Toolkit type: Training and methodologies
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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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Taxation and Business Registration: A Basic Guide for Women Entrepreneurs
This handbook introduces entrepreneurs to the legal and fiscal environment governing businesses in Senegal. It explains enterprise components, legal status options, establishment procedures, and the different tax regimes based on turnover thresholds, supporting informed decision-making and sustainable growth.
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How to Build a Business Plan: A Practical Guide for Women Entrepreneurs
This training manual provides a step-by-step approach to developing a structured and compelling business plan. It guides entrepreneurs through market research, business description, marketing strategy, operational planning, and financial projections. The module emphasizes practical exercises, case studies, pitch simulations, and individualized coaching to help participants design fundable and profitable business plans.
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Turning Ideas into Action: A Step-by-Step Business Plan Guide
A comprehensive training resource that guides participants through the essential components of a business plan, including executive summary, enterprise description, marketing strategy, supplier management, and projected financial statements. The module combines theory, practical exercises, and individualized coaching.
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Business Taxation and Legal Registration Guide for Entrepreneurs in Senegal
A practical reference guide that outlines the legal and fiscal framework governing businesses in Senegal. It explains enterprise structures, registration processes, required documentation, and taxation systems, helping entrepreneurs transition from informal to formal, compliant operations.
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Last-Mile Consumer Market Assessment and Planning Tool
This document details a quantitative approach to measuring consumer reach at the final stage of supply chains. By clarifying key indicators, assumptions, and calculation formulas, it enhances transparency, consistency, and evidence-based decision-making in market expansion and service delivery.
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Methodology for Identification and Selection of Women-Led Enterprises in Productive Energy Use
This document presents a structured methodology for identifying and selecting women-led enterprises involved in productive uses of energy (PUE), particularly in rural and peri-urban contexts. It outlines selection criteria, contextual and gender analysis, community mobilization strategies, enterprise identification, preliminary evaluation, and a final 360° participatory diagnostic. The process aims to strengthen women’s economic empowerment by…
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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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Mentoring in Technology and Entrepreneurship
This training equips advisory agents with mentoring skills to support entrepreneurs through needs assessment, action planning, business development, and follow-up support. It emphasizes effective communication, active listening, trust-building, problem-solving, and entrepreneur-centered guidance to improve business performance and growth.
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Women’s Empowerment and Leadership Training Module (Mercy Corps Senegal, Projet Foyre Rewbe)
It is a practical training program for women entrepreneurs that covers the gender approach and sociocultural inequalities, women’s economic empowerment in the Senegalese context, leadership definitions and styles, essential leadership qualities, real-world case studies on navigating community resistance to change, and public speaking skills to help women become confident, effective leaders in their communities and…