Grow Your Business Skills with Practical Training and Ensure Government Compliance through the Chamber's TBAS Program

If you look around Tobago, it is apparent that many businesses are able to thrive, even when their owners' expertise is limited to one specific area. But then there are the other kinds of businesses. The kinds of businesses that require their owners to have business expertise in other domains.

The chamber recognised this as a real business problem sometime ago, and in our talks, we narrowed the types of expertise down to five specific areas that may, or may not, be needed for some businesses to ever have a chance at being successful.

And those areas are marketing, sales, delivery, operations and finance.

Once this was acknowledged, we set out to create an education arm under our Tobago Business Advisory Services unit.

But then...

We also recognised that one more area, as important as the five named above, was just as poorly dealt with in the realm of business in Tobago. And it is the area of government-compliance, which includes activities like registering your business, filing your annual returns, registering with the Office of Procurement Registration, etc.

So we decided to focus on both areas in our push to help Tobago small businesses.

Thursday, November 23d, 2024

We officially launched our TBAS arm in November of 2024, and all of what we offer can be seen by visiting our Courses or Government-Compliance Services.

What Should You Do Next Concerning Our Business Courses?

If interested in our BUSINESS COURSES, there are two ways to approach your interest.

If you already know which ones you want to take...

For those of you who are relatively sure of the courses you want to take, click the link below to be taken to our course listing.

When you do, you'll be taken to a page which lists all of our courses. You will then click on the course of your interest, which will in turn take you another page that will ask for your name and email address to put you on our waiting list.

Once on that list, you will be among the first people to be notified when we're THREE weeks or less away from putting on the course or workshop.

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If you DO NOT know which ones you want to take...

For those of you interested in our courses, but unsure of the path forward, our suggestion is to take the diagnostic questionnaire at the link below. The aim of it is to take your answers and use them to give you a prescribed path in relation to the order in which you should take our courses. https://tobagochamber.org/msdof-diagnostic

What Should You Do Next Concerning Our Business Courses?

With respect to the government-compliance services, you'll need to create a Chamber Ally account with us. Once approved, you'll be able to sign-up for any of our government compliance services by clicking the Compliance Services link in your account and following the instructions laid out in the videos in that section.

FAQS

Is anyone eligible to participate in your programs or only your members?

Our programs are offered to anyone willing to participate in them.

What's the cost of your program offerings?

Though we're unsure of the exact cost of each of our offerings at this point, we do know we'll be offering two tiers of pricing; one for our members and another for non-members.

Where will your programs be offered and what format will they be offered in?

As we're now starting out, our programs will be offered exclusively in-person at our Chamber office, but eventually they'll be done both in-person and virtually.

Are your programs done in groups or in one-on-one settings?

Both our courses and our government-compliance services are done in a one-to-many fashion. However, with respect to our courses, there may be the scenario where someone feels like it should be one-on-one, and in those circumstances we will accommodate at a greater cost.