Title: Make It Your Business (12151-6)

Demonstrating Personal Qualities and Abilities
  Demonstrate creativity and innovation.
  Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving.
  Demonstrate initiative and self-direction.
  Demonstrate integrity.
  Demonstrate work ethic.
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Demonstrating Interpersonal Skills
  Demonstrate conflict-resolution skills.
  Demonstrate listening and speaking skills.
  Demonstrate respect for diversity.
  Demonstrate customer service skills.
  Collaborate with team members.
Demonstrating Professional Competencies
  Demonstrate big-picture thinking.
  Demonstrate career- and life-management skills.
  Demonstrate continuous learning and adaptability.
  Manage time and resources.
  Demonstrate information-literacy skills.
  Demonstrate an understanding of information security.
  Maintain working knowledge of current information-technology (IT) systems.
  Demonstrate proficiency with technologies, tools, and machines common to a specific occupation.
  Apply mathematical skills to job-specific tasks.
  Demonstrate professionalism.
  Demonstrate reading and writing skills.
  Demonstrate workplace safety.
Addressing Elements of Student Life
  Identify the purposes and goals of the student organization.
  Explain the benefits and responsibilities of membership in the student organization as a student and in professional/civic organizations as an adult.
  Demonstrate leadership skills through participation in student organization activities, such as meetings, programs, and projects.
  Identify Internet safety issues and procedures for complying with acceptable use standards.
Exploring Work-Based Learning
  Identify the types of work-based learning (WBL) opportunities.
  (Optional) Reflect on lessons learned during the WBL experience.
  Explore career opportunities related to the WBL experience.
  (Optional) Participate in a WBL experience, when appropriate.
Exploring Private Enterprise
  Explain the meaning and characteristics of private enterprise.
  (Optional) Explain the concept of supply and demand.
  Explain the effect of competition on buyers and sellers
  Distinguish between a good and a service.
  Identify types of product utility.
Exploring Entrepreneurship
  Identify characteristics of the entrepreneurial mindset.
  Identify the basic entrepreneurial skill set.
  Explain the risks, rewards, and requirements of entrepreneurship.
  (Optional) Identify major types of business ownership.
  (Optional) Compare the four different classifications of businesses.
  Identify business resources, mentors, and professional advisers.
  (Optional) Investigate resources related to entrepreneurship and business ownership.
  (Optional) Identify strategies for risk management.
Exploring Marketing and Business
  Identify customer needs and wants.
  Define marketing and the marketing concept.
  Identify the components of the marketing mix.
Exploring Ethics and Management
  Describe management roles, functions, skills, and values.
  (Optional) Identify the benefits and limitations of leadership styles.
  (Optional) List the principles of personal and business ethics and their role in business decisions.
  Describe the basic principles of business ethics and their importance.
  (Optional) Describe the basic principles of personal ethics and their importance.
  Identify elements of ethical decision-making.
Planning for a Product or Service
  Identify the stages in the product and/or service life cycle.
  (Optional) Identify the steps of market research.
  (Optional) Conduct market research.
  (Optional) Identify the steps of the design thinking process.
  (Optional) Create a product or service.
  (Optional) Update a product or service.
Understanding a Business Plan
  Explain the purpose of a business plan.
  (Optional) Identify the components of a business plan.
  (Optional) Compare the business model canvas to a traditional business plan.
  (Optional) Present a business plan for a small business, using the business model canvas.
  (Optional) Develop an elevator pitch.
Preparing a Marketing Strategy
  Explain the concept of a target market.
  Identify the target market for a specific product or service.
  (Optional) Create a customer profile and persona for the desired target market.
  Identify pricing strategies.
  Calculate the price of the product or service.
  (Optional) Identify distribution methods.
  Identify the major types of promotion and the benefits of each.
  Develop a promotional campaign.
  Create a promotional item.
Developing a Financial Plan
  (Optional) Project business income and expenses.
  (Optional) Create a budget.
  (Optional) Identify the break-even point.
  (Optional) Explain the concept of profit.
  (Optional) Set a profit goal.
  Identify sources of capital.
Planning Business Operations
  (Optional) Identify the staffing needs of the business.
  (Optional) Develop job descriptions.
  (Optional) Write work instructions.
  (Optional) Devise a workflow process.
  (Optional) Create a flowchart of the workflow.
  (Optional) Identify quality-control procedures.
  (Optional) Use a Root Cause Analysis (RCA) tool.
Staffing a Business
  (Optional) Identify methods of recruiting employees and publicizing job openings.
  (Optional) Identify the steps in the hiring process.
  (Optional) Train employees.
  (Optional) Evaluate employees.
Operating and Evaluating a Business
  (Optional) Create a basic income statement and a basic balance sheet.
  (Optional) Allocate profit.
  (Optional) Evaluate all functions of the business.
Preparing for a Routine Sales Transaction
  (Optional) Explain the traits of an effective salesperson.
  (Optional) Explain the importance of selling.
  (Optional) Analyze product/service knowledge required for a routine sales transaction.
  (Optional) Demonstrate the sale of a product or service.
Developing Sales and Customer Service Skills
  (Optional) Identify the types of selling.
  (Optional) Explain the concept and importance of customer service.
  (Optional) Explain key factors in building and retaining a clientele.
  (Optional) Explain the benefits of customer loyalty.
ADDITIONAL COURSE INFORMATION
  8109_Student Competency Record_2024.xlsx
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