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Freelancer as a business Owner and CEO - an advanced course

Formats: Videos
Topics: Translator business development
Agency business development

Course summary
Availability:This training is available on-demand

Duration: 60 minutes.

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Language:English
Summary:Learn how to successfully to go from the freelancer role into the role of business owner and CEO.

Description
This course is a targeted special course, for those freelancers who are interested in redefining their roles and make the metamorphosis into a business owner from a business facilitator.
The course is intended to expose the participants to the challenges and rewards of making this change of role. Attendees will be provided with a framework on how to effectively make that transition, now or in mid term and become a Freelancer CEO.

Topics to be covered:

1. The Radical Break from a Freelancer to Business Owner
2. Building Teams and Growing with the Team
3. Leading the Team
2. Motivation Under Scanner
3. Business Development : Challenges, Rewards, Risks
4. Judge, Jury and Executioner -Freelance CEOs early days
5. Risk Management
6. Using Time Surplus as Investment for Future
7. Anticipating What's Next
8. Diversifying into other areas

Target audience
• Established freelancers interested in starting an agency in the short or mid term.
• Agency owners interested in diversifying.

Learning objectives
• How to become a CEO.
• How to manage the changeover.
• How to plan - Financial and Non Financial.
• Marketing and communication.
• Having leisure and how to use it as an investment.
• How to grow, lead and diversify as a business owner CEO.

Prerequisites
• Experience in freelancing.
• Exposed to the world of business in a non-freelancer role.

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Price: 15.00 USD

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Trainers
Pritam Bhattacharyya
Bio: Pritam Bhattacharyya is essentially a Bengali/Sylheti/Assamese linguist with 11 years of experience. He is the Founder and Chief Wordsmith of an agency called Wordsmith Communication. which apart from language services in pan-Indic languages provides Creative Content and Print on Demand Services. He is editor of www.pentasect.com - a bilingual (English / Bengali) cultural monthly ezine on Greater Bengal. He had worked as a Telecom Engineer and later as a IP Network Manager in various cross-cultural Telecom teams worldwide. He holds his Bachelor's Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering and Masters in Communication Management from Strathclyde Business School, Glasgow. Pritam lives and works in Calcutta, India his city by adoption. His b-log on translation and online business can be seen here at http://wordsmithofbengal.wordpress.com

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