DIRECTOR'S BLOG 2021
Our director's blog and monthly posts for 2021 are shown below. The posts are uploaded here and posted on LinkedIn. We record the countries of people who like or comment on the posts - 77 countries in 2020. This is one of the ways we can demonstrate the international significance of the entrepreneurial mindset.
You can access our [2020 posts], [2019 posts], [2018 posts] and [2017 posts]. This archive includes posts about the benefits of the entrepreneurial mindset, higher education, leadership and management, innovation in healthcare, local government and lessons from failure.
MARCH
Why are endings and exits often badly handled by organisations?
Why are endings and exits often badly handled by organisations? What’s been your experience? What advice can you share?
- It’s hard if you are shown the exit suddenly, with little time to prepare or to say a proper goodbye
- It’s especially hard right now, after months cut off from colleagues, family & friends
- Without good information you may struggle to make sense of what has happened to you
- You may feel powerless, unsure who you can talk to, doubtful that you have been treated fairly and worried about what would happen if you speak up
If you are the person managing someone else towards the exit ...
- From your position of relative safety, you cannot understand the negative impact on the person leaving
- Communicating the decision by email is not communication; a face to face meeting is essential
- You should take steps to minimise the potential negative impacts on the mental health of the person leaving and also support the survivors (the ones lucky enough to be staying on)
- If you treat someone with dignity during their exit, there is a greater opportunity that they will think and speak highly of you in the years to come
Does your organisation have a formal policy for managing exits that avoids the worst mistakes and which is rooted in best practice?
february
MINDSET inspirational quotes
Read 16 inspirational quotes about the value of the entrepreneurial mindset and then add your own quote in the comments for this post…
The 16 members of our MINDSET LEAP (Leading Experts and Advisors Panel) have each offered a quote about why the entrepreneurial mindset is so important.
You can read all 16 quotes here https://lnkd.in/eM7PXfw
What do you think about the entrepreneurial mindset? Why does it matter to you? Please leave your own quote in the comments for this post.
Interested in applying to join the MINDSET LEAP then please send me a message.
MINDSET xCHANGE
An online interactive webinar on 17th February at 12:00 noon Central European Time*. Registration details are as follows....
For members of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network, the registration link is in the online eZINE which was emailed to you on 21st January. You can also request the registration link by emailing director@emindset.network
If you are not yet a member of the Network, you can subscribe to a FREE membership https://lnkd.in/eEb4jeV and then access the registration link in your welcome email
* USA EST 06:00 = UK 11:00 = Europe CET 12:00 = South Africa 13:00 = Pakistan 16:00 = India 16:30 = Singapore 19:00 = Australia AEDT 22:0
January
How have education and life long learning changed your life?
In January 2011, I received my “Entrepreneurial Univesity Leadership Programme” certificate from the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. This executive education programme changed my life.
By 2012 I had changed job and was playing a leading role for an organisation that had made a strategic commitment to becoming more entrepreneurial.
Within another year, in 2013, to gain real-life experience of start-ups, I had become self-employed and set up my own international consultancy.
In 2017, building on the success of my consultancy and to gain experience of scale-ups, I founded the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network, an international organisation which now has members in 84 countries.
Our vision is a world where everybody can benefit from having an entrepreneurial mindset, whether they run their own business or are employed in the private, public or not for profit sectors.
In April 2021, I will begin my 9th year of owning my own business, leading an organisation that is providing learning opportunities for people all over the world to become more entrepreneurial.
I can honestly say that education and life long learning continue to change my life. Have you had a similar experience? What is your story?
eZINE Volume 4 no 1
Find inspiration in the latest edition of our online eZINE:
Instilling a winning mindset in the young Danie Jacobs 🇿🇦
The journey to the entrepreneurial university Eleanor Shaw 🏴
Europe needs more intrapreneurship Mart Kikas 🇪🇪
Anatolian Valley: New entrepreneurship zone Selahattin Ciritci 🇹🇷
Mindset xCHANGE webinar Jay Wasim Paul Coyle Roberto Brambilla Zohra Omar 🌐
For immediate access to our eZINEs subscribe for FREE at https://lnkd.in/dSRXDFt
Also available:
2020 Vol3 No 3
Fostering an entrepreneurial mindset in children Trudie Murray 🇮🇪
Sparking creativity in young entrepreneurs Hande Diker 🇹🇷
Celebrating women founders in Pakistan Sharoon Yasir 🇵🇰
How companies can develop their capability to innovate Mart Kikas 🇪🇪
The entrepreneurial mindset in R&D Ellen Burgdorf-Schröder and Susanne Alexandra Klein 🇩🇪
2020 Vol 3 No2
How should we deal with the causes of work-related stress? Pauline Miller Judd🏴
What makes a webinar successful? Paul Coyle 🇫🇷 🇬🇧
What now for employee engagement? Martine Robins FCIPD 🏴
Is it time for an HR strategy reset? Sherisa Rajah Baird 🇿🇦
How can small businesses stay open? Jay Wasim 🏴
How can we learn not to fear failure? Stefan Gueorguiev 🇧🇬
A growing international network
This post on LinkedIn attracted 4457 views with likes from people in Algeria🇩🇿, Armenia🇦🇲, England🏴, Ethiopia🇪🇹, Finland🇫🇮, France🇫🇷, Germany🇩🇪, Hong Kong🇭🇰, Ireland🇮🇪, Italy🇮🇹, Malaysia🇲🇾, Oman🇴🇲, Pakistan🇵🇰, Palestine🇵🇸, Scotland🏴, Singapore🇸🇬, South Africa🇿🇦, Spain🇪🇸, Tajikistan🇹🇯, Turkey🇹🇷,
Ukraine🇺🇦 and United States 🇺🇸.
In 2020, the membership of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network grew to include members in 82 countries. My posts on LinkedIn attracted over 61k views, and also received likes from people in 77 countries.
As 2021 begins, I am excited about continuing and strengthening these global interactions. I wish all the best for the coming year to my LinkedIn connections and to the members of the Entrepreneurial Mindset Network.