Student Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion – Session 01 Identifying Opportunities
TEACHING PLAN SESSION 01 – IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES
Total: 180 minutes
Content
Students should:
Methodology
Duration
 understand the importance
of opportunities for starting
a business
 Lecture
5 min
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list their strengths
list their interests
list their skills and talents
list business ideas on the
basis of their strengths and
interests
 list people the students
know who might be helpful
in the entrepreneurial
process
 Exercise
 Lecture
20 min
 Exercise
10 min
 Lecture
 Exercise
10 min
 learn to think creatively
 learn to use metaphors to
come up with business
ideas
 learn the creativity tool of
brainwriting
 understand the importance
of thinking creatively
 Exercise
 Lecture
10 min
5 min
 Exercise
10 min
 Lecture
 Exercise
 Group
Discussion
10 min
 apply creativity tools to
come up with business
ideas
 Exercise
20 min
 value the importance of
people’s needs as a basis
for business ideas
 Lecture
 Exercise
10 min
 know what criteria make a
good idea
 Lecture
 Exercise
10 min
Introduction
 Learning Objectives
 What is Opportunity
Identification
Personal Evaluation
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Students’ Strengths
Interests
Skills and Talents
Business ideas
 Social resources
Creativity
 Three dots
 Metaphors
 Brainwriting
 Think outside the box
Problem Solving
 Exercise Community
Problems
Needs
 Definition of needs
Evaluation
 Evaluation and screening
components
 Feasibility analysis
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Student Training for Entrepreneurial Promotion – Session 01 Identifying Opportunities
Forming Start-Up Teams
 Start-Up Teams
 students present potential
business ideas and form
entrepreneurial start-up
teams
 Exercise
60 min
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