SCHOOL OF BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ONLINE)

The SOBE provides the most comprehensive and flexible Business as Mission training available in YWAM’s University of the Nations.

The SOBE is a 12-week YWAM school with in-depth training that shifts students understanding of business, while providing a comprehensive overview of the fundamentals needed for a successful Business as Mission ventures.  The school can be taken online or in a classroom cohort, with the core instruction taking place through over 525 short videos divided into almost as many learning segments.  Students are presented with regular questions and exercises that promote learning and application to each concept taught.  Live staff one-on-ones, coaching sessions and weekly school processing times supplement the instruction. Pre-recording the curriculum and delivering it online results in every student, regardless of location and financial resources, receiving the same quality instruction.

THE LECTURE PHASE

Our speakers include BAM practitioners from the field, as well as successful business people with missions experience from our local community. Running parallel to the teaching, students are writing a business plan, incorporating all that they have learned from each speaker. Our business experienced staff and our network of BAM mentors come alongside the students throughout the weeks to assist them.

Course content includes:

• Marketing

• Servant Sales

• Operations and Fulfillment

• Product Development (Disciplined Entrepreneur)

• Brand Management

• Lean Startup/Model Canvas

• Human Resource Management

• Business Finance

• Introduction to Business as Mission

• The Biblical Purpose and Values of Business

• Integrating the Business and the Mission

• Apostolic Entrepreneurship

• Weekly BAM Case Studies

How does the online training work?

Three people from our experienced SOBE staff team, along with our course instructors, worked for a full year to provide the highest quality online learning experience. We pre-recorded 525 videos produced in a short-video format. These videos, along with reading materials, activities and responses from the student, are organized into lessons of approximately 3-4 hours, with many stopping points along the way. This course structure allows the students to digest the material in shorter pieces and allows the school staff to monitor how well each student is digesting the material.

From Saturday - Thursday, students work through four of these lessons at their own pace and at a time that they learn best in their day. So the primary instruction is not a live class you watch online for three hours at a crazy time during the day or night! Throughout the week, students from all over the world, SOBE staff and SOBE instructors interact online through a discussion forum for that week. On Friday, we gather live online as a whole school for a Q&A time with that weeks instructor. Each student also has a weekly video one-on-one with a SOBE school staff person and then with a BAM coach that will be walking with them throughout the 12-weeks. The end result is an online YWAM school like you have never experienced before!

All of our online learning is done using Moodle as our Learning Management System (LMS) and Vimeo as our Video Content Management System (Video CMS). The student can start and stop whenever they want. Moodle will resume the lesson at the point they left off and is accessible through a web browser on any computer or a downloadable app on a mobile device.

DATES

• Full Course Dates: September 23rd, 2024 - December 13th, 2024 (Course Enrollment deadline is September 1st)

• Students take the course online from where they are with other students from around the world that are doing the same. Primary teachings are pre-recorded with live Q&A times with SOBE Staff and Instructors weekly.

COSTS

• September 2024 Lecture Phase: $1,700 (World A), $1,000 (World B), $600 (World C)

• Click Here to view the U of N World A/B/C list.

• Optional Internship: varies depending on trip and location

PREREQUISITES

• A DTS is recommended, but not required.

CONTACT

• SOBE School Leader: SOBE@ywamcos.org
  

FAQ - SOBE Student Handbook

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