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Entrepreneurship Development Course

What this course is

This is a five week full-time training programme for motivated entrepreneurs willing and able to commit to full participation.

Intense by Design
The programme is intense by design. We believe that real learning and growth happens when you apply new knowledge to solve real problems.
 
Challenges
You will overcome challenges both emotional and technical. You will succeed at completing tasks that you did not believe that you could ever do.
 
World class skills
By the end of the programme you will develop lasting self-confidence that if you try you will succeed. You will develop world class problem solving skills, leadership skills, and team working skills.
 
Value creation
You will work in a team to solve a real problem in your community. The value, you will have evolved to, will be so useful and usable that members of your community will be coming back to buy more of the solution that you designed, built, and delivered.

Week 1: Courage & Motivation

  1. Self–belief
    Learn the Theory of Learning Curve to develop a learning mindset. Understand how mistakes are a normal part of learning and that each mistake is a step towards success.
  2. Personal purpose statement
    Analyse your motivations, strengths, and passions to identify the unique purpose that motivates you to succeed.
  3. Public Speaking
    Build courage and confidence, in a safe environment, through learning and practicing a structured approach to speaking in public.
  4. Sales skills
    Learn this entrepreneurial and life super-power: Build personal courage and resilience in cold approach sales skills. You will learn a structured approach and apply it live to get up this essential skill’s learning curve.

Week 2: Value Creation Skills

  1. Design Thinking
    How to find solutions to difficult problems for users of those problems (your customers). This is the core of the value creation mindset (entrepreneurial mindset).
  2. Scrum
    How to collaborate with teammates to get your solutions done. This is an approach to project leadership to get the best from your team.
  3. Iterate
    Your will sharpen your skills by conducting live iterations of Design Sprints, as a team, on real problems.

Weeks 3 to 5: Capstone Project

Over the final 3 weeks of the course you will do it for real. You will strengthen your new skills on live entrepreneurial projects.
 
The aim of the project is to solve a difficult problem and get your solution adopted by your community. Adoption is the holy grail of any start-up. You will achieve this: by humbly applying what you have learnt; discovering the root causes of the problem; evolving your intial solution to become truly useful and usable to your customers; having the courage to sell your solution to real users of the problem.
 
These projects will be chosen by you, the participants, with help from our facilitators. The projects must be:

  1.  Achievable within 3 weeks.

  2.  Meaningful to you.

  3.  Valuable to your community.

The learning objectives of the Capstone Project are for you: to understand that if you try you can achieve the near impossible in only three weeks; to demonstrate to you that you can you use your new skills to generate real value for you and your community; to continue iterating up the learning curves of new knowledge to consolidate learnings and skills; to give you an intense team working experience with a real, live, impactful mission to achieve that you have chosen.

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Whilst the course is free financially, you must be prepared to pay for the course with your full participation and hard work.

What you can expect from us

1. We are here to facilitate your learning and development. We will encourage, support, and respect your efforts to participate, learn, and contribute.
 
2. We are non-hierarchical.
 
3. We are here to build your skills, and self confidence to make you the agent of your own decisions, action, and success; we are not here to put you down or reinforce the pecking order.

What we need from you

We need you to be fully committed, punctual, and ready to work hard every day. We work hard to provide this course for free and the basic requirements that we need from you in return are:

You must be motivated and willing to commit everyday for the duration of the course from 08:30 am till 16:00 pm. You can never be late or leave early and you cannot miss a day

You should be able to communicate well in English both spoken and written. The course is currently available in English only.

You should be unemployed.

You must be committed to keeping your phones off the entire time during training, and at no time posting any message or pictures on social media about the training – this is to guarantee everyone’s privacy.

Be available from start to finish of the course.

You should not be: studying, on a Learnership, or apprenticeship. 

You must be able to get to the course site daily – if you are physically (dis)abled and mobility is a challenge, please note that on your application form.

You must be serious about wanting to improve your life.

This is NOT a Learnership, it is NOT an accredited course & there is NO stipend. You will need to cover your own transport.