Small Business & Project Management

• 1 x 3-hour compulsory kura whakaako (class) each week

• 12 hours of mentoring across the programme (3 hours per kōnae ako, negotiated between you and your kaiako)

Your structured class and group times include: 

• Face-to-face with your kaiako or other presenters 

• Wānanga, noho (overnight stays) or online sessions 

• Practice, revision, and assessment activities 

 Wānanga (workshops): 

• 2 x 1-day wānanga (6 hours each)

All dates, venue and details will be confirmed by your kaiako.

Plan for around 29 hours of study in your own time each week.

Tasks and activities you’ll complete outside of class include: 

• Working through programme resources (such as workbooks, audio, video, or online activities) 

• Completing aromatawai (assessments) and required reading 

• Practising your new skills

• Doing research, reflection, or group study

Keen to know how study fits around work and home? Our Enrolment Support and Study Experience section can help.

You’ll need to have access to: 

• A computer or laptop 

• A reliable internet connection

You’ll lay a strong foundation by assessing your current business position and designing strategies to reach your desired future state. You’ll evaluate development needs, opportunities and impacts, identify risks and mitigation strategies, and put the bi-cultural partnership principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi into practice. You’ll also select and use project-planning knowledge, tools and techniques, and apply core principles across operations, accounting, sales and marketing, human resources, and risk management to your business.

You’ll learn and apply relevant business development and project planning knowledge, tools and techniques to a sales and marketing project. You’ll complete practical tasks and by the end of this kōnae you’ll produce:

• Project initiation document (project brief)

• A weekly report template

• A weekly progress report

• A project implementation report

• An issues register and explanation ofsolutions

• Effective negotiation and relationship management

• sections of the assessment

• Combined Activity and Milestone Review of

• Performance

• Expense Register and Budget Review of Performance

• Assign Post-Project Roles

• Project Documentation and Approvals

• Review Outcomes and Processes

• Team Review Process

• Document and Report on Lessons Learnt

You’ll consolidate your learning by applying business development and project planning knowledge, tools and techniques to an operations project.

By the end of this kōnae, you’ll produce:

• A project report

• A project presentation

• A group discussion

You’ll bring everything together by choosing a project to apply your skills and knowledge to (this could be your own business idea). You’ll complete the practical tasks listed below.

• An updated business plan

• Project initiation document (project brief)

• A weekly progress report

• A project implementation including:

  • Combined Activity and Milestone Report

  • Quality Register

  • Risk Register

  • Issues Register

  • Expense Register and Budget

  • Lessons Log

• An issues register and explanation of solutions

• Effective negotiation and relationship management sections of the assessment  

• Combined Activity and Milestone Review of Performance

• Expense Register and Budget Review of Performance

• Assign Post-Project Roles

• Project Documentation and Approvals

• Review Outcomes and Processes

• Team Review Process

• Document and report on lessons learnt

• A project presentation

• Discussion on operational efficiency and effectiveness