The Enterprise Skills Series is for you if you want to do any of the following:
All participants on the programme will take an eFACETS entrepreneurial indicator test and receive a personalised entrepreneur profile.
The Enterprise Skills Series has ended for the Autumn term.
This course will provide an introduction to the essential skills of the entrepreneur* and an understanding of the entrepreneurial life-world.
This programme is for undergraduates and postgraduate taught students only. Doctoral Researchers should look at other programmes available to them.
You should take part in the Enterprise Skills Series if any of the following apply:
You are keen to develop enterprise skills as a means to improve your employability
You are thinking about starting a business or becoming self-employed when you graduate
You have an idea for a business (or social enterprise, charity or organisation) that you would like to start soon
You have already started a small business or are freelancing / self-employed and have not yet received any training
You intend to work for a small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) when you graduate
The series will cover the following topics:
Entrepreneurial leadership: What makes an enterprising or entrepreneurial individual and how can you establish yourself as an entrepreneurial leader?
Creativity: Where do good ideas come from and how can you pick the winners?
Competitive advantage: Aligning the way you market yourself (or your business) with the best market intelligence (research).
Focus: Making sure you deliver on the details. Planning, strategy, finance and legal issues.
People: Growing a high-performance team begins with understanding yourself and the power of Emotional Intelligence
Social enterprise: More than money - the power of enterprise to bring about change, create opportunity, and support equality and diversity.
The programme is delivered by members of the University’s Entrepreneurship and Innovation team, part of the Careers and Employability Centre. The team has specialist expertise in helping students and graduates to start new ventures and they run a small business incubator centre for this purpose.
The sessions are highly interactive and do not require any previous business experience or learning. Workshops will include a mix of:
By the end of the programme, delegates will be able to:
To attend the Enterprise Skills Series you will need to sign up. The next Skills Series is not yet open for sign up.
To register your interest in the Enterprise Skills Series or similar opportunities please email ei@contacts.bham.ac.uk.
You are required to attend a minimum of six out of the eight sessions. Each session lasts 2 hours. In addition, small tasks will be set weekly. Typically, tasks would take between 20 and 30 minutes a week.
If you would like to receive a certificate for the programme, or earn up to 30 points towards the PSA, then you will need to submit:
The course will give you the resources needed to do this. It is anticipated that you may spend up to eighteen hours, additional to the taught sessions, in order to complete these.
We hope that most participants will choose to take this option.
* Including those who are starting a business, working for a small enterprise, creating a social enterprise, founding a charity, or indeed anything else that is ‘enterprising’!
