The Entrepreneur

Emad Saif
Entrepreneurship Trainer
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 Agenda

• Who is an entrepreneur?
• Entrepreneur’s skills & Traits
• Personality Type Indicator
 Who is an
Entrepreneur ?
 En-tre-pre-neur
from French word “entreprendre”
meaning to undertake

“ A person who organizes and manages any

enterprise, especially a business, usually
with considerable initiative and risk. ”
 The Difference
High

Inventor Entrepreneur
Creativity
&
Innovation

Promoter Manager

Low High

General Management skills, Business

Know-how & Networks
Entrepreneurs are good at

Sensing exploiting
Motivation Exercise
1. Meet someone new

2. Discuss their motivations to start a business

3. Present their name, idea and their motivation

What motivates entrepreneurs to
start a business?

Independence Flexible Schedule

Wealth Unemployment

Recognition Family Business

 More freedom

Own boss
Entrepreneur
More risk
vs. Less freedom
intrapreneur
Employed in an organization Less risk
 Are
Entrepreneurs

born
traits
or made ?
Acquired skills
 Entrepreneur

traits Skills

Family +/-
culture Education Experience
background Environment
Entrepreneur’s
skills
?
Harvard Research

http://blogs.hbr.org/2012/12/new-research-the-skills-that-m/
persuade
lead
personal accountability
Goal oriented
Interpersonal Skills
Entrepreneur’s
traits
Passion
Vision
resilience
flexibility
self confidence
What Entrepreneurial
Traits & Skills
Do you
possess?
 Personality
Exercise
1. Socializing at Networking events (E – I )

2. Ways to Giving directions (S – N )

3. Choosing between job offers (T – F )

4. Changes before project deadline (J – P )

 Myers-briggs
personality type
indicator
personality type indicator
The 8 preferences
What you
prefer to E Extraversion
Focus their energy on the I Introversion
Focus their energy on the
focus energy outer world of people & things inner world of ideas and
on reflections

The way you

prefer to S Sensing
Tend to take in info through N Intuition
Tend to take info from
communicate the 5 senses & focus on details patterns & the full picture &
and instructions focus on future possibilities

The way you

prefer to T Thinking
Prefer thinking to make F Feeling
Prefer feeling to make
make decisions based primarily on decisions primarily based on
decisions facts, logic & analysis of cause values and gut instinct
and effect
How you
prefer to deal J Judging
Like a planned & organized P Perceiving
Like a flexible approach to
with the approach to life & prefer to life & prefer to keep their
outer world have things settled options open
16 personality types
Find Your Personality Type
Detailed Personality Profile
 Find Your Personality Type

http://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Which
ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ
personality
type is an
entrepreneur ISTP ISFP INFP INTP
?
ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

Which
ISTJ ISFJ INFJ INTJ
personality
type is an
entrepreneur ISTP ISFP INFP INTP
?
ESTP ESFP ENFP ENTP

ESTJ ESFJ ENFJ ENTJ

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What did you
learn ?
This could be you ! entrepreneur
Entrepreneur

traits
traits Skills
Skills

ERADA program

Family +/-
culture Education
education Experience
Environment experience
background

Learning about your strengths &

weaknesses (personality indicator) Starting & running a business
 Thank You

Emad Saif
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