Success! Manual
Success!, which is available in printed and power point formats, provides a framework for organizing class topics/activities and instructional and coaching content for individual and home development and especially for learning and applying the basics of business in developing countries.
6Ps of Business
Focusing on hands-on progress, participants learn and apply principles for success with a practical focus in each of the following 6Ps of business.
- PLAN – A written statement of the goals, action steps and financial details needed to make your business successful.
- PRODUCT – The item or service you sell.
- PROCESS – How you develop your product and get it to market.
- PROMOTION – All the ways you market, package and present yourself and your product or service – often referred to as branding.
- PRICE – The amount you charge for your product or service.
- PAPERWORK – The written records, projections and calculations that guide your business start-up and growth.
In the Self Reliance Program, participants develop and implement their own individual business plans. As a measurable outcome, participants start new or grow existing businesses and on average increase income by more than 50%.
Quality of Life
The Success! manual also directs participants in the process of creating and fulfilling their own personal quality of life plan. Participants generate an eight-point quality of life wheel that provides meaning, context and goals for individual and family life priorities and progress. These quality of life goals allow for the group to establish a learning agenda that not only emphasizes business, but other personal priorities.
Community Action
The Success! curriculum also sets the stage for participants to organize their own local associations for solving community problems that harm their businesses and lives. The actual curriculum for this community problem-solving process is found in the companion manual, Neighbors Working Together.
