Have you ever come across a successful community organisation and wondered what's the secret? What sets out the entrepreneurs from the crowd? Here are ten traits we discovered when working with award-winning community-led organisations and the people inside them..

1. 10 “Personality” Traits of
Entrepreneurial Community
Organisations and the People
inside them
How to manifest YOUR community vision

2. “This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship –
the entrepreneur always searchers for change,
responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity”
- Peter Drucker

3. Which are you?
How many of you watch on and see community-minded groups making
a BIG difference?
How many of you are involved with these life-changing groups?
How many of you wish you were?

4. The energisers!
•Entrepreneurial mindset
•Award-winners
•Inspiring
•Stories to tell
•Well organised

5. 10
“personality”
traits of
entrepreneurial
community
organisatons
and the people
inside them

6. 1. The have an
Entrepreneurial
Mindset
• Clear Vision and Goals
• Plan
• Think B I G
• Overcome F E A R

7. 2 They take
risks
Ready for Change
They embrace Innovation

8. 3 Threats
become
Opportunities
They shake off cynicism
Do what it takes
They get C R E A T I V E

9. 4 Dare to be different
They stand out
from the crowd
If you always do what
you’ve always done,
you’ll always get what
you’ve always got Henry Ford

10. 5 Not afraid to fail
They readjust the flight
plan
Take failure in their stride

11. 6 They think and dream creatively
Visionaries
Dreams
become
reality

12. 7 They make
connections
• “Entreprendre” – a ‘go-between’
• Change agents
• Drive and positive energy
• Networks with other entrepreneurs
• Manifest change

13. 8 They become
intuitive organisations
• Law of Attraction – whatever
you focus on grows
• Success attracts success
• Perceived by others as ‘Lucky’

14. 9 They are leaders
• Strong sense of justice
• Definiteness of decisions
and plans
• Willing to assume
responsibility

15. 10 Bigger than the
individual
• Internal driver(s)
• Entrepreneurship embedded
within vision, mission, culture,
P&Ps
• Entrepreneurship is a primary
value

16. 10 steps to
manifesting
your
community
vision
1 Adopt an entrepreneurial mindset
2 Engage with a strong vision
3 Be prepared to take risks
4 Be the phoenix
5 Dare to be different
6 Be prepared to fail fast and move on
7 Be the “entreprendre”
8 Get in the zone / be ‘lucky’, attract and act on opportunities
9 Be the leader
10 Embed entrepreneurship in the organisation

17. Imagine what an entrepreneurial
mindset could mean for your
organisation, community
• What does it look like?
• What are people saying
about your achievements?
• How do you feel?

18. Ready to change the world?

19. About Pat Grosse
• A comment from a colleague
intrigued me about
community/volunteer organisations
• Now been working with NFPs for
the last 17 years
• Know the culture inside and out and
how it so different from business
• Mentored award winners

20. Step up to the
mark and create
the change your
world deserves
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