WELCOME TO WORTH: Training Program for Women in Business

1. WELCOME ! WORTH “WE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD” Training Program For Women in Business American Refugee Committee Guinea

2. Guinea TrainingObjectives • Share personal successes and lessons about empowerment, literacy, micro-finance, and micro-enterprise • Understand WORTH self-help literacy model • Understand WORTH economic empowerment program and how it is different from other micro-finance models • Learn principles and practice of successful micro-enterprises • Learn principles and practice of Appreciative Planning & Action for WORTH • Design WORTH/Guinea implementation plan • Develop WORTH/Guinea Orientation Program • Create and practice Orientation Program modules • Make personal plans and commitments for implementation of WORTH

3. WORTH Guinea TrainingAgenda Day Topic • Introduction to Appreciative Planning & Action • Problem to Opportunity • Discovery of the Best Introduction to WORTH • Our Dreams for WORTH/Guinea Our Group: Empowerment Literacy • Selling Made Simple: MicroEnterprise Development • Designing WORTH Program • Delivery of WORTH Program • Presentations and Celebrations

4. Participant Expectations & Dreams • -- • -- • -- • -- • -- • -- • -- • --

5. Day OneAGENDA • Introductions – Appreciative Interviews • Appreciative Planning & Action • “Problem to Opportunity” Exercise • “Worst Problem Ever” • Discovery of Best Experiences • Seeking the Root Cause of Success • Introduction to WORTH • The Birth of Worth in Nepal • WORTH for Guinea • “A-Valuation” and Action Planning

6. Appreciative Planning & ActionIntroductions • Appreciative pairwise Interviews • Meet a ‘stranger’ – pick unfamiliar partner • Interview each other (15 min. each) • Questions: • Tell me a story about a time when you felt you made a real difference, a real contribution, a time when you felt proud, excited – in your life, your family, your community • What was your own particular role? • What factors contributed to your success? • Introduce your partner to the group • 1 min. summary introduction with highlights of their story and role

7. Appreciative Planning & Action (APA)The Root Causes of Success • What did we learn from our interviews? • What factors led to success? -- -- -- -- -- -- --

8. Tea Break and “Energizer” • Exercise from the • “Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises • “Hopi Indian Boy”

9. Appreciative Planning & Action“Problem to Opportunity” • Learn an appreciative approach to problem solving • Choose the worst problem you can think of • We will turn your worst problem into a positive opportunity in just an hour or two • Problems are either • Things that discourage us and drag us down… or • Opportunities for achieving great things… • It’s our choice….!

10. Brainstorming -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- “The Worst of the Worst” -- “The Worst Problem….”

11. ProblemTree

12. Examples: Problems War Death, destruction Conflict, violence HIV/AIDS Opportunities Peace Life, creation Harmony, caring Healthy, safe-sex Problem to OpportunityThe ‘positive opposite’ of the ‘worst problem’ The ‘positive opposite’ of our ‘worst problem’ Problem: Positive Opposite: This is our Affirmative Topic

13. Discoveryof the best, of success, of what works • The Search for ‘the best,’ ‘what works,’ successes concerning our affirmative topic • Pairs interview each other (5 min. each): • Share personal positive stories, experiences that illustrate the affirmative topic • Each pair joins with another pair (or 2) to form group of 4-6 • Introduce your partners and share short summaries of their stories

14. Dreamof even better, what we want more of… • Share your personal dreams of life, a world full of the best, of what we want more of • Draw a picture together of the year 2020, of what this looks like for our children, our grandchildren – of a world full of the best

15. Designa plan, strategy for achieving the Dream • Outline the main elements of a strategy, an overall plan for achieving the Dream • Summarize these on your picture in 3-5 bullet points

16. DeliveryAction Plan to Get Started • Write a short action plan for the coming week to get started on implementing, Delivering, your Design for achieving your Dream • Each person take a task from the action plan that you want to work on • Each person write your personal commitment on your plan

17. “Do It Now!” • Choose one thing from your tasks, one small thing you can do right now to get started… a small first step • “Do It Now !”

18. Sharing Dreams and Designs • Each team makes one minute presentation summarizing the team’s • Dreams • Designs • Delivery • “Do It Now!” • Each person shares his/her • Personal Commitment

19. SuccessTree

20. What Happened? • Only about an hour ago you felt the problem was ‘hopeless’ • Now you are engaged in action addressing the opportunity, and feel encouraged • What changed?

21. “Words make Worlds” • What changed? • Our words – positive, future-oriented • Our language – affirmative, appreciative • Our questions • Instead of asking aboutthe problem, we asked about the solution • This is the power of Appreciative Planning and Action (APA) • WORTH is built around APA

22. Appreciative Planning & ActionSummary DiscoverThe best, success, what works Dream Even better, what we want more of Design Strategy, general plan to get there Deliver Action plan & commitments to start “Do it now!” Take action to get going now

23. APA and WORTH • How can we apply the principles of APA to WORTH ?? -- -- -- --

24. Tea Break and “Energizer” • Exercise from the • “Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises • ???? Choose One that works

25. APA for WORTH/Guinea Discover • your best experiences with empowerment, literacy, and small enterprise Dream • A positive, prosperous future for Liberian women Design • A dynamic WORTH program to build that future Deliver • Action plan and commitments to get started

26. Discovery“The Roots of Success in WORTH/Guinea” • Find your original partner • Engage in a conversation of Discovery that taps more of your most powerful, positive personal experiences • Think about your experiences that relate in some way to the goals of WORTH/ Guinea

27. Discovery Interviews Tell me a story about a time when you really made a difference… for yourself, your family, your community – A story about: • Empowerment. Personal growth, success • Literacy and/or adult learning • Micro finance, and/or • Micro enterprise, small business, entrepreneurship

28. ‘The Root Cause of Success’ • Join with your original group • Share highlights of your stories • Discuss: • What are the common factors that make success? What themes do our successes share? • Share your ideas about ‘The root causes of success’ with the larger group

29. WORTH NepalThe Root Causes of Success • Now let’s hear the story of WORTH in Nepal • History • How it works • The results • The Root Causes of Success for WORTH in Nepal

30. (WORTH Nepal Presentation) • (continue with Marcia’s WORTH presentation/slide show)

31. Tea Break and “Energizer” • Exercise from the • “Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises • ???? Choose One that works

32. “A-Valuation” • “The Best” and “Even Better” • APA for Evaluation

33. ‘The Best’ Your favorite moments today, what you enjoyed most, what was most valuable -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- “Do it Now” What to do -- tomorrow? -- -- -- ‘Even Better If we were running a WORTH training together like this, how could we make it ‘even better’ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Who will do it? -- -- -- -- Day One - Review

34. Are we having fun yet? • “The Morning News” • Energizers & Activities

35. Tea Break and “Energizer” • Exercise from the • “Do It Now” Tool Kit of Appreciative Exercises • ???? Choose One that works