An introduction course for students at 6th form on being an Entrepreneur.

1. Entrepreneurial Course
1.Introduction to the course

2. Agenda
1. Who and what I am
2.What’s inside you?
3. The need for process
4. The need to deal with failure

3. 5.What can we dream up imagine invent
6. Now to put it into operation
7.Reports and development

4. What does Entrepreneurial mean?
• Entrepreneurial – of or
relating to an
Entrepreneur
• Entrepreneur – willing to
take risks to make a
profit. Entrepreneurial
willing to take risks –
enterprising; marked by
imagination, initiative and
readiness. To undertake
new projects
• These are the people
who bring in new
things, advance
ideas, are creative,
create employment,
do not wait for others
to give them a job, but
are the people who
make the jobs.

5. These People will be
• Risk takers
• Willing to fail and know how to
use failure
• Willing to make Mistakes
• “He who never made a mistake
never made anything” My
Grandmother.
• Not willing to be put off by ‘cold
water people’
• Knowing what is inside
themselves
• Having right thinking

6. Cycle Diagram
Ordinary
or
Extra ordinary
They just
happen
Employable
or create
employment
Accept
things
as
they areOr
Change
things
What Do you
think?

7. Ordinary or Extra ordinary
• The reasonable man adapts himself to the
world; the unreasonable one persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man.
• George *Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 –
2 November 1950) was an
Irish playwright, who received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1925.

8. Something to Watch
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9. Watch

10. Patrick Dixon
• Patrick Dixon is a friend of mine he ranked one of world's
20 most influential business thinkers.
5 million video views on global trends, leadership,
strategy, innovation.
13.5 million unique visitors:
http://www.globalchange.com
42,000 Twitter followers: http://www.twitter.com/patr...
Global clients include Google, Microsoft, BP, UBS,
Siemens, General Electric, AT&T. This video
• http://www.youtube.com/user/pjvdixon
• We won’t watch this through – to long but if you are
interested you can watch later.

11. Progress Diagram
Who and what am I
Check out material at
homeIntroduction
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Adrian Hawkes
Monday, 23 December 2013
For Phoenix Academy 2014
Part 1.