ENTERPRISE

Enterprise, Business Start-ups, Business Studies, IB Business Management, STEAM, Business Organization & Management, Business Communication and Technologies, Accounting, Tourism, Cert III Business, Diploma Business, Diploma Marketing

 

At the age of twenty, I established my first business. This was a life changing event. Not only did I have to quickly learn the administrative processes of operating and managing a small business, but I also learnt how important it was to be self-motivated. In the past twelve years, this self-motivation and inner drive has given me the energy to start another three businesses with my partner.

 

My students in both IB Business Management and Business Studies have found this very intriguing. The energy and enthusiasm I have for small business is contagious. Recently, my current Business Studies Coordinator made me aware of this. She commented that since I started teaching Senior Business at Mercedes College, enrollments in Business Studies have doubled and IB Business Management has increased by a massive 400%.

 

I feel very strongly about teaching subjects that I have wider expanse of experience other than the classroom. l feel very well qualified to pass on my knowledge when I have had experience such as:

 

• Being personally responsible for managing state marketing teams on behalf Australia's second largest telecom­munications company, resulting in excel 5 of 15 million dollars in consumer revenue. This coupled with by vast business to business experience on both a representative and consulting level.

• Spending several years marketing small business clients that experience in excess of 300% growth in the time I was a consultant for them.

• Developing joint marketing strategies with Sony, BMG Australia & Australian Idol Series and Channel Ten Big Brother Series.

• Managing and coordinating million dollar corporate events for clients including Westfield Corporation, Myer Center and Adelaide City Council.

 

The teaching methodology that I use in the classroom is varied and engaging. Students feed off my real life experience and regularly state how grateful they are that when they ask me a question, I can back up my answer with a situation or experience that I have encountered.

 

Contextual units I have taught in Business Management:

 

• Nature of Business

• Business Organisation

• Entrepreneurship & Business Start-ups

• Globalisation and International Business

• Marketing and Marketing Strategy

• Business Plans

• Human Resource Management

• Financial Management

• Multinational Enterprise, Joint Ventures & SME's

• Tourism and International Business

• Social Media and Marketing

• Accounting and Finance

• WHS and OHS

• Pitch Nights

• App Prototyping

• App a Day

 

My additional competencies to teach Business and Management include:

 

• Writing business plans from conceptual stages of a business idea through to implementation and production.

• Experience and understanding of overseas trade and the international political economy, through owning and operating a small business in the global and domestic environment.

• Owner of two businesses that currently operate successfully.

• Successfully trained staff in all business areas including sales, management, marketing and administration.

• Competent at Human Resource Management and recruitment of employees.

• Extensive experience in marketing small businesses to the consumer.