An entrepreneur is an individual who creates a new business, executes his plans with an organized manner, bears the risk, and makes his ideas prosper with continuous dedication and hard work. Entrepreneurs are the source of innovative ideas, wisdom, innovative approach with their business, and other procedures. An entrepreneur has a value that they set using their skills and initiative necessary to anticipate needs and bring good new ideas to the market. They play a key role in the economy, and they take risks while working, therefore Entrepreneurship is an important driver of economic growth and innovation. Nurturing entrepreneurship can have a positive impact on an economy and a society in several ways. For starters, entrepreneurs create new business. They invent goods and services, resulting in employment, and often create a ripple effect, resulting in more and more development. Skills is essential for an entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs need to develop their experiences and skills in niche areas to determine their possibility of success in the long run. That have assisted them to meet their vision and accomplish their mission.
Here are some of the skills that you need to possess as an entrepreneur:
1. Curiosity
An entrepreneur are known for their innovative ideas and works as their startups. In this case, an entrepreneur needs to be curious about every activities that behold their vision to make their startups successful. One needs to be passionate about different fields of study and business cases outside of one’s comfort zone.
2. Build a Varied Skill Plan
Building a skill plan can be achieved through learning and trying new tasks in real-world settings. For example, if an aspiring entrepreneur has a background in operations, he can move into an operations role at his company to learn the soft skills necessary to be successful. Once a diverse skill set is built, it gives an entrepreneur a toolkit that he can rely on when he is faced with the inevitability of tough situations.
3. Time Management
Entrepreneurs need to dive into a business world that requires timely plans, setting indicators, priority plannings, project management, which can be acquired only if time management is considered well. It’s very necessary for the smooth work culture, in order to lead the team.
4. Communication
An entrepreneur needs to communicate with their clients, associates, partners, supporters, friends and for this interaction, one needs to have effective communication skills. It is a powerful weapon to grasp people’s interest and also to show your worth.
5. Networking
Good networking is an asset to every entrepreneurs. Networking is the most important skills for entrepreneurs. Building business opportunities, expanding the PR horizon, and delivering the right message that facilitates the growth of the network is essential.
6. Resilience
It’s one of the essential life skills for entrepreneurs. Their journey from startup has to pass through different hurdles, stress, ups, and downs and during this situation, their skills of resilience i.e their ability to cope up with those situations, their determination to stand up and lead definitely gives a blow to their business that eventually leads to success.
7. Strategic Thinking
An entrepreneur needs to have the quality to find out solutions to every problem that encounter during their business journey. They need to be efficient enough to solve problems and yield high results.
8. Finance Management & Sales Strategy
The most important attribute that defines your business is Finance. One needs to have proper financial skills so as to handle investments and resources. And as entrepreneurs has a strategic mindset to broaden opportunities, they need to do good market research and find out better sales channel so that they can implement their business strategy to the next level. Moreover, an entrepreneur needs to have a growth mindset.
-Saru Pyakurel