Entrepreneurs generally have strong beliefs about the services they will offer and are willing to accept a level of personal and professional risk to bring their dream to reality. Entrepreneurship is often difficult and tricky, as many new ventures fail. This workshop will provide the resources and skills needed to meet these challenges and allow dental hygienists to prosper as independent practitioners. It aims to provide the necessary knowledge and tools for dental hygiene entrepreneurs to move forward with their dream of establishing and operating their own practices.
Within this framework, Institute of Entrepreneurship Development – partner of the ERASMUS+ project “European Training Platform for Continuing Professional Development of Dental Hygienists” – will develop a specialized training material on entrepreneurship and all its aspects, focusing on providing dental hygienists with the necessary entrepreneurial skills and competences.
The main contents of the training material will be:
- Lean Start-up business model canvas
- Writing a Business Plan
- Financial Management
- Basic accounting & finance
- Legal and risk management
- Marketing needs and planning
- E-commerce and website development
- Customer service and time management
- Hiring and HR issues
- Record keeping and taxes
- Case study: business plan for dental hygienists
All the material and the course that will be developed, will also be uploaded to the project’s specialized e-learning platform so that all interested parties can have easy access to them.
The first training workshop based on this training material took place in Lisbon, 21-23 of October 2016 with the participation of approximately 20 professionals from the field of dental hygiene.
