The module focuses on identifying a person’s barriers to enterprise and working with them to overcome these barriers – Our advisors work to restore confidence and self-esteem, help people discover transferable skills and build self-belief and motivation. We also introduce the idea of exploring enterprise as a credible employment option.
We cover a wide range of topics including time and stress management, building confidence, improving personal dynamics, understanding body language, improving decision making and coping with change through planning.
Our one-to-one coaching service is also typically used in tandem with this module to give clients an extra helping hand to overcome any real or perceived barriers to starting a business.
Watch our advisor Spencer explain the benefits of starting a business:
On completion, the client will be more aware of their interest in enterprise and will either choose to engage with our Introduction to enterprise workshop series or positively deselect themselves from the programme, having decided that enterprise is not for them.
The later is a perfectly good option – it takes total commitment to start a business, with a high investment of time, money and effort. This may not be the right choice for many people.
Anyone who engages with the Outset programme doesn’t leave empty-handed though – if we can’t be of service, we are happy to refer people to one of our partner organisations, with the person taking a new set of skills with them that can be used in a variety of different employment scenarios.
They arrive with a new awareness of their own strengths, weaknesses and interests, having had their abilities identified and an action plan set.