Winners of Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards train at UP Diliman; join intensive workshop on microenterprise management and development
As part of the follow-on activities to the 2016 Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards (CMA), a joint undertaking of Citi Philippines,Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, and Microfinance Council of the Philippines, the University of the Philippines Institute for Small-Scale Industries (UPISSI) recently held the CMA – Microenterprise Management & Development Program , an enriching five-day event that brought together business management and finance mentors and the CMA winners, where practical insights on entrepreneurship and personal finance were imparted to participants. Among the relevant topics covered include Living, Discovering, and Envisioning One’s Entrepreneurial Potential; Operations Management; as well as the8 P’s of Marketing, Financial Management for Small Businesses. Each session was capped by intensive workshop sessions wherein participants were given the chance to apply their learnings to real-life situations particularly to their own respective small and micro-enter