Start your business and join a community
You’ve probably heard it before: Choose a job you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life. This might be the truth for the usual day job, but it’s even more so if you’re looking to start a business of your own.
So before you actually start, ask yourself: What are you passionate about? If the answer is children, helping them form and hone their skills, and creating a nurturing community for them, then building a business rooted in their education might just be for you. And if that’s the case, then here are the first four steps to getting things started:
1. Look at your skills
The first thing you should do is consider what your own strengths and weaknesses are. Are you organized, proactive and patient? Do you have problems communicating your thoughts and getting creative? Being able to check your own skills allows you to focus on what your business already has and what it will need help with.
2. Look around your circle
Once you’ve identified what your limitations are, you can start thinking about the people within your circle that can help fill in those gaps. Bring it that colleague of yours who’s still looking for a creative outlet, or your brother that loves to make to-do lists.
But while skill and knowledge in a particular field is important, you should also keep in mind that the people you work with should have similar mindsets. So when it comes to a business built on education, they—like you—must be passionate about the youth and enriching their minds and experiences.
3. Look into partnerships
Starting a business is difficult, but it becomes even more difficult when you have to start from ground zero. So look into different options that will allow you to partner with established and trusted programs, which might then give your business a higher chance at success.
4. Get your game face on
Once you’ve decided on your course of action, the only thing left to do is get started. Attend the necessary orientations and sessions, get the paperwork together, take the exams—and you’ll be in it before you even realize.
Even if you like what you’re doing, you’ll still feel tired at the end of the day. Even when you enjoy all the tasks you have to finish and continue to believe the bigger picture you’re continuing to serve your students, there will still be moments of stress. But with child education and development, there’s a sense of fulfillment that cannot be matched.
Kumon Philippines invites everyone with a commitment to nourishing children’s development and growth to open up their own Kumon Centers and become franchisees themselves. Click here to learn more.
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