Global Business Challenge 2023
The end of another incredible Global Business Challenge! GBC2023 has been the biggest so far, with 250 participants, 34 multi-national, multi-cultural teams, 17 international businesses, 32 team coaches from 12 HEIs from around the world. Different undergraduate and postgraduate students from different degrees in countries such as UK, USA, Ecuador, Finland, Tanzania, Lithuania, Germany or Hungary have worked together to provide value and solutions to a wide range of business clients working in different areas and sectors. UWE Team Entrepreneurship students were involved in 5 different teams and a team coach from the programme was coaching in a 6th team.
The students shared their reflections in the final pechakucha presentations, and it was clear they got a lot from it! It was great to see how many students were fully focused and adopting a business oriented professional approach in their journey. They learnt about how to do business internationally, how to work in international teams with challenging coordination and time zone barriers, how to do consultancy work and communicate and negotiate with clients, how to project manage and plan, or how to cultivate their empathy and patience with each other.
“I learnt how to work internationally to solve a real-life business issue, how to work online more efficiently, how to navigate different time zones within the team and with the client and how to adapt the skills and teamwork from TE when working with new people”
GBC TE participant
Many clients were really impressed with the results and offered to continue working with the students after the challenge. That is the best indicator! We look forward to GBC2024!