Entrepreneurial performance can be enhanced through proper training and mentoring. Hence the importance of trainers in the discipline of ‘entrepreneurship’ holds immense significance. EDII, having evolved the module to create entrepreneurs, brainstormed on making the process sustainable, and thus developed the Trainers’ Training programmes to institute a cadre of trainers who could subsequently create entrepreneurs.

With the objective of enabling the entrepreneurs to learn the nuances of entrepreneurship and develop the motivation in them to overcome obstacles and take the plunge, the trainers undergo a comprehensive curriculum which includes: Achievement Motivation Techniques, Entrepreneurship Training, entrepreneurial strategies to generate business, business plan trainers are also trained in soft skills along with learning on the significance and various facets of hand-holding support to entrepreneurs.

Agiainst this backdrop, EDII organised two National programmes during 4th to 8th January and 21st to 25th March, 2022 to institute cadres of trainer-motivators who could add pace to the process of enterprise creation. In all, 53 professionals from NGOs, Govt. support institutions, ED Cells, business counsellors and CSR division of corporates attended the training programme.

The participants were familiarised and trained in entrepreneurship development process, stages and interventions, identifying potential target groups and ways of promoting entrepreneurship among them, business opportunity identification & selection, designing & implementing a Entrepreneurship Development programmes and extending support to entrepreneurs in fund raising and other critical areas

Programme Director, Mr. Prakash Solanki said, “This training platform witnessed the most motivated professionals who are keen on making a difference to the world of entrepreneurship and how people perceive this discipline. The participants were interactive and that made the sessions extremely insightful and replete with practical learnings.”