BTEC Level 3 Certificate in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Transition work for September 2017
This course will help you to develop your:
enterprise capability - creativity, risk management, entrepreneurial spirit, risk taking and a 'can-do' attitude and drive to make ideas happen
marketing capability - the ability to understand and implement different marketing strategies
employability skills - the ability to understand and evaluate qualities such as team working, problem solving, application of IT, communication, literacy, self-management and business and customer awareness.
Why choose Enterprise and Entrepreneurship?
it enables you to acquire and develop a range of valuable transferable skills which will prepare you for employment, further or higher education
allows you to demonstrate and hone the soft skills that businesses, universities and colleges desire through the enterprise activity
will help you to develop an understanding of what it means to be enterprising
can be used as enrichment to support learning in other curriculum areas.
Possibility of progression for further study in:
training/apprenticeships
employment
further/higher education.
Everything you do on this course is designed to get you ready for the world of work and help you to get that first apprenticeship or traineeship.
Your Summer 2017 Transition challenge: Identify and describe local enterprise and entrepreneurship in action both successful and unsuccessful. Three steps to follow: 1. Research the meaning of Business Enterprise and Community Enterprise – write a paragraph on each type of enterprise with two examples of each that have been both successful and those that have failed. 2. Pick a business in the local area and investigate all the different ways that they promote/market themselves. What makes them successful/unsuccessful? 3. Identify a famous entrepreneur. Write a short paragraph about what he/she has done and what has made them so successful. Highlight any failures they may have had and how they carried on to become successful.
Sources to use: http://bpes.bp.com/secondary-resources/business-studies/ages-16-to-19/business-andenterprise/enterprise-trading-game/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/business/aims/limitedcompaniesvid.shtml
Good luck and see you in September 2017! TJJ 06/17