Course outcomes:
On completing this course, you will be able to:
- Describe the components of Entrepreneurial Mindset and be able to differentiate between Entrepreneurial Leadership and more traditional leadership practices.
- Evaluate your own company and personal networks in terms of diversity, identify gaps of who is not present or being heard and plan how to address these gaps.
- Inventory the assumptions on which your business is currently operating and design experiments and set success measurements in order to prove or disprove these assumptions in order to make informed business and leadership decisions.
- Formulate compelling value propositions which bring a wide range of stakeholders on board.
- Evaluate the degree to which your leadership style is currently in line with your personal values, and name areas in which this alignment can be improved.
- Explain the ingredients of motivated, engaged teams, and audit your current circumstances against these ingredients and propose ways to strengthen team motivation and engagements.
Course Outline:
| Day 1 |
- Introduction to the 7 Skills of an Entrepreneurial Mindset and its connection to usefulness in a leadership context
- Deep dive on skills of Disruptive Thinking and Building Effective Entrepreneurial Teams including the latest research of the Neuroscience of Entrepreneurship
- These skills will be applied in an immersive mini hackathon exercise where participants will work in teams to respond creatively to a problem based case study and present their solutions back to the group.
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- Deep dive into skills of Validate and Think Lean.
- This will focus on how to keep entrepreneurial experimentation alive within all sizes of organisation and will include tools including the Business Model Canvas, Customer Personas and Assumption Matrixing.
- In the afternoon we will do site visits to entrepreneurial hotspots in London to hear from Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurial leaders on how they apply the skills in their different contexts.
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- Deep Dives on skills of Compel, Get it Done and Commit to Growth.
- This will focus on their personal role as a leader and how they embody an entrepreneurial mindset and encourage others in their organisations to follow suit.
- Topics will include forming compelling value propositions statements, value led leadership, motivation theory and practice, understanding vanity metrics, organisational growth mindset finishing with creating individual Entrepreneurship Leadership Action Plans
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Taster session
Terms and Conditions for executive short courses.
Who is this course for?
- C-Suite and Senior Leaders in organisations, those who lead large teams and have influence over large areas of strategy
- Prospective entrepreneurs who want to develop and build their own business or venture
Course fees
- The full fee for this course is £3,600
- There is a 25% saving available for this short course for alumni from any King's College London degree programme.
- We offer a number of corporate, group and individual pricing bursaries and options to support your studies. Contact us or check our website to discuss your needs. We are also happy to support you in creating a business case to for sponsorship from your employer.
Programme impact for organisations
Organisations will see huge benefit from sponsoring their employees to attend this course including:
- Driving innovation and new ways of thinking that will help the company remain competitive in uncertain conditions
- The ability to define and test organisational assumptions to ensure decisions are being informed by data and real-world testing
- Better defining the organisations (or teams within it’s) value proposition statements to better compel all stakeholders and customers
- Increased understanding of how to motivate and engage teams and ensure that teams are able to maintain peak performance over the long term
Learn from the experts
King’s is leading the way on Entrepreneurial Skills and Mindsets and their application in contexts outside of venture creation. Our proprietary framework – The 7 Skills of an Entrepreneurial Mindset – was developed by Rachel Stockey, Head of Entrepreneurial Skills at the Entrepreneurship Institute (EI), who will be leading this programme. Rachel and the EI are recognised nationally and internationally as leaders in this field.