the entrepreneur
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Who is an entrepreneur? Is an entrepreneur born or made? What are his/her traits and skills? Personality test and entrepreneurship.TRANSCRIPT
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?
Click for more celebrities personality types http://visual.ly/famous-personality-types
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