Vendor Business School Quick Guide for the VBS Coach

CGIAR Initiative on Resilient Cities. 2024. Vendor Business School Quick Guide for the VBS Coach

Welcome to the Quick Guide, facilitator-coach! Your role in the VBS is two-fold. You are the facilitator of the VBS weekly face to face group sessions as well as the vendor-participants’ coach. These two roles are complementary. Thus, your coaching sessions should build on the lessons during the weekly group sessions. This Quick Guide for the VBS Coach is an accompanying resource to your Entrepreneurship Coaching Guide found on pages 164-198 of your VBS Facilitators Guide. Those pages will serve as your main reference for coaching. Meanwhile, this quick guide is a handy companion for when you are meeting your participants during your coaching sessions for the VBS. The aim of this quick guide is help you fulfill your role as a coach by providing the essential information you need in a light, portable, easy to navigate format. It offers a quick look at the VBS coaching process, the steps you need to take, the tasks and activities you need to do for each step, and the essential tools you will need. For ease of use, It is divided and color coded accordingly.