S-H-O-P

Self

What are your likes and dislikes? You have to love knowledge and Lifelong learning as the continuous building of skills, knowledge and personal development throughout your life. In a lifelong learning model, people learn by doing – individually and in groups.

Help

Who is there to help you? There are tutors; job centre advisers; business mentors; training staff and on-line internet mentors. Mentors help the client to put learning into practice and reflect upon the learning; they are guides encouraging students to acquire knowledge and facilitate practice of the task in this instance encourage entrepreneurship.

Opportunities A business opportunity 

Involves sale or lease of any product, service, equipment,  that will enable the purchaser-licensee to begin a business. The licensor or seller of a business opportunity usually declares that it will secure or assist the buyer in finding a suitable location or provide the product to the purchaser-licensee.

A common type of business opportunity involves a company that sells bulk vending machines and promises to secure suitable locations for the machines. The purchaser is counting on the company to find locations where sales will be high enough to enable him to recoup his expenses and make a profit.

Plan of Action

No plan will work unless it is put into action, and plans include time-scales. Some people go through this process backwards. They act before they plan and research.

Team work

For professional team working skills you need to be able to listen; the need to question whilst interacting and discussing by all members of the team and be able to persuade and show respect for the opinions of others therefore encouraging and supporting each ideas and efforts. For good team work members have to help each other by sharing between members, offering ideas and reporting their findings to each other as they participate with each member contributing to the project.

Solving problems

Research shows that reflection and practice are necessary for deep learning. This level of meta‐cognition thinking about the process of knowing is one of the problem solving processes that instructors can use to help students to practice. Truly innovative small businesses and start-ups create a bold vision of a future that doesn't exist yet, solving problems that customers don't even know they have. Many inventive companies use a strategy called design thinking. This is a thinking that is a problem-solving approach; it is a set of tools that help you make decisions in the kinds of high uncertainty situations that entrepreneurs face. Using a design-thinking approach, entrepreneurs become anthropologists, studying the customers they hope to serve and using that knowledge to get simple prototypes into their hands quickly.