Showcase Enterprise Development Programme
- Business awareness
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Confidence
- Self-direction
- Customer segments
- Pricing
- Pitching
- Networking
- Resilience
- Team working
Main cycle
- Three-week cycle repeated three times
- Masterclass, Event Workshop and Reflection Session
- Culminates in an Event and final programme reflection
- 20-25 participants (6-8 per Reflection session)
- Expert facilitators
- Enterprise and business
- Event management
- Resilience and self-development
- Programme Manager throughout
3 x Enterprise Masterclasses
Enterprise topic areas
- Types of business and entrepreneurship
- Organisational roles, suppliers and partners
- Customers, pricing, sales and marketing
- Managing money and understanding risk
3 x Event Planning Workshops
Key concepts developed throughout
- Team working and workplace behaviour
- SMART objective setting
- Problem solving and managing conflict
- Communication
3 x Reflection Sessions
Key concepts developed throughout
- Critical thinking
- Active listening and group discussion
- Self-awareness and managing stress
- Learnings, self-improvement and growth
Event cycle
- Showcase Exhibition event located at CRATE St James Street
- Supported by and involving local businesses
- Shaped by participants at the outset of the programme
- Whole group reflection
1 x Event
- Shaped by participants at programme outset
- Business and customer facing
- Progression platform
1 x Programme Reflection
Looking back / moving forward
- Critical thinking
- Active listening and group discussion
- Self-awareness and managing stress
- Self-improvement and growth
Learning and development model
- Structured facilitation
- Peer support approaches are encouraged
- Programme management provides support, guidance and issues resolution
- Real business challenges from employing businesses incorporated by facilitators
- Reflective sessions require greater confidentiality and sensitivity
- Knowledge, skills and confidence
Enterprise Masterclass
- New content builds on previous learning
- Examples relate to all business types
- Participant sector examples
- Event application with optional ‘homework’
Event Planning Workshop
- Event planning templates
- Teams deliver different aspects of event
- Team choice reflects skills and needs
- Some activities outside of workshops
Event
- Different roles aligned to workshops
- Participant led
- Peer-support on the day
- Employer inclusion
Reflection Session
- Reflective journals
- Individual-pair-whole group activities
- Event planning or workplace content
- Active programme management support