Less Miserables - Path to Entrepreneurship and Cooperation with Tamk

• Maria Ruokonen, Team Mastery-coach (Partus Ltd.) • Lauri Holja, Master Degree Student at Innovation Management Program (University of

Eastern Finland) • TAMK Proacademy alumni, graduated as BBAs in Entrepreneurship 12/2013 • Company established 03/2014 • Global entrepreneurship education, coaching and knowledge-intensive business services

© Less Miserables 2015 - www.lessmiserables.com

© Less Miserables 2015 - www.lessmiserables.com

Learning by doing at Proacademy in a team company for 2,5 years.

Doing real projects with real customers with real money through team company. Started with small projects and gained bigger ones through learning.

• Revenue ~ 100 000 € • Profit ~ 40 000 € • Employed four team members for two

summers • The business idea was sold this year to

a younger Proacademy team and the

café continues as a heritage project

Summer café

45 days, 450 experiences, 45 000 km

To succeed as a team, we needed a motivative and inspiring common goal. We wanted to travel somewhere but couldn’t agree where. Then we thought, why wouldn’t we go to many places? We ended up doing a trip around the world that included a project in East Timor. The 6-week-long trip was made in the last part of our studies.

We worked with the launch of the first public library in East Timor. We used the skills we developed in our studies to benefit the library in the future. This was the first trip of its kind in Proacademy. We achieved a goal we set in the very beginning, which was to do something that we would be remembered as a team for a long time.

TEAM SPIRIT

FINANCES

6 months 1 year 1 year 6 months 2 years 2 years 6 months

Getting to know!the team

First projects

Team identity crisis : “What are we doing?”

COMMON GOAL

Financial reporting!“Where is the money coming from?”

“Everyone goes to the trip or no one goes”

PROCADEMY TEAM OF !

THE YEAR

A lot of the team abroad, still working towards the common goal

CAMP 45!• Singapore!• East-Timor (International project)!• New Zealand!• Fiji!• New York

230 000€

“In one year we want to travel around the world with the team.”

“No one has done the trip around the world,!you won’t succeed.”

Individual Thesis

Successful projects

Summer Café

Figures at the end of 2,5 years:!• 230 000€ revenue!• 130 projects!• Customerships 20!• Number of representing !

Proacademy abroad: 14!!

Summer Café!-project

Successful project

Smaller projects

Graduation as Bachelors of!Business Administration,!specialized in!entrepreneurship

This is the evolution of our team company, Extempo. The graph shows well the team development in team spirit and finance. Crucial to our team’s success was the common goal to travel around the world with our team and finance the trip through projects.

• Interactive workshops, co-

creative approach

!• Team learning methods, creativity

and innovation, knowledge

creation and management,

leadership, coaching and team

working

!• Our customers are universities,

entrepreneurs, municipalities and

projects that aim to improve

education and entrepreneurial

skills among youth

Proacademy's way of studying and the learning experience was so meaningful for us, so we want to share the idea and make it possible to everybody in the world to learn that way so that education would answer the needs of the working life and people would chase their dreams and be less miserable.

The aim of our workshops is to share and create new knowledge in teams and create successful team environments and good leadership.

In the workshop I got some concrete ideas on how knowledge is created and how the principles of dialogue can

be applied. -Anne Rechain, Consultant, DIMe-network,

Barcelona, Spain

The task ”Current stage - vision” was very good and instructive. I’m glad we can put the outcome in practice. There’s power in teams when developing services and

procedures. Team works got a new meaning. Until now I have ”hated” team works. Now I felt that it’s important. -Minna Nurminen, Coordinator, Service Manager,

City of Rauma, Finland

With Tamk we have coached Omani students about business idea skills and project management and we are co-creating learning visit modules with Proacademy.

maria@lessmiserables.com, +358 50 574 5975 http://fi.linkedin.com/in/mariaruokonen/ !lauri@lessmiserables.com, +358 440 622 130 http://fi.linkedin.com/in/holja/

www.lessmiserables.com I @lessmsrbls

!Interested in learning more or taking team learning tools into your university?

Contact us or visit our website and blog. We are happy to help. !

Let’s create future success stories together!

© Less Miserables 2015 - www.lessmiserables.com