ILO holds a coaching and facilitation workshop for business consultants supporting small and medium-sized businesses in Lebanon’s agriculture sector
The training workshop focuses on coaching and facilitation techniques for trainers helping struggling businesses improve their business continuity, resilience and decent job retention.
The ILO is holding a training of trainers’ workshop on coaching and facilitation techniques for business consultants, to strengthen their coaching skills and capacities in supporting Lebanese small and medium enterprises (SMEs) struggling to survive and preserve jobs, in light of the country’s current financial crisis, including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Following training of trainers’ workshops on business continuity and resilience held in September 2020, this four-day coaching workshop aims to equip business consultants with the necessary tools to coach and accompany SME owners in identifying challenges hampering business growth and putting job stability at risk. Specifically, the workshop seeks to extend business consultants’ coaching practice and approach to (1) adapt coaching sessions to the multiple challenges SME owners are facing, (2) enhance coaching ethics, (3) understand business motivations of SME owners and deal with potential resistance, and (4) work jointly with SME owners towards concrete solutions.
The workshop is part of on-going efforts by the ILO to support Lebanese SMEs operating in the agricultural sector and which employ vulnerable Lebanese and Syrian refugees so they can maintain their business operations, remain competitive and retain their employees. In addition to training, business enterprises will be provided with financial support to help them cope in the current climate.
The initiative is being implemented under the ‘Partnership for improving prospects for host communities and forcibly displaced persons’ (PROSPECTS), which is supported by the Government of the Netherlands, bringing together the ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR, the World Bank, and IFC to jointly address education, protection and employment.
Under this partnership, the ILO’s interventions focus on improving access of vulnerable host communities and Syrian refugees to decent work opportunities, ensuring workers from both communities have safe working conditions in line with international labour standards.
For more information, see Supporting small and medium-sized businesses in Lebanon’s agriculture and agro-food sectors
Following training of trainers’ workshops on business continuity and resilience held in September 2020, this four-day coaching workshop aims to equip business consultants with the necessary tools to coach and accompany SME owners in identifying challenges hampering business growth and putting job stability at risk. Specifically, the workshop seeks to extend business consultants’ coaching practice and approach to (1) adapt coaching sessions to the multiple challenges SME owners are facing, (2) enhance coaching ethics, (3) understand business motivations of SME owners and deal with potential resistance, and (4) work jointly with SME owners towards concrete solutions.
The workshop is part of on-going efforts by the ILO to support Lebanese SMEs operating in the agricultural sector and which employ vulnerable Lebanese and Syrian refugees so they can maintain their business operations, remain competitive and retain their employees. In addition to training, business enterprises will be provided with financial support to help them cope in the current climate.
The initiative is being implemented under the ‘Partnership for improving prospects for host communities and forcibly displaced persons’ (PROSPECTS), which is supported by the Government of the Netherlands, bringing together the ILO, UNICEF, UNHCR, the World Bank, and IFC to jointly address education, protection and employment.
Under this partnership, the ILO’s interventions focus on improving access of vulnerable host communities and Syrian refugees to decent work opportunities, ensuring workers from both communities have safe working conditions in line with international labour standards.
For more information, see Supporting small and medium-sized businesses in Lebanon’s agriculture and agro-food sectors