SLEM -Entrepreneurial Self-Leadership Education through Virtual Training

First, the partners will jointly develop a course manual comprised of a theoretical foundation on the methods employed as well as practical exercises for students to reflect on themselves, set goals, and plan their implementation. The course manual will be used to design and record a video course to help facilitate the presentation and delivery of the contents in the course manual. The addition of a video course will make the students' participation in the training a multisensory experience when compared to merely reading the manual, which has been shown to improve learning effectiveness. Following the recording of the video course, the partner organizations will conduct a baseline assessment of their students' proficiency in self-leadership skills and entrepreneurial cognition and mindset. Afterward, each organization will teach the course to their enrolled students and, then, repeat the assessment. The results will be compared to those of a wait-list control group. This allows conclusions to be drawn as to the effectiveness of the course material in training the skills and abilities that the course was designed to train. The organizations will engage in scientifically rigorous methods of analysis to explore whether a causal link between participation between a student's participation in the training and an improvement in their personal entrepreneurial skills and mindset can be established. Each partner will create an individual case report on the experiences they acquired during the teaching of the course at their institution. These case reports will then be collated, compared, and conflated to form an overarching case study, which serves as guidance for third party organizations that wish to teach the developed course material to their students after this project is completed.