1. No 2
THE MOJO BULLETIN
Welcome to the bulletin Motivation and Job Opportunities project
(MOJO) bulletin. The bulletin covers the project progress and events.
The first Partner and MOJO Manage- to enhance the motivation and
ment meeting took place on Wednesday therefore the Job prospects of
14th December 2011 at Focus many of the unemployed within the
Enterprises in Birmingham, UK. Partners countries.
The Report will be available with in
The first of the MOJO project’s work
each Partner country as well as on
plans is now complete.
Partners Web sites and under
Manos Andreadis from partners Asset MOJO on the Leonardo ADAM
Technology in Greece, presented the web site.
draft questionnaire and accompanying
methodology for Partners to discuss at
the first meeting in Birmingham UK in
December 2011. All Partners rose to the
challenge in meeting the tight deadline for
completions of the questionnaire. Manos
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colleagues at
Asset Technology
sorted, collated
and assessed the
questionnaires
and produced a
cohesive and comprehensive report that
details the current unemployment status
within each of the six MOJO Partner
countries. The Current Review report
identifies the type, intensity and
frequency of the help and intervention
available to those who are unemployed.
The report highlighted the difficulties
which have been intensified with the
current recession. The review looked at
the positive contribution that the MOJO
project could bring in working

2. No 2
On the 19th March the MOJO Partners embarked on a 3 day training
programme on the MOJO process. The training took place with Partners
Focus Enterprises in Birmingham UK. MOJO is an intensive coaching
process - working with long term unemployed - which uses at it’s core Mo-
tivational Mapping.
MOJO Process Alex Hicks from Focus Enterprises
Visualisation
took the lead as trainer coach for the 3
Aspiration days. The aim of the training was to
Motivation
explain the process in detail and en-
Action
Innovation able participants to understand how
Obstruction process would be delivered. To meet
this aim the training was based
around the MOJO partners role-
playing as unemployed person from their area and going through the
MOJO process. The reasons for
organising the training in this MOJO Process – Coaching Wheel
format was :-
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2)To allow for more in-depth ques-
tioning of the methods that can be
used in working though the
process with beneficiaries
3) To understand how the process
MOJO Process – Coaching Wheel could be implemented within the
MOJO partners area and with
Long term
unemployed
their beneficiaries
viewpoint
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how the process would be
delivered within each Partner area
as well as the type of beneficiaries
the process is best suited for
against the type of beneficiaries that partners would be working with and
how the MOJO process would be adapted to meet this need.
The trainer manual and client
user booklets (Translated in
MOJO Process – Coaching Wheel
each Partners language) will be
available for the pilot testing of Change the
emphasis!
the MOJO process which will Get the wheel
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begin in July 2012 and run for 5 –
6 months.
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