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MANAGEMENT COURSES

Business education emphasis changing

AMONG THE more than 350 courses to be offered by North Shore Continuing Education are a number of new courses on Business Management.

Within the next five years 40 per cent of the people working in the Lower Mainland will be wanfing to upgrade their business management skills, according to a study on business and education completed for the Ministry of Education this summer. That means 250,000 people will be entering some kind of educational institu- tion in the near future. The study also concluded the education system isn’t meeting the needs of the business community for rele- vant training.

To satisfy the increasing demand for good business education a new approach to management training is being tested through North Shore Continuing Education this fall.

‘‘We didn't feel the pro- grams we were offering were adequately mecting the needs of our students,’’ explains Dr. Doug Ledgerwood,

director of North Shore Con- tinuing Education. ‘‘There’s a real shift to the en- trepreneur in the marketplace and most of our courses were oriented to people working for larger corporations.’’ Small business is the fastest growing sector of the B.C. economy. It accounts for 95 per cent of the companies in the province and about 40 per cent of the workforce. More and more entrepreneurs are recognizing the importance of business training, while larger companies have ac- cepted the benefits of educa- tion for quite some time. Poor management skills are blamed for 85 per cent of all

business fatlures, large and small. The new program

recognizes the differing re- quirements and backgrounds of people who work for themselves from those who work for a large company. The structure is split into

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three streams: Small Business Program for the En- trepreneur; Management Skills Program (for employees of larger organiza- tiéns); and General Interest courses.

For small business people the largest problem is often not what skills to develop but how to fit in the time for courses. The most innovative development of the pilot pro- gram is its approach to ac- cessible and suitable training for the entrepreneur. The

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program is cut down from the usual 10 weeks into in- dividual steps that only take three to four weeks. Step 1 measures the clients’ aptitude and skills for en- trepreneurism. A client can follow all the steps or just register for ones that fit his experience.

Bob Kyle, who developed and researched the study for the Ministry of Education, found a change in attitude of larger business towards staff training.

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