Why do we need enterprise in the curriculum?

September 2009

Dimensions of Enterprise?enterprise - having an idea, and taking advantage of the opportunities to make it happen

Being enterprising doesn’t have to mean starting up your own business. You can be enterprising in all areas of work and business which will help further your career……

What skills and attributes do I need

to be more enterprising?

Passion and Vision Communication Skills Organisation and Planning Networking Team-working Making an Impression Adaptability

Blue sky thinkingBlue sky thinking

coming up with a host coming up with a host of ideas without being of ideas without being

restricted to what is restricted to what is practical.practical.

Three easily confused concepts

• Enterprise – having an idea, and taking advantage of the opportunities to make things happen

• Entrepreneurship – an activity which leads to the creation and management of a new organisation designed to pursue a unique, innovative opportunity (Hindle & Rushworth, 2000)

• Intrapreneurs are "dreamers who do," those who take hands-on responsibility for creating innovation of any kind within an organization’. (Pinchot 1999)

• It’s not about starting a business – its about developing better students

Why is it so important now?

• Wider society and the global citizen

• Employability and graduate skills

• Creative learning• Student pioneers and

student engagement• Curriculum review

and development

Enterprise skills

Working in teams Creativity InnovationProject planning and managementPresentation skills Managing meetings Problem solving

Working in teams Creativity InnovationProject planning and managementPresentation skills Managing meetings Problem solving

Time management Networking NegotiationSelf awareness Change management Leadership

IT skills

Business researchNature of business Business plan

Business researchNature of business Business plan

Marketing Product design Financial awarenessProduction matters Legal issues CBA

SOFT

HARD

Enterprise in the Curriculum

Supporting the development of a positive attitude to innovation, personal change and development

Development, integration and embedding across all subject areas and levels – beyond discrete activities and ‘bolt-on’ models

Underpinned by theory and grounded in practice

Subject knowledge and skills development

Engagement with experts and professionals, developing relationships and forming partnerships. Role models and masterclasses

Experiential learning approach – active, realistic, reflective

Embedding

• Aligned (programme aims, learning outcomes, ALT strategy)

• Assessment• Active learning /Problem based learning• Student centred, experiential with

reflection• Embedded or free standing models• Placements and volunteering

accreditation Research attributes and horizon scannning

An Enquiry-Based Approach to Enterprise

Collaborative, co-operative learning environment

Experiential

Challenging - uses real-life scenarios and problems

Investigative - stimulates entrepreneurial attitudes through deep exploration of the subject Multi-disciplinary as well as subject-specific

Facilitated - guided by experts and supported by peer group

Utilises existing knowledge and develops new knowledge

Develops a range of skills, attitudes, behaviours and values

Employability

• Team working/building and leadership

• Inter-personal skills– Negotiation– Decision making– Handling conflict– Sharing

• Communication skills– Presentation, explaining, questioning – Networking

• Managing projects and meetings• Evaluation, judgement, appraisal• Entrepreneurship, ‘intrapreneurship’ and

social enterprise

Personal skills• Taking and accepting responsibility

– Ethics, empathy, tolerance, honesty, trust• Reliability• Autonomy• Creative problem-solving• Balancing creativity with resilience• Balancing work with life• Positive self-esteem, confidence• Adaptability

Now and the future…

• Focus on embedding and course /curriculum development

• Enterprise competencies• “At elbow” help for course and module tutors• Staff Development Festival workshops• Publications• Links with schools• Resources for our website• Events, master classes, role models• Project work

If you are interested in this whole area...

• Navigating the enterprise maze project

• Launching Rose Bowl 320

• This afternoon 15th Sept 2pm

• Mapping competences/attributes for FBL

• Assess / map your course content and assessment against them

www.leedsmet.ac.uk/enterprise

Enterprise….it’s what we do every day!