Live cohort training for next-generation entrepreneurs - skills, tools, mindset & networks to set you up for success.
A 10-week programme where you'll learn the skills, tools and mindsets to become the next generation of entrepreneur in your family business - while sharing insights and building meaningful connections with your peers.
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NextGENtrepreneur Academy Cohort
Weekly Training & Cohort Networking
Through peer learning and collaboration, cohort-based training helps trainees tap into their full potential as future leaders and grow to become more confident, capable entrepreneurs.
You'll learn from experienced instructors with deep knowledge in family businesses, and have the opportunity to network with other young entrepreneurs facing similar challenges.
10 Weeks of Training
Academy Modules
Self Leadership
It all starts with you as the leader. You must learn to lead yourself before you can lead others.
Leading Others
No one can do it all alone. Inspire, motivate and lead your team so you're all working in the same direction.
Handling Conflict Without Fear
Conflict is inevitable. Managing it productively and moving to resolution effectively is crucial.
Team Development
Developing your team's internal and external strengths, spotting gaps and derailers.
Time Management
Making the most effective use of your time is the best way to drive business and personal life forward.
Personality & Leadership
Who you are determines how you lead. Learn your leadership style and how it impacts your team.
Strategic Thinking
Understanding where the world is going and how you can get ahead of the right trends.
Coaching Your Team
You are only as strong as your weakest link. Developing your team is crucial to long-lasting success.
Hiring The Right People
Competency-based selection - find the right candidates with the right personality, ability and values.
Business Storytelling
Selling ideas and motivating your team makes you and your business stand apart from the rest.
Leadership & Personality
Individual Leadership Profile
Every NextGENtrepreneur receives a personalised Leadership Profile as part of the Academy - because knowing your leadership style isn't a nice-to-have, it's the foundation for everything else.
Using 30 facets drawn from the science of personality, your Leadership Profile identifies your top leadership styles and reveals how you naturally lead, where your blind spots lie, and how your approach impacts the people around you.
Personality
Facets
Your Course Creator
Stephen Shortt
Stephen has spent his entire adult life (and most of his childhood) in family businesses - as well as starting a few of his own. Having bought both family businesses from his parents and grown them internationally, Stephen learned a great deal about successful succession planning.
Former Global Chair of the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards and member of the global committee for EO Accelerator. Strategy facilitator, team development coach, leadership coach and personality profiler.
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