Entrepreneurs and their

Characteristics

Lesson Objectives:

To understand the term

Entrepreneur
To understand what characteristics
an entrepreneur has

In pairs - Can you match them up?

1
A

B
D

3
4

D
4
A

Richard
Branson

Theo
Paphitis

Bill
Gates

B
Mike
Ashley

Anita
Roddick

2
C

A person who organises,

operates, and assumes
the risk for a business
venture
A
person
who
takes
the
LO1

What qualities do you think I

possess that have helped me along
the way?

Richard Branson

LO2

Qualities of an
Entrepreneur

We are going to complete a

Rally Robin of terms
to do with Entrepreneurs.
Pupil 1 Say a word
associated with Entrepreneurs
Pupil 2 - Say a word
associated with Entrepreneurs
Keep going until you run out of
words!!!

What qualities do you think I

possess that have helped me along
the way?

2. Initiative
1. Determination

Richard Branson
8. Luck!

7. Leadership

LO2

Qualities of an
Entrepreneur

3. Taking Risks

4. D
ecis
Mak ion
i ng

5. Planning
6. Persuasion

What qualities do you think I

possess that have helped me along
the way?

Richard Branson

LO2

Qualities of an
Entrepreneur

http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=Tod1moy8VZM&feature=related
Swap notes with a neighbour and
tick any characteristics that they
wrote down that Peter Jones
discussed
Add to their list any missing
characteristics

Task:
Using all the entrepreneurial characteristics from
this lesson put them into an order of importance
in your opinion. Include a definition of an
entrepreneur for your revision notes.
Most important

LO1&2

Least important

Task:
Using all the entrepreneurial characteristics from
this lesson put them into an order of importance
in your opinion. Include a definition of an
entrepreneur for your revision notes.
Most important

LO1&2

Least important

Add a tick to
the
characteristi
cs you have!

Total how many ticks you gave

yourself.
Who do you think has the most
potential to be an entrepreneur in the
class?
Who do you think got the most ticks in
the class?