Becoming an Entrepreneur

Becoming an Entrepreneur will cover all the fundamentals of setting up a small business successfully and will benefit from the experience of entrepreneurs leading the session, guiding through coming up with an idea, getting started and goal setting. Your students will benefit from working together as a team on activities, timekeeping, listening skills, presentation skills and communication.

Suitable for KS3/KS4/KS5 Students

Workshop, Topic Mini-Series, Industry Talk

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What we'll cover

  • The Idea; Finding a gap, Business Ideas, Market Research, Competition
  • Making and Spending Money; Sales and Marketing of your business and activity
  • Getting Started; setting up, business plans, and putting one together
  • Business Ideas; present and discuss plus goal setting

Outcomes

  • To explore what an entrepreneur is
  • To understand the key skills required to be a successful entrepreneur
  • To observe gaps in the market and identify entrepreneurial opportunities
  • To learn how to identify and research business competition
  • To understand the financial and legal basics of setting up a business
  • To explore ways in which to market and sell a product or service
  • To understand how to plan and present a basic business idea

Thank you so much Enrichment Partnership and Amy Atkinson for bringing our vision for the day to life! It was a pleasure having you and seeing our young people stretch their imaginations and use the invaluable tools you provided, to start exploring the realm of entrepreneurship.

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