the entrepreneur

The Entrepreneur

Emad Saif Entrepreneurship Trainer

Property of Emad Saif© 2014

Agenda

• Who is an entrepreneur? • Entrepreneur’s skills & Traits • Personality Type Indicator

Who is an Entrepreneur ?

En-tre-pre-neur from French word “entreprendre”

meaning to undertake

“ A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. ”

The Difference

Promoter

Inventor

Manager

Entrepreneur Creativity

& Innovation

General Management skills, Business Know-how & Networks

High

Low High

Sensing

Entrepreneurs are good at

exploiting

Motivation Exercise 1. Meet someone new

2. Discuss their motivations to start a business

3. Present their name, idea and their motivation

What motivates entrepreneurs to start a business?

Independence

Wealth

Recognition

Flexible Schedule

Unemployment

Family Business

Entrepreneur

intrapreneur Employed in an organization Less risk

Own boss More risk

vs. Less freedom

More freedom

Are Entrepreneurs

born or made? traits Acquired skills

Entrepreneur

traits Skills

Education Experience culture Family background

+ / - Environment

Entrepreneur’s

skills ?

Harvard Research

http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/12/new-research-the-skills-that-m/

persuade

lead

personal accountability

Goal oriented

Interpersonal Skills

Entrepreneur’s

traits

Passion

Vision

resilience

flexibility

self confidence

What Entrepreneurial

Traits & Skills

Do you possess?

1. Socializing at Networking events (E – I )

2. Ways to Giving directions (S – N )

3. Choosing between job offers (T – F )

4. Changes before project deadline (J – P )

Personality Exercise

Myers-briggs personality type

indicator

personality type indicator

The 8 preferences What you prefer to focus energy on

E Extraversion Focus their energy on the outer world of people & things

I Introversion Focus their energy on the inner world of ideas and reflections

The way you prefer to communicate

S Sensing Tend to take in info through the 5 senses & focus on details and instructions

N Intuition Tend to take info from patterns & the full picture & focus on future possibilities

The way you prefer to make decisions

T Thinking Prefer thinking to make decisions based primarily on facts, logic & analysis of cause and effect

F Feeling Prefer feeling to make decisions primarily based on values and gut instinct

How you prefer to deal with the outer world

J Judging Like a planned & organized approach to life & prefer to have things settled

P Perceiving Like a flexible approach to life & prefer to keep their options open

16 personality types

Find Your Personality Type

Detailed Personality Profile

http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Find Your Personality Type

ISTJ

ISTP

ISFJ

ISFP

ESTP

ESTJ

ESFP

ESFJ

INFJ

INFP

INTJ

INTP

ENFP

ENFJ

ENTP

ENTJ

Which personality type is an entrepreneur?

ISTJ

ISTP

ISFJ

ISFP

ESTP

ESTJ

ESFP

ESFJ

INFJ

INFP

INTJ

INTP

ENFP

ENFJ

ENTP

ENTJ

Which personality type is an entrepreneur?

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What did you learn ?

Entrepreneur

traits Skills

Education Experience culture Family background

+ / - Environment

Star ting & running a business

ERADA program

Learning about your strengths &

weaknesses (personality indicator)

This could be you ! entrepreneur

traits

education experience

Skills

Thank You

Emad Saif https://www.linkedin.com/in/emadsaif Property of Emad Saif© 2014