Currently we present on a continuous base the following powerful executive short courses as the School of Social Innovation at Hugenote:
- Leadership for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship aims to equip students with the competence required to engage with social innovation through social entrepreneurship through the use of innovative leadership approaches. The objective is to start and profitably sustain social organisations and businesses. The individual competencies are linked to institutional dimensions to concurrently enhance the institutional capacity of social organisations businesses.
- Human-centred Design Thinking for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship aims to equip students with the competence required to engage with inspiration, ideation and implementation through empathy using innovative design thinking methods to find sustainable social solutions. The individual competencies are linked to institutional dimensions to concurrently enhance the institutional capacity of social businesses.
Human-centred Design Thinking is a design and management framework that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all steps of the problem-solving process. Design thinking is a process, mindset, and approach to solving complex problems. It is also known as human-centred design, it is a philosophy that empowers an individual or team to designing products, services, systems, and experiences that address the core needs of those who experience a problem.
The focus is to design effective and impactful solutions to challenges that are concentrated with a small group of people and those that are systemic. Human-centred Design is all about understanding the perspective of the person who experiences a problem, their needs, and whether the solution that has been designed for them is truly meeting their needs effectively or not. At its most effective, the people who experience a problem are part of the design process.
- Mentoring and Coaching, Personal Mastery and Emotional Intelligence for Social Business aims to equip students with the competence to handle themselves and others with the help of personal mastery, emotional intelligence, mentoring and coaching practices to sustain social businesses.
Mentoring is off-line help by one person to another in making significant transitions in knowledge, work or thinking.
Coaching is a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be successful a Coach requires knowledge and understanding of process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place.
Personal mastery can be defined as personal growth through principles of purpose, vision, belief, commitment and knowing yourself. This will enable you to hold creative tension between your vision and your current reality.
Emotional intelligence (otherwise known as emotional quotient or EQ) is the ability to understand, use, and manage your own emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathise with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict.