Global Entrepreneurship Week

Global Entrepreneurship Week puts the spotlight on enterprise, opening up new opportunities for people across the country and the world.

Thousands of events are run all over the globe, creating mass participation and exposing people of all ages to quality entrepreneurial experiences. It’s about developing people’s enterprise skills, confidence, and making them realise their ambitions.

What do we mean by enterprise and entrepreneurship?

Being enterprising is the ability to respond to change, take risks, to innovate and to generate and implement new ideas and new ways of doing things.

Enterprise is having ideas and making them happen.

The package of skills we use to describe enterprise are:

• the ability to assess and manage risk
• creativity
• resourcefulness
• business understanding and planning
• communication skills
• teamwork skills
• leadership skills
• self-efficacy
• and self-reliance

All these vital skills will help people to make their mark and have a positive impact on society.