Training Plans

The training plans help VET professionals deal with topics related to passing business ownership to employees and encourage the use of cooperative models during business crises or when there are no successors. These plans provide VET professionals with tools to carry out flexible training that can be online or in-person. They promote self-directed learning for employees and can include group or individual sessions.

Critical thinking for Strategic Decision Making

This module explores the key elements to critical thinking and why it is important for worker buyout with examples where necessary how you can nurture and develop your skills.

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Socially Responsible Businesses

This module explores the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility within and beyond the EU. It covers strategic frameworks, key legislation, and insightful case studies on how to effectively integrate CSR into business operations.

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Organisational Models: Democratic and participatory

This module explores transformation of organisations into participatory and democratic entities through various management styles, organisational structures, stakeholder engagement, and adaptive leadership.

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Transfer of business ownership

Transfer of business ownership is focussed on the ability of organisations to look at business continuity (long term) immersed in the daily contingencies of doing business in the short term. At the same time, the ability of workers to engage in different roles, in a multitasking perspective, especially in micro and small-sized enterprises, as well as the founders’ will to pass on their managerial skills to the new generations.

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Methodological and process innovation: Adapting to Digital and Technological Change for Business Transformation

This module explores how businesses can adapt to change by improving efficiency and effectiveness. It covers process innovation, business process redesign, technology's role in redesign, and digital transformation, providing success and failure factors for these approaches.

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ICT for Process and Product Innovation

This module equips VET professionals with resources to implement training on technological innovation in Work-Based Learning Organisations (WBO). It aims to link technological innovation with growth opportunities, teach professionals to describe and recognize various innovations, and design strategies for becoming technological innovators. It fosters a supportive attitude towards innovation and assesses the suitability of different innovations for enhancing WBO processes.

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System Innovations

Our last module explains how innovation is driven by a complex system of interacting actors like businesses, universities, and R&D institutes. It emphasises the importance of understanding these relationships to navigate and benefit from this system.

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