‘BUSINESS & PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT COURSES FOR SCHOOLS AND INDIVIDUALS'

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CAMINO BUSINESS and SCHOOLS ENTERPRISE PROJECT

Camino will illustrate to students and teachers in schools and colleges, the basic skills required to start and develop any business, whilst also teaching transferable personal skills that can be used in any work place or organisation.

This project will be a route to business engagement and will develop a philosophy of developing business and enterprise skills throughout schools and colleges. We also coach the teachers and lecturers on the basic rules of business and explain the benefits of enterprise for everyone within the school environment. We show how to introduce business and enterprise into other subjects, develop customer service and we also show the benefits of developing emotional intelligence within the entire school environment.

The Camino project will ensure that the students enjoy the learning process, whilst it will equip them with the relevant skills to help make the students more employable for life after school or college.

At Camino we do not expect to see our students come with the same background, knowledge, skills or experiences. We see Camino developing and fulfilling the different needs of each and every student.

The project will help inspire and mentor young adults in schools and colleges to develop their own REAL business ideas and then create a REAL business opportunity for the young adults to take in to adult life.

The project will inspire young adults and show them that they CAN succeed, no matter what background they have come from. We will achieve this by ensuring that successful local businesses and mentors are introduced in to schools and colleges, to inspire young adults in to thinking in an entrepreneurial way and explain how and why they have succeeded.

Listed are some of the business skills that we will develop in the project. These will be taught in a basic language form that can be understood by all levels of academia.

Emotional Intelligence techniques
Communication, presentation and networking skills
Team building, leadership and man management skills
Project and time management skills
How to develop and visualise ideas and goal setting
Develop Positive thinking (a “can do” mentality)
Build confidence, self respect and life coaching skills
How to set up a company and raise finance
Research, what, how and where to find information
Business plans and profit and loss
Sales and Marketing
Health and safety
Property/location
Interview Skills and CV/Letter Writing
Personal Finance Hints

How are we going to achieve this?

The main tools for this project will be:

• The use of an intranet site that will include all the necessary information, knowledge and presentations, for any school or college to use on a regular basis. These presentations will be in a form that allows our business coaches and the teachers to develop this project in the time allocated in any school timetable
• During the project we will also create a “vehicle” of a real business within the school or college that the young adults can take ownership of. This will help ensure that business and the enterprise is taught in a real and practical way. The young adults can then decide which projects will receive any profits made for the “business”
• We will provide an interactive teaching course.  We will teach the subjects as above in a straight forward way with no jargon
• We provide a business coaching and training course to head teachers and teachers
• Besides the course we can also provide business competition days which are Based on the “Apprentice” TV programme
• We will provide business mentors to assist with the project. These will be entrepreneurs that have already worked for themselves or managed large organisations. They will be able to inspire the children in the schools to think of business as being a way of having a successful career, whilst also helping students with any other chosen career. Some are willing to be part of a “buddy” system to continuously help the student’s career

 FOR THE TEACHERS

Coaching seminars to cover the following subjects

• Customer care for the businesses and individuals who engage with the school or college
• Show the benefits of developing emotional intelligence
• Show the benefits for the school and the students of having businesses and enterprise in the school culture
• Show how to help the students gain real qualification from having a business and enterprise project
• Teach students transferable skills that they can take into any work place
• How to engage with local businesses
• How to develop an enterprise activity/ run a REAL business within the school
• How to provide the appropriate resources
• Communication and time management skills
• How to Get great PR for the school
• PLUS FREE cost saving audit on all products or services bought by the school. (THIS COULD SAVE THE SCHOOL £1000'S OF POUNDS)

We will also help teachers understand how to encourage business and enterprise to be developed in to any subject within the school. Listed below are some of the ideas:

• Maths:   
  Teaching basic maths skills that are used for bookkeeping, profit and loss, profit and percentages margins
• English:    
  How to write letters, CVs, presentations, reading interesting basic business books, writing articles
• Geography:  
  Where businesses are set up and why. Natural resources such as rivers. Transport, population mix
• History:    
  How we have always used business, bartering etc, history of money, history of culture, why people live where they do. Why were businesses set up?
• Science:  
  Production and development of new products
• IT:   
  Computer skills for business, how to utilise the World Wide Web for business.
• PE:   
  Keeping an active mind and health body. Team building, setting individual goals. Building a competitive spirit
• Music and Arts: 
  Teach how to develop marketing ideas. How to use people’s creative skills in business. Marketing designs and presentation skills

The benefits to the business mentors

To attract the mentors into schools or colleges, there HAS to be real and tangible benefits for the companies and individuals so that they give their time to a long term project. The benefits for the mentors will be:

Make a real and substantial difference to the future careers of hundreds of young adults
Increased branding, marketing and advertising opportunities
Increased corporate responsibility benefits. Being involved will show that you are a more caring company both to your employees and clients
Real and tangible business opportunities for their company
Real business opportunities for business leaders and investors

Comments from teacher’s students and business’s on the ‘Camino’ project and the recent Business and Enterprise event.

Barbara Trayer: Deputy Head South Leeds High School
On behalf of the students/parents/carers/staff and partners of South Leeds High School, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for organising the Enterprise Event.

“Can we meet to review and plan for the future of this valuable and exciting project”

 ‘The feedback to date has been so impressive from last week’ We look forward to welcoming you back to the new South Leeds Academy when we open on the 1st September 2009.

Mike Smith: Head of Business
The Camino course was a 100% worthwhile exercise

Salma: Student South Leeds High School
There is no need for the thank you Richard, at least we all had fun, learnt something new and met lots of people, and we should be saying thank you to you for the wonderful time. After the Camino Project I feel that I can achieve anything if I try. Before I did the project I would have never gone up to any business person and ask them questions about their business. The Camino project has definitely boosted my confidence. Ten out of ten for Camino!

Salma answered these specific questions
 Do you feel more motivated about your future?
Yes, I feel that I can achieve anything if I try

Do you feel more confident about meeting new people?
Before I did the project I would have never gone up to any business man or women and ask them questions about their business. The Camino project has definitely boosted my confidence.

Name some important personal skills that you learned during the course?
Communication skills, verbal and body language, for instance, making eye contact or shaking hands and how to sit so the person talking to you thinks you’re interested in what their saying

Name some business skills that you learned from the course
20%= skills 80% attitude, listen twice as much as you speak

What do you want to do after education?
 I want to go to college and study biology and chemistry, after that I want to go to university and study medicine and a few years later I want to become a fully qualified G.P.

What is your ultimate goal in life?
To become the best doctor in the world

Have you enjoyed the course?
I’ve had the best experience in my life; it’s been such a great experience!

Aisha: Student South Leeds High School
‘I had such a good experience with the business event and got a lot of contact details which I would be interested in for future referrals, so I would like to thank you a Richard for that!’

Amar: Student South Leeds High School
‘Hi it’s Amar we met at South Leeds High school a couple of days ago at the Business Enterprise event. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Thank you once again for showing us a brilliant new experience networking’

Sarah Jane O’Brian: HR Consultant
I enjoyed the Exhibition...   just enough time - the opportunity to assist the young people looking for work was great... Good opportunity to meet some other good contacts... (networking)...  I would want to attend another event.   The young people really tried to make it a success, and they do need encouraging.  Thank you

Darren Sykes: Web designer
Made some good contacts and a better understanding of the effect of ‘Camino’ project on the pupils involved, I Would certainly attend a similar event

Helen Underwood: First Aid Training
It was an interesting evening – the main thing being to encourage Selma – hopefully she’ll stay in touch and I can encourage her to realise her ambition of becoming a medic, and also to see so many young folk enthused about ‘Camino’

Linda Chaplow: Jillings Baddeley
Not only was the night a great success for the students and the school, but we also met some new contacts and gained some real business from one of the contacts. Further to that, we also met the Leeds Rugby Foundation who provided a sports course for my children during the holidays.

Summary

The Camino project can achieve the following outcomes:

• We will develop both a “can do” mentality and overall confidence. This will help the young adults in the other subjects that are being taught within the school and any other activities that they may choose to take part in.
• Show the children real and necessary skills that can be used after school or college, no matter what they decide to do in their career.
• Help students get work placements
• Get some of the young adults to think about business and enterprise being an opportunity for a career after school.
• Get the young adults thinking about a REAL business that they would like to create when they leave school or college. Then most importantly, help them to achieve their dreams by utilising successful business mentors, to develop their ideas into REAL businesses.
• We will help develop a business mentality within the entire school or college.
• Illustrate to the young adults how to set up and develop a business.
• Set up a REAL business within the school or college that can generate funds and teach the students about business in a real and practical way.
• Show the local authorities and parents, how the school or college gives real added value to its pupils.
• We will help the school or college develop long lasting relationships and mentoring opportunities with existing successful businesses. These mentors can help students with any career choice not just business.
• Help the teachers with a better understanding of the business world.
• Coach customer service techniques to teachers
• Create great PR for the school or college
• Provide quality suppliers that can save the school money in relation to any day to day costs.