Starting a Team Enterprise (10cr)

Objectives (course unit)

Student will be able to:
• search for information from literature and professional network in order to start an enterprise.
• form a team and understand the requirements of forming a team.
• work as a team member and develop team by personal attendance.
• create a team organization, which starts the business.
• know how to lead a team enterprise according to shared vision.

Content (course unit)

Why start a team enterprise?
How do we establish a team enterprise?
What kind of skills are needed when starting a business?
How do we learn in a team?

Assessment criteria, pass/fail (course unit)

Passed
Student is able to search and use the information in order to start a team enterprise. Student understands the requirements of being a team member. Student is capable of forming a team enterprise and develops the team enterprise by personal input and attendance according to a shared vision.

Failed
Student is not able to search for information in order to start an enterprise. Student is not capable of forming a team or does not understand the requirements of being a team member. Student is not able to develop the team by personal contribution and attendance.

Location and time

At Proakatemia during the autumn semester according to the paja schedule (please see Pakki/Lukkarikone and Teams)

Exam schedules

The Sales Days or similar event acts as a demonstration; substitutions due to absenteeism are agreed on a case-by-case basis in the team, with the coach.

Assessment methods and criteria

The student will perform work time monitoring in a jointly agreed manner. The amount and quality of the work will be monitored together, and feedback discussions will take place with both the team and the coach.

Assessment scale

0-5

Teaching methods

The course consists of practical work to launch a team company, workshop lessons developing theory and dialogue skills, seminars, literature, and essays on ennobled knowledge, and participation in building a team company and community culture.

Learning materials

Literary tips are shared during the course of the course, in development discussions, et al. With them, the student draws up a reading plan. Based on literature, students write 15 essay points of essays with separate instructions.

Student workload

Students are required to get a minimum of
120 h of paja hours
290 h of other learning tasks (company creation, meetings, negotiations, seminars, cells, development discussions, demonstrations...)
15 essay points, i.e. 150 h literature essays

Content scheduling

According to the teams paja plan

Completion alternatives

If necessary, agreed with your Proakatemia coach.

Practical training and working life cooperation

The theory is connected to the practice of your own team company.

Further information

Completion of the course requires the student to have a team to set up a business.

Assessment criteria - fail (0) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

The student participates randomly in the startup stages of the team business. The student brings little new information to the team business: participation in workshops is not active nor do the essays have valuable content for the team. The student has difficulty in self-assessment and utilizing peer feedback. He does not act on team values.

Assessment criteria - satisfactory (1-2) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

The student has participated in the launch of the team company. He has been involved in creating policies, values, vision, and mission. He has acquired knowledge and distributed it sporadically in the pajas. The essays are written, but there are flaws in grammatical correctness, use of sources, or fluent merging of theory and practice.

Assessment criteria - good (3-4) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

The student has been actively involved in the launch of the team company. They have been involved in the creation of policies, values, vision, and mission and demonstrated that they have internalized them. They have acquired relevant information and shared it in learning situations. They have mastered the principles of dialogue. The essays demonstrate the management of the issue and contribute to the learning of the team company, but occasionally there are shortcomings in the right language, use of sources, or fluent combining theory and practice.

Assessment criteria - excellent (5) (Not in use, Look at the Assessment criteria above)

The student has made an active contribution to the launch of the team company and claimed responsibility. They have directed processes that have created common practices, values, vision and mission of the team company. They have acquired appropriate information from reliable sources and shared it in learning situations.
The student has shown that they master dialogue skills and that they are able to think together, following the principles of dialogue. They have participated in seminars, cells and various learning situations, and have read literature et al materials appropriately, and through the essays that he has prepared, shared the skills that benefit the team and the team company.
The essays show the mastery of the matter. Relevant sources have been versatile utilized, the text rightly provides applications for your own activities based on ideas generated by sources. The language is groomed. The essays contribute to the learning of a team company.