Cultivating the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Entrepreneurs have always been considered people with the vision to identify and capitalize on risky and new business opportunities. However, underneath the veil lies abundant skills that allow the pioneering spirit to flourish. The challenge for every aspiring business leader is to empathetically examine their convictions, actions, and points of view in how they position the situation to devise a successful mindset to craft a successful business strategy. This course aims to help aspiring business owners and existing business leaders develop a thought leadership mentality when managing and devising a new business vision. These skills are not necessarily something the individual is born with but a combination of attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs that frame the person for who they are and their conviction and willingness to seek out and exploit innovative ideas. Following the approach in this class will enable students to challenge themselves and others around them to understand enabling a strategic growth mindset in business holistically requires a demeanor that acknowledges the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Most courses on this subject focus on a multi-step or cookbook technique that supposedly will result in the desired outcome if followed fervently. This course concentrates on critical thinking in formulating a business strategy for the next big idea that differentiates itself from a conventional model and taps into challenging the human psyche through inclusive thinking and the shaping of soft and hard skills for the business professional. The intent of this course is not to prescribe but to create a means to grow and learn empathetically and allow the elements proposed to take root in the context of the student and their situation to flourish and grow at their pace to shape the business opportunity. The outcome will build on existing personality characteristics and shape habits that challenge the conventional status quo by enabling people of all ages and walks of life to seek out these concepts and routinize them to seize opportunities and create value personally and professionally.