Introduction to Micro Enterprise Training
 by
Phil Bartle, PhD

Module Introduction.

Documents Included in this Business Training Module:

 Micro Enterprise Training, skills needed, participants' notes

 Micro Enterprise Training, facilitator's notes

 Choosing a Micro-Enterprise; facilitating entrepreneur decision making;
 notes for the facilitator;

 Choosing a Micro-Enterprise, how to choose a viable micro enterprise

 Planning a Micro-Enterprise, planning methods for running a micro
 enterprise

 Financial Training, a check list of topics in financial recording
 and reporting

 Business Records, the why and how of keeping cash records   and

 Marketing, a quick course in marketing for mobilizers and micro
 entrepreneurs.

 What skill training is needed for participants in micro enterprise
 income generation?

Skills Needed for Generating Wealth:

 After you have organized a credit organization, composed of an
 umbrella group consisting only of members of its trust groups, the
 organization will become a vehicle for training its members in the
 skills necessary for each running her or his own micro
 enterprise. This module looks at some of the skills that will be
 needed by the members, and at how you might go about providing the
 necessary skills transfer.

The kinds of skills needed include:

 Credit skills: borrowing money, dealing with banks or other
 creditors, interest;

 Financial skills: keep accurate records, make budgets, calculate
 profits and losses;

 Planning and Management skills; to manage people, physical
 resources, finance;

 Communication skills: speaking, writing, listening, reading;

 Marketing skills; research, sales, entrepreneurship;

 Technical skills: the applied physics, chemistry, biology, craft
 and artisan skills of a chosen profitable and productive
 enterprise.

 Training documents currently include five needed topics, pamphlets
 several pages long, for both facilitators and participants: Choosing
 a Micro Enterprise, participants' notes for selecting a viable
 business; Planning a Micro Enterprise, planning methods for running
 an enterprise; Financial Training, a check list of training topics
 in financial recording and reporting; Business Records, the why and
 how of keeping cash records; and Marketing, a quick course in
 marketing for mobilizers of micro entrepreneurs. For the
 facilitator, whose skills are more in organizing a community group
 for action, just having documents on the skills needed will not be
 enough. It is necessary to plan and carry out a programme of
 training that is geared specifically to meet the needs of the low
 income persons, many illiterate, to run viable businesses. The
 document Micro Enterprise Training, Facilitator's Notes, will guide
 you in your own planning and management of a programme.

 This module is aimed at helping to balance two separate
 requirements: (1) providing the skill transfer that each of the
 clients will need to run a viable business, and (2) designing a
 skill transfer programme that is desired by and chosen by those
 clients. That will require considerable dialogue between the
 facilitator and the participants.

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Updated: 2003 April 22