Toolkit

This ‘Enterprise’ unit is a basic introduction to what Enterprise means and how students can make a start to become entrepreneurial. This module will give students a chance to explore how they can be more entrepreneurial and what skills they should target in the future if they wish to enhance their entrepreneurial capabilities.

The Marketing & Business Start-Up Basics unit aims to give participants an overview of how to create a simple and effective marketing strategy, understanding the pros and cons of technology for start-ups, what makes a start-up, and the benefits of thinking outside of the box. It will also cover a little bit about social media and email marketing to emphasise the importance of utilising free and highly effective marketing techniques.

This module gives an overview to the learners of what business planning and sustainability in business means. Throughout the material theory and several activities on those topics are presented. By completing this material learners will be able to develop their own business plan, to develop a business sustainability strategy, as well as to use several online tools, which they will help them to develop an e-business planning.

In this module the learner will get familiar with terms like financial management, fundraising and online fundraising. Financial Management is one of the most important actions a company has to undertake. Through financial management all the company’s financial resources can be planned, controlled and monitored. Fundraising is a way one to get financial support for his/her organization. There are different types of fundraising and people who want to be successful on this sector need to have a set of suitable skills.

Through this module the users will understand what leadership is, they will know how to communicate effectively and at the emotional level, understand emotions and emotional situations and how to deal with complexity. Finally, they will be able to lead a good decision making process.

This ‘Problem Solving and decision making’ unit is a look at what processes can be put in place when thinking about problem solving and decision making. The decisions which an Entrepreneur takes can either lead them to success or failure so it is vital have the right processes in place when being approached with a problem or decision.

This module will show the potential and opportunities of networking in an entrepreneurial setting. In order to do that the module will introduce digital content, tools and activities that can be used in the delivery of the training.

The Stress and Time Management module aims to give participants an increased awareness of a wide variety of stress and time management techniques, understand the importance of stress and time management, and how to plan to reduce stress in the workplace from the start. They will also have the opportunity to find out about their own stress levels through the activities.

This module will show the potential and opportunities of critical way of thinking in an entrepreneurial setting. In order to do that the unit will introduce some digital content, tools and activities that can be used in the delivery of the training activities through the NFE methods.

This module is intended to improve the creativity and innovation competences among youth workers, understanding the benefits of the innovation for their entrepreneurial projects and how creativity could improve the process to innovation applying different techniques and methods.