Training courses offered by LEO Mayo
Everyone in business is well aware that if you remain static, you’ll very quickly be left behind. Business practice continues to evolve with disruptive models and practices, new technologies come on stream every day and society continuously changes… how do you stay ahead?
Local Enterprise Office Mayo is determined to ensure that start-ups and young businesses in Mayo have access to the training and up-skilling support necessary to give them a fighting chance of survival in the challenging early years, and of prospering when they become more established.
If there are any training courses you would like to see come available in the coming year please contact the Local Enterprise Office by Email info@leo.mayococo.ie
Courses
Training courses are run throughout the year, particularly during the spring and autumn. A full list of courses currently available to book is available in the online booking section of our website.
Core programmes
A number of core programmes are run ever year. These include:
Start Your Own Business
This course aims to assist participants to develop an awareness and practical understanding of the steps involved to become self employed.
The course will enable participants to understand the essentials of good business management, analyse day to day trading and plan for further growth.
Course overview
- Introduction
- Overview of key areas of managing a business.
- Company Formation and Structures
- Planning the business
- The Business Plan and it's importance in current and future trading.
- Marketing, Market Research, Target Market, Product Promotion and Presentation.
- Basic Bookkeeping: Break Even, Pricing ,Margins and continuous Sales Analysis.
- Understanding Financial Accounts and Balance Sheet,
- Budgets and Cash Flows.
- VAT , an introduction. Vat 3 Returns.
Effective Marketing for Small Business
This course aims to assist participants in understanding how to market their business effectively. It focuses on how to find new customers and get more business from existing customers through effective, practical and low cost marketing activities.
Course overview
- Develop the skills and knowledge to evaluate their current marketing activities.
- To understand the traditional and newer marketing communication tools available to small business, and which might be appropriate for their business.
- To develop an effective marketing action plan for their business or a business with which they are familiar.
Essential Tax, Vat, Cashflow, Debt Management
Management of cash flow function, costing & pricing strategies that can minimise credit control risk.
Course overview
- Maintain proper financial records to satisfy Revenue and all other requirements.
- Have a complete understanding of all relevant Revenue forms
- Prepare their own VAT returns
- Have in place proper procedures for employing people
- Understand the true cost of employing people
- Have an understanding of how to calculate wages, PAYE, Universal Levy, Holiday Pay etc.
- Price work accurately
- Understand the importance of cash flow
- Manage their bank position
- Understand how to deal effectively with banks on finance issues.
- Understand how to grow both sales and profits.
- Understand and interpret their end of year accounts and take appropriate action
Food Academy Start Programme
LEO Mayo & LEO Roscommon, in conjunction with Bord Bia and Musgraves (Supervalu), run the Food Academy Programme in Mayo. The aim of the programme is to support and nurture start up and expanding food and drink businesses. The programme, designed by Bord Bia and SuperValu, is delivered through workshop style training.
Food Academy Programme will assist you to grow your food business, develop capabilities in Marketing and Promotions, learn about calculating Costs and setting Margins, work on Product Development, Packaging, Labelling and Legislation and how to pitch your foods to supermarket buyers. See more....
