
BUSINESS & ENTERPRISE

THE £25 MILLIONAIRE
(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.
Learning outcomes – Students will have experienced:
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An exercise in Market research
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Decisiveness,
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Creating a business plan,
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Calculating Start up costs,
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Estimating Gross profits and yearly profits,
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Experiencing how people behave and communicate under pressure,
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Experiencing how to pitch,
Students will also have understood
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COMPREHENSION – Understanding the brief
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CREATIVITY - Developing ideas ensuring that brainstorming/mind mapping techniques as a team will be essential to completing the task
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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
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COMMUNICATION & PRESENTATION - Making ideas understood internally within the team, and externally to the presentation audience are both key.

THE MARKET STALL
(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.
Learning outcomes – Students will have experienced:
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Situation analysis
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Time management
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Team working
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Decision-making
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Delegation
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Flexibility
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Negotiation
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Goal setting
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Influence & persuasion
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Communication with others
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Forward thinking
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Financial thinking
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Marketing skills.

THE TOWNSVILLE DAY
(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.
Learning outcomes - students will have practice in:
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Time management,
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Delegation,
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Decision making,
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Leadership,
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Thinking on your feet,
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Experience presenting ‘live’.
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Working as a team

THE BUSINESS START-UP
(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.
Learning outcomes - Students will have experienced:
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Personal Qualities – An awareness of their key personal qualities and how to start using them in job applications, and networking
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Team Building – How to create well structured teams
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Communication – Using both personal communication skills more effectively as well as presentation skills
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Meeting Goals - How to plan, structure and carry out a meeting
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Creative development - Using creativity to successfully develop and realise ideas.
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Time management - Planning time in the short and long term, and thinking strategically
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Teamwork - Understanding how to work within a dynamic team environment
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Employer requirements – An awareness of what employers are looking for in them apart from qualifications
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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.
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Experienced Delegation and Leadership
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Negotiation - How to negotiate in order to achieve a win-win scenario
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Comprehension – Understanding the brief, working to that brief and set goals
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Presentation – Communicating ideas to a wider audience effectively and with impact.