LO2. Communicate Entrepreneurial Workplace Best Practices

Information Sheet 2.1: Ways in Fostering Entrepreneurial Attitudes: Patience, Honesty, Quality-Consciousness, Resourcefulness, and Safety-Consciousness

Entrepreneurship is an attitude that represents how you think and act. It’s not just a business term anymore; for more and more people, entrepreneurship is a way of life.

Ways in Fostering Entrepreneurial Attitudes:

• Patience

Fostering the virtue of patience in our organization make us better people for our business and customers. Being patient means we treat other people with high regard, and they will respond with loyalty and admiration to our brand.

• Honesty

Making realistic judgment about the course which the company is taking can be very difficult, especially for entrepreneurs who don’t have a co-founder. Entrepreneurs must be honest with themselves about everything that is happening in their company. It is important to judge realistically every aspect of the business — from   finances   through   product development to customer relationships.

• Quality-Consciousness

Implies awareness of yourself and the environment around you (including what constitutes quality and high performance for people, processes and products — most importantly, YOU).  It also suggests that you must achieve alignment of your consciousness with the consciousness of the organization, which will aid in full activity and engagement of the senses.  Your attention must be selectively focused onto what you can accomplish in the present moment according to that alignment (which implies that you are able to effectively filter the rapid and voluminous streams of information coming at you).

• Resourcefulness

Resourcefulness is a mindset, and is especially relevant when the goals you have set are difficult to achieve or you cannot envision a clear path to get to where you desire to go. With a resourcefulness mindset you are driven to find a way. An attitude of resourcefulness inspires out-of-the- box thinking, the generation of new ideas, and the ability to visualize all the possible ways to achieve what you desire. Resourcefulness turns you into a scrappy, inventive and enterprising entrepreneur. It places you a cut above the rest.

• Safety-Consciousness

Safety-Consciousness must be comprehensive. It must reach every operation, it must be evident at all meetings; and most of all, it must be so instilled that all personnel in supervisory positions will set good examples in safety to the personnel under them. Setting a good example is a potent factor in reducing accidents and is proof of the safety consciousness of the supervisor.