In today’s world, to keep learning has become a requirement. Ensuring you keep up-to-date with new technology, new ways of work and developing yourself you assure you keep being of unique value to employers has become crucial in job security. For employers, it has become standard practice to ensure the current staff keeps learning, as competition for talent is fierce. The courses as listed below are built to ensure mutual benefit to employees and employers alike and offer a chance to become an expert in skills regarding innovation and intrapreneurship.
Courses are built to fit a typical 9-5 job and won’t take more than one day out of your week for a period of 1-3 months. Classes are given for as little as 2 or as much as 10 people per class. Course material will be supplied for self-study. 4-8 hours per week, you’ll get together with the participants and your teacher. By the end of the course, you’ll be supplied a certificate of completion for professional education. Are you ready to become an invaluable part of your organization? Enquire about the available courses.
Innovation Management
Duration: 10 Weeks. 1 Day per week.
There always is an opportunity for innovation. Voicing ideas isn’t hard. Guiding this idea, all the way from ignition to scalable product or service, in a corporate environment, that is extremely difficult. You’ll need an understanding of an organization’s appetite for risk, the economics of project development, managing resources, facilitating corporate buy-in for any initiative, calculation of opportunity cost and rapid collection of valuable feedback. In this course, you’ll gain an in-depth understanding of the most important theories and skills, needed to develop and manage innovative activities in a corporate setting.
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Intrapreneurship
Duration: 12 Weeks. 1 Day per week.
Nowadays, it’s becoming common to see entrepreneurial activity in bigger businesses (Intrapreneurship). This sounds like a dream, entrepreneurial excitement with the security or a paycheck. Intrapreneurship is very complicated, and understanding how to navigate it to success requires a lot of knowledge on corporate limitations, processes and guidelines. Theories on understanding risk management, scientific implementation of project management and the economics of new product development are key to proper execution of intrapreneurship. This is what you’ll learn in this course.
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Meeting facilitation
Duration: 6 Weeks. 1 Day per week.
Time is the most valuable resource available. Imagine every meeting you’ll attend to end on time, with clear goals achieved, tasks divided and deadlines set. This is attainable in every environment. It takes various skills to be able to achieve this. Manage egos, interrupt when necessary, getting back on track, set the scene before a meeting starts, acknowledge valuable input whilst putting it aside to achieve a meeting’s goal and being able to take full ownership of a meeting, even when superiors are in the room. By the end of this course, you’ll be fully equipped to tackle every meeting, making you an invaluable part of your organization.
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Business Negotiation
Duration: 4 Weeks. 1 Day per week.
Life is about compromises, as is conducting business. Whether you are negotiating contracts with external partners or trying to foster a partnership between departments internally, you’ll need to negotiate a basic agreement. Interests are never 100% aligned. In this course, you’ll learn how to gain all information you need to create an irresistible proposal, whilst keeping all party’s best interest at heart. Understanding how to do this properly is an invaluable skills in today’s business environment, where management practices become more horizontal and everyone tends to give input in new agreements or initiatives. Understanding how to leave room for interpretation when needed, whilst at the same time being crystal clear where essential is what you’ll learn in this skill course.
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Pitching
Duration: 6 Weeks. 1 Day per week.
To get things done, you’ll need to be able to get to the point quickly, intrigue people instantly and get a clear answer (or even commitment) at the end of any conversation. Pitching yourself, your idea, your team or your solution to key stakeholders in your business is a skill that will make you and your ideas more valuable to anyone in the business. It is not about what you say, it is about how you say it. Make every word count. Capture attention from beginning to end and know when to stop talking. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to pitch your idea effectively to anyone in the organization.
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Venture Creation
Duration: 12 weeks. 1 Day per week
In this skill course, you’ll learn how to create a business without corporate restraints. Entrepreneurship involves a complex combination of skills. You’ll learn about entrepreneurial finance, marketing (Analog, social and digital), qualitative and quantitative research, project management, feasibility assessment, prototyping, pitching, business modeling and more. This intense course starts with nothing but an idea, but at the end of the course, you’ll be ready to try and sign your first customer. You’ll literally kick-start a business, understand the skills needed to set it up, manage it and gain traction with customers and users.
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