Uganda
Survive to Thrive
Equipping ambitious entrepreneurs and business owners across Africa with the skills, tools, and strategies to navigate challenges and thrive - now and in the future.
Build for Resilience & Growth
A 6-month learning journey to build business resilience and capitalize on opportunities to grow your business.
Survive to Thrive is a practical business growth programme focused on equipping business leaders with the tools to immediately address challenges and seize on opportunities. Over this 6-month journey, you’ll build a more resilient business through improved business practices, a more engaged team, and clear growth goals.
Key Benefits of the programme:
- Build a resilient business & team
Build confidence and resilience in core business leaders to overcome barriers, reach their goals and drive business growth - Improve systems and practices
Implement research-backed business practices to improve business practices that lead to growth - Growth to meet opportunity
Focus on setting clear growth goals, use AMI’s unique tools to track results, and learn how to adapt to meet market opportunities
Commitment & Enrolment Details
- A 6-month programme; requires 3-4 hours a week
- The main applicant and participant is the Business Owner, CEO, or Founder of the business
- FREE enrolment only for eligible and successful applicants
- Business owners can be accompanied by up to 2 employees (key staff or senior managers)
- Will be delivered in a hybrid format: both virtual & in-person
Business Profile
- Years In Business: Business in operation for more than 1 year
- Revenue: Generated between $10,000 – $500,000 in revenue in at least one of the last two financial years
- Employees: The business has a minimum of 2 full-time employees
- Internet Enabled: Smartphone/internet connection to access online tools, courses, and the online community
- Performance-Oriented: Willing to share key performance/financial data (so that you and we can learn about your growth progress).
Register for the Survive To Thrive Info Session
We’re excited to get you started on the journey to build a stronger more resilient business. Register for the info session below.
Build & grow as you learn
Instead of talking at entrepreneurs about concepts and theories, AMI introduces practical business and management tools that can be applied to business practices on day one. Participants navigate their learning journey with our learning platform and apps, powerful facilitator-led learning experiences, and peer-to-peer support.
YOUR TOOLKIT FOR BUSINESS
More than traditional training - practical tools that you’ll use immediately
HUMAN-CENTRED LEARNING
No boring lectures. Expect engaging Learning Labs led by world-class facilitators and interactive peer group meetings
BITE-SIZED CONTENT ON THE GO
Get the content you need, when you need it, via web and mobile. Access 20+ online courses & over 125 business tools
About the Learning Journey
Survive to Thrive's learning journey focuses on taking your business through 6 key phases of your journey over a 6 month period. Each stage is approximately 3-4 weeks long. You'll be supported by key AMI staff during this period including the Programme Facilitator and a dedicated AMI Programme & Learning Manager.
How does the programme work?
Through interactive virtual workshops, practical online courses, downloadable business tools and peer support, business owners and their teams will learn how to plan for and cope with a range of challenges like reduced revenue and cash flow, supply chain disruptions, and changing customer needs.
Led by our expert African facilitators, you’ll network and learn alongside other ambitious entrepreneurs from across the continent.
Move Your Business Toward Growth
When you complete your 6-month programme, you’ll be in a position to join AMI’s Growth Network that provides continued access to the AMI tools and platform, have the opportunity to link with finance opportunities, and network with other businesses across the continent that have completed AMI’s business growth programmes.
- Programme orientation
- 90 min virtual session to meet & network with your cohort and facilitator
Focus area: Risk Management, Cashflow, and Strategic Planning in a crisis.
- 2 hr virtual learning lab
- Get on the online learning platform – Download core business tools and enrol for recommended courses
- Pod networking – 90min fun small group discussion
- Measure your key financial metrics to track progress
Leadership Focus – build leadership skills, focusing on the head, the hands and the heart as key roles of effective and responsible leaders.
- 2 hr virtual learning lab
- Get on the online learning platform – Download core business tools and enrol for recommended courses
- Pod networking – 90min fun small group discussion
- Measure your key financial metrics to track progress
Customers, Markets and Revenue Focus – Understand your customers, find new innovative business models, research and assess new partnerships.
- 2 hr virtual learning lab
- Get on the online learning platform – Download core business tools and enrol for recommended courses
- Pod networking – 90min fun small group discussion
- Measure your key financial metrics to track progress
Focus on Money as a core practice assessing your core drivers of profit in the business, understanding underlying trends and making decisions that support growth and sustainability in the long-term.
- 2 hr virtual learning lab
- Get on the online learning platform – Download core business tools and enrol for recommended courses
- Pod networking – 90min fun small group discussion
- Measure your key financial metrics to track progress
Managing Talent, Team Building, and Succession Planning – Building teams, processes, and systems to ensure longevity in the organisation and to work towards long-term plans
- 2 hr virtual learning lab
- Get on the online learning platform – Download core business tools and enrol for recommended courses
- Pod networking – 90min fun small group discussion
- Measure your key financial metrics to track progress
Review and build on your strengths, develop a strategy for your next phase of growth
- 2 hr virtual learning lab
- Get on the online learning platform – Download core business tools and enrol for recommended courses
- Pod networking – 90min fun small group discussion
- Milestone – Celebration/Graduation
Phase 7: Growth Network
Those who graduate are invited to join the exclusive Growth network for a year. Here you will be connected to a vibrant network of other African entrepreneurs who completed AMI business growth programmes, link to finance opportunities and receive business coaching.