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South Africa Needs Entrepreneurs!
Unleashing the entrepreneurial mind
Helping build a thriving community of Entrepreneurs
Back in 2015’s Global Enterprise Monitor (GEM), South Africa had overall done well in entrepreneurship ventures, ranking well on a global scale. However, an analysis of the country's overall performance reveals many shortcomings and proves that South Africa is lacking in the necessary skills.
It is the vision of SAIE to equip the entrepreneurial minds of South Africa with the right kind of skills and entrepreneurship training. Our aim is to overcome all the shortcomings and provide innovative and simulation-based training.
We help people of all ages thrive and achieve solid results by creating a dynamic culture of entrepreneurship. We achieve this through the development of innovative programmes and methodologies that help individuals grow and also create amazing entrepreneurs. We empower and enlighten individuals to create an effective, dynamic, and sustainable future.
Lifeskills Programme
About this programme
Life Skills is a comprehensive training program that provides you with all the tools needed to move your career to a new level. This is achieved by equipping you with the perfect balance of learning, support, and motivation beyond the classroom.
The Life Skills programme is divided into 6 packaged products. It is a facilitated program, which is based on a series of 2 full weeks training modules.
INCLUDED PRODUCTS
- Discover Your Career
- The Ten Commitments
- The Mover’s Map guide
- Trade-Offs Game
- Dilemmas Role play Game
- The BEST Game
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Entrepreneurial Business Development
About this programme
Business Simulation
The Business Simulation consists of four modules. The learning points build incrementally on each other and are continually reinforced with the running of each module. In addition to teaching a wealth of business-specific skills, the BEST Game is also very successful in emphasising important life skills such as teamwork, the essential elements of good communication, organisation, negotiation, and compromise.
AgriPlanner Suite
About this programme
AgriPlanner changes mindsets. By combining entrepreneurial and business thinking with agricultural production, it moves small-scale farmers from 'a 'subsistence' to an ‘entrepreneurial’ mindset. The plot of land is seen as an economic unit, capable of generating income as well as feeding a family. Farmers are Introduced to markets and are empowered to plan production, to meet the need of the market.
KEY LEARNING POINTS:
Level 1: What will we plan to grow?
Level 2:How much land can we cope with?
Level 3: What will everything cost?
Level 4: How do we have enough money to do everything?
Level 5: How do we cope with unexpected problems?
Level 6: Where are the best options to sell our products?
Level 7: How do we get everything to run smoothly from day to day?
School Entrepreneurship Programme
About this programme
It was once necessary for learners to memorise countless facts and gures because it was not possible to carry all the books in the world or instantly access the information locked within them. But in the "wired world" of the Information Age it is possible to access such resources through devices that t in the palm of your hand!
VENTURES recognises this reality by developing educators into learning facilitators and mediators who are able to prepare young people to become life-long learners equipped to deal with the uncertainties and the opportunities of the 21st century.
The Classroom as it Should be
The ideal classroom is one in which the educator is released from administrative burdens and empowered to act as a dynamic facilitator of learning. As a facilitator, the educator:
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Interacts with learners in order to educe (or bring out) and develop their natural
talents and their capacities for creative and critical thinking.
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Takes the role of a mentor or guide who sends learners to various learning resources,
from which learners discover new ideas and ways of thinking by means of experiential, action learning.
SAIE Academy Programme
About this programme
Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset
The following techniques are used in Biz-Futures Teaching. The methodology aims to achieve a change in entrepreneurial mindset:
The Aims Of The Programme Are To Teach Learners To:
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Acquire the essential business knowledge, skills, and principles to productively and profitably conduct business in changing business environments
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Create business opportunities, creatively solve problems and take risks
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Apply basic leadership and management skills and principles whilst working with others to accomplish business goals
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Become motivated, self-directed, reactive lifelong learners who responsibly manage themselves and their activities
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Be committed to developing themselves and others through business opportunities and ventures
Our Mission
Our operations focus on the creation of seamless stakeholder collaboration and leveraging modern teaching techniques to improve entrepreneurial areas in South Africa. During all these years of doing business, we have set our minds on a few goals which we intend to achieve along the way.
- We aim to engage capacity building in individuals who have the entrepreneurial potential to develop new business opportunities and solve problems in society through unique, innovative, and impactful solutions. All our programmes allow different individuals to grow according to their unique skills, resources, networks, and other perks.
- We aim to empower individuals to take the right and impactful business decisions while simulating the best training experience for them. We teach them how to opt for good investments and avoid taking bad decisions which would be harmful to a business model.
- We empower individuals to prepare for the management of effective, dynamic, and sustainable businesses based on their innovative and entrepreneurial ideas. That means preparing for uncertainties such as uncalculated expenses, dangers of selling on credit, and market ups and downs. We also teach them necessary business skills such as having the opportunity to practice selling and negotiating, writing simple business plans, doing break-even calculations and drawing up simple cash flow statements, income statements, and balance sheets describing a business (simulation) that they have experienced first-hand.
Through these goals, we intend to eliminate poverty and create unique business opportunities where there are none.
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Every day we see new entrepreneurs thrive in an environment that allows them to learn in action, join the SAIE community.