Born to business: Why entrepreneurship is inherent and can be taught
4 Apr, 2021 04:00 AM
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Adults have a role to play in teaching children entrepreneurial skills. Photo/supplied
Jane Phare is a senior business reporter for the New Zealand Heraldjane.phare@nzme.co.nz
In part two of the Herald s series Jane Phare looks at whether entrepreneurial skills can be taught and meets a teenager who launched a successful gift-wrap business with the help of mentors. Everyone is born with entrepreneurial traits as far as Professor Nathan Berg is concerned. We proactively search our environment for opportunities, he says.
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The event is aimed at teaching business skills to young people.
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An event is being organised to help young people affected by the pandemic to learn new business skills.
The pandemic has brought many challenges, in particular for young people as they deal with the uncertainties of its impact on their job prospects and career aspirations.
Now, two north-west based organisations have come together to deliver a week-long calendar of events aimed at helping young people and indeed anyone whose career has been affected by the global pandemic.
Millie Dyson PRINCIPALITY Building Society has teamed up with the UK’s leading enterprise charity to bring an entrepreneurial project to young people at home in Wales. The Fiver from Home programme, run by Young Enterprise and funded by Principality, asks students aged five to 11 years to create, research and plan a business with just £5, in preparation for the Fiver Challenge that starts on June 1. Created in response to the coronavirus pandemic last year, Fiver from Home allows young people to develop their creativity, commercial awareness and money management skills at home. As the sponsor of Fiver from Home in Wales, Principality has provided funding allowing Young Enterprise to bring the challenge to Wales on a larger scale and in the Welsh language. Last year’s summer Fiver from Home challenge saw more than 7,000 young people across Wales take part.
- Ask any young person what they want to be when they grow up and you most likely will get lofty answers, such as a pro-football player or a You Tube star. While admirable, it may be worthwhile to temper these expectations and get kids thinking about a Plan B that incorporates their dreams into the real world.
Enter Junior Achievement (JA), a non-profit organization that is celebrating its 100th anniversary.
Since 1919, JA has made it its mission to prepare youth for future jobs by helping young people understand business and finance so that they are work-force ready.
Currently, the JA network reaches approximately 5 million students a year in the United States, and 10 million students in total in more than 100 countries.
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