In order to understand how to embark on a successful entrepreneurial journey, it is important to first reflect on what makes a person entrepreneurial. This reflective module will enable you to explore your ‘entrepreneurial self’ by understanding your skills and behaviours, your values, and your passions. You will explore how you deal with rejection and failure, how you respond to different team dynamics and how you respond to feedback. You will consider risk, vulnerability, and well-being in an entrepreneurial context, and through coaching sessions develop a clearer sense of your entrepreneurial identity. You will learn about different entrepreneurial personality types and will assess how you align with these currently, as well as where you see potential for development throughout this course. Through a range of immersive workshops, you will unleash your innovation potential with creative, serious play and explore how this approach can improve business performance. You will meet entrepreneurs from diverse backgrounds to enable you to understand their entrepreneurial journeys and to consider what role modelling in this field may look like.

This module will be taught by academics with entrepreneurial experience, experts in creative play and coaching, and guest lecturers from a range of entrepreneurial backgrounds.

A diverse range of simulation and experiential learning strategies will be used on this module, and these will include:
- Induction and Team -Building activities
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Workshops focussing on self-exploration, communication, risk and vulnerability, personal motivation, wellbeing and values
- Creative Learning Activities (i.e., Serious Play using Playmobil)
- Team Exercises focussing on team dynamics, receiving feedback and flexing
- Keynote Speakers
- Role Modelling.

This module will include some introductory seminars and key content sessions providing pillars to the learning. These will be accompanied by coaching sessions, interactive workshops, facilitated activities and guest lectures. The module involves 58 hours of tutor led sessions, 20 hours of facilitated independent workshops and 122 hours of independent study, to research background information related to the delivery of the core material, to work on the assessments and to engage in informal teamwork related to this module.

1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of the personal qualities that contribute towards entrepreneurship and use self-exploration techniques to reflect on the degree to which you possess these qualities. Knowledge and Understanding, Reflection

2. Demonstrate your ability to take personal responsibility, engage and critically evaluate the feedback provided to you through coaching and mentoring sessions and apply these to the entrepreneurial context. Learning, Enquiry, Reflection, Communication

Blackboard VLE and Microsoft Teams access.
Dedicated Entrepreneurial Hub space for cohort.
Serious Creative Play equipment.
Locations suitable for coaching sessions.
Workshop materials.
Access to reference material (text books, journal articles, podcasts, TED talks, websites and videos).

Allis, J. (2020) The Accidental Entrepreneur. Newark: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.

Byrne, C. (2015) Funny business: harnessing the power of play to give your company a competitive advantage. 1st edition. Wayne, NJ: Career Press, The Career Press, Inc.

Dimov, D. (2017) The Reflective Entrepreneur. Taylor & Francis. doi:10.4324/9781315228105.

Faurholt, M. and Tvede, L. (2018) Entrepreneur. Wiley.

Fred, K. (2009) Creating Entrepreneurs: Making Miracles Happen. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. doi:10.1142/7217#t=toc.

Kristiansen, P. and Rasmussen, R. (2014) Building a better business using the Lego serious play method. 1st ed., Building a Better Business Using the Lego Serious Play Method. 1st ed. Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley.

Linkner, J. (2011) Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity. 1st ed. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.

Robson, C. (2014) Confessions of an entrepreneur: how to survive the highs and lows of starting up. 1st edition. Harlow, England: Prentice Hall Business.

Walters, C. (2021) Launch Your Inner Entrepreneur. New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

Zinn, R. (2016) Tough things first: leadership lessons from Silicon Valley’s longest serving CEO. 1st edition. New York, New York: McGraw-Hill Education.

In addition to these reference texts, a combination of journal articles, podcasts, TED talks, websites and videos will be used to provide detailed examples and context to the learning.

This module will enable you to focus and reflect on your own psychology, strengths, and areas of growth to develop as an entrepreneur. Through a range of self-exploration activities, coaching and mentoring, you will understand your motivators, learn how to deal with rejection, criticism and failure and will appreciate the importance of, and your role in influencing, team dynamics.

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1. Reflective assignment on Entrepreneurial Self (Learning Outcome 1 and 2)

Throughout this module you will take part in a number of self-evaluation exercises, exploring your entrepreneurial skill set, your personal drivers and motivators, your barriers, your approach to failure and rejection and how you address wellbeing. In this assignment you will be required to reflect on these exercises, using reflective models to explore what they uncovered about your personal qualities, how they contribute to your entrepreneurial growth and potential areas for personal development.