21st Century Enterprise Skills Additional Details

21st Century Enterprise Skills

Issued by Griffith University

Earners developed an understanding of entrepreneurship and startups as a viable business model. Earners showed initiative and drive and developed skills in sustainable thinking, global citizenship, product design and development, business and branding design, pitching an idea, and team building. Earners demonstrated the 21st Century Enterprise skills of adaptive mindset, collaboration, communication, creative problem-solving, critical thinking, innovative thinking, customer focus and empathy.

Additional Details

Skills

Earning Criteria

  • Earners are Year 10,11 and 12 students from Brisbane schools invited to participate in Enterprise Skills for the 21st Century
  • Earners have participated in a workshop and demonstrated 21St Century Enterprise skills in a hands-on environment supported by industry
  • Earners have participated in all aspects of the program working in cross disciplinary teams with mentors demonstrating entrepreneurial skills including creativity, problem solving, innovation, adaptability, collaboration, research and communication
  • Earners have demonstrated active individual and group participation, observed by supervisors, across the full program and completed individual and peer reflections.
  • Earners have identified and conducted competitor market research and consulted with potential customers and refined their concept accordingly.
  • Earners have pitched a social or business entrepreneurship idea both individually and as part of a team and actively collaborated to prepare and deliver the presentation to a high standard