(90 mins or repeated)

Every business starts with an idea, enthusiasm and a little start-up money. £25 Millionaire challenges students to think like an entrepreneur and work out how to make a small business profitable in a proven, exciting and lively programme.

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Learning outcomes – Students will have experienced:

• An exercise in Market research 

• Decisiveness,

• Creating a business plan,

• Calculating Start up costs,

• Estimating Gross profits and yearly profits,

• Experiencing how people behave and communicate under pressure,

• Experiencing how to pitch,

Students will also have understood

• COMPREHENSION – Understanding the brief

• CREATIVITY - Developing ideas ensuring that brainstorming/mind mapping techniques as a team will be essential to completing the task

• DECISION MAKING - A number of decisions about proper use of team member's individual talents, delegation and choice of strategy have to be made very quickly from the outset

• COMMUNICATION & PRESENTATION - Making ideas understood internally within the team, and externally to the presentation audience are both key.

(90 mins to 1/2 day)

Our most energetic and challenging role play based Enterprise challenge explores strategies, ethics, the basics of cash-flow, making a profit, and key business behavioural and communication skills all in the setting of a lively trading scenario.

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Learning outcomes – Students will have experienced:

• Situation analysis

• Time management

• Team working

• Decision-making

• Delegation

• Flexibility

• Negotiation

• Goal setting

• Influence & persuasion

• Communication with others

• Forward thinking

• Financial thinking

• Marketing skills.

(Whole day)

This is our most comprehensive Business & Enterprise programme, offering students an immersive role-play experience where they must develop and pitch two very different products, and take part in a challenging media campaign to sell their ideas. Also an excellent key skills assessment centre.

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Learning outcomes - students will have practice in:

• Time management,

• Delegation,

• Decision making,

• Leadership,

• Thinking on your feet,

• Experience presenting ‘live’.

• Working as a team

(Whole day)

Nearly every student will end up working within a business, but most businesses recognise that students come to their workplace ill-prepared in the key business skills. From creativity through corporate communications, to negotiations and the big pitch, business start-up is fully stocked with essential business skills.

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Learning outcomes -  Students will have experienced:

• Personal Qualities – An awareness of their key personal qualities and how to start using them in job applications, and networking

• Team Building – How to create well structured teams

• Communication – Using both personal communication skills more effectively as well as presentation skills

• Meeting Goals - How to plan, structure and carry out a meeting

• Creative development - Using creativity to successfully develop and realise ideas.

• Time management - Planning time in the short and long term, and thinking strategically

• Teamwork - Understanding how to work within a dynamic team environment

• Employer requirements – An awareness of what employers are looking for in them apart from qualifications

• Personal Qualities - Gaining an understanding of what personal qualities are, how to assess one’s own, and how to use this information to assign roles.

• Experienced Delegation and Leadership

• Negotiation - How to negotiate in order to achieve a win-win scenario

• Comprehension – Understanding the brief, working to that brief and set goals

• Presentation – Communicating ideas to a wider audience effectively and with impact.