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Get started on your path to becoming an Enterprising Girl as you discover how successful Girl Founders unlocked a growth mindset combining their passion, values and purpose to become ultimate problem solvers.

Learning Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Identify, describe and discuss the characteristics, skills, capabilities and behaviours of successful female entrepreneurs
  • Reflect on their own entrepreneurial skill set and set personal, achievable goals 
  • Demonstrate and apply their understanding of a Growth Mindset

Develop empathy, community mapping and problem identification techniques to uncover an opportunity for your business to solve a problem for your customer.

Learning Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Empathise and seek to understand problems and opportunities
  • Demonstrate an open-minded, curious and optimistic approach to problem solving
  • Identify a business opportunity by finding a problem to solve

Let your imagination run wild as you rapidly develop possible solutions learning how to develop your ideas into a business product or service.

Lesson Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Ideate and rapidly develop possible solutions
  • Generate lots of ideas as well as build on the ideas of others 
  • Analyse and develop ideas into a business product or service

Walk in the shoes of your customer, understanding their needs and preferences, and the benefits your business could bring to them.

Lesson Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Identify the ways consumers and producers interact and respond to each other in the market
  • Investigate and apply human-centric design
  • Empathise and gain a deep insight into their customers’ experience, needs and preferences
  • Refine their idea by responding to consumer demands

Consider what potential competitors are doing, and how your business will provide new or better value to your customers so your idea gets to shine in the crowd.

Learning Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Explain their idea’s unique value for potential customers
  • Identify and consider potential competitors in the market
  • Refine their business idea to ensure it is both remarkable and valuable to customers
  • Investigate and apply the Marketing Mix when designing a basic Marketing Plan

Now you have an idea, we’ll explore how to quickly develop a prototype so you can show off your business ideas to others to get their support and feedback on your concept.

Learning Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Generate, develop and produce prototypes by investigating, selecting and combining a range of materials, tools and equipment
  • Investigate, experiment, test and evaluate the success of design solutions in terms of aesthetics, functionality and sustainability
  • Document and communicate the development of design ideas
  • Use project management processes (organise time, evaluate decisions and manage resources) when working individually and collaboratively
  • Apply enterprising behaviours; such as taking on a leadership role, accepting responsibility and working with others during the project

Your business needs a brand name and a logo! Time to give it one.

Learning Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Ideate a unique and memorable business name
  • Design and create a logo considering brand elements (colours, fonts etc.)
  • Establish a strong brand identity

Girls just want to have funds. Making Money will help you build a plan for your business to bring in your hard-earned cash.

Learning Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Identify and evaluate the potential costs and benefits of economic decisions
  • Estimate how much their business or enterprise will cost to set up and run
  • Build and develop a financial model to meet financial goals and to ensure their business or enterprise is making a profit
  • Use economics and business terms and concepts such as income, costs, benefits, revenue, profit, loss, budget etc.
  • Listen to and apply financial feedback and advice from successful Girl Founders

The proof is in the pudding they say, and now it’s time to put your idea through its paces. Take it for a test drive and make sure you’re on the right path.

Lesson Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Test their business idea in order to see, and hopefully avoid potential problems in the future
  • Reflect and make changes to their business idea
  • Show resilience, persistence and tenacity when faced with set-backs
  • Listen to and apply feedback and advice from successful Girl Founders

 

Launch your business with a simple, memorable and compelling pitch that will entice and capture the interest of potential customers, collaborators or even investors.

Learning Goals

Students should know, understand and be able to:

  • Set a Big Hairy Audacious Goal using the SMART framework and plan steps to achieve it
  • Craft a succinct, memorable and compelling ‘elevator pitch’
  • Plan, rehearse and deliver a Pitch Presentation to an audience
  • Explain the value of their business to potential customers, collaborators or even investors