This is an overview of the Entrevis 7 Entrepreneurial Skills®. These skills are synergistic in that they build on and inform each other to create a successful business. You cannot focus on one at the exclusion of the others. Taken together, they form a balanced approach to creating and sustaining a successful entrepreneurial business.
Building Vision, Faith & Commitment
Confidence in your vision and knowing that this is your path along with the commitment to make it real in the face of those who would doubt or question what you are creating (especially you) – is essential to making your vision real.
1. Creating a vision
2. Believing your work is your calling
3. Having confidence and belief in self
4. Contributing to something greater than yourself
Utilizing Your Strengths
Knowing and understanding your strengths allows you to focus on what you do best in the service of your vision and purpose. You find ways to support the areas outside of your core competencies.
1. Building on your strengths and passions
2. Acknowledging weaknesses
3. Commitment to professional development
Creating a Niche
By creating your niche through choice, you can focus your energies and resources in one area so that people can identify with who you are and whom you serve.
1. Finding one thing you love and being the best at it
2. Maintaining a clear compelling focus on target market
3. Becoming established as an expert - creating a name for yourself
Planning & Follow Through
Creating a clear business plan that includes financial projections accompanied by follow through and accountability to yourself and others brings vision to life.
1. Creating a living business plan with written goals
2. Committing to your word by following through
3. Establishing accountability with self and others
Engaging Risk & Reality
Risk-taking without assessment or reality is just stupidity or naiveté. Efforts to assess reality with total accuracy are a recipe for paralysis. There are no guarantees. You must engage both risk and reality simultaneously to strike a balance that enables you to move forward with faith.
1. Practicing financial discipline
2. Embracing failure
3. Trusting your gut
Partnering
The ability to ask for help and to create synergistic relationships is essential to being a successful entrepreneur – your business relies on a network of relationships.
1. Building relationships
2. Asking for and getting help
3. Being a resource
Negotiating
Being clear about what your services are worth and the ability to ask for it, without hesitation, are the heart of the ability to negotiate.
1. Knowing your value proposition
2. Creating Win – Win agreements
3. Knowing your bottom line/Being willing to walk away
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