Entrepreneurial Skills

The Skills You Need to Build a Great Business

If you want to start a business, it's essential to learn the specific skills that underpin these qualities. It's also important to develop entrepreneurial skills if you're in a job role where you're expected to develop a business, or "take things forward" more generally.

What we do know is that successful entrepreneurs seem to have certain traits in common.
We've gathered these traits into four categories:
Personal characteristics.
Interpersonal skills.
Critical and creative thinking skills.
Practical skills.

Personal Characteristics

Optimism
Vision
Initiative
Desire for Control
Risk Tolerance
Resilience

Interpersonal Skills

Leadership and Motivation
Communication Skills
Listening
Personal Relations
Negotiation
Ethics

Critical and Creative Thinking Skills

Creative Thinking
Problem Solving
Recognizing Opportunities

Practical Skills

Goal Setting
Planning and Organizing
Decision Making
Business Knowledge
Entrepreneurial Knowledge
Opportunity-Specific Knowledge
Venture-Specific Knowledge


Assess your skills in each of these areas. The harder you work to build your skills, the more successful you're likely to be.

By examining your own personal strengths and weaknesses and comparing these with those of the typical entrepreneur, you can get a sense of how well this career will fit with your personality. :

News submitted on: 2019-07-05 20:36:25.