Unit+1+-+Entrepreneurs

=​Unit 1: Enterprising People and Entrepreneurs=

This unit focuses on the characteristics and skills of successful business people. You will: You will also begin to assess your own entrepreneurial skills by creating and developing a portfolio.
 * investigate both intrapreneurial and entrepreneurial opportunities in business today
 * look at how enterprising people become successful within the organizations that employ them
 * look at examples of entrepreneurs and examine what helped them and their venture become successful
 * investigate entrepreneurs in both your local and surrounding communities and evaluate their contribution to the economy

=CourseWork=

- Read 3 of the Venture Profiles in Chapter One. - For each Profile, answer the following question: //How has that entrepreneur **__demonstrated__** at least 1 of the entrepreneurial characteristics we have discussed?// || Read the Venture Profile on page 44 Find 4 entrepreneurial characteristics / skills demonstrated by these entrepreneurs, and categorize them as: - 2 “more important” - 2 “less important” Then use these points to write a one-sentence “key idea” statement for the profile || Consider a time when you have been an agent of change - when you have recognized a problem or something that could be improved, and then you did something to fix the problem or improve how that thing was done. //In one paragraph, describe the situation/problem and the solution you created, and discuss how it had an impact on other people//. || Begin a log of opportunities you notice as you go about your daily routine. Remember that entreprneurial opportunities: - are problems, not solutions - can come from anywhere - school - home - reading the newspaper - playing games - riding the bus //- anywhere!// ||   || Add to your opportunity log five more opportunities drawn from your transportation to / from school. || **Portfolio #4: Entrepreneurial Impacts** Brainstorm a local example of an entrepreneur and the impact that entrepreneur has had on his/her immediate community - Who is the entrepreneur? - What do they/their company do? - What is the impact(s) they have had on their community? || Add to your opportunity log five more opportunities drawn from problems / situations you notice in your neighbourhood. || || Add to your opportunity log five more opportunities drawn from problems / situations you notice as you read (news, magazines, novels, comic books - whatever). ||  || page 53 of text (copy and enlarge) || ** Opportunity Log ** Add to your opportunity log five more opportunities drawn from problems you have had with products you have bought in the past. ||  || 9 Types Advisor Team ACI Net Biz Move Business Development Council
 * ~ Date ||~ Topic ||~ Class Notes ||~ Classwork / Homework ||~ Assignments / Projects ||
 * Jan 26 || ** Entrepreneurial Skills and Characteristics ** || [[file:Entrepreneurial Skills and Characteristics.pdf]] ||  || ** Portfolio #1: Identifying Entrepreneurial Characteristics **
 * Jan 27 || ** Literacy Workshop: Reading for Meaning ** || [[file:Literacy Workshop - Reading For Meaning.pdf]] ||  || ** Portfolio #2: Reading for Meaning **
 * Jan 28 || ** Being Agents of Change ** || media type="youtube" key="znau0hGVCgc" height="161" width="216" ||  || ** Portfolio #3: You as an Agent of Change **
 * Jan 29 || ** Entrepreneurial Opportunities & Ideas ** || [[file:Opportunities & Ideas.pdf]] || **The Opportunity Log**
 * Feb 1 || ** Entrepreneurs Contributions to Society ** || [[file:Contributions to society.pdf]] || ** Opportunity Log **
 * Feb 2 || **Skills for Entrepreneurial Success** ||  || ** Opportunity Log **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feb 3 || **Business Ethics** || [[file:Business Ethics.pdf]] || <span style="font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;">** Opportunity Log **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feb 5 || ** Personal SWOT Analysis ** || [[file:Personal SWOT.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feb 8 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">** Personal Online Assessment ** ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Complete at least 3 of the online personality assessments that follow :

Review the results of these tests for two things: - their overall assessment of your entrepreneurial characteristics / potential - the entrepreneurial characteristics the assessments indicate you are strong in / weak in || <span style="font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;">** Opportunity Log ** Add to your opportunity log five more opportunities drawn from your hobbies / interests. || Add to your opportunity log during the Chinese New Year break so that you have at least 50 opportunities when your return after break - this list will be handed in on the first day after break (Feb 24) ||  ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rapid Writing is a brainstorming tool - the objective is to write as much as you can about a topic, without stopping to evaluate or criticise what you have written.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Feb 9 || <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Personal Assessment Assignment** || <span style="font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;">** Opportunity Log **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Feb 24 || ** Literacy Workshop: Rapid Writing ** ||

The goal is to gather as many ideas as you can about the topic, so that later you can review your ideas and then choose the most important ones.

You might use this writing strategy when you are writing an essay or report for one of your courses - before you start to write the actual report, you will want to brainstorm as many ideas to start with, and then pare them down to the most important ideas for the actual essay. || **Rapid Writing Inclass Topics:** <span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-CA; msoansilanguage: EN-CA;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;"> - How would starting your own business change your life ?

- What are the challenges facing young entrepreneurs? || <span style="font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; msobidifontweight: bold;">** Portfolio #5: Short Essay ** <span style="font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif'; font-size: 9pt;">Choose one of the rapid writing activities, and find the three most important ideas in it.Then write a 1 page, 5 paragraph report, outlining these 3 important ideas <span style="font-family: 'Corbel','sans-serif';">**- Paragraph 5**: conclusion
 * - Paragraph 1**: introduction of topic and 3 ideas
 * - Paragraph 2**: elaboration of idea #1 (most important idea)
 * - Paragraph 3**: elaboration of idea #2 (2nd most important idea)
 * - Paragraph 4**: elaboration of idea #3 (3rd most important idea)

//Due Friday, Feb 26// ||