Entrepreneurship is my career option PILOT COURSES IN

„Entrepreneurship is my career option“ PILOT COURSES IN LITHUANIA 2014 10 20 – 2014 11 07

Basic information Duration: 2014 10 20 – 2014 11 07 40 academic hours (4 hours per day) per group 2 groups (morning and afternoon) 35 students (30 active): 28 women and 7 men.

Basic information Themes: Starting business – what to do at first? What legal business form is right for me? Income and expences: counting finances „A good start – half of the work“. How to prepare a business plan? How to advertise for free? Personnel management – the employer’s and employee’s rights Workshop „Business simulation game“ Business psichology - can anyone be an entrepreneur? Seminar – discussion „My business success secrets“

Methods Tested 3 teaching methods in the pilot courses: Role-plays basing on psychodrama (Estonia) during “Personnel management – the employer’s and employee’s rights” by Jūratė Hidden cards (Germany) during „A good start – half of the work. How to prepare a business plan? “ by Marius Poster-presentation (Germany) during „How to advertise for free“ by Vaida

1 “Personnel management – the employers and employees rights” by Jūratė Method: Role-plays basing on psychodrama 1 -st group - employer 2 -nd group – employee Situations when employees or employers rights are violated, trying to find who is fault and make appropriate solutions. Result: Situation which is “uncomfortable” or unusual to participants encourage them to look for various solutions of the problem.

2 “A good start – half of the work. How to prepare a business plan? ” by Marius Method: Hidden Cards Some small groups Brainstorming before learning: Describing given phrases about business plan on a file card. Result: New learning content.

3 “How to advertise for free” by Vaida Method: Poster-presentation Some small groups After learning: creating an advertisement using posters, promoting creativity and the absorption of knowledge. Result: Creating a good relationship in groups by completing a task.

Results after trying new training methods Chosen methods were appropriate for our course. Learners were happy and interested in trying something new in courses. It was NOT difficult to adopt the methods to the courses. Learners evaluations about the courses were very good. All methods could help to reflect experience of each learner gained before.

Last day of pilot course – for success stories

Promotion In PBAC website www. pvkc. lt In Panevėžys municipality website www. panevezys. lt In PBAC (and our friends) facebook account. In Panevėžys regional newspaper „Sekundė“ In Expo 2014. . .

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