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The Entrepreneur’s Workshop – A Seminar for Entrepreneurs and Their Advisers

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Workshops are fascinating and dangerous places. In the right hands they can produce things of great beauty and real lasting value.  In the wrong hands they can do great damage and wreck lives.

The Entrepreneur’s Workshop is no different.

True enough; the tools have no sharp edges, burning furnaces or high-speed drills.  They are a set of ideas, principles, practices and habits that, applied with care and passion, can produce a wonderful lifestyle.  Learn to use these tools properly and they will serve you well.  Misuse them and the consequences are likely to include debt, damaged relationships and misery.

This 2 hour session introduces 10 of the most powerful tools that the entrepreneur can use to build a business with real lasting value:

  1. The Truth Detector – How to decide what might work for you
  2. ‘Want to’ or ‘Have to…’?
  3. The Double Edged Sword
  4. Getting Organised – doing what has to be done, and doing it well
  5. Entrepreneur or Artisan?
  6. Have, Do, Become…
  7. Build a Team OR Do it All – the choice is yours
  8. Writing the ‘investment ready’ Business Plan
  9. Situational Enterprise – technique and motivation
  10. Towards the Total Quality Enterprise – a tool to decide ‘What’s next?’

The Entrepreneur’s Workshop is fast paced, honest and highly practical.  Participants will understand each of the tools and be able to use them to build a better business – or to put their entrepreneurial dreams on hold – at least for now.

Who Would Benefit from a Visit to the Entrepreneur’s Workshop?

I have run The Entrepreneur’s Workshop is fast paced, honest and highly practical introduction to 10 of the most powerful tools for entrepreneurs. in many different settings, from a University post-graduate course on Creative Enterprise to pre-start entrepreneurs on a Local Enterprise Growth Initiative (LEGI) programme. The workshop is relevant and accessible to a wide range of entrepreneurs from pre-start through to experienced business owners.  It has also been well received by a wide range of advisor’s and coaches.

Costs:

If you would like me to run the workshop for a group of entrepreneurs and you provide the venue, refreshments and manage the administration then the cost of the workshop is £750 plus travel and subsistence and VAT.

For more information contact Mike on 07788 747954 or just leave a comment and I will get back to you.

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How to Make a Living Working From Home, Grimsby, May 21st

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“How to Make a Living Working From Home”

Free Efactor Event

Friday 21st May

12pm – 2.15pm

At Efactor –  Wellington Street

84 Wellington Street (white chapel building next to Boyes car park)

Guest Speaker is Emma Jones (Founder of UK’s largest home business website www.enterprisenation.com)

  • Market stalls of Efactor’s current home worker clients
  • Free Buffet Lunch
  • Free Transport Available (arranged when you book)
  • Free Raffle
  • Book your place ! Telephone Stephanie on 01472 254920 or email Stephanie.barker@e-factor.co.uk

Hello Everyone

Efactor is holding an exciting  event that may be of interest to you and your clients!.  The event is aimed at inspiring people who wish just to explore the idea of setting up a business from home or who may even have an idea or a talent to start a new home business!

We would love to offer the opportunity for you and your clients to …

  • Listen to expert tips from our lovely, truly inspirational guest speaker Emma Jones – (founder of www.enterprisenation.com the UKs largest home business website)
  • Find out about cheap ways to start up a business from home
  • Talk to some of Efactor’s customers who will be exhibiting their goods and services from their home-based businesses
  • Free (local) Tranport / pick up points available when you book by calling Efactor 01472 254920
  • All this at our Efactor Wellington St office on Friday 21st May 12pm to 2.30pm!

Tips  on starting a business from home from fabulous guest speaker, inspirational  Emma Jones, Founder www.enterprisenation.com – the UKs largest Home Business website.

Buffet Lunch – Market stalls of Efactor current home workers.

If you would like to talk to an Efactor enterprise coach about this event  on behalf of your clients  please call our office on 01472 254 920 or 0800 952 0181 and we would love to come and talk to you about it and other training and events Efactor is planning this year!

Leaflet attached – earn a living from home leaflet.

So You Wannabe…An Entrepreneur?

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Timothy Spall last night told a story recounted to him by that great British legend of the stage and small screen Richard Briers.

Briers’ daughter had said something like, ‘Dad, I have made up my mind.  I want to be an actress.’

Briers replied ‘Want?  Want?  Want is not enough!  To succeed you must HAVE to become an actress.  If you have to become an actress then I will roll up my sleeves and help. If you just want to be an actress then forget it.’

The story made me smile as I use almost the identical line when I am working with people who tell me they want to start a business, or they want to become an entrepreneur.  I often ask ‘Is this something that you HAVE to do?  Are there no other alternatives that you could pursue?  Is there NOTHING more important than this in your foreseeable future?

In fact I will often go further, telling them all I can about the life of the entrepreneur.  How it can take you away from family and friends, lead you into debt, consume your life and damage your health.  Of course we explore the upsides as well but those downsides are the things that will derail the process if not considered, if the desire is not sufficient.

And then I will move the focus away from ‘becoming an entrepreneur’ which is such a vague concept as to be practically meaningless and will focus on what it will be like when they have their business up and running.  What it is like to be sole trading as a furniture upholsterer, or a plasterer.  What the transition will be like going from being a professor in the Biochemistry Department to being a part owner of a biosciences company working with venture capitalists to commercialise their intellectual property.  Because being an entrepreneur is all about managing transitions.  Starting with one lifestyle and ending up with another which is very different – and hopefully better.

Enterprise really IS about the emergence of identity.  About shaping lives.

Diving into #Enterprise Academia with Twitter

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A pal of mine recently asked for some recommendations for academics worth following for a would be lecturer in start-up and enterprise.

I put out a quick shout on twitter and here is what I got back  within minutes:

I also find lots of interesting stuff by following the #enterprise tag on twitter (yes, I do see it as a serious if serendipitous research tool!)

Please let me know if you find any of this useful, or any other good stuff that the twitterverse has missed!