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Practice Areas
Education & Training
The Plexus Team
Steven M. Worth
Dates
1998
Plexus Consulting Group, LLC
1620 Eye Street, NW
Suite 210
Washington, DC 20006
Phone: 202-785-8940
Fax: 202-785-8949
Email: info@plexusconsulting.com
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In Uganda, democracy has led to
greater-than-ever demand for corporate development and large-scale small
business creation. The PRESTO Project was developed to strengthen small
business associations, foster the professional development and sharpen the
management skills of business association leaders to help build the
long-lasting institutions Uganda's economy needs.
Phase I
Working as a subcontractor to Management Systems International (MSI), the
primary contractor on a project funded by the United States Agency for
International Development (USAID), Plexus staff designed and conducted a
Business Association Workshop in Uganda for executives of the five primary
business associations. As the first step in a multi-layered intervention,
the workshop provided participants with training in core association
management skills in the areas of: communications; code of ethics and
association law; conflict management & negotiating skills; financial
planning-management & sources of non-dues income; governance issues;
leadership; management information systems; membership development;
program development; marketing strategies for associations; policy
advocacy and government relations; roles of associations in modern
society; staff operations; strategic planning and volunteer-staff
relations.
Phase II
In Phase II of the PRESTO initiative, Plexus staff co-hosted a two-week
study tour and designed and conducted a five-day, interactive association
workshop-training course in Washington for several key business
association leaders in the Ugandan manufacturing and small business
communities. As a result, working coalitions were forged among several of
the associations to benefit their leaders and members as they begin to
implement their new skills in Uganda. |
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