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Entrepreneurship or Enterprise Education?

David Johnson — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:21:55 +0000

Working with our close partners Innovas, we have just been appointed to support Welsh Assembly Government in evaluating the impact of their Dynamo Role Models approach to entrepreneurship education. This certainly got us thinking again about the difference between enterprise education and entrepreneurship education - any thoughts or definitions?

A guide to Enterprise Education

David Johnson — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:15:48 +0000

The report below provides an excellent introduction and overview to the whole process of enterprise education and has some very useful signposting.

A guide to enterprise education: For enterprise coordinators, teachers and leaders at schools.

Who are the Enterprise Catalysts? Are you one?

David Johnson — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 09:38:31 +0000

We here so much about the importance of enterprise, and how we in the UK support it is going to be one of the issues central to the election debate. But who are the real catalysts of enterprise?

Is it the government - they do play a role in facilitating enterprise? In reality it can’t be the government, but it could be certain members of the government if they believe and support enterprise passionately and skilfully. Who could it be and why?
Is it the education system - how much impact can education have? Again it is probably focused upon specific teachers, managers and students - all of who have a massive role to play - but only certain ones are liable to be the real catalysts of enterprise. Who could it be and why?
Is it the people who decide to become self-employed and create their own businesses - are they the real drivers of enterprise? Who are the people whose enterprising mind and behaviour set drives the UK’s economy?
What about the public sector - Business Links, RDA’s, Local Authorities, Enterprise Agencies etc - who is it that makes a difference?

The Enterprise Catalyst itself plays a part, but lets find out who the real catalysts of enterprise are and accolade their contribution and success!!!

Dr Johnson to talk at Business Exchange event

David Johnson — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:54:24 +0000

David has been invited to deliver a workshop on ‘psychological games’ at this years Business Exchange conference to be held in Newcastle 3/4 March 2010. Psychological games are the essence of life, but when they become serious and disruptive they can wreck an otherwise profitable business. Contact David for more information.

We can’t live without Positive Psychology

David Johnson — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:02:40 +0000

There have been a few articles rccently talking about the benefits and potential dangers of embracing positive psychology. Most recently this was raised in the Independent.

It begs another question for me - can entrepreneurs be really happy - there is a massive claim that we can, but with such a difficult job is it possible?

We have started to use the Enterprise Catalyst as a measure of well-being and the results are interesting if we accept that people’s sense of well-being relates to their contribution to society - both causal and as a result.

Interesting thoughts?

Attractiveness and entrepreneurship

David Johnson — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:40:59 +0000

Psychologists have always had an interest in attractiveness and its imapct upon a whole range of issues - usually career advancement. However I recently read a piece on the type of car males and female drive and their prerceived attractiveness - It got me thinking about the influence of attractiveness upon success in business. Is there anything to comment upon that would be a useful addition to debate?

Slide Share and Enterprise Education

David Johnson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:05:13 +0000

I am amazed at what is increasingly available on the net. If you are developing teaching inputs - a lot of the hard work is already done. Take a look at slide share if you are looking for slides to guide your work using the Enterprise Catalyst.

Enterprise education - 10000 users for Enterprise Catalyst

David Johnson — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:55:35 +0000

Great news this week - we passed the 10000th user for the new Enterprise Catalyst. Take a look - its free and will really help your enterprise education agenda. As we keep hearing - enterprise education is all about psychology and emotional development - the Enterprise Catalyst answers many questions.

PLTS and PSHE

David Johnson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:33:42 +0000

How is it possible to tackle the challenges of PLTS and PSHE when there are so many other demands being made upon teachers and students? I have been delivering a number of workshops recently introducing teachers to the . The response is amazing - a simple online profiling tool that gives personal development Enterprise Catalystfeedback to kids and teachers (and business owners) - is proving highly effective. What really pleases me is the way in which teachers identify so mkany different ways of building the Enterprise Catalyst into their work with students. Whilst the Enterprise catalyst was originally designed to develop enterprise skills - it is now clearly a tool which has many uses and help teachers to tackle many of the issues they face when dealing with PLTS and PSHE.

Take a look at the Enterprise Catalyst and get in touch if you have any questions.

Use of the Enterprise Catalyst is free!

CPD for Teachers

David Johnson — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:24:19 +0000

So what’s going on in the world of education. After a series of valiant and motivated efforts teachers have seriously began to take up the enetrprise education agenda and are cascading initiatives, events and programmes throughout schools. Unfortunately this usually requires a few sessions of CPD, but this is becoming increasingly difficult as teachers are struggling to get released to attend. Are there any answers to this challenge?

David