Boot Camp Enterprise Skills Slides - Inc. Action Planning, Collaborative Working, Creativity and Strategic Thinking Activities.

1. Key Enterprise Skills ©Matthew Draycott, 2010 unless otherwise attributed All images accredited to: www.sxc.hu

2. What does it mean to be entreprising?

5. Reproduced by kind permission of Belbin Associates - www.belbin.com ‘ Team Role Description Strengths Weaknesses Plant Are you good at generating crazy, creative ideas without getting too bogged down in detail? If so then you might just be a Plant; Someone who is great at putting a new spin on something with original ideas, but is also prone to wander off on flight of fancy every now and again. As a Plant you will tend to be creative, unorthodox, imaginative and have the ability to solve difficult problems due to you’re unique perspective. Because you tend to work on a different level creating you’re own solutions it can be very hard for others to communicate with you or have any input in you’re ideas. Resource Investigator If networking and developing contacts is more your thing then perhaps you’re a Resource Investigator. In this role you can give a team a great boost at the start of a project by finding contacts and opportunities, however you tend to be very focused outside the team and have a tendency to loose momentum as time wears on. As a Resource Investigators your a great networker, able to move outside the team and communicate with anyone to explore opportunities and develop contacts. However because you tend to be externally focused you can loose interest quickly after you’re initial surge of optimism especially if things don’t go to plan. Coordinator As a Co-ordinator chances are you’ve be organising things since you were young; bringing people together, delegating tasks and making sure all the jobs got done…even if that left nothing for you to do. As a Co-ordinators your always a likely candidate to lead the team; your confident, stable and mature, and are great at recognising peoples strengths allowing you to put the right person in the right job. While you might seem like the perfect team member you have a tendency to over delegate and can be seen as manipulative. In the worst cases you might even take credit for the work of the team by yourself. Shaper Is always ‘winning’ is your passion? Then you must be a Shaper. Someone who will aggressively pursue objectives driven by a need to achieve. You are deeply committed to projects and great at getting things done, but won’t abide people standing in you’re way. As a shaper if you are given something to do it’s getting done, no matter what the problems might be. If your really good you even get the rest of the team to follow you’re lead. Your probably not someone people argue with, right? That's because as a shaper you tend to be easy to provoked and can often offend others as you pursue you goals.

6. Reproduced by kind permission of Belbin Associates - www.belbin.com ‘ Team Role Description Strengths Weaknesses Monitor Evaluator Are you the one in a group that can always offer a fair and logical opinion on any activity, without bias? Then you might just be a Monitor Evaluator. Someone who tends to take a broad view of problems working slowly and analytically to pick the best option. As a Monitor Evaluators your a fair, broad minded individual who will review all the available options to find the best solution for everyone. Being analytical can be good but you need to make sure that you don’t become too critical or you might start to dampen the mood of everyone your working with. Team Worker Do you keep your team running smoothly; quietly working away in the background sorting out the problems and brining people together? If so then you’re a Team Worker; the ultimate diplomat and listener your the team member that really holds the whole thing together. As a Team Workers your a conflict resolution specialist able to help different parties understand each other without confrontation, allowing projects to keep moving. Being the glue is never a very high profile role, in fact you probably avoid the spotlight and the pressure this entails meaning that it’s unlikely people will turn to you for help or recognise your input. Implementer If you like to plan out projects and get them working even when other people avoid them you might just be an Implementer. You really are a crucial team member as it implementers like you that actually get projects moving forwards . As an Implementers you’re reliable, efficient and self disciplined. Motivated normally by loyalty to the project you will work tirelessly to see it up and running. Striving to deliver at all costs can make you pretty inflexible as you have a tendency to stick to you’re plans and not to change for anyone. Completer Finisher As a Completer Finisher you have to like things perfect and be willing strive that extra mile to make sure everything is just right. Your probably someone obsessed with accuracy who will set your own high standards for a project to meet. If implementers get it running, completer finishers like you are the ones who get it right, you will polish an idea until there are no flaws left and encourage the rest of the team to follow suit. Being obsessive is in itself a problem, you tend to worry about every detail and will never delegate anything you feel you can’t trust someone to do, meaning that delivery suffers. Specialist Is there one topic you love above everything else, something you could talk about for hours? Then you’re a Specialist. As someone who has developed one narrow set of skills to an expert level you can provide valuable insight on key elements any project. As a Specialist your a fountain of knowledge who will freely share you’re insights with others and love developing you’re expertise through research and learning. Narrow knowledge means that a your only very useful in you’re area and not be able to provide a breadth of insight. In some cases you might can even ignore factors outside your own knowledge that are important to the project.

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