Welcome to the Virtual Learning Lab

This area has been designed as a space where you can learn about Enterprise and Entrepreneurship while taking part in our 10 gaming challenges. Each challenge has a focus on a different Entrepreneurial theme. Click on each of the information buttons below to learn more about each game.

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Challenge 1: Introducing Enterprise

In Introducing Enterprise you will be set 3 challenges that will test your basic knowledge in the areas of Enterprise and Entrepreneurship.Give these challenges a try before you move onto the other challenges in the Virtual Learning lab.

Challenge 2: Marketing on Point

This challenges will give you an understanding of marketing basics and will task you with making the marketing decisions for a business. You must make decisions that make sense for the business which you are trying to promote and ensure that the marketing sends out a positive message to potential customers.

Challenge 3: SWOT Analysis

When planning a business, it is vitally important to identify the business’ Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. By doing this, you can then go on ahead to plan for the future and to make sensible decisions based on what obstacles you might encounter. In this challenge you will be tasked with matching the SWOT analysis of 3 different businesses and identifying what they need to plan for.

Challenge 4: Money Matters

In Enterprise it is vital to have a good idea about financial management. In this challenge you will have to use your platform skills to explore a level to find out more about finance and fundraising. This knowledge will then be put to the test in a final nail biting challenge.

Challenge 5: Matching Leadership

When you are running your own business and have a team of staff working for you, there are many different leadership styles that you can implement. In this ‘Match it’ challenge, you will learn more about these leadership styles while trying to complete the challenge as fast as possible.

Challenge 6: A Puzzling Enterprise

Entrepreneurs commonly come up against problems that are unexpected from day to day and in business life it is important to understand how to take a problem and use a logical approach to solve it. in this challenge, you will encounter a range of problems on your way to starting a business. Use your logical thinking skills to overcome these problems

Challenge 7: Let’s Collaborate

have you ever been to a networking event? In business it is important to meet new people and to setup new working relationships and networking is perfect for this! In this challenge you must attend a virtual networking event and identify which of the participants would be the most beneficial for you to work with in the future.

Challenge 8: A matter of time

In order to avoid stress in your career, it is important that you have a good awareness of time and set manageable goals to aim towards. This challenge include 4 mini-games that will introduce some techniques which you can use the next time you are working on a project or even starting your own business.

Challenge 9: Critical Investigation

Critical thinking is an important trait for an entrepreneur, it is vital that you can look at things with a judgmental view so that you can identify all potential problems that your customers might experience. in this challenge you must approach a given problem with a critical eye in order to establish someone in your staff who is giving trade secrets to your competitors.

Challenge 10: Enterprise Escape Room

Creative thinking is important to be an entrepreneur, you need to think outside the box to be successful and come up with new ideas and solutions to keep your business fresh and exciting. This escape room challenge will put your creative thinking skills to the test as you try and find the answers to some mind bending Enterprise puzzles.