What You Will Learn

The process of developing and executing business growth strategies. 

How to create SMART goals and track progress effectively. 

Techniques for managing implementation plans and accountability checkpoints. 

Course Benefits

  • Understand business growth strategy fundamentals

  • Develop SMART goals for success

  • Create an effective implementation plan

  • Learn to set accountability points and measure progress

Course curriculum

    1. Welcome to the Course

    2. Enrolment Details

    3. Let's Get Started!

    1. Introduction to Developing and Implementing Effective Business Growth Strategies

    2. End of Lesson 1

    1. Developing Smart Goals

    2. End of Lesson 2

    1. Different Areas of Developing Smart Goals

    2. End of Lesson 3

    1. Managing Implementation Plan

    2. End of Lesson 4

    1. Importance of Setting Up Accountability Points

    2. End of Lesson 5

About this course

  • Workbook
  • Video Lessons
  • Quizzes

Meet the Course Facilitator

Executive Director, FATE Foundation Adenike Adeyemi

Adenike Adeyemi is a social innovator with 23 years of experience designing, funding, and implementing high-impact social programs at scale. She is a 2021 Eisenhower Fellow and recognized in 2023 by Google.org as a Global Non-Profit Leader to Watch. As CEO of FATE Foundation, Nigeria’s leading business incubator, Adenike has empowered over 1 million entrepreneurs across Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa through knowledge, mentoring, funding, and market linkages. She has led digital initiatives like msmehub.org and is leveraging AI to reach 5 million entrepreneurs by 2030. She has overseen key funding programs, including disbursing the $1 million FATE Giving COVID-19 Support Fund, and has driven partnerships with organizations such as the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Google, Meta, Ford Foundation, and Citi Foundation. Adenike has contributed to multiple research publications, including the Annual State of Entrepreneurship in Nigeria Report and the MSME Competitiveness Report, and served on boards of local and international institutions including YBI, NESG, BudgIT, and Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industries. She is a Senior Fellow at the School of Sustainability, Lagos Business School, and holds a Master of Public Administration, a Master of Arts in Diplomacy and International Relations from Seton Hall University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics and African Languages from the University of Ibadan.