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Small Business Consultant
Facilitated training Training towards QCTO occupational qualifications, delivered by your RMK facilitator, with workplace practice. Our QCTO accreditation is in progress. Learn in your community, with RMK facilitators.
This qualification equips learners with the skills and knowledge necessary to evaluate personal capabilities for consulting services, carry out due diligence, ensure compliance with relevant legislation, monitor business performance, provide strategic consulting services, and develop and implement change management frameworks. …
Three parts, as every QCTO qualification
What it is
About this qualification
The purpose of this qualification is to prepare a learner to operate as a Small Business Consultant. A Small Business Consultant consults and guides in business development.
Small Business Consulting is an essential service in the socio-economic and technological development of the country and requires unique skills to create an enabling environment for growth and sustainable businesses. Various professional bodies such as the Institute of Business Advisors South Africa (IBASA) and Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA) have been consulted in respect to this qualification and have emphasised the need for this assistance in the industry where it will be providing an efficient and effective support service to businesses and, therefore, have an important role in job creation and drivers of growth thereby adding to the economic development and ensuring businesses receive the necessary support early on.
Aspiring and current business consultants and advisors who guide small businesses through their development, aiming to create an enabling environment for their growth and sustainability.
Structure
The modules, in order
Knowledge is the theory, practical skills are the hands-on work, and workplace experience is done on the job.
Knowledge
- Regulatory and Legislative Framework · 5 credits
- Compliance Audit · 5 credits
- Fundamentals of Entrepreneurial Profiles · 4 credits
- Business Consulting Development · 5 credits
- Strategic and Operational Plans · 5 credits
- Professional Business Success Factors · 5 credits
- Principles of Marketing · 3 credits
- Business Finance · 5 credits
- Principles of Costing and Pricing to a Business Venture · 5 credits
- Risk Profiling · 5 credits
- Principles of Tendering · 4 credits
- Business Appraisal · 5 credits
- Business Requirements and Business Rescue Strategies · 5 credits
- Effective Communication · 5 credits
- Principles of Ethics in Business · 3 credits
- Strategies for Behaviour Change and Coaching · 3 credits
- Principles of Change Management · 5 credits
- Introductory Studies for Project Managers · 5 credits
- Application of Contract Documentation · 4 credits
- Evaluation of Influences in the Value Chain · 5 credits
Practical skills
- Evaluate Personal Capability for Performing Business Consulting Services · 8 credits
- Carry Out Due Diligence and Check Compliance with Relevant Legislation · 8 credits
- Monitor Methods of Appraisal of Business Owner, Business Performance and Activities · 8 credits
- Provide Strategic and Operational Consulting Service · 10 credits
- Develop and Implement Change Management Framework · 5 credits
- Develop Project Implementation Approach · 8 credits
- Interpret the Influences of Key Components in The Value Chain on Business Efficiency · 8 credits
Workplace experience
- Procedures to Evaluate Personal Capability for Performing Business Consulting Services · 10 credits
- Processes and Procedures for Carrying Out and Checking Due Diligence Compliance with Relevant Legislation · 15 credits
- Process to Monitor Methods of Appraisal of Business Owner, Business Performance and Activities · 15 credits
- Procedures to Provide Strategic and Operational Consulting Service · 20 credits
- Process to Develop and Implement a Change Management Framework · 10 credits
- Process and Procedures to Develop Project Approach · 15 credits
- Procedures to Interpret the Influences of Key Components in The Value Chain on Business Efficiency · 11 credits
How it helps you
What Small Business Consultant does for you
The Small Business Consultant programme trains you towards a QCTO occupational qualification and builds your expertise in guiding small business development and growth - developed in consultation with the Institute of Business Advisors South Africa (IBASA) and the Small Enterprise Development Agency (SEDA). It prepares you to provide the kind of early, effective support that helps small businesses become sustainable, contributing directly to job creation and economic development.
Theory, practical skills and workplace experience together, so you are prepared for the real job.
QCTO occupational qualifications are recognised across South Africa. Certificates will be issued once our QCTO accreditation is confirmed.
The QCTO works with industry so qualifications stay relevant to what the job market needs now.
What we expect from you
Have these ready
What you receive
Your results and your content
On Facilitated training each assessment is marked and shown in your account.
Certificates will be issued once our QCTO accreditation is confirmed. The QCTO issues the National Occupational Certificate after the external assessment.
The full qualification content as a PDF.
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Free learning vs Facilitated training
| Free learning | Facilitated training | |
|---|---|---|
| Every daily lesson, in the app and on the website | Yes | Yes |
| Practice questions in the lessons | Yes | Yes, marked by your facilitator |
| Your RMK facilitator and group sessions | No | Yes |
| Workplace practice | No | Yes |
| Assessment and portfolio of evidence | No | Yes |
| Certificate | No | Certificates will be issued once our QCTO accreditation is confirmed. |
| Earn while you learn | No | Yes |
| HoneyGuide, your helper | Short answers | Full answers |
| Cost | Free | R 22,545.00 |
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Free learning: not accredited, no certificate or assessment. Training towards QCTO occupational qualifications, delivered by your RMK facilitator, with workplace practice. Our QCTO accreditation is in progress. Learn free first and upgrade any time: you keep your progress.
Small Business Consultant
Facilitated training Training towards QCTO occupational qualifications, delivered by your RMK facilitator, with workplace practice. Our QCTO accreditation is in progress. Learn in your community, with RMK facilitators.
- 20 knowledge modules
- 7 practical modules
- 7 workplace modules
- Start at the next intake
Questions about tax or an invoice for your payment? Contact us before you pay: connect@rmkinstitute.co.za.
Questions about Small Business Consultant
When do I start?
Register anytime. You always start at the beginning of the next intake, so you are never behind.
Can I try it first?
Yes. Start free learning: every daily lesson, free, at your own pace. Free learning: not accredited, no certificate or assessment. Upgrade to Facilitated training any time and keep your progress.
Has RMK's QCTO accreditation been confirmed?
Our QCTO accreditation is in progress. Certificates will be issued once our QCTO accreditation is confirmed. What this means
How am I assessed?
On Facilitated training your RMK facilitator and assessors assess your work, and QCTO qualifications end with an external summative assessment. Certificates will be issued once our QCTO accreditation is confirmed.
Who checks the quality of the training?
The QCTO (Quality Council for Trades and Occupations). It sets the standards training providers must meet, approves assessment centres and issues the National Occupational Certificate.