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- Before enrolling
- Enrolling
- Support for Academics, HR Managers & Recommenders
- Requirements and marksheets
- Submitting work and applications
- Team Member issues
- Team Leader issues
- Leadership Coach issues
- Business Mentor issues
- Awards, certificates, micro-credentials and ceremony
FAQs
GEE-Free
The GEE-Free has a wide range of participants:
* About 2/3 of participants are in university classes or work leadership training programmes that are built around the Global Enterprise Experience
* The remaining 1/3 are volunteers who are doing it for the learning, networking, and recognition on their CV
* About 60% are undergraduate students, 20% are graduate students (usually MBA), and 20% are in the workforce (usually in management positions).
* The GEE-Free is completely free. We are grateful for any donations to support our work.
GEE-Plus
GEE-Plus costs USD 1,210 for individuals and we have institutional agreements for multiple enrolments. Here are some considerations:
* The programme is best suited to masters level students or managers in the workplace.
* About 96% of GEE-Plus enrolees choose to take the team leadership offer, the remaining 4% choose to be a team member but make use of the workshops, training materials, and personal coaching.
* The leadership role is tough! A talented US military manager with a PhD who enrolled for three years. In the first two years she was a team member who excelled with winning the GEE Peer-Leader Award. In her third year she took on the leadership role. She was startled that the leadership role was such a big step up in terms of time, commitment, responsibility, learning and insights.
Leadership Coach
The Leadership Coach programme costs USD 1,210 for individuals, and we have institutional agreements for multiple enrolments. Here are some considerations:
* Leadership Coaches must have the mana to engender respect from the GEE Team Leaders
* The coaches are usually:
managers in the workforce, or
people trained in coaching who wish to increase their skills, coaching experience and/or gain a coaching qualifications, or
masters students, or
staff in organisation seeking to bring in a coaching culture, or
top performers in previous Global Enterprise Experience contests.
* Coaches must have access to a private space and reliable internet connection.
* Enrolment numbers are strictly limited to 56 people.
Business Mentor
The Business Mentor programme costs USD 1,210 for individuals, and we have institutional agreements for multiple enrolments. It is an invitation only programme as enrolees need strong skills in business and personal mana. Enrolments are strictly limited to 20 people. Contact us if you are interested in being invited to enrol. The programme is useful for gaining skills and experience in:
* Mentoring small businesses and start ups
* University lecturing and tutoring to gain skills in fostering student-led learning and insights
* Facilitation skills for individual and group learning
* Strategic thinking skills for starting new ventures
The Global Enterprise Experience encourages all participants to be peer-leaders – that is taking joint responsibility for team creativity, team productivity, team problem solving, team unity, and coaching others to succeed.
Log in (http://enrol.geebiz.org/Questionnaire.aspx) with your main email address and your ID number.
Below is the questionnaire, or you can access it as pdf here.
There are four ways you can step up to become the overall team leader:
1. You are a member of a sponsoring organisation. The team leaders are appointed before the start of the contest and receive training and support.
2. You enrolled in the GEE-Plus programme for USD 1,210 so receive priority rights to any team leader roles
3. You are invited to be a co-leader during the contest by your team leader because of your high performance. As a co-leader you will be given access to all of the same materials and support as the leaders. If you are keen to be invited to co-lead, then you may like to let your leader know.
4. Sometimes the designated team leader fails to fire. If so, promptly reach out to the leader to see if there is an issue, offer help, alert the
Leadership is a big step up from being a team member, but it is also very rewarding.
- We will add you to the Microsoft Teams platform as a member, and create and send you a new email address to use as a GEE Business Mentor. Your email address will probably be [Your first name]@windeaters.co.nz.
- Add this email to your PC accounts
- Add to Outlook
- Send test email
- Use this new email to log into Microsoft Teams
- Use this email to login to Microsoft Bookings (https://outlook.office.com/bookings/homepage)
- Set up your browser
Below is the guidance for steps 6 and 7.
On your browser go to the Microsoft Bookings page ((https://outlook.office.com/bookings/homepage). Under "Shared Bookings" you may not see the Business Mentor Bookings site. Click on search to find it.
Sign in
This next step makes sure that your browser opens up your tabs from the previous session. This means that once you open Outlook, Teams and Bookings tabs, these tabs will open up for again whenever you open the browser.
Here is what the GEE Team Leaders see on the Microsoft Team Leader's channel for booking Business Mentors
The GEE-Free programme is completely free. About 80% of participants are in the free programme. They are team members and receive emailed guidance during the contest.
The remaining 20% of participants are in the GEE-Plus programme that costs USD1,210. They receive full training, personal coaching, business mentoring, networking, and access to leading roles.
Details of the what is on offer for GEE-Free and GEE-Plus can be found here and is also shown below.
Yes. We understand that semester start dates are sometimes later than the last day for enrolment. Let us l know if you need to enrol late.
We build the teams two days before the launch date, so this is the final time that we can accept enrollees. They must have responded to our email with submitting their bio and completing their Peer-Leader Self-Evaluation. Neither of these requirements take much time, but the enrollee does need to receive our email and respond promptly. So late enrolments put pressure on you to ensure your enrollees have our email address (deb [at] windeaters.co.nz) in their safe sender list, and promptly respond to our emailed request for their bio and self evaluation.
You are able to view our live database to keep track of any missing enrolments.
You are asked to submit a bio after you have enrolled. Your bio is visible to all contestants. Once the contest has started, your team leader will share the bios of your eight team members with you. Your bio aims to help your team to get started quickly, knowing a bit about each other.
Upload a brief bio to share with other participants. It needs to include three things:
A bit about yourself – such as your experiences, interests, aspirations, challenges, and things you love.
What you can offer your team – such as skills in creativity, marketing, accounting, writing, editing, graphic design, online research, field research, finance, economic evaluation, or understanding local issues.
One initial thought on a group, a need, a sector, or a UN Sustainable Development Goal that interests you and may serve as a focus for your team - such as youth, people with disabilities, women, tackling corruption, migrant workers, environment, ending modern slavery, finance, tourism, farming, health, education, clean water, sanitation, energy, plastics, oceans, justice, 3D printing, drones, blockchain … or something else.
Log in (http://enrol.geebiz.org/Login.aspx) with your email address and your ID number to upload your bio file.
Click on the "Enrol" tab. Scan down the page to the "Enrol - Leader Coach" heading and click on the orange text "Enrol here".
To enrol, please contact the Programme Director,
Send an email and text message to the team leader initially. Their details are on your excel spreadsheet. Assume that there is a good reason that they are missing - there usually is. Please urgently contact
In the meantime, please step up to take peer-leadership actions. Reach out to team colleagues both as a group and individually. If you have not heard from the team leader within two days, then you and/or other team members will need to take on leadership responsibilities. Send an email to your designated leader to let them know what you are doing. You can ask Deb to add you to all the training and support systems available to leaders. Keep Deb informed of what is happening in your team.
Training: Enjoy interactive webinars on leadership skills, personal development, innovation, creating a business concept proposal, social enterpreneurship, and the UN SDGs. The sessions are interactive and experiential learning for your team challenges. Get the full details here.
Peer-Support Workshops: Share your issues, learning and insights with other team leaders from around the world in facilitated network sessions. Receive guidance from colleagues and professionals.
Personal coaching: One-on-one coaching helps you form deep insights into yourself, align with your goals, amplify your strengths, and overcome the blockages that sabotage your best intentions. YOu can raise issues with your coach like fostering team engagement, dealing with conflict, stimulating creativity, or your own personal challenges around confidence, leadership, and making tough decisions. Book times for 50-minute online sessions that suit you with your chosen coach.You can book as many sessions as you like. We recommend getting weekly coaching.
Business mentoring: One-on-one business mentoring enables you to get help with technical challenges like business strategy, marketing, economic evaluation, and making the idea happen. Mentors use more coaching skills than advice giving, to help you develop a quality team proposal. Book times for 50-minute online sessions that suit you with your chosen mentor.You can book as many sessions as you like.
Just-in-time email guidance: You will receive emails through the contest with guidance on the challenges as they are about to arise.
Microsoft Teams GEE Leader Platform: You are sent a link to join the Microsoft Teams platform for GEE Team Leaders. Access the training, resources, powerpoints, and bookings through this link. We do not routinely provide videos of the workshops as participants can raise personal challenges in the sessions. We aim to video any lecture segments. We encouage you to ask questions, and respond to others questions and comments on the site.
FAQs: Check out the FAQs where common issues are often raised.
Programme Director support: If you are having issues that need additional support, contact the Programme Director, Dr Deb Gilbertson.
Click this link or read below for recognition for GEE-Free, GEE-Plus, Leadership Coaches, and Business Mentors. It provides details on the awards, certificates, micro-credentials and the ceremony in New Zealand's parliament.
No. The Global Enterprise Experience is open those in the workforce, voluntary agencies, tertiary education, or parenting. Top date participants have come from 900 universities and 440 organisations.
The number of enrolees we can accept from one university or organisation depends on the programme and country. Please check if you have large numbers enroling.
Team Member in either the GEE-Free or the GEE-Plus Programme
New Zealand 10
Netherlands 10
China 30
All other countries 150
GEE-Plus Team Leader
All countries 50
GEE Leadership Coach
All countries 40
GEE Business Mentor
All countries 20
Please add deb[at]windeaters.co.nz to your safe sender list. You will need to used the "at" symbol instead of the letters [at]. We write it this way to prevent robots trolling our website for email addresses.
This site provides guidance on adding email addresses to your safe sender list.
Talk to your team leader first, if you are able to. Then, if there is still an issue, contact Dr Deb Gilbertson. If your team leader is missing, please contact Deb urgently.
The due dates are shown below and are also on these links - GEE-Free, GEE-Plus, GEE Leadership Coach
