AMI Online Bootcamp: Tools for Managing Risk and Learning from Others
Improve your business management skills with AMI’s free Bootcamp and Trainings:
Bootcamp: Tuesday, August 11th, 2020 – https://smeresponse.clinic/2020/07/19/ami-business-bootcamp/
Testimonial: Matthew Rwahigi, Owner, Thella Café – Saturday May 30, 2020
Matthew Rwahigi, a small business owner in Gisozi, was hit hard when the COVID-19 lockdowns began in Kigali. Luckily, as a participant in AMI’s trainings for small businesses, he learned the skills to negotiate with suppliers and his landlords and to make the tough decisions needed to help his business survive.
“The conversations and hearing from other colleagues through the AMI workshops, you feel like you’re not alone. At first I thought maybe I was in the wrong business, this was a bad idea, I just burnt my savings for no good reasons. But then you hear other people and you feel that you are in this with so many others. It gives you the strength to stay the course and find the resources to manage.”
What was most valuable for you about the AMI trainings?
First, I learned to focus on learning how to manage a business. I got to focus a bit on my business. Since I Getting to focus a bit – I hadn’t done business in the past, I did not have the tools and skills to plan and make tough decisions, like having to lay off staff.
Second, I benefited from networking and finding out what other people are going through. I learned a lot from this. I really value the community of business people and their input, because if my business is going to survive, I need these relationships. Now at least I have some knowledge, and if my business doesn’t survive, and if I started another business I would be better informed, and more empowered.
How has AMI supported you?
AMI is there when you need to ask a question, to give you tips and ideas. There is an online business portal with tools and courses, and these are important in continuing to build skills.
“The AMI group really helped us in empowering us to feel that this is not the end of the road, to have a feeling that yes, there is a pandemic but you can still try to tune your business up a bit to survive the pandemic, and even have an opportunity to continue after the pandemic.”
Improve your business management skills with AMI’s free Bootcamp and Trainings:
Bootcamp: Tuesday, August 11th, 2020 – https://smeresponse.clinic/2020/07/19/ami-business-bootcamp/
Amahugurwa ya AMI atangwa kuri interineti: Amasomo ku Guhangana n’Ibibazo no Kwigira ku Bandi
Ongera ubumenyi bwawe bwo gucunga ibikorwa by’ubucuruzi ubikesheje amahugurwa ya AMI atangwa ku buntu:
Amahugurwa: kuwa kabiri, tariki ya 14 Nyakanga2020 –https://www.africanmanagers.org/rwandabusinessbootcamp/
Ubuhamya: Matthew Rwahigi, Nyiri Thella Café – Kuwa gatandatu tariki ya 30 Gicurasi, 2020
Matthew Rwahigi, ufite igikorwa cy’ubucuruzi buto ku Gisozi, yahuye n’ibibazo bikomeye igihe gahunda ya “guma mu rugo” yatangiraga muri Kigali bitewe na COVID-19. Ku bw’amahirwe, bitewe n’uko yitabiriye amahugurwa ya AMI ku bikorwa by’ubucuruzi buto, yigiyemo uburyo bwo kuganira n’abamuha ibicuruzwa ndetse n’abo akodeshereza inzu mu rwego rwo gufata ibyemezo bikomeyo byo gutuma ubucuruzi bwe burokoka.
“Ibiganiro hamwe n’ibyo wumvana bagenzi bawe mu gihe cy’amahugurwa ya AMI, bituma wumva utari wenyine. Mbere nabanje kumva ko ahari nahisemo nabi ibikorwa by’ubucuruzi nakoraga, ariko ibi ntibyari byo, ahubwo napfushije ubusa ibyo nari narizigamye nta mpamvu. Ariko iyo wumvise abandi bantu, wumva ko hari abandi bantu benshi musangiye ibibazo. Bityo bikagutera imbaraga zo gukomeza no gushaka ubushobozi bwo kubikemura.”
Ni iki cyakugiriye akamaro kurusha ibindi mu mahugurwa ya AMI?
Icyambere, nize gushyira imbaraga mu gucunga igikorwa cy’ubucuruzi. Nabashije gushyira imbaraga kurushaho ku bucuruzi bwanjye. Kuva natangira gushyira imbaraga ku bucuruzi bwanjye kurushaho – nabonye ko mbere ntakoraga ubucuruzi, sinari narabonye amasomo n’ubumenyi mu gutegura gahunda no gufata ibyemezo bikomeye, nko kwirukana abakozi.
Icyakabiri, nungukiye mu guhura n’abandi no kumenya ibibazo abandi bahura na byo. Ibi byanyigishije byinshi. Rwose mpa agaciro abandi bacuruzi n’ibitekerezo byabo, kugira ngo ibikorwa by’ubucuruzi byanjye bikomeze, ngomba kugirana imikoranire na bo. Ubu nibura mfite ubumenyi, kandi niyo ibi bikorwa by’ubucuruzi byanjye byahagarara, ngatangira ibindi, naba mfite amakuru n’ubushobozi bihagije.
Ni gute AMI yagufashije?
Iyo ukeneye kubaza ikibazo runaka, AMI ikubwira amayeri wakoresha, ikanaguha ibitekerezo. Bafite ipaji ku rubuga rwabo rwa interineti yifashishwa mu gushakisha amakuru ku bucuruzi, iriho ibyo wakenera n’amasomo, kandi ibi ni ingenzi mu rwego rwo gukomeza kongera ubumenyi.
“Itsinda rya AMI ryadufashije rwose kumva ko ubuzma butahagaze, kumva ko hari icyorezo, ariko ko dushobora gukomeza guteza imbere ibikorwa by’ubucuruzi tukabasha kurokoka icyorezo, kandi ko dufite amahirwe yo gukomeza nyuma y’icyorezo.”
Ongera ubumenyi bwawe bwo gucunga ibikorwa by’ubucuruzi ubikesheje amahugurwa ya AMI atangwa ku buntu:
Amahugurwa: kuwa kabiri, tariki ya 14 Nyakanga, 2020 –https://www.africanmanagers.org/rwandacovidwebinars/