This course provides the softer skills and awareness of the skills involved in being an entrepreneur. Many businesses fail because the people skills are not present. They do not know how to communicate with workers, suppliers, customers, potential customers. Being an entrepreneur is all about managing relationships with others from investors to cleaners because people are what determine the success of a business. People do business with people they trust and customers buy because they want to have a good experience

Week

Topics & Objectives

Learning Outcome

Teaching Method

Assessment Methods

Materials & Resources

1

How is entrepreneurship defined?

What drives Entrepreneurial Talent?

Developing and managing new ideas

Understand what enterprise and entrepreneurship means in a personal and wider context.

Recognise the value of ideas and how they can be harnessed and developed into credible business propositions.

Lecture, discussion

Home work: Research 2-4 people you admire as leaders and why. What are the key qualities?

Participation, feedback,

Video,  wipe board, pens

2

Leadership

How do we identify and define “good leadership”?

Self-awareness and strengthening your leadership

Awareness of your own leadership skills.

Leadership styles explored

How to respond to difficult people and situations by inspiring and fostering respect

Negotiation skills

build new skills to increase confidence

Methods of Motivating others

Lecture, discussion, research,

3-7 minute presentation to the class on chosen leaders.

Leadership Style questionnaire. Self-assessment discussion and reflection.

Emotional Intelligence self-assessment quiz

Demonstrate the attributes of an emotionally-intelligent leader

Awareness of how our emotions are involved in our daily decision making.

Case study: Role Play

Participation and feedback

3

Relationship Building.

Stakeholders in your business.

Be able to define a good customer relationship.

How to create and maintain Stakeholder Relationships

Lecture, video, discussions

Creating a Customer Charter

International Trade

Be able to discuss local import and export regulations.

Evaluate the idea of a global market place

Case Study working remotely in assigned peer groups splitting the topics

Presentation to Networking event  

Hand out and a reading list of information resources

4

Business Communications

Minute taking, Conducting Meetings, Setting the Agenda, Inviting Attendees.

Online Meeting tools, Skype, Google Hangout, Centrix

Case study: Role Play

Student Observers, peer analysis

Participation, feedback

5

Environmental Issues

Investigate waste processing, and the use of natural energy, recycling

Lecture, discussion,

Completed 300 word report assessed

Hand out and a reading list, of information resources