Welcome to the Business Management Skills section of the Mowgli Skills Centre. This is where entrepreneurs can access a number of resources that should help you not only with the day to day running of your business, but also in your planning and strategy for the year with your Mowgli Mentor. (If you’re new to Mowgli, find out what we do here).
Mentors have also come to the right place- this is the place to refresh your business skills! Feel free to contact us with resources you think we should include- contact us here. We’re not attempting to reinvent the wheel- there are a couple of fantastic resource sites for entrepreneurs already, for example Smarta.com and Entrepreneur.com. But we may have some useful links and articles here you don’t know about, particularly relating to the MENA region, so please take a look.
Contents in the Business Management Skills Section: For Everyone
- Creating Contracts
- Financial Management
- Strategy
- Marketing and Brand Management
- Creativity and Innovation
Specifically for entrepreneurs across the MENA region
- Our partners in Wamda have collected together a number of helpful resources relating to the countries we work including Syria, Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Egypt and other countries in the MENA region. These are a great place to start for both entrepreneurs and mentors- click here and then navigate to the relevant country, and also for their general resources and business tools. We’ve provided Wamda’s booklets on SME investment and funding as downloads in our Finance section- click here.
- There’s also resources for Jordanian entrepreneurs from the Jordanian government here: Running your business. Includes HR, Legal, Admin, Business Development and many other links and tools.
Additional External Resources
- General Business Management Resources: the UK’s government funded small and medium sized business support site, Business Link, offers some useful information on SME financial concerns.
- The Kauffman Foundation’s Entrepreneurship Resource Centre is a fantastic one-stop shop for entrepreneurs, containing articles on sales, HR, marketing, strategy and more for SME owner/managers.
- The Financial Times sponsors a free MBAGym.com that offers training courses in finance and investment.
- Virtual Professors offers free, online college courses which may be useful for mentors wanting to refresh their business skills.
- Here’s a helpful download created by Wamda- a free guide to basic legal issues which SMEs face, in simple to understand language (PDF: Legal Issues Facing SMEs
- Stanford University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders lecture series takes place every Wednesday during the academic year. They produce some fantastic podcasts from inspiring entrepreneurs- you can subscribe to the podcast here.
- TED originally focused on Technology, Education and Design and is a compendium of engaging video lectures. Here is a great list of ‘Ten TED talks that will transform your career’ put together by the Business School’s Directory.
Here’s a great inspirational talk on how to overcome fear and achieve anything by Tim Ferriss, to get you inspired to kick-start your entrepreneurial learning…. Good Luck!
