Global Vision
The single most important problem confronting virtually every country and government in the world is the growing number of unemployed and under-employed people who do not earn enough to actually survive from one day to the next. Solving this problem is fairly simple: create more jobs and / or make sure individuals have the skills necessary to satisfy the demands of modern commercial employment. Our focus is to provide a skills transfer environment that will allow everyone to participate in today’s marketplace or in the ideal case, create a person’s own business start up. Top-down skills training programs using traditional teaching methods have a tough time making a global impact, for a number of reasons. Traditional programs are extremely difficult to scale. Target populations are very large yet divided by geography, language, culture. Appropriate content is also segmented by industry, geography, knowledge level. Potential entrepreneurs need motivation and confidence, not just knowledge. Online and mobile tools and technologies are widely available, creating an unprecedented opportunity to build a bottom-up program for skills transfer and entrepreneur support. The project goal is to develop and deploy a scalable methodology and platform for addressing the...
Building Trust
Building a business means building trust in the community. Mr. Suba built a thriving independent pharmacy by demonstrating to the community that he trusted them and cared about their concerns.
Skills at the Counter
What you need to know is based on what your customer is likely to ask. Ronnie and her husband run a dry cleaning store. She discusses the kinds of skills needed by someone managing the counter, particularly the ability to explain any issues that arise with the results of the...
Sales Skills
Sales skills are people skills. Musaqueem, who manages a successful street vending business, discusses the relationship between sales skills and business skills.