As part of the EISD-NEIP Hub Acceleration Program, EISD has signed an MoU with a world leading provider of mindset, critical soft skills, innovative business skills and personal development training firm, the I Am Worth It Project (IAWIP). The IAWIP is to provide tailor made training solutions to EISD staff, partners, and clients.
The purpose of the MOU is to establish collaborative relations between EISD and the IAWIP in the area of mindset, personal development, and critical soft skills training to increase the personal and economic empowerment of beneficiaries and other stakeholders affiliated to the EISD by embedding IAWIP essential soft skills training solution into the current and future entrepreneurial training program/s of EISD.
As part of the MOU, IAWIP shall
- Establish and customize specialized essential soft skills training programs for beneficiaries of EISD to help improve their productivity and work output.
- Provide its customized Success Degree Program™ to beneficiaries of EISD to help improve their employability prospects.
- Provide specialized post training support to beneficiaries to help assist them to develop habits of success.
- Support, participate, showcase and share information on EISD services and activities that align with IAWIP’s brand worldwide.
EISD on the other hand shall
- Make the training Programs of IAWIP available to its beneficiaries.
- Participate and partner in relevant events, forums, panel discussions and information sharing in the mission of the IAWIP.
- Provide business development services for IAWIP in Africa
Tammy Sherger, the Founder and CEO of IAWIP, on her part said through engagements with relevant stakeholders in Ghana especially the government and its partners, it has become clear that the solution to unemployment and business growth is not only the required hard skills, but the underlying mindset, personal development and critical soft skills that do not usually form part of the educational and other training programs. She reechoed that globally there has been a shift in recognizing the importance of mindset, personal development, and critical soft skills training to support people to successfully become thriving entrepreneurs. IAWIP has developed a strategy to reach out to all beneficiaries of EISD through the I Am Worth It Project Coaching App.
She added that unlike other soft skills providers, IAWIP offers a 1-year post training support that is essential to inculcate the habits that are learned during the training, could track KPI’s and finally has a component of the Experts Calendar where a carefully curated calendar of experts provide specific and targeted training to identified areas to support beneficiaries ongoing growth and success.
Signing the MOU, the CEO of EISD, Mahadi Alhassan indicated that the collaboration with IAWIP is timely since his organization is currently looking at more innovative ways of increasing employability and business growth of their clients and beneficiaries. Mahadi concluded his remarks by saying the collaboration was going to lead to win-win situations for both organizations. He assured IAWIP that EISD will make all reasonable efforts to fulfill its part of the bargain in Ghana and across the African continent. He urged IAWIP to do the same.