REFLECTIVE JOURNAL
The researcher has successfully completed his dissertation and with this he has also finished Post Graduate Diploma kin Business Enterprise from Southern Institute of Southern Technology, Invercargill. While pursuing this course, the researcher was guided to find the right path that was filled knowledge and learning. The researcher also had plans to start his own enterprise. His goal was to set a cake shop in Sri Lanka. Before doing the course, the researcher did not anything about how to start the enterprise. He always wanted to open a business with the aspects placed right how to make the marketing strategy, the human resources of the company. The finances should be organised and the overall plan of the layout and resources. This could not have been possible without the guidance and assistance of all the lecturers at SIT who constantly guided the researcher to make a full proof strategy for the shop set up. The lecturers guided the researcher with the smallest details of the business set up. First and
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The dissertation is very useful for the researcher because she got a clear idea of how to start a business and implement many strategies to run the business successfully. Thus, if the dissertation is very useful, so are all the papers taught during the course is very useful. All aspects of the like Marketing, Human resource management, Environmental analysis, Literature review, Research methodology, financial analysis, budgeting, marketing and finally Business plan are all very important to a business. The researcher has acquired some fundamental knowledge about how to start and run a successful business. But it would take a lot of time before he tries to do something differently. The researcher learnt many important aspects that should be followed before starting a
Business has been in charge of the upgraded innovation that has generally supplanted the drudgery of most physical work, an outcome in part of the innovativeness of business and its readiness to take and bear the weight of money related hazard. Besides, maybe no establishment in our regular life is more proficient in its operations and more discerning in its association than business. No foundation is more receptive to the requests of its constituents than business.
In today’s society, how a business operates and how it conducts its organization and affairs is extremely important. Especially, since today’s society is extremely diverse and tends to have its various wants
Compassion, respect, empathy, and treating people with dignity are values I hold dear and have been brought up with and follow. When I was younger I thought as children do, that all children must be happy and have a safe place to live and a family who love them, however, as I got older I realised that this was not the case for many children. I felt a sense of injustice and realised then that I wanted to work in a job that helps care for children/young people and families, making sure their basic rights are met and they are safe. I feel that it has always been part of my personality to be a supportive, nurturing, caring and a community focused individual. Therefore it only seems natural for me to follow this instinctive sense of caring and
To be a successful entrepreneur, there are steps that one must follow when starting a new enterprise. These steps are termed as the process of entrepreneurial which is the systematic method of preparation of an enterprise that consists of four steps. The four steps are fundamental to the success of an entrepreneur venture. The four entrepreneurial processes includes discovering, assessing and opportunity, developing a business plan, establishing resource needs, and managing the resulting enterprise (Barringer & Ireland, 2010). Each individual step is vital for the start of an entrepreneur venture and for an entrepreneur to achieve their entrepreneurial goals. This paper will discuss the four steps of the entrepreneurial process,
I have completed my LLM Employment Law and Practice course; this has increased my knowledge of the Equality Act 2010 (EqA) and its application in practice. I noted that in order to ensure equality and diversity was in place staff needed to have the relevant training to understand the EqA. I have previously worked as a law lecturer at South East Essex college teaching students AS law and vocational paralegal studies. In order to motivate the students I developed various forms of teaching methods, including one based on the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” programme. I used this format to aid student’s revision; two students would be in the hot seat and the others in the audience. This method made learning fun and at the same time tested their
As industry liaison at the School of EEE at NTU, I facilitate industry partnerships and promote entrepreneurship within the school. In the coming months, we will be launching an entrepreneurship ...
On my third week of clinical shifts, I was able to spend the day in the operating room watching surgeries. The doctors, nurses and respiratory therapists were all very informative. I was in awe watching the anesthesiologists and surgeons do their work. My mind was going a mile-a-minute as I tried to follow everything that was going on.
...rks. In a word, the MA experience was considered to be a bridge that combines the student learning with working skills, it would be of great help for my future career.
find it difficult to set up a business and make it a success. This is
My parents arrived in the United States hoping for a better future not for themselves, but for the baby they carried in their arms. We would often move from relatives ' houses since my parents couldn’t afford renting an apartment themselves. We were fortunate enough to have caring relatives who didn 't mind us living with them since they knew the hardships we were going through. I grew up in a household where only Spanish was spoken given that both my parents didn’t speak any English at all. When I was in kindergarten, my teacher was afraid that I would be behind the rest of my classmates, given that I only spoke Spanish fluently. I was fortunate to receive free tutoring from my kindergarten teacher. We would often read books together until
The path to achieving great success is not easy. Whereas there are many shortcuts, the long and patient walk is what takes a person many miles ahead. This concept applies to any individual who aims at becoming a successful businessman. The process of becoming a successful businessman requires a person to attain several accomplishment levels. Each of the level takes energy and time, as well as the ability to recognize the things that make a person truly successful in the business world and life. Becoming a successful businessman requires measurements that take into account not only the monetary and material gains but also the greater scheme of things. Therefore, true success measure achieves in light of creating wealth and value. These factors are vital in the lifetime of success as they present an intangible worth and measurable profit. This essay discusses the way a person can become successful as a businessman.
Since this type of business involves family members, it is essential for the elders in the family to prepare the next generation for taking over the business. Some of the ways of preparing next generation are, Firstly, starting at an early age to be confidante they learn the leadership skill from its
The business plan will also be useful in facilitating the adoption of a strategy that will help the business prosper in the modern market. The plan will be a critical tool that will help in the production of a reliable strategy for attaining the goals and objectives. The proposed business plan will be implemented in three years time. Within the first three years, the business i...
Working on thesis was similar to managing a project in real life when it comes to strict deadlines, organizing, planning and scarcity of resources, scheduled meetings and so on. Thus the skills I developed within the process of completing my research are add-ons’ and can be used to successfully manage business projects within my career when I’m back to office.
Majalah Niaga(2013); Super Entrepreneur Tip: Do not Ever Stop Trying- edition 26; available from [magazine] pp 30-32. Retrieved on 7 March 2014