These form part of the bank's 'Banking and Beyond' initiatives and seek to provide compelling and practical advice for businesses, enabling them to be agile during the growth stage and more importantly, accelerate their businesses to the next level.
The seminars will take SME owners through a structured journey of engagement that will focus on four key elements; building one's business into an asset of value, pitching one's business, networking success and deal making, facilitated by Phitidis.
"We are delighted to host the seminars for the ninth consecutive year, offering over 40,000 entrepreneurs training and development. As a bank for the entrepreneur, we continue to play a significant role in creating an enabling environment for small businesses to succeed. This means empowering business owners with practical solutions and advice, allowing them time to focus on where the rubber hits the road, growing their businesses. We are thrilled to have Phitidis as the moderator and advisor in this year's leg, as he brings a wealth of knowledge and invaluable expertise," says Sibongiseni Ngundze, managing executive of Nedbank Retail Relationship Banking.
Delegates can expect to walk away with clarity of purpose, insights into how to grow their businesses to the next level and defined steps against which to grow their businesses into valuable assets. This will be turned into practice and delegates will walk out with a fresh and relevant network, the ability to pitch to that network and do deals to make partnering for business growth happen.
"As a business owner, the most precious thing that one has is time. I look forward to turning delegates' time into value by not only talking business but by working with them to make it happen at this seminar and beyond," says Phitidis.
Seminar proceeds will be donated to Enactus SA, a non-profit organisation that establishes programmes at universities that enable students to apply business concepts to develop community outreach projects.
For more information, go to www.SimplyBiz.co.za.
