21 Skills Curriculum

 

Conscious

Accountable

Regenerative

Equitable

What makes CARE Lab a first mover?

C.A.R.E. Lab is a pioneer in preparing the Next Generation to be future-ready. Its 2-week workshop employs a hands-on, project-based approach to building a social impact venture.

  • Enriches learning through interactions with global experts and local entrepreneurs

  • Develops 21 Leadership Skills to be competitive

  • Integrates critical problem-solving across 5 disciplines

  1. Human skills
  2. Sustainability applications
  3. Human-Centered AI
  4. Entrepreneurship
  5. Social Impact performance

    • Provides Transformative Student Experience

    1. Unlearning outdated assumptions
    2. Building a flexible mindset that crosses traditional boundaries
    3. Aligns values with practice and long-term implications
    4. Harmonizing purpose and values with profit
    5. Integrating global perspectives

    • Experiences building a 21st-century sustainable venture with

    1. AI Intelligent CARE Impact Canvas
    2. Inclusive Criteria that impact all stakeholders
    3. Human-centered design thinking
    4. Responsible performance indicators
    5. AI Acceleration – adoption and impact

     

    21 Leadership Skills

    (Foundational Excellence, Communication Proficiency, Strategic Tools)

    Foundational Excellence

    1. Self-Awareness: Emphasizing values and intention, laying the groundwork for personal development and effective decision-making in business contexts.
    2. Adaptability: Embracing change and learning to pivot quickly in response to new information or trends.
    3. Foresight: Developing the ability to predict or anticipate future developments and plan accordingly.
    4. Emotional Intelligence: Crucial for understanding, empathizing, and addressing the needs and values of diverse stakeholders.
    5. Ethical Leadership: Leading a business with integrity, ensuring decisions and actions align with both purpose and profit objectives.
    6. Adaptability: Flexibility in handling change, adjusting strategies to meet new challenges
    7. Resilience: Developing the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; building mental and emotional strength.
    8. Accountability: Evaluating business actions and their impacts, crucial for building trust and integrity among all stakeholders
    9. Work Ethic: Commitment to continuous improvement and learning.

     

    Communication Proficiency

    1. Time Management: Efficiently allocating time to skill development, foresight activities and managing time effectively to accomplish their goals
    2. Creative Problem-Solving: Using creativity and cross boundary thinking to unlock innovative approaches to generate sustainable solutions.
    3. Collaboration: Working with multidisciplinary teams to develop their potential in implementing digital, AI and sustainable solutions
    4. Personal Branding: Presenting yourself effectively in the workplace with polish and professionalism that demonstrates you are dependable, can be trusted and taken seriously.
    5. Active Listening: Listening to and Engaging with stakeholders, including customers, employees, and community members, to understand their perspectives and needs related to impact and
    6. Public Speaking: Developing strong communication skills to confidently pitch your venture and articulate its value proposition and impact.

     

    Strategic Tools

    1. Humanized AI/Prompt Engineering: Methodology to guide Generative AI to generate relevant solutions.
    2. Sustainability Applications: Applying criteria (e.g. UN SDGs) in considering the implications of business decisions and their impacts on multiple stakeholders.
    3. CARE Business Model Canvas: Designing a human-centered business model accountable to the team’s values and sustainable stakeholder outcomes
    4. Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Principles and practices for building businesses that are not only profitable but also sustainable and responsible.
    5. Human-Centered Design: Incorporating values and impact into the design process
    6. Social Impact Wheel: Evaluating implications and scenarios to be future-ready.

    Detailed 2-Week Curriculum

    CARE Lab Curriculum Business School Tested

    ESSEC Business School, Morocco, 9/2023

    ESSEC Workshop Objectives

    1. Re-imagine Business
    2. Harmonize profit and purpose
    3. Empower students to make a difference
    4. Design sustainable enterprise

    4 day Workshop Results

    30% increase -“Consider yourself open to change”
    50% increase -“Consider yourself an agent of change”

    Student Transformations

    “ Your workshop is a real gold mine, one of the most sensible learning experiences we’ve had… it really changed my outlook on life.” A.S.

    “I opened my mind to the idea that sustainability not only can go hand in hand with profit but is most likely necessary for a business to survive.” -J.G.

    “I’ve gained a new perception of the leader’s role and the ways of improving as a person. It helped me to realize how much I can help make the world a better place.” –C.E.R.

    “Reflected on myself and understood what skills are needed to be a catalytic leader. I realize the real meaning of caring and how to apply it to the workplace.” -P.B.

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