PELATIHAN APLIKASI FOCUSED GROUP DISCUSSION BAGI WIRAUSAHA

Abstract

This community development aims to help entrepreneur have understanding about focused group discussion as a method to get data from customer. Entrepreneur who are graduated from Economic Faculty, Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta would have got better understanding relation to essence, benefit, and procedure on organizing focused group discussion. This community development is conducted through tutorial, discussion, and simulation method thus Entrepreneur would get real experience regarding to focused group discussion .This community developments held on December, 27, 2006 at Economic Faculty. Seven entrepreneurship attend this forum. The beginning, participant are asked to fill out a form consist of personal data and questioner, we knew that just three participants have right understanding regarding focused group discussion. The forum started simulation with topic “obstacles which alumni faced in work –force market”. An experienced moderator guided the discussion. Participants had enthusiasm. From the simulation, we inferred that Economic Faculty need better understanding requirements in work force market. The forum ended when participants must filled out questioner regarding their understanding on focused group discussion. We concluded that participants enhanced their knowledge about what and how to run focused group discussion. They intend to employ this method to get data from their customer.