Training course (EN)

The information and knowledge gained from the piloting phase of IO2, is used to measure the impact and evaluate the Access Enterprise Training Modules and Methodology on two different groups at a local level:  Business Advisers and the Entrepreneurs themselves:

• To measure the personal skills and professional impact on the Entrepreneurs;
• To measure the personal, social and professional impact on the Business Advisers/Coaches;
• To measure the development of professional competences of both the Entrepreneurs/Business Advisers.

Several instruments are used:

1.   The Learning Log instrument addressed to Entrepreneurs  It is a skills assessment framework documenting the journey of the entrepreneurs, in which they have to describe the training, their expectations before the training, their actual leanings, and how they will apply their learnings. This activity gives an excellent opportunity for the participants to provide feedback to the organizations by demonstrating their critical thoughts about the content used in training

2.   The Impact Assessment questionnaires are used to analyze and measure the potential impact of the Access Enterprise methodology on the personal and professional life of the Business Advisers/Coaches and Entrepreneurs from marginalized groups. It will help Access Enterprise partnership to plan better, implement more effectively, and successfully bring initiatives to scale. This tool contains six sections each with several questions with a scale of one to five: Disagree, Partly disagree, Neither agree or disagree, Partly agree, Agree - to evaluate the changes occurred after the piloting process.

Order	Entrepreneurs	Business Advisors
1	Changes in mindset/attitude	Changes in mindset/attitude
2	Entrepreneurship vision	Perception of vulnerable groups
3	Ability to receive support/feedback	Use of new tools, processes, resources
4	Open-minded ideas	Experience of co-production
5	Empowerment: The ability to cope/manage with daily life	Experience working in transnational context (intercultural)
6	Entrepreneurship skills and competences	Skills and competences

3.   Sorting cards is used to evaluate the information the Entrepreneurs acquired, in which they are supposed to choose four images (cards) that help them define the impacts of the Access Enterprise program in their lives, and then, share with their colleagues. This activity may provide significant insights into the participants’ expectations and opinions about the training by gathering information on changes in their entrepreneurship vision associated with their skills and competences and daily life.

4.    One minute paper is used to gather the Business Advisors primary feeling about the training by answering the questions up to 60 seconds:

• What positive impact do you feel you had on the entrepreneurs?
• What did you work?
• What would you have done differently?
• How has the training experience changed your practice so far? How will it change in the future?