SETTING UP A BUSINESS!
INTRODUCTION
If we were able to gain a greater understanding of ourselves, this would certainly help us make better use of our skills and resources. It is important to establish a good connection with ourselves in order to unfold in a coherent and fluid way all our potential to work.
TASKS
Watch the video!
In a lesson about entrepreneurship, the teacher has asked you to identify a job that is related to the career you want to study and plan to open a business. Among the people on your team, you should formulate and distribute the tasks that each person could carry out in the hypothetical company.
Let´s get this done!
PROCESS
tep 1
What company could we start?- Access this questionnaire and discover which field of study could be more suitable for you and your colleagues.
Regardless of the questionnaire, you should also take into consideration some aspects of your life that could be interesting when making this decision.
Answer the following questions:
- When you were a kid, what things did you usually enjoy more when doing them? Which ones did you usually hate the most?
- What are your current hobbies?
- At school, which one was your favourite subject? And the most boring?
Step 2
Read this article about Business Skills to Run Your Own Businessand try to find at least three more about this subject. Then, ask yourself the following questions:
What do you learn from it?
Is there anything you see more interesting? Or not interesting at all?
Within the group, which skills you feel more conected to? And with which ones not? What about your colleagues?
Step 3
To set up a business is a huge challenge. Not everybody is able to work alongside others taking their opinions on board and listen to them with an open-minded attitude. Now is the moment, you will have to decide who is going to be responsible for what in for the company.
To prepare for this process complete the following tasks:
- Prepare a little paragraph to talk to you colleagues about your ideas to set up the company. This have to include the position you consider you should take and why, what idea would you consider the driving force of the company and how do you think you could encourage and take care of your workers in order to create a favorable and good working environment.
- Listen to the speech of your colleagues and decide between you all who will take each position.
You will find some tips in this link.
Step 4
Now it´s time to set the activities each of you will be carrying out to start the company. Taking into consideration the role that each one will have, write down a formal schedule I that also detail the activities that you are going to carry out. Find guidance here.
Step 5
Now is the moment to launch the company on social media. Try to get your idea to your friends and family. Create a company profile on the social networks you know, e.g instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
Step 6
Of course the best way to start a business is to make the world know the team. Write a newsletter in which you present each member of the team, developing in a paragraph what is their job in the company and why did they chose it. It can also include some of their skills and abilities you consider important for the proper development of the job. You will find some tips in this link.
EVALUATION
Hopefully this task has given the space to reflect on and use your self awareness! Please fill in this short evaluation form: https://forms.gle/fW5DRWmEVV6pRn7VA
On completion of this webquest, learners will develop:
Knowledge:
- Basic knowledge about what self-awareness means
- Factual knowledge about the methods used for identifying personal needs, wants, interests and goals
- Factual knowledge about what competences are needed in the 21st century
- Factual knowledge about Time Management
- Factual knowledge about the important resources needed for starting a successful business
Skills:
- Identify my needs, wants, interests and goals
- Describe my needs, wants, interests and goals
- Identify things I am good at and things I am not good at.
- List different types of jobs and their key functions.
- Describe which qualities and abilities are needed for different jobs, and which of these qualities and abilities I have.
- Recognise different ways of motivating myself and others to create value.
- Recognise the need for being determined and persevere when trying to achieve my (or my team’s) goals.
- Communicate my ideas clearly to others
- Apply the best practices of idea pitching
- Discuss how different media can be used to reach audiences in different ways
Attitudes:
- Awareness of ability to achieve what I intend to.
- Increased drive for the possibility to do or contribute to something that is good for me or for others
- Motivated by the idea of creating value for myself and others
- Acknowledge tasks as challenges to do my best.
- Openness to challenges
- Show passion and willingness to achieve my goals
- Show enthusiasm for challenges.
- Acknowledge the importance of being actively involved in creating value for others
- Appreciate the importance of the effective communication in sharing and promoting ideas
Acknowledge the power of non-digital and digital communication
CONCLUSION
By completing this WebQuest, students will have acquired a greater understanding of themselves, their skills and qualities in order to be able to find their place in the labor market.
“I think….you still have no idea. The effect you can have.” – Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay
Trip of a Lifetime!
INTRODUCTION
On driving home from work you stop at the shop to pick something up for dinner. You’re at the checkout when you see a stack of scratch cards and impulsively decide to buy one. You return to your car and decide to scratch it right then and there. To win you have to have three matching amounts, you scratch off the first and it reveals 10,000 euro, you scratch again and it reveals another 10,000 euros. You roll your eyes predicting this good luck to not continue. You continue to scratch and, unbelievably, a third 10,000 reveals itself. Shocked, you double check and confirm. Immediately, you run back into the shop and the shop keeper hands you your winnings.
You know exactly how you are going to spend it. You are going to travel, immediately.
TASKS
You have got lucky! You have won some money and decided to travel. Your task is to research and prepare for the trip of your lifetime. It will involve everything from learning about the destination, writing an itinerary list, to launching your own blog. Happy and Safe travels!
PROCESS
tep 1
Try your luck again – access the randomiser to find out your destination: https://earthroulette.com/
Now, it is time to get to know your destination. Look at the questions in the grid (Appendix 1.1) and research the answers to 10 of these questions!
Step 2
Find and read 3 blogs or case studies of people who have already been there.
Ask yourself:
- What do you learn from them?
- Is there anything you connect with? Or don’t connect with?
- Are the blogs consistent with each other or represent very different experiences?
If you haven’t already, go on to Instagram and in the search box, search the name of your destination to see what snaps other people have taken there.
Step 3
Travel involves stepping outside of your comfort zone which goes hand in hand with self-awareness – the ability to observe ourselves.
To prepare for this process complete the following tasks:
- Read this article
- Make a time life of your life plotting the significant events that impacted you in a positive or negative way
- Take this online quiz to discover what personality type you are.
Step 4
Your trip is approaching, time to put together your itinerary and travel check list!
Look at the check list provided below and make a draft itinerary for your trip – remember your 10000 euro budget!
Step 5
Set up a travel blog. Think about Its “why” – is it your personal electronic journal? Is it for your family and friends so they can see what you are getting up to? Is it for the wider public who have an interest in travel?
WordPress can home your blog: https://wordpress.com/create
Read the article: https://www.outbrain.com/help/advertisers/travel-blog/
Step 6 You have some money left over…write your own bucket list!
EVALUATION
opefully this task has given the space to reflect on and use your self awareness! Please fill in this short evaluation form: https://forms.gle/GxpyG2UWV5YQARDo9
On completion of this webquest, learners will develop:
Knowledge:
- Basic knowledge about what self-awareness means
- Factual knowledge about the methods used for identifying personal needs, wants, interests and goals
- Basic knowledge about Organisational Management
- Basic knowledge about the digital and non-digital media and channels of communication
Skills:
- Identify my needs, wants, interests and goals
- Describe my needs, wants, interests and goals
- Identify things I am good at and things I am not good at.
- Recognise different ways of motivating myself and others to create value.Recognise the need for being determined and persevere when trying to achieve my (or my team’s) goals.
- Recognise that resources are not unlimited.
- Judge what to use my money for.
- Provide examples of inspiring communication campaigns
- Communicate my ideas clearly to others
Attitudes:
- Motivated by the idea of creating value for myself and others
- Acknowledge tasks as challenges to do my best.
- Openness to challenges
- Show passion and willingness to achieve my goals
- Acknowledge the importance of money in everyday life
Acknowledge the power of non-digital and digital communication.
CONCLUSION
Through completing this webquest you have learned how to research and prepare for the trip of a lifetime and demonstrated that your self awareness.
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” – Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
