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The Role of the Enterprise Coach or Outreach Worker

April 10, 2008 by admin

It seems to me that there are an awful lot of enterprise coaches/outreach workers/community motivators /enterprise enablers out there all of whom are tasked with the similar roles:

  • to promote an enterprise culture in the community that they work in, and
  • to help individuals to start their own businesses by providing 121 support and signposting them to specialist service providers

The roles are beset with many and varied challenges, including how to:

  • engage individuals in using the enterprise service that they offer
  • help people to move forward and to be more enterprising
  • effectively help people to access specialist support
  • recognize when progress is being made and when it is not
  • develop a service that provides a demonstrable return on investment to funders and other stakeholders
  • manage the diversity of people, ideas, interests and motivations

If you are in one of these roles what other challenges are you facing?

If you have been a customer what other challenges do these enterprise workers need to consider and work on?

I think it is true to say that no-one has yet really bottomed out all of these challenges and that we need to find a mechanism for sharing what works.

Filed Under: enterprise, entrepreneurship, management Tagged With: community, development, enterprise, entrepreneurship, management, operations, professional development, training

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