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Growth Strategies for a New Business 

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Overview

Discover business growth strategies to help you build your business sustainably and ethically, with the University of Adelaide.

Duration

4 weeks

Total fee

2,763

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Beginner

Credential

Certificate

Growth Strategies for a New Business
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Highlights

  • Earn a certificate from The University of Adelaide
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Growth Strategies for a New Business
 at 
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Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • Growth is an essential part of any new business, but how can you make sure you do this sustainably?
  • On this four-week course, you'll discover effective sustainable growth strategies and how to successfully implement them in your new business.
  • You'll gain an understanding of the key areas to focus on when starting a business, which have been identified and endorsed by industry professionals, to help give your business a solid chance at success.
  • By the end, you'll know how you can build your team, scale your operations effectively, and develop an ethical and sustainable growth strategy.
  • You'll start by learning how to balance quantity and quality while growing your business, understanding how fast is too fast when it comes to growth.
  • To help you do this, you'll gain the skills to set realistic business goals, including sustainable goals, and learn how to use feedback to inform your decisions.
  • To help you manage growth and develop an effective retention strategy, you'll discover the factors that can help you hire the right people.
  • You'll also learn how companies can retain talent and how you can build a diverse and inclusive team.
  • Finally, you'll discover the role of business planning as you explore frameworks for identifying threats and opportunities for your business. You'll also learn how to measure success and adjust your business plan to ensure it is effective.
  • Using case studies and guided by academic experts, you'll finish the course with a solid understanding of sustainable growth strategies and how to implement them in your new business.
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Growth Strategies for a New Business
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Curriculum

What is a growth strategy and why is it important?

Getting started

Introduction to Week 1

What is growth?

How do we develop a strategy?

Setting goals in the right strategy

Growing ethically and sustainably

Assessment

Bringing it all together

How can you balance quantity and quality while growing your business?

Introduction to Week 2

What are sustainable goals?

Receiving feedback to balance growth

The risks of growing too rapidly

Assessment

Bringing it all together

How can you recruit and retain talent?

Introduction to Week 3

How to hire the right people

Retaining talent

Building a diverse and inclusive team

Offboarding people without negative impact

Assessment

Bringing it all together

How do you design an effective business plan?

Introduction to Week 4

Business planning overview

Identifying opportunities and threats

Lean Canvas and Business Model Canvas

How to measure success and adjust

Assessment

Bringing it all together

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