Report: Skill Gaps and Training Needs in Businesses Creation – [CEFE Venezuela | Venezuela]
4.- Company management: Problems that are Experiencing in their Entrepreneurships or Expecting to Experience Key Findings: 1) Most of the problems mentioned in the survey are classified as moderate or low importance. 2) The lack of skills and abilities to run the business, not feeling ready and the lack of entrepreneurial skills are the problems that stand out the most. 3) In the additional comments mentioned by the participants, they mention various problems that affect them as entrepreneurs both in the present and perhaps may affect them in the future: the lack of capital to finance their ventures, their incompetence in the sales area and digital marketing as little knowledge in the financial area.
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100% of the issued problems are perceived as of moderate or low importance. The biggest percentages where this trend is observed are the following issued problems: I lack the skills and knowledge to handle the business, 92%; I’m not yet ready and well-prepared to handle the business, 94,3%; I’m not capable to take control of all the functions the entrepreneur needs, 91,1%
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Of the issued problems, only on 4 of them, the answer percentage with high level of importance overcame 20%: 1) The enterprising process is very demanding in terms of family/friend relations and the sentimental load, 22.6% 2) Startup and managing a business is very demanding in terms of bureaucracy, also 22,6%. 3) Handling possible conflicts that come out of the business process, 20,2% 4) Managing costs and calculate prices are a challenge for me, 21,5%
GET YES2 – February / March 2021
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