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• Use of senior honours students as coaches for the projects • Views of students... The Enterprising Group Project • Aim – to live the unstructured, enterprise process • Groups of 6

E NTERPRISE & C REATIVITY

Bonnie Hacking Enterprise Adviser Careers Centre and School of Management

I’m enterprising when…

• Use of senior honours students as

coaches for the projects

• Views of students

Overview of Enterprise & Creativity

• 20 credit, interdisciplinary module

• Mix of science and arts students

• Second year (of 4 year degree)

• 60 – 70 students

• Proportion of students outside Management increasing, 62% for 2012/13

Overview of Enterprise & Creativity

• 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week

– Focused on developing group

Textbook

Entrepreneurship for Everyone by Mellor, etal

Your experience

How does your teaching compare?

The Enterprising Group Project

• Aim – to live the unstructured, enterprise

process

• Groups of 6

• Can use any idea – no funding available

• Must implement during the semester

• Four Reflective Reports relating course concepts

to their experience in developing the project

• Demonstrate in a Group Project Fair

• Submit an Individual Report

Group Project Fair

Getting ready for the fair

Group Project Fair

Omm Noms – selling cookie dough

Creative Christmas Sale – repackaging and selling

Zevos Marketing Services – marketing for local businesses

Party set up – Party clean up

Course project > longer term venture

http://keycardstandrews.com/

Squeeze

Enterprise skills: seizing opportunities and seeing them through

Using your initiative, being proactive, and getting things done without waiting for someone else to tell you to: that's enterprising Graduates with

strong enterprise skills can spot an opportunity and work its advantage

From targetjobs.co.uk

How can you demonstrate it?

Having evidence of a clear plan which paid off is likely to win you points, as is having a solid figure to quantify on your success

From targetjobs.co.uk

Enterprising attributes

Opportunism seeing possibilities

Drive give it your all

Resilience sticking at it

Managing risk considering scenarios and

making good choices

Innovation finding new ways

Resourcefulness finding a way to get it done

Problem solving fixing problems and trouble

Communication getting message across

Influence persuading others

Teamwork working with others

Learning being open

Views of students

• Especially rewarding aspects

• Group Project

• Variety of guest speakers

• Learning in a different way to other subjects

• Opportunity to meet real life entrepreneurs

• Freedom to set up a business

• Improvements

• Feedback

• Too many critical summaries

• Project should have more weight

• Group project immensely aided understanding concepts in the module

• Great to have experienced students as coaches

Your experience

How do you involve students

in your teaching?

Use of senior honours students as coaches for the projects

• Completed group project previously

Comments from Coaches

“I am absolutely delighted to have the opportunity to be a

coach on the MN2112 module! I had a really great

experience when I did the module myself and it would be

great to give something back So absolutely - I would be

honoured to accept the position.”

“I would love to serve as a coach for MN2112 this upcoming semester I found the course greatly enjoyable and enlightening, and would be delighted to contribute whatever I can to the course this year.”

Q UESTIONS ?

“The method of the enterprising is

to plan with audacity and execute

with vigor.”

Christian Nestell Bovee

“It had long since come to my attention

that people of accomplishment rarely sat

back and let things happen to them They

went out and happened to things.”

Leonardo DaVinci