Big businesses to mentor small ventures in Pangasinan
- Source: http://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/991176
- Friday, May 26, 2017
- (lvmicua/PNA)
DAGUPAN, May 26 — Big businesses will soon mentor small counterparts in Pangasinan to help them grow and prosper.
This is the objective of the program "Kapatid Mentor Me" to be launched by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) provincial office on June 20 at the Star Plaza Hotel in Dagupan.
Natalia Dalaten of the DTI compared the novel project to "big brother-small brother partnership" with big businesses serving as mentor and would share their experiences with micro entrepreneurs so they would also succeed and grow.
After the launching program, the mentoring session will initially begin at 8:00 a.m. till 4:00 p.m. to be attended by 25 micro entrepreneurs that were screened for the purpose.
She said the mentoring sessions would continue every Friday thereafter till the participants complete 11 sessions up to September 1 and thereafter graduate from the course.
The "Kapatid Mentor Me" is a project of the DTI provincial office in cooperation with the Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship.
Under this project, the accredited mentors will come from Manila and the regions who were chosen after succeeding in their respective business ventures.
Topics to be discussed include entrepreneurial mind setting, values formation, marketing, business model canvass, product development assessment product development and innovation, operations management, supply and value chain human resource and organizational management, entrepreneurial accounting, recording, bookkeeping. taxation, how to register with the Bureau of Internal Revenue and others.
The 25 entrepreneurs attending the mentoring session will comprise only the first batch of trainees and we are looking forward that some more batches will follow, said Dalaten.
The Philippine Center for Entrepreneurship helped DTI in accrediting mentors who committed to share what they know about the business to the micro entrepreneurs.