One Day Training Programme for Business Trainers and Mentors

Step 1: Creativity 8 Ways Entrepreneurs can Master the Creative Mind 1.Forever curious. 2.Always open to new things 3.Embrace ambiguity 4.Finding and transferring principles 5.Searching for integrity 6.Knowing you can solve the problem 7.Able to visualize other worlds 8.Think the opposite

Introduction to the Day Registration/coffee Introduction Module 1: Your Inner Innovator Coffee (15 Mins) Module 2: Module 3: LUNCH Module 3: Module 4: Coffee (15 Mins) Module 4: Open questions and answers Close

Innovation In Micro-Enterprises Module 1 – Your Inner Innovator

Module One: Your Inner Innovator  Part One “A Tour of YOU”

Part One “A Tour of YOU”  Objective 1 – identify the key influences in bringing you to where you are now  Objective 2 – what is your experience of change?  Objective 3 – what is your experience of change in your business?

“A Tour of YOU”  Exercise 1 (Icebreaker) - What Made You “You”?  Introduction (5 minutes)  Self-reflection (10 minutes)  Pair off  Presentation to your neighbour (10 minutes – 5 each)  Modelled on speed dating

What made you “you”?

 Self-mapping exercise – “you” as a rose. Petals and thorns. Influences for good or for bad. What influenced you (e.g. the talents of the people around you) Why?  What made you what you are today?  Pair off : talk to each other, 5 minutes each about your reflections.  Mediated by an elevator bell

What made you “you”? “Thorns” are the painful, challenging events/influences – choose at least two “Petals” are the positive, encouraging events/influences - choose at least two Aim for 5 influences in total

What made you “you”?  Pair off : talk to each other, 5 minutes each, about your reflections.  Mediated by an “elevator bell” – sets a time limit (as per time in an elevator with someone you want to talk to before the doors open) - encourages concise presentation and allows the facilitator to move things along without being rude.

Elevator Pitch?

What made you “you”? Represent your story as a series of “petals” (positive influences) and “thorns” (challenges).....

Module One: Your Inner Innovator  Part Two “Getting to go”

“Getting To Go”  Present your business story – the origins of the business, what motivated you, what was the stimulus, what steps you took from idea to start-up – go back to your mindset when you started out  Describe the steps taken as push and pull factors in images or words – 15 minutes using the push/pull matrix  Then pair off. Each of you has 5 minutes to present your story to your partner 10 minutes in total  You should listen to your partner and note what struck you.  Each of you will then report back on your impressions of your partner (2 minutes per person - 20 minutes in total) Elevator bell

AN ENTREPRENEUR'S STORY

Driven among other things by poor educational attainment In the right place to exploit a niche in the market “Early adopter” of new, innovative and relatively untried products Diversifies into new sectors; renowned for embracing new technologies 4th richest citizen in the UK (Forbes 2012)

Sir Richard Branson

THE ‘PUSH PULL’ MODEL.... ‘Push’ = necessity ‘Pull’ = opportunity

Getting To Go  Step one: You, a reflection....  Your decision to start-up: What push and pull factors motivated you? What steps did you take?  Summarise on your ‘Push/Pull’ sheet

Getting To Go  Step two: Your partner...  Identify what was interesting and surprising? What was risky?  Was this person predominantly motivated by push or by pull factors? What have you learnt from this person?

Feedback Key words Which decisions and actions taken by your partner were:.... Interesting (i.e. remarkable/surprising)?.... Risky?