UCIL21331
Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Semester 1
- Face-to-face delivery
- 10 credits
About
What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur and could you become one yourself?
This course, led by Jonathan Styles, aims to help you understand who and what entrepreneurs are and how they use tools to improve their personal and venture's performance.
Becoming an enterprising individual and developing a new business venture can be both physically and emotionally demanding. Successful entrepreneurs have to become focused on creating and establishing a successful business, which is a risky and time-consuming process that entrepreneurs try to navigate as best they can, whilst juggling a wide range of demands and commitments.
This unit addresses key questions such as:
- What makes a successful entrepreneur?
- Can any person be entrepreneurial?
- What skill sets do I need to become an entrepreneur?
You will explore these questions through the application of theory and analysis of a variety of prominent entrepreneurs who have become successful. Ultimately, you will look to develop your own Personal Developmental Roadmap for future entrepreneurial success.
Unit details
What should I know about this unit?
UCIL21331 - Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset
- Semester 1
- Face-to-face delivery
- 10 credits
- Level 2
- Alliance Manchester Business School
This unit forms part of the Enterprise Challenge.
The unit aims to help students understand who and what entrepreneurs are and how entrepreneurs effectively acquire and implement a wide range of tools and techniques to enhance their success.
By the end of the unit students will be able to assess the traits and characteristics of successful entrepreneurs as well as their own entrepreneurial strengths, weaknesses. This information will help to provide students with a better understanding of who they are and what motivates them as individuals and ultimately how to achieve success in their lives.
On successful completion of the unit you will be able to:
- Define and debate different theories and models in entrepreneurial development, leadership, education, vision and strategy
- Apply a range of theories and methodologies used in entrepreneurial research
- Identify and reflect upon their own personal values, character, motivations and effectiveness in the light of relevant theory and models of self development
- Effective application of enterprising skill development: -research, communication, developing networks, resilience, and mindfulness skills
- Successful entrepreneurs and their developmental processes
- Theory and practice of entrepreneurship
- Application of entrepreneurial research methodologies
- Personal development - its theory and application
- Effective research, communication and public speaking/presentation resilience, and mindfulness skills
This unit is delivered face-to-face.
- 10 x 2 hour lectures
- Formative task, an individual slide-deck: a set of PowerPoint slides,10 slides max (0%)
- Summative task, a group poster analysing an entrepreneur (30%)
- Individual report: self-development roadmap (2000 words) (70%)
- Jonathan Styles
The Enterprise Challenge combines enterprise UCIL units with a community-based enterprise project.
Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset is one of the 10 credit enterprise UCIL units you can study as part of completion of this challenge.
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Feedback
The delivery of this unit has been thoroughly engaging and it covered a broad range of topics at an accessible level. I have been really impressed and wanted to recognise the staff's brilliant efforts and thank the department for the opportunity to study this topic outside of my degree.
Meah Worsencroft
English Literature and American Studies student
