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- Before enrolling
- Enrolling
- Support for Academics, HR Managers & Recommenders
- Requirements and marksheets
- Submitting work and applications
- Team Member issues
- Leader issues
- Leader Coach issues
- Business Coach issues
- Awards, certificates, micro-credentials and ceremony
FAQs
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 Leader 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.
No. The Global Enterprise Experience is open those in the workforce, voluntary agencies, tertiary education, or parenting. To date participants have come from 950 universities and 629 organisations.
Go to the "Enrol" page on this website.
Choose "Enrol Team Member or Leader" if you wish to enrol in either the TEAM MEMBER programme which is free, or the TEAM LEADER programme which requires payment or a scholarship. The form asks you if you are enrolling in the GEE-Free or the GEE-Leader option. Only choose the GEE-Leader option if you are paying for the training or you have a scholarship.
Choose "Enrol - Leader Coach" if you are enroling in the coaching programme that culminates in coaching the GEE Team Leaders to support their leadership and insights.
Choose "Enrol - Business Coach" if you are enroling in the programme that applies coaching skills to help GEE Team Leaders to develop the business plan, strategy and creativity.
Click on the "Enrol" menu tab. Scan down the page to the "Enrol - Leader Coach" heading and click on the orange text "Enrol here".
Go to the "Enrol" tab, and scroll down to the Business Coach section. Click the "Enrol" button. Places are limited. We need to be sure you have the business skills and have the experience to engender respect from the GEE team leaders. Please contact the Programme Director, Dr Deb Gilbertson, if you have any issues.
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-Leader, Leader Coach, and Business Coach. It provides details on the awards, certificates, micro-credentials and the ceremony in New Zealand's parliament.
Guidance is here, or you can read the guidance below:
If your Peer‑Leadership Self‑Evaluation gets stuck on one of the screens and won’t move forward, it is usually caused by your browser holding on to old or incomplete data. This is easy to fix. Please try the steps below:
1. Refresh your browser session
Close the browser tab completely, reopen it, and log back in to the GEE system.
This clears temporary loading issues.
2. Clear your browser cache
Your browser may be storing an older version of the questionnaire.
Clearing the cache forces it to load a fresh copy.
3. Try a different browser
If you were using Chrome, try Edge or Firefox (or vice versa).
A new browser avoids any stored data that may be causing the issue.
4. Try a different device
If possible, switch to another laptop, tablet, or phone.
This bypasses any local browser problems.
5. Check your internet connection
A weak or unstable connection can interrupt the loading of the next screen.
6. If it still doesn’t work
Please contact us with:
- your name
- your email address
- your GEE ID
- a brief description of where the questionnaire froze
We’ll help you get it sorted quickly.
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.
It is emailed to deb [at] windeaters.co.nz with the label Team XXX Proposal.
The proposal is on time so long as it is the due date anywhere in the world. New Zealand is the first country in the world to see the sun, so the due date will be 11pm on the following day New Zealand time. You can check out dates and time zones for all of your team members on Meeting Planner – Find best time across Time Zones (timeanddate.com)
Leaders and Team Members
To earn a completion certificate and letter of commendation complete the following requirements by the due date:
- The team submits the team proposal
- Your name is included on the front page of the team proposal
- Submit your personal reflection
- Complete your 360 degree feedback of yourself and team colleague. The feedback needs to be meaningful, and the scores for team members cannot be identical.
Leader Coaches
To earn a completion certificate:
- At least 4 out of 8 mindset modules
- At least 6 out of 8 live group training sessions
- All 24 online self-study coaching lessons
- At least 4 out of 8 live group peer-learning sessions
- At least 2 coaching sessions received from our trained coaches
- At least 10 coaching sessions provided to other GEE leader coach trainees, business coaches, and GEE leaders
Business Coaches
To earn a completion certificate:
- At least 7 out of 9 live group training sessions
- At least 1 coaching session received from GEE leader coach trainees or our trained coaches
- Attend at least 3 2-hour GEE Team Leader peer-support sessions, and facilitate subgroups of leaders to peer-support each other
- At least 7 business coach sessions with GEE team leaders
The Team Member programme is completely free. Participants receive a full global team experience, some guidance, and can earn a certificate, letter of commendation, awards and prize money.
The three advanced programmes cost USD 1,210. These programmes are Leader (with the option of leading a global team), Leadership Coach, and Business Coach. Participants receive a training programme, personal coaching, deeply-social networking, get to practice their learned skills on the global stage, and much more.
Team Member
The Team Member option 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 Team Member option is completely free. We are grateful for any donations to support our work.
Leader
The Leader option 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 Leader 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 demanding! So says 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 Coach
The Business Coach programme costs USD 1,210 for individuals, and we have institutional agreements for multiple enrolments. Enrolees need strong skills in business and personal mana. Enrolments are strictly limited to 20 people. The programme is useful for gaining skills and experience in:
* Coaching 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