The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry organized a workshop on “Get Big Fast – For Manager and Entrepreneurs” on 11th August 2017 at Hotel De Sovrani, Salt Lake, Kolkata.

The workshop was designed by Prof Ranjan Das, Professor of Strategy, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership& Founder – The Strategy Academywho was also the sole faculty.

The workshop was designed for managers and executives at middle and senior levels of the organization and from various functional areas who are involved in [or provide support to] development of business level strategies, formulating and implementing marketing and sales strategies, and strategic analysis of markets and their re-segmentation. The programme was also meant for self-employed persons and consultants planning to make a career transition and start a new venture in the near future.

The objective was to help the participants understand the importance of achieving success in whatever field they are in or wish to be in and also to overcome their “impossibility thinking” to achieve their goals.

Key topics of the workshop which were explained by Prof. Ranjan Das were:

• Essence of success and characteristics and styles of successful people
• Meaning of outstanding performance and ways to achieve the same
• Entrepreneurs vs. Intrapreneurs
• Finding and sizing the opportunity
• Putting it together – The BUSINESS PLAN
• Financing the New Business - Risks and Options
• Organizing the enterprise for execution
• Growing the business…FAST

This workshop helped the participants to understand the essence of outstanding performance and why it is important to take charge of one’s own destiny instead of letting others to control the same. It also helped participants to understand the entrepreneurial process including steps to be taken to become an entrepreneur / a successful leader.