Start & Grow Your Own Business – Online Course (NQF Level 2)

This course is part of the National Certificate: New Venture Creation (SMME) – NQF Level 2, designed for individuals who want to start or grow a small business in South Africa. Whether you’re pursuing the full qualification or building practical skills for entrepreneurship, this course helps you succeed in today’s competitive business environment.

Entrepreneurship & Small Business Management – Online Training
Discover how to start a profitable small business, write a business plan, manage your finances, and market your products or services effectively. This course offers practical training in entrepreneurship, financial management, customer service, legal compliance, and business operations. Perfect for aspiring entrepreneurs, side hustlers, and anyone who wants to be their own boss and create a sustainable business.

What is New Venture Creation (SMME)?
New Venture Creation is the process of starting and running your own small or micro enterprise. This course covers key topics like how to start a business in South Africa, business opportunity identification, market research, budgeting, registering your business, basic bookkeeping, and managing risk. You’ll also learn how to handle daily operations, serve customers, and build a strong foundation for long-term growth.

Who Should Take This Course?
This course is ideal for:

People who want to start their own business
Unemployed youth looking to become entrepreneurs
Informal traders wanting to formalise their operations
Existing small business owners needing new skills
Anyone interested in entrepreneurship and self-employment

By the end of this course, you’ll know how to start a small business from scratch, manage your finances, attract customers, and comply with South African business laws — all while developing the confidence and skills to become a successful entrepreneur and grow your business.

DESCRIPTION

Q: 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.

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

Module 1: COMMUNICATION ▼

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

Module 2: MARKET REQUIREMENTS ▼

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

Module 3: BUSINESS SECTOR AND INDUSTRY ▼

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

Module 4: FINANCIAL REQUIREMENT ▼

Determine financial requirements of a new venture
Produce a business plan for a new venture
Manage finances for a new venture

Module 5: BUSINESS OPERATIONS ▼

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

Module 6: NUMERACY ▼

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