The document discusses several transferable skills: 1. Leadership - It describes Jim Collins' 5 levels of leadership and the document states the goal of achieving level 3 leadership and potentially level 5 executive status. 2. Spoken communication - It lists confidence, personality, and being outgoing as important skills and states that the author believes they have these skills. 3. Flexibility - It discusses the importance of flexibility for entrepreneurs and lists traits like planning, time management, and tolerance of ambiguity as important for flexibility. The author views themselves as a flexible person.

1. Transferable Skills:
1. Leadership:
 Leadership is the action or process of leading a group of people, organization
or the ability to do this.
 A man who has dedicated his life to leadership in both research and skills is
Jim Collins, who created the 5 Levels of Leadership.
 Mr Collins believes that there is 5 almost grades of leader in life, beginning
with:
 LEVEL 1: Highly Capable Individual who makes productive contributions
through talent, knowledge, skills and good work habits.
 LEVEL 2: Contributing Team Member who contributes individual capabilities
to the achievement of group objectives and works effectively with others in a
group setting.
 LEVEL 3: Competent Manager is the individual who organizes people and
resources toward the effective and efficient pursuit of predetermined
objectives.
 LEVEL 4: Effective Leader can catalyse commitment to and vigorous pursuit of
a clear and compelling vision, stimulating higher performance standards.
 LEVEL 5: Level 5 Executive builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical
blend of personal humility and professional will.
 I would like to currently a LEVEL 3 leader aspiring through this course and a
potential masters to one day, become a LEVEL 5 Executive. I believe you are
born a leader and that you either have the mentality and skills or you don’t.
2. Spoken Communication:
 Communication is the passing of information from one person to another, this
can be done in many different ways including spoken.
 To be a good spoken communicator I believe you need the following 3 skills:
 Confidence: This is a key aspect of conversation as you will need to keep your
cool as well as get your points across in a clear, quick and productive way for
the other person to understand you.
 Personality: Nobody wants to listen to a dictator like speaker, put some
passion and zest into your words so that the person firstly takes full attention
as well as showing them you have real interest for the topic in conversation
and this makes it easy for them to give feedback.
 Outgoing: You want to try make the person feel at ease while talking to you,
don’t arrive with this big headed view that you’re the boss looking down on
them you’re the facilitator for their work ethic and skills.
 I find I myself have the 3 skills outlined above, I find myself at ease to talk with
anyone, when trying to communicate about something I love I excel and I
always do get my point across.

2. 3. Flexibility
 Another transferable skill that arose that I have an aptitude for is Flexibility,
which for aspiring entrepreneur is almost a necessity.
 Flexibility is the ability to be easily modified.
 To be flexible you need the following traits, in my view:
 Plan: If you have your day planned out in your mind if a hiccup does arise at
least you know how much time you have to fix it before you have to be
somewhere else for the next task.
 Manage Time: You must be able to manage your time effectively and
efficiently to ensure you can bend your schedule, so that you adapt to try
facilitate whatever must be done.
 A tolerance of ambiguity: This is the art of being able to do one objective
while being told another, it ties in with decision making and prioritising. It
makes flexibility easier as then you know what you want and what you have
to do to get there.
 I would view myself as flexible person, I always make time for others and for
the important tasks rather than time consuming ones.
4. Self Confidence
 Like I touched on in point 2 for Spoken Communication, self-confidence plays
a huge role in many transferable skills.
 Self Confidence is a feeling of trust in your abilities, qualities and judgement.
 Traits include: Projection of Self-esteem, Good use of words, Willing to accept
compliments, Avoids self-promotion, Positive outlook, See everything as
opportunities and Counter doubt with positive action.
 As an aspiring entrepreneur, belief in myself is key if I want others to follow
me on my journey.
5. Commercial Awareness
 I have had an aptitude for business from a very young age, I became
commercial aware from childhood due to coming from a family of business.
 Following my family’s foot prints when I was small I was always made aware
of the opportunity in owning your own business.
 An ethic I picked up was hard work, nothing comes without effort and I
learned that threw washing cars, cutting grass and general housework.
 I know that’s only basics but we all have to start somewhere, through these
experiences I learned to respect money and to save rather than spend.
 I have my dad, uncles and grandfather to thank for the opportunities they
supplied me with, they gave me time and effort of their own to improve my
mind set and potential as well as develop my interest in business.