SELF-EMPLOYMENT
I offer a wide range of services aimed at supporting people who
wish to
start
or grow their own business. This can include everything
from
developing the initial business idea to getting the business up
and
running. Initially, these services draw heavily on the job
design
and personal profiling approaches; there can then be a
period of
ongoing support and mentoring. I have developed my own
self-employment training course, Stepping
into
Business, from which I build tailored training programmes
for
individual clients, taking into account their specific business
and
disability needs.
A large number of people with disabilities choose
self-employment as
their way of working. Whether this is because of
difficulties in
getting a conventional job or because they have had to develop
some of
the strong personal characteristics and attributes necessary in
business, they will inevitably have needs in their business
which arise
directly or indirectly from their disability. My
self-employment
work attempts to capitalize on the abilities of the individual,
to
minimize the impact of their disability, but not to ignore
problems
that may arise from that disability.
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