Determined to build capacity that would enable entrepreneurs in Nigeria and Africa as whole to succeed in their businesses, Triciabiz has launched an online business school, known as Business Lab Africa (BLA).
Business Lab Africa, which offers a new approach to learning, is a monthly subscription online business school dedicated to providing African entrepreneurs with practical and locally relevant knowledge to build sustainable businesses towards economic growth.
The business school, according to the promoters, will be providing quality content at a subscription fee of $28 per month, which expectedly, can be afforded by Micro Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in Nigeria and Africa.
Speaking in Lagos last week at the media launch of Business Lab Africa, Tricia Ikponmwonba, lead trainer of the school, said BLA has faculty that consists of trainers with deep business knowledge, adding that the school would be easily accessible via mobile or web.
Ikponmwonba, who had consulted and trained for several Fortune 100 companies and taught a combined pool of over 1 million entrepreneurs through their online and in-class courses/workshops, said the school has trained over 20,000 people in Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda, United States, United Kingdom and the UAE.
“One of our learning models is instructor learning, which is achieved via recorded videos that addresses specific sub-topics under the subject area for the month, live classes with experts to answer burning questions students might have, and it also makes use of worksheets/templates for guidance,” she said.
She said the school also uses peer-to-peer learning model, where fellow learners can teach each other ideas that have worked for them in line with the belief that ‘to teach is to learn twice’.
Aside from deploying real business situations as case studies, she said BLA will make use of contents that are related to the African market as the business operating factor, and this differentiates BLA from other learning platforms.
Romoke Oladejo, project manager, said the courses on the BLA curriculum are taught by business experts from around the world covering a wide range of business subject areas including Marketing, Sales, Global Expansion, Business Structure and Processes, Business Models and more.
Oladejo, who listed some of them to include Kristen Palana, an award-winning multimedia educator; Tim Beighton, Segun Abiona, Remi Owadokun and Tricia Ikponmwonba among others, said BLA hopes to empower 100,000 entrepreneurs with tools to succeed by 2022.
“At BLA, we are poised towards our simple goal; which centers on helping entrepreneurs succeed in business. We have adapted a blended learning model where we make use of several methods that simplifies the entire process,” she said.
She however added that the school also has a support system consisting of community coaches, who are on ground to respond to the questions learners have, which can be communicated in the comment section of each lesson.
Triciabiz has recorded several testimonials from over 50 people in businesses that have been part of the training.
Jimi Tewe, guests, said Triciabiz has through the Business Gas Station, built entrepreneurs, who are in business to create value, make profit and make impact by setting goals and work towards achieving the goals.
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