BDS Coaching and Mentorship for Start-up Business Advisers and Expert-Based Service Providers

Course Curriculum and Modules

This course consists of 7 mandatory modules and 1 elective module for participants to specialize during their mentorship support in the field.

Module 1: Foundations of BDS

Module 2: Identifying, Packaging & Monetizing Your Expertise

Module 3: Designing a BDS Program / Project

Module 4: Designing & Delivering BDS for Start-up MSMEs

Module 5: Branding & Monetizing Your BDS Program

Module 6: Sector Opportunities, Trends & Policies for BDS

Module 7: Elective Module: Specializations for BDSPs

• Developing Competences as MSMEs Trainer: Consulting Project
• Developing Competence as Youth Entrepreneurship Trainer
• Developing Competences as Start-up Business Adviser
• Developing Competences as Business Adviser for People with Disabilities (PWDs)
• Developing Competences as Generalist Trainer
• Developing Competences as Women Entrepreneurship Trainer

Module 8: Bonus: Personal & Professional Development for BDSPs

• Action Plan for Continuous Learning & Development

Ideal Course Participants:

This course is ideal and right fit for:

1. BDSPs who are new in the field and are willing to develop their skills, knowledge and competences as business advisors or trainers of MSMEs
2. Trainers who want to develop skills as business advisers so as to develop a new income stream for their practices
3. People with skills, work experience, university graduates and those who want to turn their expertise into a business
4. Individuals who are nearly retiring with solid work experience and expertise or education and would want to transition into the private sector to offer services on a fee basis
5. Project officers with interest to develop competences as business advisers or trainers in MSMEs sector

Individuals with interest to turn their expertise, skills or knowledge into a business