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Online Short Course

Entrepreneurial Thinking

In partnership with Over The Rainbow, Red & Yellow presents a 10-week online course built to equip you with the knowledge, skills, and know-how to transform entrepreneurial thinking and disruptive ideas into sustainable businesses.

It’s packed with everything you need to know to get a new business off the ground - whether it’s your first startup or a new initiative with your existing organization. This course will help you become one of the great innovators of the future.

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Course Curriculum

  • Understand entrepreneurial mindsets
  • Use design thinking to ideate
  • Define your values

The important bits

Key Info

  • Course Duration: 11 Weeks
  • Accreditation:
  • Access: Online
  • Start Date: 7 July 2025
  • Cost: R13500.00

What you’ll learn

  • Understand entrepreneurial mindsets
  • Use Design Thinking
  • Branding and Marketing
  • Driving sales success – why products fail, setting goals, and selling an idea
  • Strategy and understanding Finances
  • Effective leadership and starting the journey of becoming a great leader
  • Business Models, plans, and exit strategies
  • Landing a successful pitch
Learn from top talent

This course is created and taught by real entrepreneurs who have the experience and skills to build businesses.

Become an industry leader

Understand and apply unique business decision making skills that are crucial for transforming your thinking

Think outside the box

This course is ideal for people who want to create and nurture empathy with users, using creative thinking to create new solutions.

Elevate your career

Be recognised with an industry centric Red & Yellow certificate, giving you a blend of theoretical knowledge and hands-on skills.

Red & Yellow courses are made to future-proof your career

Our courses are designed to accelerate opportunities and give a boost to your CV. Top businesses across industries recognise Red & Yellow graduates as having the practical skills and the theoretical background to hit the ground running with confidence and creative flair.

Benefits:

Our courses are both current and relevant to the South African context.

Applicable, practical assignments:

  • So that you can apply what you’re learning to your everyday work life, and your specific business challenges.

Discussion Forums and Chat sessions:

  • Helping you develop your professional network.
  • Hosted by your coach, lecturer, or subject specialist.
  • Ideal opportunities to discuss the content and get answers to all your questions.

Personalized feedback:

  • Tailored to your individual strengths, and opportunities for personal improvement.

A dedicated team:

  • Acting as your “virtual” support crew whose only focus is to help get you over the finish line.

Included in your course:

  • An industry-sought-after Certificate of Completion from Red & Yellow
  • Original, relevant, and constantly updated content
  • An interactive online learning experience that includes videos, live chat sessions, forum discussions, and more

Who should take this course?

  • Individuals wanting to start their own business
  • Start-ups who want to scale up, but need the business acumen
  • Progressive organizations wanting to take their business to the next level, and arm their team with radical ways of thinking innovatively and the know-how to do it

Meet your team:

This course was created by, and benefits from, our full-time lecturers’ years of experience in the field – both in lecturing and in industry. They know how to nurture talent and bring out the best in students, resulting in many award-wins over the years.

Lesley Waterkeyn

Lesley Waterkeyn

Over the Rainbow, Knowledge Partner

  • Founder of Over The Rainbow

  • Provides guidance, support, connections for entrepreneurs

  • Passionate about unlocking South Africa’s potential

Where Commercial Logic meets Creative Magic

Creative thinking is still the most powerful skill of the future, but only if it’s paired with commercial savvy and the ability to adapt. That’s why we equip future thinkers, doers, and makers with the real-world, future-proof skills they need to thrive. Whether you're climbing the ladder or building something of your own, we’ll help you learn how business works – and how to make it work for you.

Brands we work with

ABSA
PRIMEDIA
MTN
Company 4
TFG

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