Module 3

Start Your Business

Objectives

✓ Learn how to start and manage a business.

✓ Understand the business environment and develop a strategy for your business.

✓ Develop an achievable business plan

Additional benefits

✧ Certificate and Graduation with Honours upon completion

✧ Participation in the Business Plan Competition

✧ Opportunity to participate in Aidha Business Accelerator (ABA)

This course is in collaboration with the Ministry of Manpower.

Sunday, 11 October 2026 (PM)

(classes at Aidha @ Catapult)

Students who are halfway through or have finished ‘Module 2 – Plan Your Financial Future’ can enrol now!

I want to enrol myself I want to enrol my helper

Course details

Course fee

$150 / $200

Course fee

$150 / $200

The course fee depends on discounts given and can be found directly on the enrolment pages.

There are package prices if you sign up for more than one module. 

Duration

7 months (14 x 3h)

Duration

7 months (14 x 3h)

Every other Sunday
(14 x 3 hour sessions)

Choose between 2 timings:
10am – 1pm or 2pm – 5pm

Impact

45% of alumnae start a business!

Impact

45% of alumnae start a business!

Our impact data shows: Business ownership rises from 16% to over 45% as the students progress through the curriculum.

You can find out more about our impact here:

Our impact

What our students say

❝ 

Aidha opened my mind and I started to make plans for the future. In 10 years, I want to be a business owner. I already started a vegetable farm this year – 2,500 sqm of my own land, a chili farm, 1,500 trees. Now I have 5 employees. 

❞

—
Yuliani
Aidha 2016 Alumna from Indonesia

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Course content

Business Strategy

12 x 90 minute sessions

Learn how to:

✓ Identify a good business idea
✓ Turn an idea into a business
✓ Write a business plan including marketing, pricing and risks
 ✓ Manage employees and partnerships

In this Module, you will learn about real business cases through videos and practical exercises.

Business Operations

12 x 90 min sessions

Learn how to:

✓ Develop a strategy for your business 
✓ Discuss real Aidha alumni business cases
✓ Deal with customers, competitors and suppliers
✓ Negotiate and present (through group activities and public speaking exercises)

Session Plan

for Module 3

You can find a more detailed plan showing all course sessions here:

Session Plan – Module 3

Any questions?

Ask our Campus Manager Linette! You can contact her at 

+65 9789 4041

Interested?

Students who are halfway through or have finished Module 1 can enrol now!

I want to enrol myself I want to enrol my helper

Please Note: With our campus remaining closed due to the ongoing public health situation, in 2020 we are offering online classes.

For updates about our classes in 2021 please contact us (Tel 9789 4041; Email [email protected]) for more information.

Module 3

Start Your Business

In the future, I really want to establish my coffee business. I want to name it “Morning Blessings” because my name is Blezy! I will sell organic coffee, because in our farm now, we don’t use chemicals at all. My employers were my first customers to try, and they liked it and even paid for it, although I said it was a gift.

Blezy, Philippines, graduated in 2014

Who should enrol

Aidha students who are half way through or have finished the new Module 2 and want to learn how to start and manage a business.

Duration and course fees

Six months – courses start regularly.
Two Sundays a month (morning or afternoon – 3 hours per session).

Course fees per six-month module:
$200 (after DB Scholarship Fund discount)
$150 (after additional discount for self-supporting students)

The next Module 3 will start in February 2021 and may be held online. 

For more details on course fees and packages,
click here for foreign domestic workers
click here for employers

What you’ll get

Learn how to start and manage a business.

Module 3 comprises of two classes:

  • Business Operations to understand the business environment and develop a strategy for your business.
  • Business Strategy to learn how to start a business and write a business plan.

Additional benefits

  • Maximum of 24 students per class with two volunteer mentors (teachers)
  • Student handbook
  • Access to a computer lab before and after class
  • Free campus events
  • A safe environment to learn and have fun
  • Participate in the Business Plan Competition
  • Opportunity to participate in Aidha Business Accelerator (ABA)
  • A certificate and you graduate with Honors!

Business Operations

You will learn:

  • What makes a good business idea
  • How to turn an idea into a business
  • How to write a business plan including marketing, pricing and risks
  • How to manage employees and partnerships

In this Module, you will learn about real business cases through videos and practical exercises.

Business Strategy

You will learn to:

  • Understand the business environment and develop a strategy for your business
  • Discuss real Aidha alumni business cases
  • Deal with customers, competitors and suppliers
  • Develop negotiation and presentation skills in group activities and public speaking exercises

Lesson Plan

MODULE 3 – LESSON PLAN Three hours, two Sundays a month
Month Business Operations
12 x 90 minute sessions		 Business Strategy
12 x 90 minute sessions
1st Introduction to entrepreneurship. Brainstorming 1st business ideas Strategy 1 – Different business models. Understanding customers & competitors
Select most viable business ideas. Vision, mission, ambition Strategy 2 – The business and its environment.
2nd Implementation plan & taking the 1st step Strategy 3 – Defining your product or service idea, targeting customers, your competitors
Affordable loss & funding options Strategy 4 – Competitive advantage
3rd Budget start up costs Strategy 5 – Pricing strategy
Break Even Analysis Marketing 1 – Introduction to marketing
4th Cash flow analysis Marketing 2 – Marketing Plan
Financial recap Risk management & be prepared to fail
5th Record keeping & monitoring financials Legal aspects & partnerships
Operations 1 – Streamlining Employee management
6th Operations 2 – Lean techniques Consultations
Operations 3 – Inventory What is next?

New Courses Start Regularly

Module 3

Start Your Business

In the future, I really want to establish my coffee business. I want to name it “Morning Blessings” because my name is Blezy! I will sell organic coffee, because in our farm now, we don’t use chemicals at all. My employers were my first customers to try, and they liked it and even paid for it, although I said it was a gift.

Blezy, Philippines, graduated in 2014

Who should enrol

Aidha students who are half way through or have finished the new Module 2 and want to learn how to start and manage a business.

Duration and course fees

Six months – courses start each month.
Two Sundays a month (morning or afternoon – 3 hours per session).

Course fees per six-month module:
$200 (after DB Scholarship Fund discount)
$150 (after additional discount for self-supporting students)

For more details on course fees and packages,
click here for foreign domestic workers
click here for employers

What you’ll get

Learn how to start and manage a business.

Module 3 comprises of two classes:

  • Business Operations to understand the business environment and develop a strategy for your business.
  • Business Strategy to learn how to start a business and write a business plan.

Additional benefits

  • Maximum of 24 students per class with two volunteer mentors (teachers)
  • Student handbook
  • Access to a computer lab before and after class
  • Free campus events
  • A safe environment to learn and have fun
  • Participate in the Business Plan Competition
  • Opportunity to participate in Aidha Business Accelerator (ABA)
  • A certificate and you graduate with Honors!

Business Operations

You will learn:

  • What makes a good business idea
  • How to turn an idea into a business
  • How to write a business plan including marketing, pricing and risks
  • How to manage employees and partnerships

In this Module, you will learn about real business cases through videos and practical exercises.

Business Strategy

You will learn to:

  • Understand the business environment and develop a strategy for your business
  • Discuss real Aidha alumni business cases
  • Deal with customers, competitors and suppliers
  • Develop negotiation and presentation skills in group activities and public speaking exercises

Lesson Plan

MODULE 3 – LESSON PLAN Three hours, two Sundays a month
Month Business Operations
12 x 90 minute sessions		 Business Strategy
12 x 90 minute sessions
1st Introduction to entrepreneurship. Brainstorming 1st business ideas Strategy 1 – Different business models. Understanding customers & competitors
Select most viable business ideas. Vision, mission, ambition Strategy 2 – The business and its environment.
2nd Implementation plan & taking the 1st step Strategy 3 – Defining your product or service idea, targeting customers, your competitors
Affordable loss & funding options Strategy 4 – Competitive advantage
3rd Budget start up costs Strategy 5 – Pricing strategy
Break Even Analysis Marketing 1 – Introduction to marketing
4th Cash flow analysis Marketing 2 – Marketing Plan
Financial recap Risk management & be prepared to fail
5th Record keeping & monitoring financials Legal aspects & partnerships
Operations 1 – Streamlining Employee management
6th Operations 2 – Lean techniques Consultations
Operations 3 – Inventory What is next?

New Courses Start Every Month

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