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FUNDED TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES

FILM trainees have been offered an awesome funded training opportunity thanks to a Cape Film Commission – Services Seta Film Sector Skills Development Project.

Selected Learners will have the opportunity to complete either the full New Venture Creation Qualification or a series of Business and Life Skills Programmes.

Programme Funded Value
New Venture Qualification R24 500 per learner
Business and Life Skills Programme R11 250 per learner

Placing selected learners on the programme amounts to substantial training value to FILM and our trainees.

For example: 15 learners on the full qualification would equate to R367 500. As per discussions we have allocated a minimum of 15 places for your learners that meet the entry criteria and we can allocate 50 places on skills programmes, the total value being R562 500.

The funding is directly allocated to the training providers and the Seta appointed project administration and management agency.

Selected FILM trainees will simply have to attend a fully managed and quality assured programme that can be integrated into our existing FILM programme.

In addition, all industry input into the programme will be recorded and integrated into skills development and BBBEE scorecard and tax rebate reporting criteria.

New Venture Qualification

The New Venture Qualification has the following exit level outcomes that will be tailored to the film and electronic media business environment:

After successful completion of the study programme, the learner should be able to:

  • Explain and apply the dynamics of a market driven economy.
  • Know who you are and what you want from life.
  • Identify viable business opportunities that fit your personal profile.
  • Do market research for a business idea.
  • Design a competitive strategy for a business venture.
  • Manage the daily activities of a business with special reference to:
    • Marketing management
    • Operations/production management
    • Human resources management
    • Financial management
    • Project management
    • Business administration
  • Develop professional business skills, including:
    • Presentation skills
    • Negotiation skills
    • Selling skills
  • Design and write a business plan for a new business venture.
  • Design and implement a business start-up rollout plan (project plan) for a new business venture.
  • Obtain financing for a viable business idea.
  • Start and manage a business successfully.
  • Grow and expand a business.

New Venture Qualification Modules:

  • Module 1: The modern economic environment
  • Module 2: The successful entrepreneur.
  • Module 3: Identify and develop profitable business opportunities.
  • Module 4: Strategic management of a business.
  • Module 5: Marketing management.
  • Module 6: Production/operations management.
  • Module 7: Human Resources (HR) management.
  • Module 8: Financial management.
  • Module 9: General management principles and practices
  • Module 10: Leadership and teamwork.
  • Practical application/implementation

Business and Life Skills Programmes

Skills Programme 1: Business Development (1)

  • Market mechanisms of a new venture
  • Apply innovative thinking to the development of a small business
  • Demonstrate an understanding of an entrepreneurial profile

Skills Programme 2: Business Development (2)

  • Research viability of the new venture ideas/opportunities
  • Plan strategically to improve new venture performance
  • Plan and manage production/operations in a new venture

Skills Programme 3: Marketing

  • Explain marketing for SME's
  • Apply the principles of costing and pricing to a business venture
  • Explain marketing for SME's
  • Apply the principles of costing and pricing to a business venture

Skills Programme 4: Human Resource Management (1)

  • Manage general administration
  • Implement and manage human resources and labour relations policies and acts

Skills Programme 5: Human Resource Management (2)

  • Negotiate an agreement or deal in an authentic work situation
  • Explain and apply the concepts and theories of motivation in a leadership context
  • Accommodate audience and context needs in oral/signed communication

Skills Programme 6: Financial Management

  • Manage expenditure against a budget
  • Manage finances in a new venture

Skills Programme 7: Self Management

  • Interpret basic financial statements (aligned to managing personal finances)
  • Use communication skills to handle and resolve conflict in the workplace
  • Demonstrate an understanding of stress in order to apply strategies to achieve optimal stress levels in personal & work situations

Skills Programme 8: Project Management (in film production)

  • Tender to secure business for a new venture (project)
  • Explain the fundamentals of project management
  • Finance a new venture (project)

Skills Programme 9: Business ( Project) Development 3:

  • Produce business plans (case) for a new venture (project)
  • Implement an action plan for a new venture (project)