Reference: Technology and Livelihood

Education Entrepreneurship Module

Learning Competencies 1

1.1. Assess one’s PECS:

characteristics, attributes, lifestyle,
skills, traits
characteristics
a distinguishing quality of a person
or thing (descriptive feature)

attributes
qualities belonging to a person or
thing
Example
An example of an attribute is your
height which is just one of the many things
that describe you.

But if you are 6’0” that would be a

characteristic since that’s identifies you
versus other people.
characteristics
a distinguishing quality of a person
or thing
attributes
qualities belonging to a person or
thing
Starts with
ME..
How can I become an Entrepreneur?

Tony Tan Caktiong

Pre- Assessment

A. 1. Matching Type. Direction: Match Column A with

Column B

Column A Column B

___ 1. fairness a. Be accountable for your

___ 2. responsibility choices
___ 3. caring b. Obey laws and rules
___ 4. citizenship c. Build a good reputation
___ 5. trustworthiness d. Help people in need
e. Take turns and share
Video Clip:

The Life of an Entrepreneur in 90 seconds.

• Based on the video, how entrepreneurs become

successful?

• If you plan to build your own business or become an

entrepreneur, will you do the same? Discuss.
PEC’s Clusters
Persistence
 Differences in opinion and judgment.
 Your opponent can surely be a part of
rejection on what you intend to do for the
success of your endeavor.
 As an entrepreneur, you must be firm, strong-
willed, and stick to your own belief.

Achievement Cluster
Hardworking
 If you are determined to run your own
business, you must concentrate on your work
either as a producer or a seller.

 The success of your business depends on

how much time and effort you will spend on it.

Achievement Cluster
Opportunity Seeking
 When a person gets hold of the chance to
build or improve his chosen career, he will take
this opportunity with no second thoughts.

He keeps on trying in order to achieve his

ambition.

Achievement Cluster
Coping with Uncertainty
 Once you choose to pursue your vision to be
a significantly useful entrepreneur, you should
know how to handle unusual events which may
happen in the business.

Achievement Cluster
Coping with Uncertainty
 These include problems in managing personnel who
may be tempted to steal funds or goods from the
business, problems on delivery of goods and services,
problems on production because of unavailability of
human and non-human resources needed to reach the
expected output at a given period of time, and other
uncertainties that an entrepreneur may encounter. You
must be patient in dealing with this kind of uncertainty.

Achievement Cluster
Coping with Failure
 “Learn from your mistakes” is what we
always say.

 As an entrepreneur, you must learn how to

deal with those frustrations and loses and turn
these into productive learning experiences.

Achievement Cluster
Risk-Taking
 Risk sometimes can not be anticipated.
 If accidents happen, you must accept these
challenges and work them out or set alternatives.
 Examples of these unavoidable circumstances
are risk of typhoons, fires, earthquakes, floods,
and the obsolescence of product.

Achievement Cluster
Risk-Taking
 These risks may result to loss of your
business or bankruptcy.
 However, whatever risk you may encounter,
don’t give up! Instead, reduce by getting
insurances and taking alternative action like
converting unsold products into something
trendy.

Achievement Cluster
Goal-Oriented
 An entrepreneur is a futuristic.
 You must have an advanced preparation for the
success of your business.
 You must set along-term goal for the activities need,
an extensive preparation for the production process that
you need to acquire, human and non-human resources
and procedures.

Planning Cluster
Goal-Oriented
 Everything in your business will be set clearly,
organized, and planned depending on the goal you
want to achieve.

Planning Cluster
Information Seeking
 You need to be globally competitive in terms
of learning new things, and the acquiring
technologies which are essential in producing
goods and services.
 As an entrepreneur, you must be well-versed
in all aspects of business schemes.

Planning Cluster
Information Seeking
 Information can be sought from skilled
individuals who are directly engaged in the
same ground of business.

Planning Cluster
Systematic Planning &
Monitoring
 This involves developing and using logical,
step-by-step plans to reach goals, evaluation
alternatives, monitoring progress, and switching
to alternative strategies for the goal you want to
achieve.

Planning Cluster
Building for the Future
 Once a person enters in a line of business,
you must understand that you are in a non stop
contract that an entrepreneur should
understand.
 It may take several years to build up
business income to a reasonable standard.

Planning Cluster
Building for the Future
 The goal for most successful business people
is to build a secure job and income for
themselves which is based on their own ability.

Planning Cluster
Setting Own Standards
 As an entrepreneur, you must always
consider the satisfaction of customer in such a
way that qualitative product or service is
ensured all the time.

Planning Cluster
Self-Confidence
 You must have a strong faith in your ability
despite the problems that you will encounter
along the way.

Power Cluster
Demonstrating Initiative
 A successful entrepreneur takes initiative. You
must put yourself in position where you are
personally responsible for failure of success of
your business venture.

Power Cluster
Persuasion & Networking
 These include the use of deliberate strategies
to influence or persuade others and the
utilization of business and personal contacts to
accomplish own objectives.
 These are characteristics you should develop
to succeed in your endeavor.

Power Cluster
Responding to Feedbacks
 You must be concerned to know how well you
are doing and keep track of your performance.
You must obtain useful feedback and advice
from others.

Power Cluster
Building on Strengths
 Successful business people base their work
on strengths.
 Use your manual skills, knowledge in creating
products or services, knowledge in trading
product/service, ability to make and use of
network of contacts to build your entrepreneurial
venture.

Power Cluster
Instructions: (Own PEC’s)

 Fill in each petal of the

flower beside with your
traits/skills needed to
become a successful
Computer Technician.
 Write inside the inner
circle the “Computer
Technician” as your career
choice.
Activity
Instructions:
(Practitioner’s PEC’s)

 Conduct interview to a
Computer Technician or related
practitioner and ask their
PEC’s on how he/ she become
a successful entrepreneur .

 Fill in the petal of the flower

with his/ her PEC’s.

Activity
Instructions:
(Shared PEC’s)

 Compare and analyze

your own PEC’s and the
PEC’s of the practitioner that
you interviewed.

 Fill in the petal of the

flower with your shared
PEC’s.
Activity
Successful Entrepreneurs
continuously
develop and improve
their

PECs .