Overview
Complete the Starting Your Own Business program and earn a microcredential
Upon successfully completing this program, you will receive a microcredential recognizing your learning achievement. Complete with details of the skills and specialized knowledge you have acquired, the microcredential is digitally shareable, making it easy to add to your resume, LinkedIn profile and to share with current or prospective employers.
Earn a Certificate of Completion in Starting Your Own Business with our flexible online courses
Are you an aspiring entrepreneur looking for a place to start? Look no further than McMaster Continuing Education’s Certificate of Completion in Starting Your Own Business. This 12-week program is designed to help you assess your potential to work for yourself and start a business or refine an existing one. This is a non-credit course, with no tests and exams. Throughout the program you will be given reflective activities that will help you build a business plan to start a new business or reinvent your existing business.
- Learn key strategies and skills to assess your entrepreneurial potential
- Discover how to determine the viability of a business idea
- Learn when to grow and scale a business
- Participate in once-a-week live sessions with the instructor on a scheduled evening from 7:30 – 9:00 ET.
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Program highlights Learn More
- Now offered as a microcredential
- Flexible online courses with weekly live coaching sessions
- Taught by industry experts
- Open enrolment program
Learning outcomes Learn More
- Learn success strategies for entrepreneurs and small business owners
- Articulate a compelling case for a new business idea
- Professional strategies for running your own business
Learn more about our Starting Your Own Business program
- Future and new small business owners
- Those who want to learn:
- key strategies and skills to assess their entrepreneurial potential
- determine the viability of a business idea
- understand the process of growing a business
- Anyone who has recently started a new business and believes that the business could be doing better
Earning a Certificate of Completion could put you on a path to a rewarding career running your own business.
Do you already have a business idea? Use that idea in the program to build to a business plan.
Need Coaching on a new idea? Successful Entrepreneurs will provide you the mentoring you need.
Check out our interview with entrepreneur and instructor Grant Fraser to learn more about the Starting Your Own Business program
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Certificate of Completion in Starting Your Own Business
Earn the Certificate of Completion, by participating in the 12-week course and successfully working towards your goals and creating a plan for the future.