Lesson Notes By Weeks and Term - Senior Secondary 3
Entrepreneurship skills
Entrepreneurship skills
Term: 1st Term
Week: 2
Class: Senior Secondary School 3
Age: 17 years
Duration: 40 minutes of 2 periods each
Date:
Subject: Home management
Topic:- Entrepreneurship skills
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES: At the end of the lesson, pupils should be able to
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNIQUES: Identification, explanation, questions and answers, demonstration, videos from source
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS: Videos, loud speaker, textbook, pictures
INSTRUCTIONAL PROCEDURES
PERIOD 1-2
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PRESENTATION |
TEACHER’S ACTIVITY |
STUDENT’S ACTIVITY |
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STEP 1 INTRODUCTION |
The teacher reviews the previous lesson on creativity and entrepreneurship |
Students pay attention |
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STEP 2 EXPLANATION |
She explains the meaning of entrepreneurship skills. She lists and explains the entrepreneurship skills |
Students pay attention and participates |
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STEP 3 DEMONSTRATION |
She further relates the skills to various sectors. |
Students pay attention and participate |
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STEP 4 NOTE TAKING |
The teacher writes a summarized note on the board |
The students copy the note in their books |
NOTE
ENTREPRNEURSHIP SKILLS
Entrepreneurial skills can encompass a broad range of various skill sets like technical skills, leadership and business management skills and creative thinking. Because entrepreneurial skills can be applied to many different job roles and industries, developing your entrepreneurial skills can mean developing several types of skill sets. For instance, to be a successful business owner, you may need to develop your business management skills. To build and maintain successful project teams you might need to improve your leadership and communication skills.
EXAMPLES OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS
Entrepreneurial skills can encompass a large range of both soft and hard skills. Because of the many business roles entrepreneurs may take on, they may also develop a variety of different skill sets to accommodate the growth of their businesses and brands. Developing the following skill sets can also help you develop your entrepreneurial skills.
Successful entrepreneurs will most often rely on their business skills to manage and run a business or brand. Developing your business management skills can mean building up your ability to multitask, delegate responsibilities to subordinates and making decisions regarding the health and profitability of your business.
Becoming a successful entrepreneur can also mean taking on leadership roles and working as part of a team. Being a business owner means you will most likely act as both a supervisor and as part of a team, and you will need to rely on effective leadership skills to help motivate your team.
Business owners and entrepreneurs should also develop effective communication skills. From active listening to discussions during meetings, being able to communicate effectively can help you work with others to build your business. Likewise, effective communication can also translate to how you promote awareness of your brand. For instance, effective and clear messages through emails, content marketing, social media and other advertising methods can positively influence how you reach your target market.
No matter the industry you venture into as an entrepreneur, you may still need to develop effective customer service skills. From talking with potential clients to discussing opening partnerships, effective customer service skills can help you connect with your customer base and ensure your brand is providing the products or services your market needs.
Owning a business can also mean taking care of the financial aspects of your organization. You can develop financial skills by learning from a financial planner, reading financial guidebooks and using financial software to help you organize and keep track of the financial processes in your business.
Successful entrepreneurs may also have exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills. This is because there can be many aspects of building a brand or business that can require difficult decisions, finding solutions to obstacles and using creative thinking to develop plans and strategies that will help you achieve your business goals.
Critical thinking skills, like analytical skills, can be necessary for developing your overall entrepreneurial skills. Being able to look at problems, situations, projects and operations from different perspectives can help in decision-making and problem solving. Critical thinking skills can also be necessary for strategic planning and evaluating the approaches you're using to make changes or improve your business strategies as needed.
Critical thinking skills can also translate into strategic thinking skills. Entrepreneurs who have built brands and businesses most likely applied their strategic planning skills to develop strategies for growing and developing their businesses. To be successful as an entrepreneur, it takes planning and being able to think strategically can allow you to find ways to beat out your competition, grow your market reach or implement effective strategies to reach your goals.
Because of the availability of software programs for financial analysis, planning, marketing and other business processes, it can be extremely beneficial to develop your technical skills. Entrepreneurs with efficient technological skills can use software and other digital approaches for managing projects, tracking sales and revenue and measuring the performance of business growth.
Time management and organization are also important skills for entrepreneurs to have. Strategies that can help develop these skill sets include breaking down tasks into manageable to-do lists and setting deadlines and achievable objectives for yourself and for your team. Additionally, you might implement technology to help keep business files organized or employ an office assistant to help you keep paperwork, business records and customer files organized.
Entrepreneurs may spend the majority of their time marketing and networking with other professionals to promote and grow their brands. Being able to implement successful branding and marketing strategies can be an essential aspect of becoming an entrepreneur. You might take a free online course to get started with branding and marketing basics, and you can also meet with other entrepreneurs to help grow your network.
As you develop these skill sets, you can increase the successes you see as an entrepreneur.
EVALUATION: 1. Define entrepreneurship skills
CLASSWORK: As in evaluation
CONCLUSION: The teacher commends the students positively