisco through webinar.
In this session, we look into the drives behind digitalization, its impact on SME organisations, business models, key digital business capabilities and opportunities it promises.
What will you learn:
- What is Digitalization and why now
- Digitalization Framework and context
- Business Model and digital business capabilities
- How to drive business with social platforms
- Best practices and examples of digital SMBs
About the speaker:
Robert Schaffner
Robert Schaffner is a native Austrian and has lived and worked in Austria, Germany, Australia, and currently makes his home in Singapore. He started his career as a technologist 25 years ago at Siemens. In 2006, he co-founded Avodaq, a German IT system integrator. He co-founded the collaboration software company, Andtek, in 2011, which he later sold. Robert’s passion is teaching leaders, sales teams, and organizations how to have impact on individuals, organizations, and society.
He has just written a book with Pat Bodin and the title of the book is Get In the Boat – A Journey to Relevance.
Effective Presentations
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you create effective and targeted slide presentations?
Learn how to create slide presentations that are well-designed and targeted to particular audiences. Make sure that you express what you want to say clearly, through the use of effective text, images, and examples.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Determine what information is relevant to a particular audience
Create effective and well-designed slide presentations
Finding Funding
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you find funding to start or grow your business?
Explore sources for start-up funds for your business. Identify which sources are the best match for your needs and learn what to consider before you apply. Explore how to search the Internet to find potential funders and then bookmark sites you find using social bookmarking. Finally, learn how to download and print applications for funding.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Find sources for start-up funds
Identify the sources that are best for your business needs
Use social bookmarking
Download and print applications
Setting Prices
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How do I set prices for my products or services?
Explore how to price your products and services effectively. Learn how to use word processing software to customize tables that help track information you gather to set your prices. Learn what research to complete to determine prices for your products and services.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Set prices for products and services
Use word processing software to customize tables
Getting the Most Value from Card Acceptance
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Description:
Today we’re going to talk about how small businesses can expand and strengthen their enterprises by mastering electronic payments. Electronic payment technology continues to expand and improve, replacing cash and checks for government, consumers and small businesses. Many of the advantages of convenience and efficiency are so obvious that we don’t even think about them. There are many other features and capabilities of debit, credit and prepaid cards that can be overlooked or become confusing. With more and more use of electronic payments, Master Your Card is here to make sure everyone realizes how they can get more from their money by using the full power of electronic payment networks.
Course Type: Self-Paced
Selling Online
Category:Finance/ Accounting
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you create effective online marketplace listings for your products?
Learn how to maximize the use of selling online in your business. Learn how to create effectively put together online listings for your products. Explore how you can use photo-editing software to improve your product photos and advertisements.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Create effective titles, descriptions, and photographs for your online product listing
Improve your products’ photographs using photo-editing software
Developing High Performing Teams
Category:Management
Course Level Startup
Developing High Performing Teams is the fifth course from Five Leadership Course offered by Cisco through webinar.
Why join the webinar?
Learn the principles and best practices in hiring, building and managing great teams. Achieve a more successful team dynamic for business growth by:• Defining high performance teams
• Understanding Corporate Culture and Leadership and its impact on teams
• Hiring and managing high performance teams
• Understanding the dialogic principle of establishing awareness, presence, and consciousness
About the speaker:
Robert Schaffner
Robert Schaffner is a native Austrian and has lived and worked in Austria, Germany, Australia, and currently makes his home in Singapore. He started his career as a technologist 25 years ago at Siemens. In 2006, he co-founded Avodaq, a German IT system integrator. He co-founded the collaboration software company, Andtek, in 2011, which he later sold. Robert’s passion is teaching leaders, sales teams, and organizations how to have impact on individuals, organizations, and society.
He has just written a book with Pat Bodin and the title of the book is Get In the Boat – A Journey to Relevance.
Strengthening Global Presence Through Online Marketing
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
Learners will be introduced to what it means and how to strengthen your global presence by winning the moments that matter in our constantly connected world. Google will acquaint learners about people – the ones we’re trying to reach and influence and how their behavior has changed, thanks to the explosion of technology. Learners will be familiarized to shifts in consumer behavior affect us as marketers and business owners. And finally Google will share innovative things learners can do to driver performance in our constantly connected world.
Instructor: Bianca Grey, Account Manager
Course Type: Self-Paced
Lesson Length: 15 minutes
Minimizing the Risk of Fraud
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
About this Course:
Learners will be introduced to the ways to minimize the risk of fraud. Clients prize Baker & McKenzie for its breadth of access to markets, as it can individually guide cross-border transactions without using external local counsel.
Learners will be acquainted to common email scam including information on phishing, and malware/ransomware. The course will also provide information how to prevent and minimize fraud.
Instructors:
Susan Kendall, Partner, Hong Kong
Course Type: Self-Paced
Lesson Length: 20 minutes
Strategic Planning
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
Learn to use a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis to choose the best strategies to help your business reach its long-term goals. Look into how you can start today.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Use a SWOT analysis to consider your businesses Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats in order to select the most effective strategies for the success of your business.
Make the process easier by integrating word processing and spreadsheet documents
This course was developed in collaboration with the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, as part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded Advancement and Development through Entrepreneurship Programs and Training (ADEPT) partnership for Myanmar (Burma).
Computer Security and Privacy
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Description
This course helps you to identify the various threats to your computer and the data stored on it. You will explore how to protect your computer from these threats by taking some preventive measures. Finally, this course explains the ethical and legal issues related to Internet usage.
Course Benefits
Like any other electronic device, your computer is at risk from damages caused by accident or by intention. Some of these damages can be permanent. You can prevent your computer hardware, software, and the data stored on it from a number of damages by taking certain preventive measures.
Marketing Benefits vs Features
Category:Marketing
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can you effectively promote the benefits of your products or services?
Learn how to effectively promote the advantages of your products or services to your target audience in order to help you increase sales. Learn how to use templates to create marketing materials.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Understand the difference between the benefits and features of your products or services and effectively promote them to your target market
Use online templates to create a flyer for your business
Cisco Leadership Course Webinar: Artificial Intelligence – Opportunity or Threat for SMEs?
Category:Management
Course Level Startup
Webinar Session
Wednesday, March 27, 2019
10.00 AM (ID, TH, VN)
11:00 AM (MY, PH, SG)
From Apple’s Siri and Amazon Alexa to Telsa’s self-driving cars, we are seeing more Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies at work in business and daily living. Despite the seeming proliferation, it is still in the very early stages of development and because of that complex, time and resource consuming. Facing limited data, limited resources, and limited data science talent, is Artificial Intelligence – an opportunity or threat for SMEs?
Why Join the Webinar?
AI has already impact on competition, customer experience and is evolving extremely fast. Whether to adopt it or just want to prepare for its impact on our business, SMEs need to understand the consequences and changes AI is bringing into our environment. Find out about:
- AI fundamentals for business leaders
- Differentiate facts from fiction in terms of AI capability
- Understanding business benefits of AI (use case examples)
- What differentiates us in an AI centric world
About the speaker:
Robert Schaffner
Robert Schaffner is a native Austrian and has lived and worked in Austria, Germany, Australia, and currently makes his home in Singapore. He started his career as a technologist 25 years ago at Siemens. In 2006, he co-founded Avodaq, a German IT system integrator. He co-founded the collaboration software company, Andtek, in 2011, which he later sold. Robert’s passion is teaching leaders, sales teams, and organizations how to have impact on individuals, organizations, and society.
He has just written a book with Pat Bodin and the title of the book is Get In the Boat – A Journey to Relevance.
Legal Aspects of Cross-Border E-Commerce
Category:Technology
Course Level Growing
About this Course:
Learners will be introduced to the legal aspects of cross-border e-commerce. Clients prize Baker & McKenzie for its breadth of access to markets, as it can individually guide cross-border transactions without using external local counsel.
Learners will be acquainted to legal entity critical to doing business in the global electronic marketplace. It includes regulations specific to certain products and services, advertising, intellectual property issues, enforceability of online transactions, taxation and data privacy protection.
Instructor: Elizabeth Opena, Partner, Quisumbing Torres
Course Type: Self-Paced
Lesson Length: 20 minutes
Effective Business Websites
Category:Technology
Course Level Startup
Course Summary
How can your website meet your business goals by effectively reaching your target audience?
Learn how to build a user-friendly website that meets your business goals and effectively reaches your target audience. Learn how to use a web tool to create a website.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Create a user-friendly website that meets your business goals and effectively reaches your target audience
Use online web design software to create a website for your business
Hiring Staff
Category:Human Resources
Course Level Ready to Export
Course Summary
How do I hire the right people for my business?
Learn how to select the right candidate for a job and create a job application using word processing software. Go through the process of hiring staff for your business.
In this course, you will learn how to:
Follow a structured procedure to hire an employee
Use word processing software to create a job application
Tool for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Category:Operations
Course Level Startup
About this Course:
This Entrepreneurship and Innovation (EI) training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have identified problems.
After EI training, participants will better understand how to innovate through an innovative process, and how to use the tools presented to spend time on innovating within their businesses. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to think creatively, come up with innovative ideas and test these with people in and outside their business.
The EI is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- What is Innovation
- Creative Thinking
- Problem Definition
- Create Ideas
- Filter
- Pilot
- Action Plan
Eligible for Certification: Yes
Small Business Owners Training
Category:Operations
Course Level Growing
About this Course:
The Small Business Owners (SB) training builds on the key principles of business to develop the competencies needed for managing operations and making improvements. The emphasis is not on producing fully worked revisions of written business plans but on supporting business owners to develop the skills for assessing different business strategies and identifying practical improvements. The SB training is designed for individuals that have existing enterprises, particularly those that have been recently established or those that have faced difficulties.
After completing the training, participants will better understand how a business operates, how to assess different business strategies, and how to collaborate with others to promote their businesses success. Participants will have a new skill set and confidence to take action, make decisions and plan for the future of their businesses or prospective businesses.
The SB is part of Community-Based Enterprise Development (C-BED), a low cost, innovative training program designed by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to support skills development and empowerment in local communities for improvements in livelihoods, productivity and working conditions.
Available Lessons:
- Overview of the programme
- Introductions
- Better Marketing
- Improving Productivity
- Improving Quality
- Bookkeeping
- Understanding Costs
- Action Planning
Eligible for Certification: Yes