Jonkoping, September 2015
Ready to expand, improve and grow your business abilities?
The Swedish Winter Challenge is meant for you!
A year ago we got this crazy idea about inviting African business leaders to Sweden in January, the coldest month in Sweden…the response was overwhelming and we believe what the Swedish Winter Challenge will make a difference for all of us who took the challenge. We can already see some positive outcome as:
- Business investments 2-5 cases (ongoing)
- Business relationship ongoing 2 (products and services)
- Continuous coaching program (Field work) 4-6 ongoing
- New individual action relationships 4? maybe more
- 1-2 new businesses from inspiration from the trip to Sweden
Naventure and Adlignum AB would like to welcome you to the Sweden Winter challenge in January 2016. The purpose is to develop you as the business owner and empower the community of business leaders from Africa and Sweden, to develop an eye for opportunities for their businesses to grow to the next level by exploring new markets, products and new business relationships.
The program will include a combination of training of leadership skills, business visits for exposure, developing enabling business relationships, exposure to best practice(which Sweden is known for),interaction and sightseeing (program attached below).
The training is a cooperation with Mentors and Business Coaches ( Their vision is “To see lasting Kingdom transformation in the workplace”. Charles White from MBCI South Africa is head of the training.
Dates:9-19th of January 2016
Price:USD 1300, the price include training and material, business visits, sightseeing, transport to and from the airport. Most of the meals are included, but it will be wise to calculate USD 12/day in additional expenses.
LogdingSe below
Registration: jenny@adlignum before November 1 st 2015
Don´t hesitate to contact us for any reason!It would be a great pleasure to meet you in Sweden!
Jenny JakobssonWanjau Nduba & Nils LindhCharles White
Adlignum ABNaventure MBCI
Checkout what some of the participants from SWC 2015 thought below
Date Jan 2015 / Activity / Lodging9 / Arrival to Landvetter Airport, transport to Jonkoping / Conference center
10 / Church visit, fellowship / Conference
center
11-13 / Training together with Swedish participants: Train The Mentor, TTM
MBCI program (separate information)
Tuesday at 6-8 pm:
Business event: presentation of the African companies mingle and connecting / Conference center till jan 12th
14-15 / Customized program for the participants, aligned to their sectors and needs. Encounters with Swedish businesses and business leaders. Matchmaking and exploration partnerships
14th Evening public business meeting with people with interest in Africa / Families
16-17 / Sightseeing, visits and exploring Sweden
Reflection and way forward / Families
18 / Facilitative leadership training program / Conference center
19 / Departure
There program will be more detailed. There will be individually designed programs developed in cooperation with the participants.
Accommodation
From the evaluations from January 2015, we found that the participants though it was too long to stay in Swedish families the whole time. Accommodation in private homes is free of charge. We have managed to negotiate very good prices at the conference facility:
The price isfor five nights including breakfast
Per person in:
Single room hotel standard (bathroom in the room)SEK 3700/USD 440
Double room hotel standard SEK 2200/USD 265
Single room, hostel standard SEK 1625/USD 195
Double room, hostel standardSEK 1063/USD 130
Let us know what you prefer
I've been a lecturer as well as a consultant for quite some years. Being able to spend 4 full days looking into the facilitative leadership characteristics was valuable, encouraging and challenging. To do this together with business people from the African continent added more dimensions to it as cultural perspectives gave depth and width to the discussions and workshops. I can highly recommend this course.
Peter Kammensjö
Mentor and Lecturer at University of Borås, Sweden
The Swedish Winter Challenge was a great eye opener and exposure for me personally. I came back with the long range vision of starting small and let business grow from the exposure to the farms with Sophia.
An organic chicken farm is being set up at my farm village in Malawi as a result of the exposure we had on other organic farms in Sweden.
Dina Kachaje, Botswana and Malawi
company owner and entrepreneur
The Swedish winter challenge meant a "strong foundation for a stable 100 plus storey building" to our business and life particularly in area of mentoring and coaching that will unlock individual potentials to add value in everything we do.
Newton Waniba,
Board of Directors, Goshen group South Sudan
For me the winter challenge was great. Before then, I was really not exposed to Business Mentoring/Coaching even after my 14 years working experience in a marketing company. For the first time, I started to see things differently through the principles of Mentoring & Coaching.
Thank you Jenny & Co, thank you MBCI.
Rahila Majam, Nigeria
Environmental solutions
The Swedish Winter Challenge and MBCI training was a turning point for me. First, I realised that although I have been mentoring and helping people for over 20 years now, I had always done it wrong; I had been consulting not mentoring!
Secondly, for the first time ever, I was equipped with a Roadmap and tools to do the job effectively. Since the training I have since changed my approach.
Armed with my new tools from MBCI and attitude (of coming along side people to help them attain their ultimate potentials), I discovered that the results are more sustainable and meaningful to me and the mentees.
Mentoring has never been this meaningful and exciting. I am grateful for the opportunity. I look forward to more fruitful years as an MBCI certified mentor.
Manpan Wungak, Nigeria
CEO and Owner MIGS Vegetables Farm
When the invitation to attend the Swedish winter challenge came through I was very excited about it and knew I had to be part of this experience. And I must admit I was not disappointed at all as this seminar exceeded my expectations.
One of the greatest values of the challenge is that it did not end in Sweden but was carried home to my working environment and my family.
The mentorship program has helped me build my employees by helping them release the potential within them. This has subsequently led to better work output in the business as the employees are stepping out of their comfort zone and rising to new challenges.
As a family man, the challenge has helped me greatly with molding my sons. By implementing some of the things we learnt at the challenge, my skills in how I relate with my sons has been sharpened as a result a better relationship is being developed.
Peter Kangamba, Zambia
CEO and owner Mercari Enterprises Ltd
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