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Entrepreneurship skills

Shreya Ravi Kumar by Shreya Ravi Kumar
July 14, 2019
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Do you and your friends talk of business ideas together and how to achieve that dream of setting up your own enterprise? How many ideas have you come up with and how many have you rejected?

OR

Do you also dream of starting your own company and being your own boss? Have you wondered what that dream involves? Being an entrepreneur is everyone’s dream. Today, most students want an opportunity to grown their own business as soon as they graduate and wish to turn their ideas into products or services that will bring positive changes in the consumers’ lives.

OR

Rohan had a new idea to start a business as soon as he was out of college. But he did not have the expertise to develop his idea practically and launch the product into the market. Neither did he have the know-how to pitch his business idea to investors for funding.

Does the above situation sound familiar to you? Do you also have innovative business ideas and want to see them fulfill into practical products or services to help you become an entrepreneur?

Let us look at some of the entrepreneurship skills that can help you achieve your dream of being your own boss.

Motivation and Innovation

You should be highly self-motivated and positive all through.

You should motivate others to accept your vision and work towards it.

Develop your imagination by reading, asking questions and being creative.

Seek out problems to solve, develop new ideas to solve them and innovate.

Be proactive and search for opportunities.

Risk-Taking Ability

You should be capable of taking risks. As students or fresh graduates, you will be more open to trying out new things and willing to take risks. Also be willing to understand and cope with uncertainty.

Being committed and even under stress or extreme pressure will help you succeed. However, you should also develop the ability to deal with failure.

Be flexible and adapt to changes quickly. Part of being an entrepreneur is your ability to work in chaotic environments and situations responding positively to challenges and evaluating all opportunities.

Personal Qualities

Your self-confidence is key to your success in gaining supporters and growing your business.

You should learn to persevere even in times of stress and not quit.

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You have to be responsible and accountable as well. Develop your emotional maturity along with understanding core values and ethics of business practices.

Critical and Creative Thinking

Your problem-solving skills and the application of core academic knowledge as well as technical skills is important to good decision making in business. Keep asking questions and think of various solutions to one problem. Be creative in your approach when thinking of solutions.

You can learn the basics of finance, accounting and taxation in order to help you understand the requirements of setting up and running a business.

Your critical thinking ability will also help you to make a competitive analysis of your ideas and do proper risk assessments before you proceed with the actual decisions,

Planning and Organizing

Set your goals and think of proper business plans to achieve them.

It is also important to have your value proposition in place when you think of business ideas. Also, do proper market research and analysis, so you are clear in your goals.

Communication and Negotiation

While you are already learning and improving your oral and written communication skills, they may not be enough. Entrepreneurship involves a lot of networking, engaging and advocating. With the right negotiation skills and persuasiveness, you can help with fundraising for your business idea to be actualized. You should also have basic digital skills and knowledge of social media to use it for digital marketing and communicating.

Leadership and Management Skills

Can you imagine an entrepreneur who cannot lead? That would be very difficult indeed. You have to develop your leadership skills and improve your teamwork abilities. You can easily do this while in college, when you have to work on projects with a team.

Entrepreneurs have to do a lot of decision-making, and you have to be resourceful, learn to lead and delegate as well in order to be successful.

Whether you choose to pursue your entrepreneurial dream or not, you must remember that failures are the stepping stones to success. It takes a lot of courage to fall, pick yourself up and move on to the next idea for your business. Not everyone will be successful at the first go. Be focused and work hard and you can also build your path to successful entrepreneurship.

Write to us to let us know what you think are the most important entrepreneurship skills.

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