Find an idea

Top employee!

editor — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:46:36 +0100

Employees are you biggest asset, so make sure you know which employees are destined for success!

Plan a competition to seek out the individual with the greatest potential to succeed and who’s likely to come up with lots of great ideas if given the opportunity. Young professionals move workplaces often, and it’s vital you hold on to the best talent.

Start the conversation with a ball

editor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 10:40:44 +0100

Harness young people’s passion for sport by encouraging them to come up with enterprising and creative ideas to make money using just a ball. What ball they use is entirely up to them, and the more creative and wacky the ideas the better!

Enterprising solutions to bullying

editor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 10:37:15 +0100

Anti-bullying week this year falls in the same week as Global Entrepreneurship Week. A way of combining awareness for both weeks is by encouraging students to come up with enterprising ways of tackling bullying. Ask students to think of an idea to tackle bullying, which they place in the ideas box. At the end of the week, these ideas would be collated and then the best ideas presented to the students in view of implementing them into school policy.

Visit from partner school

editor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:06:10 +0100

Innovation Expo

editor — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:05:14 +0100

Organise an interactive entrepreneurship fair. Invite entrepreneurs, investors, franchisers, suppliers, innovators etc. to showcase their work to the general public. This event can be organised in a large open space where each vendor sets up a booth to display their product or service to visitors and spectators.

Think Big: Revitalise your Community

editor — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:11:20 +0100

Host a forum (either online or in person) that creates and initiates discussion about public policy, entrepreneurship, and specific ideas to benefit your community. Make the event open to the public so that all ideas will be heard and discussed.

Money Matters & Starting in Business

editor — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:19:49 +0100

One of the hardest parts of running your own business is understanding finances! So run an event for aspiring entrepreneurs explaining how to forecast and prepare profit and loss accounts.

Entrepreneurs Boot Camp

editor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:44:13 +0100

Ask local entrepreneurs and business leaders to help with a two-day entrepreneurship camp. Have entrepreneurs discuss the challenges and gratification associated with becoming an entrepreneur. Host seminars on topics ranging from generating an idea, turning a product idea into a reality or learning from common entrepreneurial mistakes.

Changing Yourself into a Money Making Business

editor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:56:17 +0100

Revitalise your business. Encourage your employees to brainstorm and explore new ways to enter new markets, diversify products or expand existing business. New and innovative marketing tactics can only improve the quality of a business.

Ideas Generation for Event Organisers

editor — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 12:13:09 +0100

Ideas spring into our minds when we least expect it- at the water cooler, on the train or at drinks after work. So capture them!

Introduce an Ideas Box or an Ideas Wall so anyone can stick up a great idea when it comes to them. You can even offer prizes or incentives for the best ideas.

How to Start a _________!

editor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:23:38 +0100

Whether it’s a bowling alley or a restaurant, young entrepreneurs need a place to start. Invite local entrepreneurs to come and provide direction about how to start a specific kind of business. For example, invite a restauranteur to describe what s/he had to do to open the doors and gain clients.

Ideas Generation

launch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:01:18 +0100

Ideas Generation

Ideas spring into our minds when we least expect it either in the classroom, on the way to school or at an after school club. So capture them!

Introduce an Ideas Box or an Ideas Wall so anyone can stick up a great idea when it comes to them. You can even offer prizes or incentives for the best ideas

Enterprising solutions to global poverty

editor — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 11:34:18 +0100

Get students together to come up with as many enterprising ways they can think of to solve global poverty. In particular, encourage students to think of ways that are sustainable and if the resources are available, encourage them to implement their ideas.

Social Enterprise Awareness Day

editor — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 11:18:58 +0100

Midwest Rural Enterprise CIC suggest the following activity to run during Social Enterprise Day (Thursday 19 November):

Organise a drop-in event to celebrate existing social enterprises in your area and to raise awareness of the third sector within your community. Social enterprises could have stands and invite guests to find out what their social enterprise does and how it benefits the community/environment. Invite local people as well as members of larger organisations.

Lesson Plans

editor — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:38:33 +0100

The sky’s the limit when you’re an entrepreneur. And as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week we will be launching a new enterprise initiative to challenge and champion all budding entrepreneurs. We’ll keep you posted on how you can be part of the entrepreneurial journey and make Global Entrepreneurship Week the most innovative event yet.

Town twinning

launch — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:46:31 +0100

You could run a virtual speednetwork between local businesses, schools, colleges or universities. Or you could even run a competition where students have to form teams between towns, working together over email and on the phone.

This would be a great activity to run with language students.

To find out what town you are twinned with, see: www.towntwinning.org.uk

Mentor Me

launch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:14:01 +0100

This is a really simple acitvity you can run in your workplace during Global Entrepreneurship Week.

Pair up your employees with an Enterprise Buddy, someone who can help and inspire them to make their mark in the workplace. Or invite young people from the local school, college or university into the workplace, and let them shadow someone in the senior management team.

You could even mix it up a bit by getting someone in the Senior Management Team to shadow someone lower down the management chain.

International Trade

editor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:35:47 +0100

This is a great way to give your Global Entrepreneurship Week activity a global spin.

Business Ideas from a banana!

editor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:54:58 +0100

This activity really gets the creative juices flowing. Give students an item and get them to come up with as many business ideas from that object as possible. You could give different groups of students different objects to work with.

Local business for local people!

editor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:06:24 +0100

Encourage the local authority from your town or city to host an event on how to do business locally. Learn the ins and outs of starting a business, the resources available to entrepreneurs in the area, how to win government contracts, and other related information for your community. Invite local entrepreneurs who can share th

Find an idea

Top employee!

Employees are you biggest asset, so make sure you know which employees are destined for success!

Plan a competition to seek out the individual with the greatest potential to succeed and who’s likely to come up with lots of great ideas if given the opportunity. Young professionals move workplaces often, and it’s vital you hold on to the best talent.

read more

Start the conversation with a ball

Enterprising solutions to bullying

Visit from partner school

Innovation Expo

Think Big: Revitalise your Community

Host a forum (either online or in person) that creates and initiates discussion about public policy, entrepreneurship, and specific ideas to benefit your community. Make the event open to the public so that all ideas will be heard and discussed.

read more

Money Matters & Starting in Business

Entrepreneurs Boot Camp

Changing Yourself into a Money Making Business

Revitalise your business. Encourage your employees to brainstorm and explore new ways to enter new markets, diversify products or expand existing business. New and innovative marketing tactics can only improve the quality of a business.

Ideas Generation for Event Organisers

How to Start a _________!

Whether it’s a bowling alley or a restaurant, young entrepreneurs need a place to start. Invite local entrepreneurs to come and provide direction about how to start a specific kind of business. For example, invite a restauranteur to describe what s/he had to do to open the doors and gain clients.

Ideas Generation

Ideas Generation

Introduce an Ideas Box or an Ideas Wall so anyone can stick up a great idea when it comes to them. You can even offer prizes or incentives for the best ideas

Enterprising solutions to global poverty

Social Enterprise Awareness Day

Midwest Rural Enterprise CIC suggest the following activity to run during Social Enterprise Day (Thursday 19 November):

Lesson Plans

Town twinning

Mentor Me

International Trade

Business Ideas from a banana!

Local business for local people!