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#She’sNext Educational Online Program

Visa, a world leader in digital payments, is launching a free online educational program for Georgian women entrepreneurs and small business owners as part of the global She’s Next initiative, in collaboration with Women for Tomorrow.

#She’sNext educational course includes 4 webinars from leading business women, coaches, experts and motivational speakers.

The first webinar "Power of Leadership - How Do Women Generate Leadership & What Skills Do Women Need to Be an Effective Leader?" will take place on Tuesday, September 7, 2020.

 


During the training webinars of the online educational program #She’sNext, you will  learn about new approaches to developing your own business, as well as gain practical knowledge to scale your current projects and create new ones. Setting up business strategies, managing effectively, coping with crisis, developing women's business leadership and skills for successful negotiations  – we invite you to join and get the new skills for your business!

Moreover, each webinar will include an inspirational dialogue with influential women entrepreneurs who have built and developed their successful business. They will tell stories of the creation and scaling of their business, discuss the challenges and difficulties they have encountered, the approaches, skills and principles that have helped them along the way, and share practical advice from their own experience. 

 


Who is this program for?

The online educational program is primarily aimed at small business owners and managers, entrepreneurs and women managers who want to develop their own business and improve approaches to managing it, as well as those who are just starting or planning to start their own business.

At the same time, we do not limit the possibility of registering for the online educational program # She’sNext for others.

 


Terms of participation

Participation in the online educational program # She’sNext is subject to pre-registration by the link: http://bit.do/shesnextgeorgia

As part of the program you will get: 

  • 4 free training webinars with women business leaders and experts: interactive, practical and exclusively based on real experience and cases!
  • 4 dialogues with successful women entrepreneurs at the start of each webinar, in which they will talk about the main challenges on the way to building a successful business and share their recipes for success and practical advice
  • Exclusive access to video recordings and educational materials of the webinars throughout the course for registered participants
  • Q&A sessions within each webinar: the opportunity to ask program experts any questions about running and developing a business
  • Community of women entrepreneurs - an environment of inspiration, communication and useful contacts
  • Certificate of successful completion of the training


Duration and format of #She’sNext educational program

  • 4 online training webinars in the period of 07 September - 28 September 2020
  • Duration of each webinar: 2 hours (including dialogue with successful women entrepreneurs and Q&A session)
  • Webinars will be held online 
  • Participation in the program is available by pre-registration, we will send you details and a link to each webinar to the e-mail address specified during the registration


Schedule of the webinars

11.00 - 13.00

Speakers: Nina Kobakhidze, Chair of the board of Business leaders’ Federation “Women for Tomorrow”; Cristina Doros, Visa Regional Manager for the Caucasus Region; Nino Zambakhidze, Chairwoman of Georgian Farmers’ Association

Moderator: Ekaterine Kheladze, Executive Assistant of W4T 

Key goals:


  • Better understand the tools, pathways and key measures to become a leader;
  • Learn more about the benefits gained through the women leadership;
  • Identify opportunities to build leadership; 
  • Identify the importance of the personal professional development and growth for leadership; 
  • Learn from the real life experiences, success and challenges, and be inspired, and motivated for further pursue the personal development goals;
  • Build up networking with a business leader, receive recommendations and consultation, learn from the business cases and get practical advices and expertise on Leadership; 

11.00 - 13.00

Speakers: Irma Daushvili, Co-Founder and General Director, DIO; Tinatin Rukhadze, Founder and General Director of the global research-consultancy company “ACT”

Moderator: Ekaterine Kheladze, Executive Assistant of W4T 

Key topics: 


  • What is essence of self and business leaders’ development?
  • Sometimes personal motivation and development is not enough for reaching out goals, what is a key and how we should keep motivated our team? 
  • When your business does not have enough financial recourses to support employee’s development, how we could support their retention? What are the other ways for developing the staff?
  • What is the role of recognition in the process of self and business development? 

11.00 - 13.00

Speakers: Natalia Toloraia, Founder and General Director, Natali Group; Tamar Kerdzaia, Rector of the European University

Moderator: Ekaterine Kheladze, Executive Assistant of W4T 

Key topics: 


  • Before a crisis strikes, business owners should think about how a disaster would impact employees, customers, suppliers, the general public and their company's value. A crisis can strike any company anytime, anywhere. Is the advanced planning the key to survival and what should companies consider during advance planning? 
  • What are the critical do’s and don’ts in crisis? 
  • How the managers should proceed damage control and how they should elaborate the business recovery plan? 

 

11.00 - 13.00

Speakers: Rusudan Telia, Co-Founder and Executive Director of ACT Global; Ketevan Qvartskhava, Partner of the BLC Law Office

Moderator: Ekaterine Kheladze, Executive Assistant of W4T 

Key topics: 


  • Often, we are playing a game in the process of the business negotiation, where is a margin and how we should control not to cross the red lines? 
  • Is there applying a different strategy for position-based and interest-based negotiation? 
  • What wording that could and could not be used during the successful negotiation? 

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