More than 600 young Qataris have benefited from the regular skills workshops on entrepreneurship and career development organised this year by the Bedaya Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development.
In January, business expert Mohamed al-Jufairi kicked-off the workshops with the topic “Financing your Business.” This was followed by two other topics delivered in February by Mufeed Ahmed (Take your business online) and Mahmoud Khater (Power of LinkedIn).
In March, Bedaya Centre Entrepreneurship manager Yasmeen Hasan helped budding entrepreneurs to develop ideas for business with the “Ideation Workshop,” while Mohamed Hayder discussed “Key to Influence,” which delved into the importance of first impressions.
Web expert Ebrahim al-Khinji’s topic in April was “How to create your business website in less than 5 minutes.” This was followed by Mohamed al-Enzi’s “Discover your inner motivation.”
Two more workshops followed in May with Bart Burgraef discussing “Emotional intelligence” and Suhail al-Gosaibi, who took on the “Basics of Entrepreneurship.”
The Bedaya Centre, a joint initiative between Qatar Development Bank and Silatech, also offered a full programme of workshops on business planning, sales and marketing, career awareness, entrepreneur challenges, career planning and development, and legal business issues.
Bedaya Centre manager Reem al-Sowaidi said: “We aim to offer a complete programme of workshops and training sessions to help young people start their own business and those planning a career to develop their abilities and talents. The importance of running these workshops is to develop the skills of young people in the country.
“The workshops also link the participants with mentors from the community, such as self-made, successful entrepreneurs serving as role models to help young people generate business ideas and support them in developing these ideas into actual businesses.”
She added: “With our training programmes, we aim to give young Qataris the best chance to succeed in life in whatever direction they may choose, whether to be an entrepreneur or follow a specific career path.”
A lecturer leads one of the training workshops organised by the Bedaya Centre.
