StartUp School Workshops for ActionLaajuus (5 cr)

Learning objectives

Upon successful completion of the course, you will:

- learn concrete tools for running your business
- develop your practical entrepreneurial skills in various themes
- be able to reflect and analyze your own development and skills as an entrepreneur

Contents

From the variety of workshops during one semester you can choose five workshops. The content of this course is based on the themes of the workshops you choose, and the portfolio and learning diary based on them. In your portfolio you describe and apply gained skills and knowledge in your business idea or established company.
The workshops are offered by StartUp School (Action workshops). External workshops have to be approved as part of the Workshop for Action course by StartUp School via email (startupschool@haaga-helia.fi).

Lähtötaso ja sidonnaisuudet muihin opintojaksoihin

You should have a business idea or a running business to work with.

Implementation methods, demonstration and Work&Study

You will learn through
- participating five workshops of different themes
- describing and applying gained skills and knowledge in your business idea or company (portfolio)
- reflecting on the process in your learning diary

Assessment criteria - grade 1

Self-knowledge: Student can recognize development areas of her/his entrepreneurial vision.
Learnings: Student describes his/her learnings from different workshops.
Implementation: Student can identify learnings of the workshops and tests them with her/his business idea.
Reflection: Student can reflect his/her major learnings from the workshops and implementation.

Assessment criteria - grade 3

Self-knowledge additionally to grade 1: student understands and describes his/her development areas and can build his activities based on his own needs.
Learnings additionally to grade 1: Student identifies his/her learnings and is able to define next steps of the development plan.
Implementation additionally to grade 1: Student takes first steps to implement these learnings in practice.
Reflection additionally to grade 1: Student is able analyze his/her learnings more deeply.

Assessment criteria - grade 5

Self-knowledge additionally to grade 3: Student can create a realistic development plan for him/herself to support improvement as an entrepreneur.
Learnings additionally to grade 3: Student clarifies his/her learnings more advanced level and mirror learnings into his/her development plan.
Implementation additionally to grade 3: Student has implemented learnings in practice successfully and creates further development plan.
Reflection additionally to grade 3: Student reflects how development plan, learnings of the workshops and implementations effect to his/her actions as an entrepreneur.

Learning materials

On Moodle