More competition for jobs and consultancy work makes being entrepreneurial as well as resilient essential.
The word entrepreneurial can make people put pressure on themselves, as it is associated with entrepreneurs, and many people don’t identify themselves in this way.
Alternative words for entrepreneurial
Other words that you can use instead of ‘entrepreneurial’ that may feel more ‘you’ are:
- Enterprising
- Imaginative
- Ingenious
- Inventive
- Pioneering
- Resourceful
- Creative
Coronavirus has forced entrepreneurial behaviour
The coronavirus has seen a massive amount of fast change and reinvention with on-line learning and teaching, for example.
Our local pub is planning to re-open in July re-organised to accommodate social distancing with an App to pre-book tables and pre order and pay for food and drinks. Food and drinks will be placed in a holding bay, for people sitting at tables to collect themselves, protecting the staff and minimising touch and risk of infection, instead of staff serving at the tables. This system will also enable more planning, and perhaps less waste, with prior knowledge of what ingredients are needed and in what quantity.
Invention and innovation
Entrepreneurial behaviour underlies the inclination to undertake invention and innovation, including the creation of something new, as well as the distribution and adoption of the new throughout society. Think Zoom and Team which are now the norm, when a few months ago, not everyone had heard of or used them.
Portfolio careers require entrepreneurial behaviour
Entrepreneurial behaviours are essential with a portfolio career, a career made up of different work strands, where you create different opportunities for yourself. As an analogy, just as with cookery, the more ingredients that you have – skills, experience, knowledge and contacts, the more ‘recipes’ you can create for yourself.
What are entrepreneurial behaviours?
Confident/’can do’ attitude
Proactivity
Learning
A mistake/failure is an opportunity to learn/relearn
Try different things
Curiosity
Assertiveness
Being inventive/enterprising
Resilient
A preference for change
Desire to change the status quo
How would you rate yourself currently on these entrepreneurial behaviours out of 100%?
Developing entrepreneurial habits helps to develop entrepreneurial behaviours.
10 habits of entrepreneurs
What are the habits of entrepreneurs?
1. Plan a day in advance
2. Get proper nutrition
3. Position themselves to serve others
4. Set clear S.M.A.R.T. goals
5. Take calculated risks
6. Know their strengths and weaknesses
7. Hire ‘A’ team players
8. Are constantly learning
9. Always look for opportunities
10. Evaluate their actions and priorities every day
6 tips to develop your entrepreneurial ‘muscle’
- Block out time in your diary each week for personal and professional development
- Diarise a half day or whole day away day every 2 months to think, reflect, plan and create
- Read Charles Handy’s book The New Alchemists
- Learn to coach yourself – ask yourself open incisive questions e.g. for a trainer: ‘What trends are growing in the tech sector that I could adopt for the training industry?’
- Diarise ‘important not urgent’ tasks to make sure that they happen. According to Stephen Covey, author of the international best seller The 7 habits of highly effective people these tasks are:
- Preparation
- Prevention
- Planning
- Relationship building
- Empowerment
- Self awareness, learning, exploration & development
- Learning new skills
- Creative thinking
- Networking
- Prioritisation
- Training & development
- Exercise
6. Push out your comfort zone each week – do something that you have never done before
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