FAQs

Generate Your Business (GYB) Idea is a three-day (24-hour) training seminar for those who are interested in starting a business, but who don’t know what business idea will work for them.

Start Your Business (SYB) is a five-day (40-hour) training seminar for those who want to start a business and who have a concrete business idea. The outcome of these five days is the formulation of a bankable business plan for the participants. 

Improve Your Business (IYB) is again a five-day (40-hour) training seminar for those who are existing entrepreneurs and who have been running their businesses for at least six months. This IYB training seminar covers five modules namely marketing, costing, record keeping, business planning, and stock controlling & buying.  

The SIYB training program that is being designed and implemented in Sri Lanka is generally for those who can read and write (basic literacy) and who can do basic mathematics. However, the SIYB Association advocates the facilitators of the SIYB training seminars to allow the entrepreneurs to accompany their children/siblings, who can read and write and who can do basic mathematics, to the SIYB training seminars (mainly for the SYBs and IYBs) and help their parents/siblings to follow the training programs. This approach has been practiced whenever such entrepreneurs were enrolled in SIYB training seminars in the past.   

SIYB training program is a material-based management training program for SMEs in Sri Lanka. Therefore, all SIYB training activities use SIYB’s relevant training manuals. Since they are produced using high-quality materials with long-term reference (durability) by the entrepreneurs in focus, they are reasonably priced. You can visit the page on ORDER and download the “Price Quotation for SIYB Training Manuals” to get the accurate price details.  

The SIYB Training of Trainers (ToT) Seminars are 10 days in duration. Generally, they are conducted as a residential program for 10 consecutive days. Alternatively, depending on the request of the donors/funders/partner organizations, ToTs are split into two halves of five days each and are conducted accordingly.    

Generally, SIYB ToT Seminars are conducted based on the request of the Partner Organizations or donors sponsoring SME development programs in Sri Lanka. At the same time, from time to time, the SIYB Association organizes ToT Seminars for freelance trainers. Those who wish to get trained in an SIYB ToT Seminar can self-fund and enroll to graduate from an SIYB ToT Seminar. Hence, contact the SIYB Secretariat (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to send in your CV to register yourself for a future SIYB ToT Seminar.     

This is one of the common questions that the SIYB Secretariat often gets. Also, this is one of the main questions the SIYB ToT participants often have. You can use the below link to access the guidance in this regard.

“Guidance on Obtaining SIYB Trainer Certificate”