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Teaching Format
Training &
Mentoring
Training programs can be set up in a teaching format. Often I will combine this format with more interactive modules as well.
Training and mentoring are keys for building entrepreneurial capacity. Often training programs are more effective when linked to on-going mentoring.
Vocational crafts training is particularly beneficial for underemployed youth and women with few marketable skills, particularly when linked to markets. Vocational training can also be linked to production workshops that are expanding their production base and need skilled workers.
Mentoring is where I have seen the strongest and results, and I introduce peer mentoring as much as possible. For example, a successful entrepreneur who had grown a home-based workshop into a small scale industry mentored other fledging entrepreneurs in how to manage employees in the local context, establish cost-effective procurement policies, access market opportunities, a host of issues particular to the local culture.
As a business owner in Mali I know, first-hand, the effectiveness of business-to-business collaboration as an effective form of mentoring. It exists in all sectors, and is the basis for business associations. Formally or informally, intra and inter sector collaboration is a key form of mentoring with mutual benefit to all.
Interactive Training
A training on upgraded joinery and furniture techniques
My Traning &Mentorig Experience: Export Readiness Int'l Customer Service Product Development Managing Growth Digital Imaging Production Efficiency Packing & Shipping Record Keeping Market Research Costing & Pricing Promotion and PR Merchandising Vocational Programs
My Traning &
Mentorig Experience:
Export Readiness
Int'l Customer
Service
Product Development
Managing Growth
Digital Imaging
Production Efficiency
Packing & Shipping
Record Keeping
Market Research
Costing & Pricing
Promotion and PR
Merchandising
Vocational Programs
Here, a workshop on efficient production methods
Creative basketry for
refugee women
Mentoring often yields the most sustainable results. I have spent hundreds of hours mentoring people in small business development.
Peer mentoring is a viable method to increase capacity
Virtual Mentoring
Click here for a virtual mentoring case study.