The Asia Foundation Trains Women Entrepreneurs to Deliver ‘Personal Initiative Training’ for Women Entrepreneurs in Gyeonggi Province
2021-12-15 |
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December 15, 2021 - On December 14, The Asia Foundation Korea successfully delivered its 12-week Personal Initiative (PI) Training, Training-of-Trainers (ToT) program, equipping three women entrepreneurs in Gyeonggi Province with the capacity to deliver PI training to other entrepreneurs directly.
PI training is an alternative approach to traditional entrepreneurship training, developed by a group of researchers in Germany after the Unification of the East and West. The PI training has been empirically proven to generate better business results than best-in-class entrepreneurship training approaches, as peer-reviewed by the Science journal in collaboration with the World Bank Group.
PI Training begins with a ToT program that trains existing entrepreneurs as certified PI trainers, who will directly deliver the PI Training to potential beneficiaries. The Asia Foundation selected three women entrepreneurs currently operating in Gyeonggi Province as trainer candidates to participate in the ToT program. Over the first six weeks, the candidates learned the concept of PI and practiced delivering the training to peer candidates. For the remaining six weeks, the trainer candidates practiced delivering a pilot PI Training to an actual group of women entrepreneurs, with an extensive feedback session following each pilot training session. The pilot training session was delivered to eight currently operating women entrepreneurs in Gyeonggi Province. The ToT program ended with a closing ceremony, with a PI Training Master Trainer officially certifying the three trainer candidates as PI Trainers.
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