Business Enterprise Training (BET) is an initiative of Lead Resources to educate entrepreneurs about financial analysis, digital business models and the digital economy while giving them the leverage they need for access to finance. It is targeted at entrepreneurs with a drive to start or scale up their businesses.
For entrepreneurs to access loans from institutions such as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), it is legally required that they are trained by a recognized Entrepreneurship Development Institution (EDI) such as Lead Resources. The mission of BET is to raise functional entrepreneurs who can start and/or scale their businesses by accessing small interest loans from financial organizations to achieve their business goals.
Last week, Lead Resources held her first BET for the year 2021. Associate Solutions Architect (ASA) Adetoyese Oyedunmade (Team Lead, BET Team) coordinated this cohort, and she was ably assisted by ASA Itua Emmanuel and ASA Francis Edobor. The training held for 2 days (4th and 5th March 2021).
As is the norm, the last cohort of BET was a blended training, that is, part online and part offline. Every participant was required to take some basic online courses here, and present the required certificates from the undertaken courses. Subsequently, the offline training held at the head office of Lead Resources, Abeokuta, Ogun state.
On the first day of the offline training (4th March 2021), Mr Olufemi Johnson, the designated trainer of this cohort, taught the BET participants on Organizational Structure, Digital Business Models, Financial Planning, Marketing, etc. These topics were treated as independent, interconnected courses. The training, seeing as it was one filled with experienced businessmen, was more practical than theoretical. This first class lasted for 4 hours.
On the second day of the offline training, Mr Olufemi Johnson did a recap of all he taught in the previous class. He delved deeper into topics such as Business Plan Compilation and Executive Summary and ended with the crux of the convergence – Introduction to the NIRSAL Platform and Simplified Online Credit Business Plan Questionnaire. The participants were taught how to successfully access loans from NIRSAL and other financial organizations to start and/or scale their businesses. This second class lasted for 4 hours.
Afterwards, certificates were awarded to the BET participants, and feedback was received for better execution. The participants have gone on to apply their knowledge, and gain access to finance the right way.
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Tomiwa Babajide is an Associate Solutions Architect at LEAD Resources, a charismatic administrator, an SDGs advocate, a creative writer and a graduate of Microbiology. She is adept in transdisciplinarity, novel and adaptive thinking and virtual collaboration. She is zealous to provide real-time solutions to challenges in the polity. She loves to eat crackers and drink yoghurt, and she can pray and go on road-trips for Africa.