START AND IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS (SIYB)

START AND IMPROVE YOUR BUSINESS (SIYB)

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES PROGRAMME

The Start & Improve Your Business (SIYB) programme is a management-training programme with a focus on starting and improving small businesses as a strategy for creating more and better employment in developing economies and economies in transition.

OBJECTIVE OF SIYB PROGRAMME

To enable potential and existing small entrepreneurs, both women and men, through these BDS organizations to start viable businesses, to increase the viability of existing enterprises, and to create quality employment for others in the process.

SIYB has three modules;

1.    GYBI ( Generate Your Business Idea)

The GYBI training helps to identify different business ideas, to analyze them and to select the most promising one. Best results will be achieved if the trainer provides a structured three days initial training course, followed by individual fieldwork and ending in a counseling session that will reveal the answers to the three core questions. The training methodology explores individual entrepreneurial potential desire and needs.

Objective of GYBI

The objective of GYB training for the potential entrepreneur is to get ready for an entrepreneurial career by selecting a feasible business idea and by carrying out a self- assessment

2.    SYB (Start your Business)

The SYB training and counseling builds on what the starting entrepreneur already knows. It challenges the entrepreneur in areas outside his or her comfort zone. The training can be organized flexibly according to clients’ needs, takes 5 days and is taught using advanced adult training methodologies. To understand market dynamics it uses the SIYB Business Game (see the Game factsheet) and exposes the starting entrepreneur to representatives from administrative, legal and financial institutions.

The initial SYB training requires fieldwork by the trainee, who need to collecting missing information. Follow-up group counseling sessions will be used for completing the business plan and individual counseling to actually get started. SYB training ensures that the starting entrepreneur is able to defend his/her business plan. Those who for different reasons cannot start a business individually will be advised to consider a group-based enterprise or possibly to take up employment in a starting business.

Objective of SYB

The objective of SYB training for the starting entrepreneur is to get started after developing a bankable business plan. The plan provides all information required for securing access to the market, finance, human resources and all other business inputs. Counselling is to take away the last hurdles for getting started

3.    IYB  (Improve Your Business)

IYB is a modular training programme and can address the most urgent need for business management improvement. It is supported by a set of manuals, the basic IYB modules (marketing, buying, stock control, costing, recordkeeping and financial planning) are complemented by the people and productivity manual that focuses on improving working conditions and labour productivity

The IYB training is easy to understand as it uses a step-by step approach, with simple explanations, illustrations, clear check lists, relevant exercises and examples. The theory will be applied by playing the SIYB Business Game (see the Game factsheet) in a safe simulated environment

Objective of IYB

The objective of IYB training for the emerging entrepreneur is to set up a more profitable business management system. By the end of the training course, action plans are developed which address the most constraining factors for improving sales and reducing costs. Upon completion of the IYB programme (and after up to 3 counseling sessions) improved management practices are in place.

SIYB Business Game

The SIYB Business Game is in the first place an educational tool. It implements the contents of the SIYB training manuals. It helps participants to build up their understanding about the realities of starting and managing successful business. The Game helps in four modules to progressively make more advanced decisions.

For More Information

Visit: www.ilo.org/siyb