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To be enterprising is knowing what it is you want to do vocationally then knowing how to get there!

Courses Offered

Non Accredited Courses

"Train the Trainer" Training
Teacher Training and Student Resources

Accredited Courses

Chutzpah courses offer training that has the 'real-world'; or comprehensive approach critical to the successful implementation of enterprise education and sustainable entrepreneurship.

Young students graduate with a nationally recognized qualification, a business concept proposal and a support network including industry and community supports (networks) as well as student alumni. At higher levels students can graduate with cash from their new business.

Courses are based on PhD research that looked at Chutzpah in youth at risk and successful entrepreneur. ("Chutzpah" is Yiddish for cheek, audacity, guts and gall, in other words, an entrepreneur!). The research found similarities between the two groups and the three key factors critical to sustainable entrepreneurship are:

Vocation based on passion
Lifelong learning
The Healthy person

The courses teach students to turn a passion or a hobby into a small venture e.g., a student who loves fixing bikes can renovate and sell old bikes:

Consistent with vocation based on passion framework, the certificates are proving to be able to stream young people into industry vocations, based on their identified passions
Consistent with the lifelong learning framework, students can then be directed into further studies and into work experience, traineeships and/or apprenticeships
The healthy person framework encourages mentoring to support well-being

Creativity, innovation, flexibility, initiative, autonomy......

Chutzpah Inc.'s courses are nationally recognized qualifications that can meet industry needs. Not all students are suited to starting and running their own sustainable business, or higher education qualifications. Courses direct students towards the VET sector by supporting students to identify and commercialise their passions. Vocational pathways can be identified; if a student loves bikes, he or she can renovate old bikes thus eliciting an interest in trades such as mechanics and metal work.

The courses develop:

Enterprising skills in those who need to find out what it is they want to do vocationally and the skills to action it
Entrepreneurial skills in those who want to start and run a business
Intrapraneurship for innovation in the workplace
Vocational pathways
Education options for lifelong learning

Industry Alignment