OCR Level 2 and 3 Awards
Being Entrepreneurial
Unit 2 – Identifying viable opportunities
Unit 3 – Evaluating viable opportunities
Entrepreneurial mind and skill sets
These tasks will give you the chance to take part in problem solving activities in order to
understand the practical application of entrepreneurial mind and skill sets.
Task 1
To be a successful entrepreneur, there are many different skills, qualities and attributes that
a person must possess. Mind map the skills, qualities and attributes you think an
entrepreneur would need and record them in the table below.
Skills, qualities and attributes that an entrepreneur would need:
Lesson Element 2
Task 2
Whilst the meaning of many of the words listed in Task 1 will be clear, there may be some
which are less obvious or that would benefit from defining and explaining. It will be
particularly useful if you understand what the word means in an entrepreneurial environment.
Task 3
Define what you think the terms ‘mind set’ and ‘skill set’ mean and record your definitions
below:
Mindset is:
Skill set is:
Task 4
Mind set
Skill set
Do you think that some words could sit in both columns or are there words that could be in
either column depending on the scenario?
Task 5
Pick some words from the mind set list and some from the skill set list. For each word, give
an example of how an entrepreneur might be/do/use this mind or skill set and/or how each
word will be of benefit to an entrepreneur.
Word from mind
or skill set
Example of how an entrepreneur
might be/do/use this mind or
skill set
Explain how this mind or skill set
will be of benefit to an
entrepreneur