Skilling the next generation of problem solvers, innovators, and change makers.
20+ years of BIF innovation packaged as a learn and do program for Senior Students and 1st Job Workers.
Capturing 20+ Years Experience into a Next-Gen Innovator 101
is BIF101?
Taking its lead from academia (101, 201, etc), BIF101 is a foundation learning and doing experience that introduces innovation skills, processes, and behaviours to young people preparing to leave school, apply for work, and/or are working in their 1st or 2nd jobs.
BIF101 for youth?
In our coming world full of artificial intelligence, where machines do everything that is robotic, human creativity becomes a defining advantage.
BIF101 prepares young people for this future now, by arming them with true knowledge of their creativity, develop new confidence in it, new capabilities to apply it, and experience these skills with others to trade forward into thriving employment, study, startups, et al.
"According to the World Economic Forum creativity is in the top 3 most sought after skills needed to survive the 4th industrial revolution since it is a cognitive skill that simply cannot be automated"
does BIF101 work?
Learning the skills, processes, and behaviours of innovation is no small undertaking in Global Enterprise, let alone next-gen youth anxious about their futures.
So, BIF101 distills our 3 creative disciplines of innovation into a digitally native experience to hold young learners through an evolution of thinking, doing, and ultimately becoming a next-gen innovator.
BIF101 is 5 Parts, 101 Learnings
BIF101 curriculum is an experience of 101 daily drops of knowledge that learners watch/listen/read/do at self-directed levels of engagement.
Knowledge content is delivered in our secure online platform that facilitates daily learning (on mobile, online) and collaborative project application (blended online and in-the-real-world):
Process
Experiencing the BIF 6-Steps of innovative problem-solving
Thinking
Personalising the neuroscience of creative thinking
Applied
Learning to create better ideas faster as applied creative thinking through a disciplined process
Culture
Exploring organsing frameworks in enterprise culture as a mirror to personally exploring individual purpose, values, vision, et al
Top 10
Summarising the 101 experience into a persoanlised 'Top 10 takeway' that becomes a manifesto to empower personal agency
BIF101 learners are empowered to find themselves within the new knowledge, and so be confident to identify as young innovators, problem-solvers, and change makers.
The BIF101 Program Details
BIF101 is three parts Printed Manual, Digital Content (videos, podcasts and toolbox) and Social Learning. We host and deliver the program in our secure elearning platform designed for peer-to-peer sharing and collaboration.
101 Learnings
We use the language of Academic 101 to denote BIF101 as both ‘foundation’ knowledge and the program content being literally 101 separate distilled learnings
Learning by Doing
Learners bring problems and/or ideas (or we provide sponsored challenges) that are the touchstone for applied learning & doing in pairs, small teams and groups.
Knowledge Drops
Programmatic delivery is daily emails direct from our platform with links to learning media; podcasts, videos, images, actionable templates, etc.
Teach Teachers
Where possible we support the supporters - youth teachers, coaches, mentors, et al - by offering our BIF Educator Program in parallel.
Online
All content & project work are hosted in our secure e-learning platform designed to facilitate learning engagement, collaboration & community
Accreditation
Learners output their 101 program experience as a Project Dissertation (project report, a creative concept solution, etc) for peer review
Certification
Graduating learners receive a digital certificate and the BIF icon for online profiles, and we provide a BIF reference for CVs as proof of accomplishment
Recruitment
We’re keen to explore supporting BIF101’ers becoming part of an IndustryApproved pool of problem-solvers promoted and available for recruiters
Join the wait list
Fill out the waitlist form below and be the first to know when the next application window opens.
Next intake: September 1st - December 11th 2024
Price: USD$99 per person
Early Bird: 2 for 1
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We designed BIF101 to be a foundation program for young people everywhere; from senior college (Year 12/13 in schools) & tertiary/academy students, to apprentices & early workers, including enterprising youth in early stage startups
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Skills Mastery
integrating the skills, processes and behaviours of creativity & innovation.Productive Results
solving real problems to realise proof of becoming a ‘next-gen problem solver’.Idea Superpowers
experiencing creative collaboration as a superpower strength that keeps on giving.Empowered Future
deeply understanding how inner creativity empowers personal agency that empowers new confidence to take new action in the world -
We’re designed the program to fit within a school term (circa 10 weeks). The minimum time commitment is 15 hours of learning and doing on applied projects (min 1.5 hours per week). This means the program can be taken as extra-curricula (early mornings/evenings) and/or fit around say Yr13 subject areas (economics, enterprise, innovation, design, STEM, humanities, etc).
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You have access to the primary learning content for 3 months in total.
The digital toolbox, recorded webinars, etc are saved as an archive resource and are available for as long as you continue to participate as an active member of the BIF community
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All digital tools are online in our secure elearning platform, and are available for download and use on applied projects.
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We are innovating a spectrum of programs, products and experiences to serve audiences from pre-school, schools, educators and parents as well as youth and business.
Take a look at our other programs to learn more
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We work on a ‘circle of trust’ basis. BIF101 logins can only be used by the person signing up to enrol in the program.
If you are wanting to enrol a co-learner please get in touch with us and we will do our best to collaborate a solution together.
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We want to foster an active BIF community sharing and innovating better ideas for people and planet.
As that grows, Matt and team are super keen to support and respond with that community however is best.
So yes we intend to deliver adhoc live sessions as open invites, invited guests for inspiration and many other ideas we have.
If you are so inspired on how we might better serve our growing community please get in touch and we can collaborate with you.