Diploma of Entrepreneurship & Enterprise Skills

New venture creation has demonstrated its ability to be able to transform marginalised and distressed individuals and communities.

EXI's Diploma of Entrepreneurship Enterprise Skills provides Australians a recognised qualification whilst initiating micro-enterprises in developing countries. EXI projects facilitate economic autonomy, cultural preservation, eco-tourism, community regeneration, disaster relief and cross-cultural partnerships in remote desert civilisations and communities under threat.

Current project locations include:

• Tribal regions in remote Indian Himalayan deserts
• Tibetans and the Central Tibetan Administration
• Tsunami and war-affected regions of Sri Lanka

Networks include the Grameen Bank, the International Labour Organisation (a UN agency) and the Central Tibetan Administration.

EXI's Diploma introduces the new Culturally Appropriate Model of Sustainable Micro-Enterprise Development trialled in the Himalayas under a Commonwealth Govt Award Program. The model ensures new ventures include the essential foundations for cultural and economic sustainability.

Graduates embark on a variety of career pathways through two Majors

• The Enterprise Stream to establish for-profit and social ventures
• The Coaching Stream training facilitators in the process of micro-enterprise development

and the following study units which can be completed in 370 supervised hours:

• Develop business opportunity
• Develop enterprise opportunities
• Redirect maladaptive behaviour
• Review and Develop Business Plans
• Develop Teams and Individuals
• Support Workplace Coaching and Mentoring
• Provide Leadership across the Organisation
• Develop a media plan
• Develop a marketing plan
• Develop & Implement organisational policies
• Develop a social venture
• Create a Corporate Social Responsility Plan