Women are naturally inclined to starting a business. Their businesses grow organically and by the time they expand, there is a sudden feeling of being overwhelmed. A systematic approach to handling their businesses will help women entrepreneurs take their businesses much beyond than what they envisaged. In order to encourage more women to setup their own enterprises and guide them to grow their businesses, there are several business courses offered by private institutions and the Government of India in collaboration with educational institutions. A few of them are also offered for free.
Women Entrepreneurship Development Program (WEDP)
Women Entrepreneurship Development Programme (WEDP) under the NEB Division, Department of Science & Technology, Government of India scheme aims to train the S&T graduates and diploma holders in the entrepreneurship essentials – conceive, plan, initiate, launch and maintain economic activity or run a successful enterprise. WEDP selects 25-30 potential women entrepreneurs and train them through a structured 4 weeks training programme. The online training pedagogy will follow a mix of theoretical sessions, practical applications and case-based discussion. This is a free course.
Women Entrepreneurship Development Program by Udyogwardhini
This course will provide detailed technical information on the various profitable sectors like food processing, dairy products, digital marketing, share market, and health care. It also aims at elaborating on the business opportunities in the given sector. This course caters to all the industries in the range of agriculture, food processing, financial services, and healthcare, thus presenting you with an extensive knowledge scope. The program also covers soft skills.
Women Entrepreneurship Program
Program provides financial education and business management skills to existing and prospective women entrepreneurs.
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Program
This program is a global initiative that fosters economic growth and development by providing women entrepreneurs around the world with business and management education, mentoring and networking, and access to capital. The course fee is funded by Goldman Sachs.
The Program provides business knowledge for entrepreneurs to build on their idea in the initial stage through Massive Open Online Course. The Program then progresses by offering selected candidates a three-month virtual pre-incubation Program where entrepreneurs will undergo business training to develop their prototype. Finalists are selected to be a part of Incubation at NSRCEL where they will focus on developing their product and scaling up. The Program is fully sponsored by Kotak Mahindra Bank Limited.
The program enables participants to understand various facets of starting and managing their business. It provides participants business development support to enable them to pitch their business to investors and other stakeholders.
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
NSDC is a GoI initiative aiming to promote skill development by catalyzing creation of large, quality and for-profit vocational institutions. It also provides funding to build scalable and profitable vocational training initiatives.
National Skills Network captures and shares the positive impact of various training, skill development and vocational education initiatives in India.
Udyogwasdhini conducts entrepreneurship development programs which are practically updated with trends and personally mentored to commercialize ideas into profitable business ventures. It also supports entrepreneurs by providing technology, finance, market, and infrastructure.
Delhi Skill & Entrepreneurship University (DSEU)
DSEU was established by the Government of NCT of Delhi to equip students with world-class skill education to enable access to aspirational jobs and inculcate entrepreneurial mindset and entrepreneurship. DSEU aims to create a win-win for the youth and the industry by filling the existing gaps in skill training.
Women Entrepreneurship: From ideation to implementation
The course will be beneficial for women who are students, who are planning to begin a start-up, who are already small-scale entrepreneurs and seek growth, who are housewives and intend to start a business, who are mid-career professionals and want to shift from employment to entrepreneurship.
This program helps with complete digital skill set which includes e-commerce business launch, content writing, Facebook/Instagram and Whatsapp sales, graphics and video creation, investment and money management, Youtube/influencer for parent and kids and more with live/classroom training with 100% practical implementation.
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Online
The program was designed to meet the needs of women business owners in emerging economies, however there are no eligibility criteria to take part. Courses are designed specifically for entrepreneurs ready to grow their businesses. There are 10 courses in Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women. Each course runs for a week and covers a different aspect of your business–from leadership style and management structure, to resource allocation and operational efficiency.
IDFC FIRST Bank in partnership with ETASHA Society, provides entrepreneurship training to low-income, slum-dweller women of Delhi and helps them set-up and run their micro enterprises. Under this program, support is given to individual or groups of women who wish to start their entrepreneurial journey and share entrepreneurial roles in terms of investing their resources, time and skills for a jointly owned enterprise where decision making is shared. The support extended by the program team is aimed at developing skills in the women to take over and run their enterprise independently. The curriculum is tailored to meet the needs of women residing in slums with a few classes often being conducted at their homes. The key activities of this program include creating awareness about entrepreneurship, mobilizing the women, training them in basic skills and enterprise management, enterprise formation, advanced technical skill training and extending support to run the enterprise.
Diploma in Women Entrepreneurship
This one-year program will be offered by IIM, Visakhapatnam in partnership with National Institute of Business Management (NIBM), Sri Lanka. Objectives of the program are:
To foster entrepreneurship and the spirit of creativity and innovation in the cohort.
To equip the participants with the management concepts to start a venture, and scale it up.
To provide them with the essential knowledge and skills required for an entrepreneurial journey from idea-generation to idea-implementation.
Aatmanirbhar She Agile Startup Program
The eight-weeks program is specifically designed to help current and aspiring women entrepreneurs to identify viable business opportunities and to develop feasible and sustainable plans. The program will focus on the enhancement of the entrepreneurial and managerial skills of women leading early and ideation stage ventures, and also introduce them with the art of building a successful venture step by step while mitigating risks. The program will help in building the startup, part by part alongside continuously improving the business with the help of real-time customer feedback. There will be lessons on structuring the business, shrugging off the hesitations of making things, breaking things and selling things. The program ends with a capstone investor pitch.
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