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Wednesday 1 February 2012

ONE thousand jobs are to be created for Diploma and degree holders, as well as  school levers to help develop their competencies in enterpreneural skills.
Another ten thousand Small and Medium scale Enterprises (SMEs) are also to be reached out to within three years of operation of the Tradeline Consult (TLC).
The lead partner of TLC, Mr Samuel Zeph Atiemo,announced this at a business seminar held by the company for the youth and business minded people in Accra.
Thirty five people participated and benefited from the seminar which was on the theme, “Goal setting for business growth”.
TLC is a company that provide services to SMEs in Financial Management, Business Planning, Strategic Planning, Training in Customer Care, Agribusiness and Entrepreneurship, Sales and Marketing, Business and Management Coaching, Motivational Business Seminars and Feasibility Studies.
 Mr Atiemo attributed failure of most SMEs and young people to their unability of setting clear goals for their businesses.
He also stated that the only solution to personal success and business growth was goal setting, which when not attached with fear will go a long way to help improve the lives of many Ghanaians.
Mr Atiemo affirmed that goal setting gives direction to people’s  lives and businesses and make them more efficient and fulfilled, thereby helping them overcome procrastination which later brings confidence and joy to that person.
Setting unrealistic goals, focusing on too few areas and not appreciating failure, he said, was some common mistakes people made when setting goals.
He therefore advised Ghanaians especially the youth to take note of such mistakes to help develop their business and bring success to their businesses.
TLC has also proposed to graduate 30 per cent of its clients from micro to small scale enterprises,20 per cent into medium scale enterprises, 10 per cent into large scale business enterprises, as well as to provide training to 1,000 professionals in diverse business sectors of the economy.
Mr Eric Agyare, a consultant of  SNV (Netherlands Developments Organisation) told participants at the seminar that available funds from the Business Development Services Fund (BDSF), provides matching grants to qualified businesses for growth and service improvement.
Mr Agyare clarified that the BDSF is a business assistance fund set up by Government with support from the World Bank to support micro, small and medium scale enterprises, with a total expenditure of $2,800,000 to disburse during its existence.
He explained that for a business to have access to the BDSF, it needed to get 50 per cent of the total amount needed to grow the business, before the BDSF could also add the other 50 per cent.
He further advised individuals and business entities that had difficulty raising the required 50 per cent to form  groups to  access the 50 per cent fund needed,by collating their resources to enable them benefit from the BDSF.

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