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Entrepreneurial Mind
1st Semester of S.Y. 2019-2020

Week 4 - Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship

A. Constructing A Lifeline
When considering who you are now, it is interesting to look at the history that has shaped you. During this part of
the exercise focus on the key events and people that come to mind, peaks and troughs, stresses, decisions made by you
or for you. Bear in mind that your lifeline has to contain events that are important to you. For that reason, it is impossible
to tell you what sort of things to put on your lifeline. What may seem trivial or unimportant to one person may be of great
significance to you.

Activity A. In a separate short bond paper do the following:


1. Take a piece of blank paper and draw a line across it to represent your life so far. The shape of the line has no
significance so draw the way you want it.
2. One end of the line is when you were born and the other end is now.
3. Mark key events along the line from as early as possible until now. Leave plenty of space between the years
to fit memories as they flow.
4. Look back at each event and put any symbols that are appropriate next to each one from the selection below:
P = peak or high point R = risky
V = trough or low points Y = your choice
S = Stressful X = Not your choice
Example:

Note: What you will find is that activities throughout your life may well have more than one code against them. You will also find with
the lifeline is that consistent patterns will start to emerge. You need to look at these and identify the patterns that lead to highs. It
would be a good idea in constructing a future vision to construct one that is based on the characteristics that produce highs rather than
lows.
5. After constructing your lifeline, answer this at the back portion of your paper:
 What I learn about myself and how I have been living my life until now? Enumerate 5 only.

B. Understanding your work and leisure values


The aim of this part of the process is to help you to answer questions about what you want from your life such as:
 How do I like to spend my time?
 Where do I want to live and work?
 How important is money, status, security, etc.?
Having identified the values that matter to you it becomes easier to make life more rewarding by making sure that you
build them as far as possible into your future work and leisure vision.
Our important values are key motivators for our life journey, and these journeys and values change as a result of life
events, experiences and our changing self-image.

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Entrepreneurial Mind
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Activity B. Consider the 35 work values below, think about how important each one in your paid work. Complete the table
on the next page. Rank the values in the ‘Very Important’ column in order of importance, allowing maximum of 8 values
only. You may discard any values that are irrelevant. You may also add table rows. No repetition of values.
1) PLACE OF WORK. It is 10) PRESSURE. You like 19) CONTACT WITH PEOPLE. 28) FAST PACE. You enjoy
important that you work in working to deadlines. You enjoy having a lot of working rapidly at high pace.
the right part of the country contact of people.
for you.
2) PEACE. You prefer to have 11) COMMUNITY. You like to 20) PRECISE WORK. You like 29) STATUS. You enjoy being
few pressures or live in a place where you can working at things which in a position which leads
uncomfortable demands. get involved in the involve great care and other people to respect you.
community. concentration.
3) VARIETY. You enjoy 12) WORK WITH OTHERS. 21) HELP SOCIETY. You like 30) MAKING DECISIONS. It is
having lots of different You like to work with team to think that your work is important to you to have to
things to do. alongside others. producing something make decisions about how
worthwhile for society. things should be done, who
should do it and when it
should be done.
4) COMPETITION. You enjoy 13) PHYSICAL CHALLENGE. 22) SUPERVISION. You enjoy 31) CREATIVITY. Thinking up
competing against other You enjoy doing something being responsible for work new ideas and ways of doing
people or groups. that is physically demanding. done by others. things is important to you.
5) INDEPENDENCE. You like 14) WORK ALONE. You like 23) PERSUADING PEOPLE. 32) RISK. You like to take
being able to work in the to work on your own. You enjoy persuading people risks.
way you want, without other to buy something or change
telling you what to do. their minds about
something.
6) A WELL-KNOWN 15) ARTISTIC. You enjoy 24) LEARNING. It is 33) EXCITEMENT. It is
ORGANZATION. You like work involving drawing, important for you to learn important for you to have a
being part of it. designing, making music, new things. lot of excitement in your
making models, etc. work.
7) PROMOTION. You like to 16) COMMUNICATION. You 25) BEING EXPERT. You like 34) MONEY. Earning a large
work where there is a good enjoy being able to express being known as someone amount of money is
chance of promotion. ideas well in writing or in with special knowledge or important to you.
speech. skills.
8) CHALLENGE. You enjoy 17) RECOGNITION. You do 26) TIME FREEDOM. You 35) HELPING OTHERS. It is
being 'stretched' and given like people to appreciate you prefer to be able to choose important to you to help
new problems to work on. for work you do. your own times for doing other people either
things, not having rigid individually or in groups, a
working hours. part of your work.
9) ROUTINE. You like a work 18) SECURITY. It is important 27) FRIENDSHIP. You would
routine which is fairly to know that your work will or do like close friendships
predictable. always be there for you. with people at work.

Example:
Very Important Quite Important Not Important
26) TIME FREEDOM 34) MONEY 29) STATUS

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Name: ___________________________________________________ Group#: ______ Date: ____________


Week 4 - Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Activity B. Understanding My Work and Leisure Values

Very Important Quite Important Not Important

In general, which values you think were or will be most important at different ages:
Age 18:

Age 30:

Age 45:

Age 80:

Which of the values have changed with time and which have remained constant?

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Entrepreneurial Mind
1st Semester of S.Y. 2019-2020
C. Transferable Skills
It is often difficult to fully identify the ‘transferable skills’ that we have because of the importance that is often placed on our
role as a paid worker. We usually understand the skills that are directly related to our paid work, but it is more difficult to discover the
underlying skills that really are transferable to other paid work and leisure activities in order to make our life more rewarding.
Read the transferable skills below. The skills the you will identify as ‘very competent and want to use a lot’ are your most
transferable skills. Those that you will identify as ‘competent and want to use a lot’ are your next most transferable. It does not mean
that skills you don’t want to use are not transferable. However, you will be less motivated to use these skills and find less satisfaction
in using them.

P = Taking first move in


P = Drawing out people T = Driving car, motorbike I = reading for ideas
relationships
T = Hand-eye coordination T = Quick physical reactions D = Memorizing numbers P = Promoting change
D = Diagnosing, looking for I = Working creatively with P = Giving credit to others,
T = Keeping physically fit
problems spaces, shapes or faces showing appreciation
T = Using hand tools T = Manual dexterity I = Developing others' ideas P = Motivating people
T = Using machine tools,
T = Handling things with D = Managing money, P = Leading, directing
sewing machine, lathe, power
precision budgeting others
tools
T = Assembling things D = Organizing, classifying I = Composing music P = Listening
I = Conveying feelings or
T = Fixing, repairing things D = Reading for facts thoughts through body face P = Organizing people
and/or voice
D= Analyzing, dissecting, D = Examining, observing,
D = Following instructions, P = Showing sensitivity to
sorting and sifting through surveying, an eye for detail
diagrams, blueprints others' feelings
information or things and accuracy
I = Creating, innovating, P = Selling, persuading,
T = Building, constructing I = Improvising, adapting
seeing alternatives negotiating
D = Researching, gathering
T = Muscular coordination I = Writing creatively P = Teaching, training
information
I = Working creatively with P = Performing in a group,
D = Problem solving D = Taking an inventory
colors on stage, in public, etc.
T = Finding out how things I = Sizing up a situation or I = Designing things, events,
work person quickly and accurately learning situations
P = Conveying warmth and
T = Physically strong D = Calculating, computing
caring
I = Fashioning or shaping
D = Reviewing, evaluating P = Helping others
things

Activity C. On the next page, fill in the Table C.1 with your skills (base on transferable skills above) that you are ‘very competent’ and
‘competent’ with; and skills that you ‘want to develop’. In Table C.2, base from your ‘very competent’ and ‘competent’ skills, what are
those skills that you ‘want to use a lot’, ‘want to use sometimes’, and ‘want to use rarely and never’. You may discard any skills that
are irrelevant. You may also add table rows. No repetition of values.
Example:
Very Competent Competent Want to Develop
D = Calculating, computing P = Motivating people T = Keeping physically fit
D = Managing money, budgeting D = Organizing, classifying T = Driving car, motorbike

Want to use a lot Want to use sometimes Want to use rarely or never
D = Managing money, budgeting D = Organizing, classifying P = Motivating people

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Entrepreneurial Mind
1st Semester of S.Y. 2019-2020
Name: ___________________________________________________ Group#: ______ Date: ____________
Week 4 - Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Activity B. Transferable Skills
Table C.1
Very Competent Competent Want to Develop

Table C.2
Want to use a lot Want to use sometimes Want to use rarely or never

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Entrepreneurial Mind
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At the back of page 5, please answer the following questions:
1) What skills the you have identified as ‘very competent and want to use a lot’?
2) In which category do your most transferable skills fall?
3) Which types of work or leisure activities will be most rewarding for you?

In answering No. 2 and 3, please the information below:


Each of the skills has a letter with it D I P T. These letters stands for Data , Ideas , People, and Things.
D = Data
These represent the kink of skills required to record, communicate, evaluate and organize facts or data about
goods and services. People who like using these skills typically enjoy working with figures, systems and routines.

I = Ideas
These represent skills used in being creative, designing conceptual models and systems, experimenting with
words, figures, music. People who like using these skills typically enjoy creating, discovering, interpreting, abstract thinking
and synthesizing.

P = People
These represent skills used in helping, informing, teaching, serving, persuading, entertaining, motivating, selling
and directing other people. People who use these skills like to work for changes in other people’s behavior.

T = Things
These represent skills used in making, repairing, transporting, servicing. People with these skills like using tools
and machinery and understanding how things work.

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