Looking to build your entrepreneurial skills? Or hoping to gain certifications to enhance your career and education? Cisco Net Academy has options for beginners, advanced learners and everyone in between, all for FREE!
See our 2025-26 offerings below. Don’t see what you’re looking for or need support with enrollment? Email tiffany.flecknell@gnb.ca.
Discovering Entrepreneurship (20 hours): This course covers entrepreneurship fundamentals, including the entrepreneurial perspective, identifying opportunities, and crafting your entrepreneurial story. Offering a solid foundation for anyone interested in developing entrepreneurial skills. ENROLL NOW!
Engaging Stakeholders for Success (3 hours): Stakeholders play a critical role in every project. Learning to effectively engage them is a core skill for you to develop in any workplace. In this course, learners gain the insights and tools to identify, prioritize, and engage with stakeholders for success. This is a Professional Skills course that teaches learners essential personal and social skills in the context of actual work scenarios. ENROLL NOW!
Launching a Business Venture (20 hours): The 3-course entrepreneurship series follows a learning progression, building upon earlier content to help entrepreneurs develop a working knowledge of key business concepts and principles pivotal to each stage of entrepreneurship. Completion of this series can help you expand your business acumen and develop a multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving, skills transferable to any career.
Launching a Business Venture is the second course in this series, designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs like you take action and learn the critical steps needed to strategically advance a business idea from planning to launch. You will step into the shoes of an entrepreneur through immersive real-world scenarios and discover the secrets of successful business launches and the top reasons why ventures fail. This course covers a comprehensive mix of topics like Marketing Techniques and Tools for Entrepreneurs, Launching the Imperfect Business: Lean Startup, Sales and Customer Service, and more! ENROLL NOW!
Managing a Business Venture (20 hours, instructor led): So, you’ve taken the bold leap into entrepreneurship, but are you ready for what comes next?
Managing a Business Venture, the final course in our comprehensive 3-part entrepreneurship series, guides savvy entrepreneurs like you through strategic business management and startup operational planning.
Gain practical skills in entrepreneurial finance and accounting, including creating financial statements and projections. Discover the right business structure for your venture and understand its legal, tax, and risk implications. You’ll also learn the art of networking to build your dream entrepreneurial team.
Get started today and gain the skills you need to steer your business towards a sustainable future. ENROLL NOW!
Creating Compelling Reports (4 hours): Effective communication is an essential skill for any professional, and reports are the foundation of business communication. They deliver important information and shape business decisions. Knowing how to develop impactful reports is a superpower that can help you stand out in your career.
Creating Compelling Reports will teach you the business value of reports, how to craft persuasive messages, and making authoring decisions that resonate. This course covers different types of reports such as emails, oral reports, and written reports. Learn how to write effective reports for free with the help of Cisco Networking Academy. ENROLL NOW!
What is the Cisco Net Academy?
Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes to make the internet, phones and computers work? Cisco Net Academy is an e-learning platform where you can start learning all about technology like cybersecurity, networks, and programming. Cisco is a leading technology company that makes equipment and software that powers the internet. They created Cisco Net Academy to teach people of all ages more about how our digital world works.
On Net Academy, you can take fun online courses on beginner and advanced topics. You learn at your own pace through videos, games, and activities. There are also labs where you get to try things out, like building a computer network or stopping cyber hackers! Once you finish a course, you take a test to earn a digital badge to recognize your new skills. These badges look great on a resume one day when you apply for tech jobs.
The best part is Cisco Net Academy is 100% free for students 13 and up. So whether you want to uncover the secrets of the internet, code the next big app, or protect companies from attacks, this platform lets you explore all kinds of technology careers. Educators can also access all resources to incorporate into their lesson plans in subjects like IT, computer science, entrepreneurship, and more. This helps prepare students for the real-world by teaching in-demand skills. So unlock your technology potential today with Cisco Skills for All! It’s fun, free career learning for teens and teachers alike.
What are Cisco Digital Badges?
- Cisco Net Academy digital badges are credentials you can earn to validate and communicate your skills in various technology areas. As you complete Cisco Net Academy courses and hands-on labs, you have the option to take exams and earn badges in topics like cybersecurity, networking, and programming.
- These badges serve as virtual verification that you have the knowledge and competency in specific skillsets that employers are looking for. They allow you to stand out to companies and teams hiring for tech roles.
- Cisco Net Academy is a leader in IT and cybersecurity education. By passing their exams and earning badges, you showcase real ability. Employers around the world recognize these credentials as signs you can perform the job duties.
- On top of expanding career opportunities, Cisco Net Academy badges let you highlight skills on digital profiles like LinkedIn. You can share your credentials with professional networks and demonstrate your growth over time.
- There are over 45 badges to unlock, allowing you to hone expertise in your interest areas. And they never expire, so the skills stick with you. Whether you’re a student exploring careers, a professional looking to reskill, or an educator integrating tech competencies into your teaching, Cisco Net Academy digital badges deliver flexible and pedigreed certification of your capabilities.
