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Good Health for Life Entrepreneurship Center |
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The Good Health for Life Entrepreneurship Center offers a practical, hands-on business development program designed to help entrepreneurs hone the skills needed to create, manage and grow a successful business. Good Health for Life entrepreneurs don't just learn about business, they live it. They work their own business ideas or ventures throughout the course - moving their ventures to reality or new levels of growth. A Good Health for Life mentor, who is also an experienced business counselor, facilitate learning, as well as provide advice and guidance as the entrepreneur advances through each step of the program. Guest entrepreneurs illustrate business concepts and share their real-life business experiences. Good Health for Life Entrepreneurship Center programs cover two basic scenarios: New Entrepreneur — we focus aspiring entrepreneurial cancer survivors to define and evaluate business concepts, providing a blueprint to identify the next steps toward entrepreneurial success. Participants develop a business plan that covers marketing, product or service details, price/profitability and a plan for further action. Entrepreneur with an Existing Venture — is geared toward the business owner focused on taking the company to new levels of growth and expanding business operations. Participants develop a business plan that covers product/service plan, market research and analysis, marketing, operating and control systems, management and organization, legal issues, financial planning, projections and resources, and a growth plan. Once the Good Health for Life Selection Committee approves an entrepreneurial cancer survivor’s application, a mentor is assigned to work with the entrepreneur and serves essentially as a project manager to guide them through the one-year business development program that suits their needs. The 5-step program modules are broken down as follows: Step 1 – Set Goals Identify the business issues that need to be addressed and how the results can be measured. Discuss various strategies that might be employed to achieve each goal. Step 2 – Develop a Business Plan Once a goal is established, develop strategies, tactics, milestones, budgets and reporting criteria to measure performance. During the plan’s development, members of the Good Health for Life Advisory Committee will periodically review the plan to offer advice and strategic direction. Step 3 – Build the Team Identify which Good Health for Life—Reach for A Star volunteers are available to work with and set up effective lines of communication to develop the team. Design management reports. Step 4 – Launch the Plan Provide the critical path for the project all the while communicating with the team to insure the plan’s milestones are being met and taking corrective action when necessary. Step 5 – Measure Performance Provide bi-weekly updates to the Selection Committee to insure Good Health for Life’s resources are being spent wisely and the business is meeting or exceeding its goals. |
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Good Health for Life offers a practical, hands-on business development program designed to help entrepreneurial cancer survivors hone the skills needed to create, manage and grow a successful business. |
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5-Step Business Development Program |
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530.622.9118 530.622.9119—Fax info@ghfl.org |
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