Toolkit theme: Mentorship
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Practical Action Partner Safeguarding Training
This training equips partners with the knowledge and skills to prevent, identify, respond to, and report safeguarding concerns, including abuse, exploitation, harassment, and gender-based violence. It emphasizes safeguarding responsibilities, organizational policies, reporting procedures, and protection of children and vulnerable adults.
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Week 3 Mentorship Reporting Tool
This is a weekly mentorship tracking form developed by Practical Action under ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program. Mentors record basic entrepreneur details, business location, and identify gaps across areas like marketing, financial management, record keeping and digitalization. The form then captures agreed action points for both mentor and entrepreneur, progress to date, lessons learned and…
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Mentorship Training in Technology and Entrepreneurship – Mercy Corps Senegal
A training guide for COSEER advisory agents covering the mentorship process (needs assessment, action planning, follow-up visits), communication skills, and best practices for supporting entrepreneurs in the energy sector.
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Business Counselling Capacity Building Training Schedule
This is a 3-day training schedule developed under ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program. Day 1 covers the theory of counselling, coaching stages, advisory roles and social safeguarding. Day 2 focuses entirely on skills and traits for effective counselling including learning styles, communication, questioning, listening, feedback and root cause analysis. Day 3addresses sales and marketing, supply…
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Sales and Marketing Strategies for Enterprise Growth
This training focuses on the relationship between marketing strategy and sales execution. It introduces techniques for lead generation, customer engagement, negotiation, and closing sales, while also addressing branding, communication, and market positioning. The module supports entrepreneurs in creating a coordinated approach that drives consistent growth.
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Effective Questioning Skills in Coaching and Advisory Roles
This module covers three key aspects of effective questioning: asking the right type of questions (open/closed, fact-based, converging/diverging), summarizing responses to keep conversations focused, and reflecting emotions back to encourage openness. It also outlines seven communication rules to help coaches get better, more meaningful answers.
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Effective Listening Skills in Coaching and Advisory Roles
This document focuses on developing effective listening skills for coaches and advisors. It covers key practices such as maintaining eye contact, staying focused on the speaker, avoiding emotional bias, and keeping the mind from wandering. It emphasizes listening to the main ideas rather than interrupting, using body language to signal attentiveness, and asking clarifying questions…
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Communication Styles in Advisory and Coaching Roles
This module outlines four communication styles relevant to coaching and advisory work. The task-oriented style focuses on results and productivity. The process-oriented style emphasizes facts, planning and systematic analysis. The people-centered style prioritizes emotions, empathy and relationships. The idea-oriented style centers on creativity, innovation and new possibilities. Recognizing these styles helps coaches communicate more effectively…
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Learning Styles in Advisory and Coaching Roles
This module covers the four fundamental learning styles based on Kolb’s experiential learning model. It explains that every person’s learning style is a combination of concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. The four learner types identified are the Innovative Learner (social, feeling-oriented, reflective), the Analytic Learner (data-driven, sequential, intellectual), the Common Sense…
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Mentorship Training for Technology and Entrepreneurship Development (MC-Mentorat_translated)
This presentation introduces a mentorship framework that supports entrepreneurs in improving business performance through technology, entrepreneurship, and capacity building. It explains the roles and responsibilities of mentors, the step by step mentorship process, effective communication and mentoring skills, and best practices for building trust, solving problems, and supporting decision making. The training also emphasizes action…
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20161007 questionnaire de présélection revu
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SME Selection Questionnaire (Energy4Impact)
This is a SME screening form developed by Energy4Impact under ENERGIA’s Women’s Economic Empowerment Program. It assesses businesses across four areas: entrepreneur profile and business spirit, internal organization and operations (staffing, equipment, energy use, market access), financial management and banking relationships, and socioeconomic and environmental impact. A final section poses questions for the mentor to…

