1 - Getting Started ~5 mins
In this lesson you are reflecting: looking honestly at six competencies linked with entrepreneurship, and deciding where you already show them.
These six are not only for people who start businesses. They show up in school projects, on a sports team, in a part-time job, and in community work. By the end of the period you will have a completed audit with real evidence behind every score, ready for your Strand 2.1 portfolio.
2 - Key Terms ~5 mins
All six enterprise competencies are named below. Read the full table before you rate yourself. Keep the idea of evidence in mind: a rating without a real moment behind it does not count.
Creativity vs innovation: creativity is the new idea or different approach; innovation is making that idea usable and putting it into practice. You will rate them as separate rows.
| Term | What it means for you | Real example |
|---|---|---|
| Creativity: generating new ideas or approaching a problem differently | Your audit needs one moment where you changed the approach, not just finished the task | Redesigning a TY fundraiser stall layout so more people stop, rather than copying last year's set-up |
| Innovation: turning an idea into something usable, improved, or put into practice | Show the step where the idea left your head and worked in a real setting | Rewriting the Saturday café chalkboard specials so the queue moves faster |
| Risk-taking: a calculated try with an uncertain outcome, not recklessness | Name what you tried and what was at stake if it failed | Suggesting one new warm-up drill to a GAA or LGFA coach after a heavy defeat |
| Resilience: recovering after a setback and adjusting without abandoning the goal | A low score is useful if the evidence is honest; it points to what to practise next | Reworking a group project after the first plan fell apart two days before the deadline |
| Effective communication: making yourself understood and checking the message landed | Include how you checked understanding, not only that you spoke or wrote | Checking a proposed chalkboard change with a café supervisor before putting it up |
| Collaboration: working productively with others toward a shared aim | Include the part where you did not get your preferred plan and still delivered | Splitting roles on a community clean-up so the quieter organiser runs logistics while others handle publicity |
3 - Rate Your Entrepreneurship Competencies ~35 mins
The same six competencies show up in different places. Before you rate yourself, read this quick walkthrough of one person, Aoife, across three contexts. The moments match the examples in the Key Terms table.
School: When her group project plan collapsed two days before the deadline, she called a short meeting, split the remaining work, and still submitted on time (resilience and collaboration).
Sport: After a heavy defeat she suggested one new warm-up drill her GAA coach had not used, and the squad tried it the next week (creativity and risk-taking).
Workplace: On a Saturday café shift she rewrote the chalkboard specials so the queue moved faster, and checked the change with her supervisor before putting it up (innovation and effective communication).
Now complete the self-audit on screen. Rate each competency from 1 to 5 and write one specific occasion for every row: where, when, what happened. A rating with no evidence does not count.
When you finish, create or open a document titled Entrepreneurship Competencies Audit in your Strand 2.1 folder. Copy all six rows as a table or six labelled lines, each with: competency name, 1–5 rating, and one evidenced sentence (where, when, what happened). That file is the portfolio artefact for this lesson. It later feeds ALT 3 transferable-skill reflection and any enterprise work you do in this strand.
Entrepreneurship competencies audit
4 - Think About It ~10 mins
Talk these through with the person beside you, or work through them quietly on your own.
- Where did one of the six show up clearest outside starting a business, in school, sport, home or a job?
- What does that tell you about where enterprise skills actually live?
- If you only had energy to strengthen one competency over the next six weeks, which would you choose, and what single real occasion would let you practise it?
If you want a short portfolio note later, add two lines under your audit naming your strongest competency right now and the one with most room to grow.
5 - What You Covered ~5 mins
Today you reflected on the competencies linked with entrepreneurship and banked real evidence, not empty labels.
- Named the six enterprise competencies: creativity, innovation, risk-taking, resilience, effective communication and collaboration
- Saw the same competencies working in school, sport and workplace contexts, not only in starting a business
- Completed your Entrepreneurship Competencies Audit with a 1–5 rating and one evidenced sentence for each competency
- Created or opened that audit document in your Strand 2.1 Digital Portfolio folder for later use in transferable-skill and ALT 3 work
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