New Venture Creation Online Course (NQF Level 2)
Dreaming of becoming your own boss? This beginner-friendly online course helps you learn how to start a business from scratch and grow it with confidence. Whether you’ve got a business idea or simply want to explore entrepreneurship, this NQF Level 2 course gives you the real-world knowledge and mindset to make it happen.
Perfect for school leavers, first-time business owners, and young people ready to take control of their future.
What This Course Covers
The Start & Grow Your Own Business course introduces the basics you need to launch and manage a small business. Topics include:
Identifying a business opportunity
Researching your market and competitors
Setting up operations and managing resources
Registering your business legally
Handling money, costs, and profit
Developing essential communication skills
Understanding the basics of office administration
From Start-Up to Growth: Learn to Plan for Success
You’ll also learn:
How to set goals and plan your business growth
Ways to build a brand, market yourself, and attract customers
How to manage risk and make smart business decisions
What it takes to move from side hustle to full-time income
What You’ll Gain from This Online Business Course
A solid understanding of how to start and grow a small business
Step-by-step planning tools and templates
Skills to manage your time, money, and staff
Improved business writing and communication skills
Confidence to register your business and start trading
DESCRIPTION
The purpose of the New Venture Creation (SMME) NQF Level 2 qualification is to equip individuals with the foundational knowledge and skills required to start and manage small, medium, and micro enterprises (SMMEs). This qualification focuses on helping learners understand the key elements of entrepreneurship, including identifying business opportunities, creating business plans, managing basic financials, and understanding the legal aspects of running a small business. It aims to provide aspiring entrepreneurs with practical tools and insights to effectively launch and sustain a successful venture, contributing to economic growth and job creation.
COURSE CONTENT
- Access and use information from texts
- Co-ordinate meetings, minor events and travel arrangements
- Write for a defined context
- Maintain and adapt oral communication
- Use language and communication in occupational learning programmes
- Identify and demonstrate entrepreneurial ideas and opportunities
- Match new venture opportunity to market needs
- Manage marketing and selling processes of a new venture
- Apply the basic skills of customer service
- Identify the composition of a selected new venture’s industry/sector and its procurement systems
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of HIV/AIDS in a workplace, and its effects on a business sub-sector, own organisation and a specific workplace
- Tender for business or work in a selected new venture
- Administer contracts for a selected new venture
- Determine financial requirements of a new venture
- Produce a business plan for a new venture
- Manage finances for a new venture
- Manage business operations
- Prepare and process documents for financial and banking processes
- Behave in a professional manner in a business environment
- Monitor and control the receiving and satisfaction of visitors
- Apply basic business ethics in a work environment
- Demonstrate understanding of rational and irrational numbers and number systems
- Identify, describe, compare, classify, explore shape and motion in 2-and 3-dimensional shapes in different contexts
- Use mathematics to investigate and monitor the financial aspects of personal and community life
- Work with a range of patterns and functions and solve problems
- Apply basic knowledge of statistics and probability to influence the use of data and procedures in order to investigate life related problems
- Duration: 12 Months
- Delivery: Classroom/Online/Blended
- Grade 10
- Computer Literacy
- Entrepreneurs
- Business Owners
- Senior Managers
- Managing Directors
- Divisional Heads
- National Certificate: New Venture Creation (SMME)
- Accreditation: Agri Seta
- SAQA ID: 49648
- NQF Level: 2
- Credits: 138