LEAD2363-Module 6 Assignment 

Small Business Challenges

Unexpected events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can offer businesses an opportunity to evaluate their design and processes.

You will interview a local small business owner, manager, or employee to learn how they have adjusted to sustainability challenges across the triple bottom line. You will submit the results from your interview in a 3-page essay that includes a word cloud.

Step 1
By now, you have scheduled someone who owns or works for a local small business to participate in an interview. Follow up with a reminder and ask permission to audio record the interview for analysis purposes (you will not submit the audio recording).

Step 2
Develop 10 open-ended interview questions addressing sustainability challenges affecting small businesses. Consider the module readings as you develop your questions.

Step 3
Conduct the interview, recording it if permission was granted. Take notes to help with analysis.

Follow up with a note of thanks for the person’s time and expertise.

Step 4
Transcribe the interview recording to create interview data. Then, analyze the interview data to find connections across the triple-bottom-line framework.

Step 5
Create a word cloud from the transcribed interview data using any free online word cloud generator.

Step 6
Write a 5-page essay summarizing the interview, addressing how the interview data fits across the triple bottom line, and including the word cloud created from transcribed interview data. 

Step 7
DISCUSSION MODULE 6

Family-Owned Business Challenges

After completing the required readings for this module, post your original response to the discussion prompt by clicking Reply below the prompt and entering your response. Include appropriate citations to support your response.

“Family businesses are one of the oldest and most prevalent type of firm worldwide” (Marques et al., 2020, p. 799).

In this discussion, we will explore entrepreneurship and the family-business structure. We consider successful business growth for family-owned businesses.

Develop an original response to the following prompts:

What are your recommendations to entrepreneurs for raising capital to start a family-owned business?

What is one 21st-century challenge affecting family-owned businesses?