Create your own work experience - be enterprising! Presentation by Paul Adams Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Session Purpose Being enterprising to come up with ideas that lead to work experience including starting your own business: - Find contacts for work experience - Make me some money - Develop my employability skills - Make me stand out from the competition - Make a difference

Workshop agenda Being enterprising Being entrepreneurial Why bother? Being enterprising finding work Charities and social enterprises Starting your own business What next

Being enterprising Innovative Self reliant Action orientated Considered risk-taking Sees needs as opportunities Resilient

Being entrepreneurial Being enterprising and starting your own business Fund your way through university – Mike’s story Start a business after university – Oscar’s story Find a job after university –Jake’s story Not “either/or” can do both

Why bother? 1 - it will get you a job 2 - you can be your own boss and be in charge of your life 3 - it could make you rich if you start your own business

Being enterprising to get work experience Employers are impressed by initiative Research them Make suggestions for work Use your contacts – like me! Linked In Charities/social enterprises always need help

Being enterprising to get start your own business Got an idea? How could you do it part-time? How will you fund it? Have you got the credibility to do it?

But I don’t know anything about starting a business! Meeting a customer’s need profitably…or solutions for problems

But I can’t come up with business ideas! Everybody has creative thoughts It’s not about being artistic And its not all about great business ideas You can challenge yourself to think in particular ways Can’t I just ask people what they want?

Thought for the day “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” Henry Ford

Becoming more creative…TIPS Learn something new everyday Take time, make space – best ideas occur in idle mode! Find a starting point - any starting point Listen to people Note it down. Avoid don’t, can’t, wouldn’t Start with the end in mind No wrong answers No emotional attachment – don’t worry

Two tools 1.SCAMPER 2.Ask three questions

SCAMPER  Substitute  Combine  Adapt  Modify/Magnify  Put to other purposes  Eliminate  Reverse/rearrange

Asking three questions 1.What is the real service? 2.What are the assumptions? 3.How would you do it if you couldn’t do it the current way?

Asking three questions What is the real service? What are the assumptions? How would you do it if you couldn’t do it the current way?

Assumptions Luxury item for the well off People want / will pay for service Airports close to city centre Planes can’t be worked too hard

Asking three questions

Assumptions Luxury item for the well off People want / will pay for service Airports close to city centre Planes can’t be worked too hard

Asking three questions What is the real service? What are the assumptions? How would you do it if you couldn’t do it the current way?

Assumptions Goods need weighed/measured Won’t buy more than you can carry People want service / advice People will steal stuff

Asking three questions

Assumptions Goods need weighed/measured Won’t buy more than you can carry People want service / advice People will steal stuff

Big ideas 1 Selling shoes 2 University degree

Big ideas 1 Selling shoes 2 University degree

Big ideas 1 Selling shoes 2 University degree What is the real service? What are the assumptions? How would you do it if you couldn’t do it the current way?

What’s different about an entrepreneur? They’d do it

Next steps

Workshop agenda Being enterprising Being entrepreneurial Why bother? Being enterprising finding work Charities and social enterprises Starting your own business What next

Create your own work experience - be enterprising! Presentation by Paul Adams Entrepreneurship and Innovation