ETK Consulting Ltd:
With over 10 years' experience of business planning, operation and execution and providing training and business advisory services to small, medium and corporate businesses in Africa, ETK Consulting are consummate professionals with the expertise to provide practical and realistic strategies and techniques to approaching and conducting business in the emerging African markets. Based in Essex in the UK, we offer a core African Business Management Course (ABM) as well as separate specialised courses which are relevant to entering or doing better business in the African market.
Africa-Related Business Courses:
African Business Management (ABM) Course:
- Duration: 3 days
It takes a particular skill set to be successful in doing business in Africa, something a regular business course will never prepare you for. This 3 day course is a specialised course designed to provide a more practical view of working and doing business in Africa. The course was put together with contributions from African company executives, business men and women currently running business in Africa as well as other relevant data sources such as the World Bank and IMF.
Who should attend?
This course is ideal for any individual, SME or large organisation with business interests in Africa, or looking at setting up shop in any country on the continent.
Risk Management for Africa
- Duration: 3 days
A 3-day specialised course designed to help delegates gain a better understanding of the risk involved with doing business in Africa.
This course looks at risk management from different perspectives as it relates to the African market and analyses the possibilities of managing it in each situation. It will equip delegates with the practical skills and knowledge required to develop and/or further enhance their organisation's risk management strategies for doing business in Africa.
Who should attend?
This course will be of value for the following categories of people:
- Risk Managers
- Managers (all levels)
- Department Heads
- Team Leaders
- Company employees
Project Management in Africa
- Duration: 2 days
The Project Management in Africa course shows you how you can apply your existing project management skills in an extremely challenging environment where culture and infrastructural challenges can get in the way of managing what could be in other environments, a very ‘straight forward’ project.
Our team of experienced project managers will help you understand what you are likely to face, hear your experiences on projects elsewhere and provide a consultative approach to ensuring that you are equipped with the right tools to manage your project in Africa.
Who should attend?
This course will be of value for the following categories of people:
- Project Managers
- Team Leaders
- Business Process specialists
- Human Resource Managers
- Finance and Accounts Managers
Human Resource Management for Africa
- Duration: 3 days
A 3-day specialised course designed to help delegates gain a better understanding of recruiting, employing and managing a workforce in Africa. It is important to understand and know the labour and employment law and the local implementation of these laws to business. This course also looks at the African view of human resource management, its evolution and where it needs to be, benchmarked against global standards.
Who should attend?
This course will be of value for the following categories of people:
- Business owners establishing businesses
- Project managers
- Managers (all levels)
- Department Heads
- Team Leaders
Working in Africa (Online Course)
A specialised course designed to equip delegates with a more practical view of working in Africa, specifically in the corporate and private sector of Africa. The Working in Africa course forms part of a total risk management strategy for any individual, group or organisations going into Africa for work.
The course was put together with contributions from Africans who have lived in the Diaspora and returned to various African countries and are either running their own successful business or working in senior positions for multinationals as well as indigenous corporations, and also professional Africans with a wide knowledge of what working in Corporate Africa really is.
Who should attend?
This course will be of value for the following categories of people:
- Skilled professionals looking for work
- Contract workers looking for short, medium and long-term contracts in Africa
- Groups or organisations currently operating in Africa requiring performance enhancement training.
- Groups or organisations looking to send new employees to work in Africa.
Market Entry Strategy Africa:
Duration: 2 days
This course will provide a comprehensive look at Africa as a potential market, why Africa should never be approached as a homogeneous market and the many different industries.
Who should attend?
- Project Managers, Managers (all levels)
- Groups or organisations currently operating in Africa requiring performance enhancement training.
- Groups or organisations looking to send new employees to work in Africa.
- Department heads
- Marketing Executives
Exporting Africa:
Duration: 3 days
This course will examine the export background, current economic climate and all aspects of the exporting process for African businesses. This course has been developed with a view to establishing best practice and compliance with Customs and other requirements. The course is designed to provide a clear understanding of current operational procedures for export in African countries.