Enterprise lecture - 5 - 10 Steps to a future you.

10 Steps to a future you - Notes takes within Lecture


Carl Hopkins - Investor in young businesses - Leeds college of Art






1) Proactivity:
- Stimulus > Response (animal)
- Stimulus > Choice > Response (humans)


We develop strategies to protect ourselves, make things more convenient etc


Circle of influence
Outer circle of concern 
Proactivity > INcrease in growth of influence - Job placements / experience etc


Internal Environment:
- Your skills
- Your resources
- Your lifestyle


Micron environment
- Network of friends and associates
- Your competitors and other practionaers
- Your suppliers
- Your local community
- take holders


Macro environment - Things which can't be changed / affected
- World markey conditions
- Economics
- Technology
- Social trends
- Politics


2)Project - 
- Develop a vision of your future
- Creste a principle - centred personal mission statement
- Extend the mission into long term goals


Priority management -
Business vision - You in the future in mind
Business plan
Life Plan




John Lennon 'Life is what happens while your busy making other plans'


Karl Hopkins 'Begin the the end in mind'


3)Provide:
- Clear explanations to people
- Speak in their language, not yours
- Talk about benefits; no processes


Speak about how you can benefit a client, the skills you have and the level you are at with particular software.


4) Prioritise
- Put first things first
- keep a proper balance
- Stick to your personal mission


Study - social life - rest - money - time = results, what are my priorities?


5) Presence 
- Think - win/win
- Seek outcomes and relationships that are mutually beneficial
- Do a favour to gain a favour


Dont work with people who aren't going to benefit you in the long run


Kohlbergs Theory:


Pre-conventional
- I want
- Why should i?
- Nobody listens
- Short terms
Dependant


Conventional:
- I would be happy to
- Your needs
- I understand
- Medium term
Independant


Post-conventional
- We can
- Together
- Mutual benefit
- Long term
Inter-dependant


6)Pause
- Pause to listen - give all our attention. Give yourself to the moment.
- Empathises , walk in someones shoes
- Don't re-iterate or interrupt - just listen
- Do you really know how they feel or are you just saying how you feel?
- Seek first to understand; then be understood
- Learn from your differences


7) Proven
- Consistency
- Integrity
- Reliability


Successful now because they are completely consistent and deliver a high level of performance every time. Its reliable and proven. Consumers trust such brands.
In my practise, what i must seek to achieve is constancy, not just in quality of work, the the integrity in which i hold my subject and the reliability of the service I offer.


8) Partner
- Synergy multiplies your talents
- Work with other experts outside your field to achieve greatness


Jmaes Dyson
Antony Gormley
Michelangelo
Everest expeditions


Avatar
-Hollywood model
- 600 - 800 credits for Avatar
- All free-lance or small businesses - all came together form film creation


9) Pit stop
- Sharpen up - bolt on, get new stuff
-Rest - renew, re-vitalise
- Explore -- challenge and excite


Challenge yourself
visit somewhere new - stimuli
Never stop doing it


10) Propel
- Extinguish your fears
- Exude confidence
- Instil faith