Entrepreneurship for Veterans
By Trina Byrd, T.Byrd Training Center
V
eterans are so equipped to star t a business because they already have learned to solve problems in very creative ways. A veteran can easily transfer those skills into the business world with a great potential to succeed. It’s hard to make it through military service without gaining a strong sense of discipline and working with a team to successfully complete your goals. As a veteran on one level, you’ve received very specific training related to your role or job while in the service. On another level, and most importantly, you’ve received and gotten strong experience in leadership. All business owners are leaders, some in specific areas and others in many areas. These skills are what it really takes for any business person, especially a veteran entrepreneur to go to the level they want in their business venture. These skills also allow you to be good at relating to other people like customers, be determined to deliver a quality product or service
to the customer, stay motivated and maintain a leadership role to succeed, much in the same way you lead in your military role. How do you get started with your business idea? Well, star ting out as an entrepreneur what I found to be the most difficult part of getting a business up and running was getting access to direct tools needed to start a business. There were several seminars, workshops and classes that ranged from free to thousands of dollars. We think if it cost more, it must be better and offer more. What I found in doing both tracks was that I gained a lot of knowledge, but no experience in either track. No experience in developing a business plan, a financial plan, an operations plan, negotiating start-up costs to do business, etc. These are steps you must com-
plete at the very beginning of your business idea. So, I set out to not only s t ar t my state approved private vocational school, but to provide what I called an applied learning method to fill this void that was missing from these business training models. I used the mistakes I made from lack of experience along the way, as the foundation for 30-plus state approved successful training programs. I wanted my students to leave my school with real life business tools to become successful, whether they were seeking a job (remember a job is someone else’s business) or wanted to start their own business. This all started in 1990 and in 2017 almost 2018 we still have the same model that we created in the beginning. All students enroll in our school to get certified in Micro-
soft Office Professional and Quick Books, but instead they leave with that and so much more. I created my own curriculum that included hands-on research, business development and business projects, when at the end of each model there is a completed project such as a business plan in Microsoft Word, a financial plan in Microsoft Excel, a business proposal presentation in Microsoft Power Point, a marketing and advertising package in Microsoft Publisher, a customized customer tracking database in Microsoft Access, and knowing how to set up a business from scratch in Quick Books. I want to provide the veterans of my community with the tools they need to start their own business, but most importantly, become very successful at it. The T.Byrd Center, 1501 New Road in Pleasantville, would like to thank you for your service and assist you in any way we can to start your own business. #supportourvetsinbusiness. To register or for more information, call us at: 609-484-9356 or visit us at http://student.tbyrdcenter.com/veterans/
GET CERTIFIED in
Microsoft Office and Quick Books
Word
Excel
Access
Publisher
Power Point
Quick Books
Course description: Studets will learn the basic and intermediate business skills using Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, and Publisher) and platform. Method of training includes: lecture, exercises, workbook, lab assignments, quiz, homework and projects. Classes include all course materials, program software, training guides and resource Cd. Students who successfully complete this eleven week training program will receive certification in “Microsoft Office and QuickBooks” and “Business and Project Management”.
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NOVEMBER 9 - 16, 2017