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Leadership in the Global Enterprise Experience

Lead a global team and master the art of inspiring, unifying, and innovating to create impactful solutions for a better world.

Duration
5 Weeks

Course overview

Develop your skills as a global leader, a creative problem solver, a social entrepreneur, and a citizen of the world!

Lead a global team online to craft a six-page business concept proposal for a profitable venture that tackles a UN Sustainable Development Goal with limited capital. Compete for awards, prize money, certificates, and seed capital.

As a leadership challenge, you’ll lead this global team over three weeks to develop the proposal. Connect with your team online, build friendships, brainstorm creative ideas, and collaborate on the proposal. This contest has been recognised with a United Nations Alliance of Civilizations award for nurturing leaders across 135 countries, empowering them to use business to address the UN SDGs.

You’ll receive training in developing a business proposal, using virtual team technology, fostering creativity, honing leadership skills, understanding social entrepreneurship, and most importantly, personal growth. Access educational technology resources, attend interactive webinars, participate in peer-support workshops, and receive personal one-on-one coaching.

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Course modules 

Leadership:

  • Communicating to influence
  • Manage across cultures
  • Deal with conflict
  • Decision making
  • Giving feedback

Innovation 

  • New venture development
  • Profitable social enterprise
  • Global challenges and opportunities
  • Concept development and strategy
  • Intellectual property protection

Coaching

  • Receive personal coaching to reflect and form your own insights
  • Support and be supported by other leaders

Further Information

Not keen on leading but want to try out the experience? You can enrol as a team member for free.

Completion to an acceptable standard earns you the option of a Victoria University of Wellington Leadership in the Global Enterprise Experience Micro-credential (12 points at NZQA Level 7). You have the option of this additional recognition for $304.75 incl. GST.

You may choose to enrol as a single participant or as a pair.  Sessions are interactive two-hour webinars with rich connection to peers.  Sessions are repeated so the times suit people in different time zones and work circumstances.

As a particpating organisation will benefit through improved:

  • Leadership skills learnt through experience and insight
  • Capacity to make new ideas happen
  • Insights on impacting the UN SDGs profitably
  • Diversity, inclusion and belonging skills and strategies
  • New venture planning
  • Personal growth to take on challenges and excel

Here's what others are saying

“I learnt more in these three weeks than all my years at university. All the ideas to make a project happen were crafted into one awesome team proposal.” Rick Stemm, United States

“When I finally saw the results my eyes filled with tears of joy. No matter our race or religion we can succeed with just unity.” Aziz Samandari, Iran

“Our team was a symphony of diversity – across ages, cultures, and world views. We were divided by geography, but united by technology.” Jean Terblanche, South Africa

“When we used the creativity tools to our surprise we were flooded with great ideas to profitably impact the UN SDGs.” Salome Pellan, Vanuatu

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