This document outlines the key characteristics and skills needed for entrepreneurship. It describes a program to help individuals assess their own entrepreneurial identity through a series of self-assessment activities, individual interviews, and feedback sessions. The goal is to help participants recognize their strengths and weaknesses in order to identify potential areas for development and training to improve their entrepreneurial skills and abilities.

1. Aware
Skill & Personality

2. How to define entrepreneurship?

3. Courage
Leadership
Searching for opportunities
Commitment & Determination
Motivation
Resilience
Networking
Integrity and Responsibility
Business Know How
Management

4. It is the mix of the attitudes, behaviours,
competence, experience and knowledge
necessary to create a vision, to inspire,
convince, guide and motivate the people who
are fundamental for our project, to commit
themselves with us in order to make the dream
become a reality.

5. Entrepreneurs are born, not made
Some myths to be disproved
You can only become an entrepreneur
if you start young

6. Entrepreneur vs. Manager
Managerial, business know how and networking skills
Creativityandinnovation
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Inventor Entrepreneur
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7. • to develop awareness of one’s attitudes and skills
• to recognize one’s own areas of possible improvement
• foster the best methods of managing collaborators and
entrepreneurial team building
• offer a concrete possibility for managerial development
We will work

8. • Autonomy / Independent thought
• Constant attention to opportunities / Business oriented
• Curiosity / Open mindedness
• Creativity
• Commitment & Determination
• Courage / Boldness
• Resilience in the face of adversity / lack of success
• Leadership (social & emotional intelligence, passion, energy, orientation to results)
Entrepreneurial identity - Characteristics
… in search of our own entrepreneurial identity …

9. • Strategic vision
• Innovation
• Communication & Effective Relations
• Analytic Thinking & Decision Making
• Negotiation
• Team building and Management
• Business Know How
Entrepreneurial identity - Skills
AWARE

10. AWARE
Characteristics
Skills
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Researcher Director
Master Administrator

11. The steps
1°) Self assessment day in a group (8 hours)
THE ACTIVITIES
A series of activities will be carried out either individually or in subgroups. These will be of a logical,
deductive or relational nature, based on the analysis of real situations or simulations, but all of them
will be chosen to encourage a reflection on one’s entrepreneurial identity with the aim of
extrapolating strengths and weaknesses.
2°) Individual interview (2 hours)
The individual interview completes the self assessment path.
It is one to one and aims to explore one’s own personal characteristics alongside
managerial skills. The purpose is to encourage the identification / recognition of one’s own
entrepreneurial identity, whether it is a question of starting a new business or in the case of an
ongoing activity.
3°) Final feedback interview (2 hours)
COMMENT ON THE INDIVIDUAL REPORT – Comparison with the assessor’s evaluation
The last step is the final feedback interview with the Assessor, during which the indiidual Report is
discussed and delivered.

12. Possible development paths
1. Training activities focusing on the gaps
2. Individual coaching paths to reinforce skills
3. Team coaching activities to improve organizational efficiency and
optimum overseeing of projects and processes
Operative aspects
The programme foresees a total commitment of 12 hours spread over a period of
1/ 2 months.

13. 1° step : Self Assessment activity in group 8 hours
2° step : Individual in depth interview 2 hours
3° step : Individual feedback interview 2 hours
Total commitment per participant 12 hours
Summary of commitment