1. Core Skills for Business Ownership John C. Kelly, PhD

2. Core Skills for Business Ownership ► Professional ► Personal ► Business ► Computer

3. Professional ► Are you the best at what you do? ► Are you passionate about your idea? ► Do you have a reputation for excellence? ► Do you write articles about your field ► Do you give speeches about your field

4. Personal Skills ► Time Management ► Money Management ► Attitude ► Communication ► Quantitative Thinking

5. Time The scarcest resource of all ► Do you have a sense of urgency? ► Do you procrastinate? ► Do set annual and life goals? ► Do you periodically log your time usage? ► Do you make time work for you long term?

6. Habit Three – First things First Urgent Not Urgent Impor- tant CrisisDeadlinesPlanning Customer Relationships Education Fulfilling Life Goals Not Impor- tant Phone calls Meetings Busy work Television

7. Money ► Do you live beneath your means? ► Do you use debt cautiously? ► Do you know good debt from bad debt? ► Do you maintain a personal budget? ► Do you have sufficient start-up capital

8. Attitude ► Are you confident? ► Are you persistent? ► Are you positive? ► Are you passionate? ► Are you friendly? ► Are you a realist?

9. Communication ► Writing – Express your self in words ► Speaking – Speak before a group ► Listening – Listen to understand ► Reading – Read to learn

10. Quantitative Thinking ► Budgets ► Spreadsheets ► Interest rates ► Investment planning ► Graphical presentation of data ► Business statistics

11. Business ► Accounting/Financial ► Sales ► Marketing ► Personnel Management ► Administrative/Computer ► Legal ► Fill your gaps with courses

12. Computer ► Spreadsheets – Excel ► Word processing – Word ► Presentation – Power Point