NextGen Academy
Key steps in creating a company with shared governance
Started your business less than 18 months ago? Legal status, finance, purpose, meetings, OKRs, feedback and decision-making: 8 masterclasses with 4 speakers, in person or online — 16 hours over 8 weeks.
- Assessment method
- Quiz, Practical exercises, Serious game
- Prerequisites
- No prerequisites
- Registration deadline
- 2 days before the start of the course, subject to availability.
- Target audience
- Managers and team members (both hierarchical and cross-functional relationships) whose business started less than 18 months before the training.
Training objectives
- Distinguish between legal and administrative dimensions
- Apply accounting and financial practices
- Define the fundamental principles of shared governance
- Utilize methods of shared governance
- Implement agile practices and rituals in my new organization
Global pedagogical approaches
Modalities
- 8 masterclasses, 4 speakers
- Prerequisites: having started your business less than 18 months before the start of the training
- Registration deadline: 2 days before the start of the course, subject to availability
The 8 modules
- Module 01
The Legal and Administrative Dimension of Business Creation
Sole proprietorship? Self-employed? SAS (Société par Actions Simplifiée)? EURL (Entreprise Unipersonnelle à Responsabilité Limitée)? Choosing the legal status of your business can be a puzzle. In this module, we will help you identify different legal statuses, understand the status of the manager, and grasp the fiscal regime of the business.
- Module 02
Accounting and Financial Management in the Creation Phase
We start with the financial logic of a business: operating-cycle needs, revenue, variable and fixed costs. Then you learn to read financial documents and produce a financial statement and an income statement.
- Module 03
Articulating the Purpose and Values in a New Business
What is a (good) purpose in alignment with my values? What does it serve for me, my team, and my business? How do I establish and then share it? This module first addresses each of these questions, clarifying the terms and prompting you to delve into self-discovery. Finally, through interaction, you will familiarize yourself with two methods of articulating the purpose, easy to implement. The first is individual, and the second is collective.
- Module 04
Facing the Realities of Today's World
Frédéric Laloux’s revolutionary book, “Reinventing Organizations,” outlines the principles of Teal organizations: self-organization, integrity, and a focus on their purpose. To move in this direction, there are cultural prerequisites that need to be cultivated in your organization, such as transparency, trust, autonomy, and responsibility. While all of this may seem abstract at first, we will explore some organizational theories and discuss how you can assess the developmental level of your own organization to find the methods, models, and tools that align with the transformation steps you want to initiate.
- Module 05
Leading Effective Meetings
Experience a new team meeting format, “Monday Morning,” using a serious game. Immerse yourself in a shared governance triage meeting, taking on assigned roles and experiencing it from the inside. Discover the effectiveness of the process and leave with tools that you can immediately apply in your upcoming meetings.
- Module 06
Prioritizing with OKRs
OKRs provide a framework for reflection and offer a collective practice aimed at focusing efforts on measurable and adjustable achievements. They enable alignment with the purpose of the company. Discover the OKR system (Objectives and Key Results) initiated by Intel, popularized by Google, and begin to make them your own in your context to implement best practices from the inception of your business.
- Module 07
The Art of Feedback
Discover or rediscover why and how feedback can be a powerful tool for personal and collective effectiveness. Understand the right approach, both for giving and receiving feedback, and practice with participants in simple situations. A key to healthy relational dynamics in organizations, the art of feedback is learned and practiced daily.
- Module 08
Decision-Making
Making decisions remains fundamental and essential in a business as well as in any organization. Without decisions, nothing is possible. They say that to choose is to renounce? In this session, we propose to take the bet that choosing is also experimenting and giving oneself the opportunity to be more agile in decision-making.
Accessibility: our training courses are accessible to people with disabilities. To discuss possible adjustments, contact our disability officer, Sophie Lagandré (sophie@nextgen.how), and see our Accessibility and disability page.
