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EMPRETEC – The Business Revolution. Join it and make a difference.
Mission
In an ultra-competitive environment, the entrepreneur needs solutions and decisions that lead to good results in business. The Empretec workshop sets the basis of entrepreneurial training through an intensive 9-days programme in which the participants are continuously challenged to test their entrepreneurial competencies and the results of their behaviours and to measure them permanently.
About the programme
EMPRETEC is an international programme for entrepreneurial development and business networking supported by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD - Geneva) and by the Romanian Government. The programme is operational in 27 countries on 3 continents, Romania being the first and only country in Europe in which the programme has been implemented since 2002.
The core product of the programme is the Empretec Workshop dedicated to the development of entrepreneurial skills and competencies and based on a unique Harvard originated methodology focused on a behavioural approach to entrepreneurship.
The target group is represented by entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs - by which the programme means every person who owns or administers an enterprise/ a business.
The workshop encourages the participants to analyze their own entrepreneurial competencies and challenges them to critically assess their strengths and weaknesses. Thus, the workshop becomes an opportunity to get familiar with typical behavioural competencies of successful entrepreneurs, to practice them and strengthen these behaviours in themselves within the workshop and in their current businesses.
Methodology
The workshop had been initially conceived by David McClelland, professor and psychologist at Harvard and it was afterwards developed together with the Consultancy Companies Management Systems International and McBeer & Co, supported by USAID and the United Nations. Offering an innovative approach, Empretec was called by David McClelland the most significant progress facilitating programme in the entrepreneurial training history of the last two decades.
The method used in the workshops is strongly interactive and focused on learning by doing. Structured exercises are used, as well as role-plays, simulations, case studies, evaluation instruments meant to challenge the participants and lead them to identifying their own abilities and stimulating the wish for permanent improvement in areas such as quality, efficiency, growth and profitability. Once the participants become aware of their need of permanent improvement, they start using this in every aspect of their business. As a result of the programme, successful graduates obtain a clear vision of what they want to do with their businesses in the short and long term.
Benefits of participation
1. You will understand how successful entrepreneurs behave and think in various situations.
2. You will learn to negotiate, to lead, to be assertive, to influence and to control results, to understand the reasons for which some companies are successful even during crisis, to discuss with bankers, to deal with situations under pressure, to work in a team.
3. You will recognize your strengths and indentify points that you would want to improve.
4. You will be able to put to the test and apply your experience in all the activities of the workshop as well as in your current business.
5. You will gain experience not by years of work and by lecturing studies and seminars but by learning by doing.
6. Your access to funds will be facilitated.
7. You will have access to the international network of over 430.000 Empretecos and to the national one of over 800 Empretecos.
Registration for the programme
After filling in the registration form and paying the fee, the candidate will be contacted and scheduled for an interview. The interview consists of a discussion of approximately 50 minutes that will lead to drawing an entrepreneurial profile of the participant which will be used during the workshop. Moreover, the interview will be an extra-opportunity to clarify any aspect related to the workshop.
Dates and locations for the available Empretec workshops in 2010
• Bucharest, 21 May - 29 May
For details regarding terms of participation please contact the local responsibles:
- Bucuresti, Ovidiu Sturz: ovidiu.sturz@apar.biz
Details & information contact: 0723603528, 0745508598
EMPRETEC in the world
The name Empretec – the Spanish acronym for emprendedores (entrepreneurs) and tecnología (technology) – has been first introduced in Argentina in 1988. Since its inception, the EMPRETEC programme has been initiated in 27 countries, assisting more than 120.000 graduates of the programme.
One of the countries with the most Empretec centres is Brazil, which hosted the last international Empretec conference organized on 21-22 November 2008. 3000 participants were reunited in San Paolo for a-two-days seminar on different themes of common interest.
www.empretec.net
EMPRETEC in Romania
The Empretec network in Romania numbers over 650 graduates of the workshop. The programme has been implemented since 2002 in different cities of our country: Baia Mare, Brasov, Bucuresti, Constanta, Craiova, Galati, Piatra Neamt, Targu Mures, Timisoara and has been organized by the local Chambers of Trade and Industry and by the Euro Info Centers.
Between 2004-2005 the Consultative Board of the Empretec Programme was created, led by the business consultant of the programme, Mr. Dumitrache Dima – president of ANEIR and was formed by representatives of UGIR 1903, The Romanian Patronage, CSDR, CNIPMMR, BCR, Bancpost and Junior Chamber International Romania, with the purpose of offering consultancy and support to the Empretec graduates in accessing funds.
Until the end of 2005, the workshops had been delivered by international trainers, but in May 2006 Timisoara hosted the first Empretec workshop delivered in Romanian. By the end of 2008, the team of Romanian trainers was counting 11 members.
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