Calling all entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs!

The Center for Small Entrepreneurs (CSE) will be starting with their 31st batch of CHARACTER FORMATION seminar. A series of workshop seminar wherein one would learn the discipline required from an entrepreneur, and how the entrepreneur can help, no matter how small he is, in the country’s economy.

Details of the workshop:
Date: October 29, 2009 (and every Thursday, thereafter)
Time: 9:30 AM to 4:30 PM
PLACE: ASI Building, 1518 Leon Guinto corner Escoda St., Malate, Manila

Seminar fee is only P200 which includes a subscription to the CSE EntrePinoy newsletter.

Interested individuals may call telephone Nos.: (02) 525-6268/524-1879; or text 0915-3281717 / 0928-743-5054 for more information.

You can also fill up the online contact form here.

This is one of the seminars that MUST be undertaken by an aspiring entrepreneur (even established ones) because it will help you learn a lot of things like the difference of being in business and being just self-employed, and it will shape to become an entrepreneur of great character.

Graduates of this seminar will automatically become a member of Ka-Entrep, a dynamic group of entrepreneurs all-over the Philippines. Get leverage through networking, reach you suppliers faster and find potential partners and customers.

So join the Ka-Entrep entrepreneurial challenge now!

You got nothing to lose and everything to gain!

“Enterepreneur of great character“ I was awarded that title in October of 2007 together with five of my classmates after finishing 10 Ka-Entrep Sessions sponsored by the Center for Small Entrepreneurs (CSE). The title was awarded because we have done such a simple and natural act – we completed the ten twice-a-month sessions and we were never late in any of those sessions. And I, coming all the way from Angeles City, was almost always the earliest to arrive at the session’s place which was in Manila.

Is this blog post about me bragging about that title? No! Definitely not. It is to emphasize the fact that as an entrepreneur, one should always have respect for others. And being early or at least on time is one way of showing your respect for other people. It shows that you value their time, in as much as you expect them to value yours.

Unfortunately it has become the habit, nay! the norm in fact, for most Filipino to have a ‘dramatic entrance’ on any meeting, sessions, gatherings and/or appointment. It is accepted, and in fact expected, that most people actually adjust their time expecting the person they have an appointment with to come late. Sad.

But there are others who still respect and value time, this author being one of them. It is something that is second nature to me, to be at the meeting place ahead of time. Even if I’m aware that the other person would be late, I follow my own clock, I have my own schedule.

Perhaps, if we always come on time, and always insist panctuality from others – maybe soon there’ll be no more delayed projects and meetings because of unnecessary tardiness.

Perhaps, there will be more “Entrepreneurs of great character!“

For those who are contemplating on becoming entrepreneurs but don’t know where to start, here’s something I got from the Philippine Information Agency (PIA) website.

DTI is conducting free entrepreneurship trainings. This free training is a good venue to be exposed on the know-hows of business. This is most specially timely, to those who have availed of the P15,000 loan from SSS or the P50,000 from OWWA.

Though the PIA website the trainings that were conducted in the Western Visayas area where about 5,021 have already availed of the free trainings. These include housewives, OFWs, workers who are planning to get into business, ambulant vendors, and even micro, small and medium enterprises.

While the report contains data from the Visayas area, further down the article says the free training is being given in every DTI provincial offices. Groups and associations (NGOs, LGUs, and cooperatives), as well as individuals, who are interested in the program needs to coordinate with the DTI office in their respective areas.

Upon reading this news, I called DTI Pampanga at 045-4551413 to inquire about the program. They said it is a half-day affair, and participants would then progress to more comprehensive trainings based on the results of the half-day seminar.