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Pitch Your Growth Story

Overview
Have you mastered the craft of storytelling? The ability to tell an authentic, trustworthy, and compelling story is vital to a leader’s success. Through the power of stories, you can create a personal brand that will convey trust to your audience. Throughout the program, you’ll study and analyze a variety of messages which use different writing styles and voices and then learn how to adapt your own.
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FORMAT
Online/Remote
DURATION
3-week online program
TUITION
€100
LANGUAGE
English
ECTS
2.5 credits
SKILLS YOU'LL LEARN
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How You'll Learn

Our mission is to help you navigate the fast-changing world by building the skillset and mindset to make a sustainable impact on the future. That's why we offer cutting-edge, intensive, and practice-based Open Challenges, delivered 100% online by Subject Matter Experts. Our certificates give you the resources to upskill, boost your career prospects, and unlock your full potential. The certificates are stackable, meaning that you can use the credits earned towards one of our degree programs.

Learn by doing

Experience real "learning by doing" in an international environment

Network and community

Engage your network and new global community to speed up your impact and get noticed

Guidance

Receive guidance from  industry leaders and mentors who are already thriving in successful careers

Remote-first

Grow your network with peers from around the world in a remote-first setting

KfW is one of the world’s leading promotional banks that has been committed to improving economic, social, and environmental living conditions across the globe on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1948.

KfW is actively involved in the issues that will shape the world of tomorrow. They promote wind farms, infrastructure projects, schools, and hospitals because meaningful and sustainable projects are part of their mission. As a bank, they are committed to responsibility. KfW supports people, countries, and institutions who think ahead and are motivated to take action, driving our society toward the future. This profile is what clearly sets KfW apart from other commercial banks.

Open Challenges

Pitch Your Growth Story

Have you mastered the craft of storytelling? The ability to tell an authentic, trustworthy, and compelling story is vital to a leader’s success. Through the power of stories, you can create a personal brand that will convey trust to your audience. Throughout the program, you’ll study and analyze a variety of messages which use different writing styles and voices and then learn how to adapt your own.

Deadline to apply:
20th of November
Remote
3-week online program
€100
deposit/refundable
2.5 credits
ECTS
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What You'll Learn

The program is made up of milestones, or challenge-based steps where you’ll gain hands-on experience and master a concept before moving on and eventually completing the entire challenge. Have a look at what you'll accomplish over this 3-week program in each milestone.

1
Investigate and understand the nature of storytelling
First, you’ll evaluate successful stories that are out there already and apply your learnings to creating your own powerful story. From identifying your audience to deciding on the overall tone of your story, this is the first step.
2
Define your principles of growth
In the last milestone, you came up with the audience and purpose for your story. It’s now time to select and refine the business idea you will work on for this challenge.
3
Define your impact
Sustainable thinking is at the heart of creating a positive impact on our future. In this milestone, you will choose the business idea that you want to focus on. Try to add sustainability to its core and consider how you can maximize economic growth and sustainable practices at the same time.
4
Define your growth plan
In the last milestone, you came up with a picture of your impact. Now, you'll think about how your plan for growth can be incorporated into your story. As important as it is to have a mission, you also need a plan.
5
Pre-production Work
It is time to tell your story. The pre-production of capturing your story will include storyboarding and honing your message. You’ll be able to include the principles of good storytelling which you learned during prior milestones to make your story and video a success.
6
Challenge discussion
Together with your peers, you’ll explain the rationale for your business idea, your target audience, and the purpose of your story. Finally, you will have the opportunity to present your storyboard and get feedback from the Subject Matter Experts.

Who is this program for?

Are you hoping to accelerate your professional success and sustainable impact in a community? Build your network with people from around the globe who are carefully selected to ensure a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and goals.

You want to become...
A Business Executive
An Inspirational Leader
An Entrepreneur
An Aspiring Change Maker

The Challenge

In this challenge, you will attain hands-on experience as you work through real-life business scenarios under the guidance of mentors and industry experts. As you gain new competencies and demonstrate mastery in a specific milestone you can move on to the next one. You’ll use your existing knowledge and new skills to complete the challenge and be prepared for future Open Challenges or our degree programs.

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Highlights

3-week online program
10-15h weekly load
25 limited cohort
Weekly discussions
€100
2.5 credits
Slack community
Certificate
Upon successfully completing the challenge, you'll receive a digital certificate that can be shared with your personal and professional networks.

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Here are some dates to keep in mind during the application process.

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Application deadline (limited seats)
until
20th of November
Confirmation of participation
until
27th of November
Challenge starts
on
December 5, 2022

Meet Your Challenge Owner

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Program Director, Co-Founder & CEO of ToU
Dr. Thomas Funke
Academic and entrepreneur, Dr. Thomas Funke is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences. Funke has always been an impassioned entrepreneur and also holds over 15 years of experience in the education sector. Thomas is building the university for a better tomorrow to help change makers and aspiring sustainable leaders make an impact on our future.

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