Who is an entrepreneur? Is an entrepreneur born or made? What are his/her traits and skills? Personality test and entrepreneurship.

1. The Entrepreneur
Emad Saif
Entrepreneurship Trainer
Property of Emad Saif© 2014

2. Agenda
•
Who is an entrepreneur?
•
Entrepreneur’s skills & Traits
•
Personality Type Indicator

3. Who is an
Entrepreneur
?

4. En-tre-pre-neur
from French word “entreprendre” meaning to undertake
“ A person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. ”

5. The Difference
Promoter
Inventor
Manager
Entrepreneur
Creativity
&
Innovation
General Management skills, Business Know-how & Networks
High
Low
High

6. Sensing
Entrepreneurs are good at
exploiting

7. Motivation Exercise
1.
Meet someone new
2.
Discuss their motivations to start a business
3.
Present their name, idea and their motivation

8. What motivates entrepreneurs to start a business?
Independence
Wealth
Recognition
Flexible Schedule
Unemployment
Family Business

9. Entrepreneur
intrapreneur
Employed in an organization
Less risk
Own boss
More risk
vs.
Less freedom
More freedom

10. Are
Entrepreneurs
born or made?
traits
Acquired skills

11. Entrepreneur
traits
Skills
Education
Experience
culture
Family
background
+ / -
Environment

12. Entrepreneur’s skills
?

13. Harvard Research
http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/12/new-research-the-skills-that-m/

14. persuade

15. lead

16. personal accountability

17. Goal oriented

18. Interpersonal Skills

19. Entrepreneur’s
traits

20. Passion

21. Vision

22. resilience

23. flexibility

24. self confidence

25. What Entrepreneurial
Traits & Skills
Do you
possess?

26. 1.
Socializing at Networking events (E – I )
2.
Ways to Giving directions (S – N )
3.
Choosing between job offers (T – F )
4.
Changes before project deadline (J – P )
Personality
Exercise

27. Myers-briggs personality type indicator

29. personality type indicator

30. The 8 preferences
What you prefer to focus energy on
E
Extraversion
Focus their energy on the outer world of people & things
I
Introversion
Focus their energy on the inner world of ideas and reflections
The way you prefer to communicate
S
Sensing
Tend to take in info through the 5 senses & focus on details and instructions
N
Intuition
Tend to take info from patterns & the full picture & focus on future possibilities
The way you prefer to make decisions
T
Thinking
Prefer thinking to make decisions based primarily on facts, logic & analysis of cause and effect
F
Feeling
Prefer feeling to make decisions primarily based on values and gut instinct
How you prefer to deal with the outer world
J
Judging
Like a planned & organized approach to life & prefer to have things settled
P
Perceiving
Like a flexible approach to life & prefer to keep their options open

31. 16 personality types

34. Find Your Personality Type

35. Detailed Personality Profile

36. http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Find Your Personality Type

37. ISTJ
ISTP
ISFJ
ISFP
ESTP
ESTJ
ESFP
ESFJ
INFJ
INFP
INTJ
INTP
ENFP
ENFJ
ENTP
ENTJ
Which personality type is an entrepreneur?

38. ISTJ
ISTP
ISFJ
ISFP
ESTP
ESTJ
ESFP
ESFJ
INFJ
INFP
INTJ
INTP
ENFP
ENFJ
ENTP
ENTJ
Which personality type is an entrepreneur?

39. Click for more celebrities personality types
http://visual.ly/famous-personality-types

40. What did you learn ?

41. Entrepreneur
traits
Skills
Education
Experience
culture
Family
background
+ / -
Environment
Starting & running a business
ERADA program
Learning about your strengths & weaknesses (personality indicator)
This could be you !
entrepreneur
traits
education
experience
Skills

42. Thank You
Emad Saif
https://www.linkedin.com/in/emadsaif
Property of Emad Saif© 2014