Enterprising Behaviour -Mindset Barriers & Enablers

Mindsets – enablers or constrainers?

unlocking mindset barriers

can support & generate

new ideas & changed behaviours

to boost

enterprising capabilities of people and communities

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Redniag Tset

enigmatic smile?

Moaning Lisa ?!

….and when cells fire apart the wires depart…

Hebbian Learning

…when cells fire together they wire together…

‘short circuiting reality’?

genetic inheritance

childhood experiences

education system

peer group & society

work

birthplace culture time status

idea space left

‘Neurological Levels’

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“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken” -Samuel Johnson

J K GalbraithEconomist & Philosopher

“faced with the choice of changing ones mind (set?) & proving there is no need to - almost everyone gets busy on the proof !”

“ The land of opportunity is an attitude. It is an openness to new ideas, a willingness to listen, an eagerness to learn, a desire to grow and a flexibility to change ” from ‘A Peacock in the Land of Penguins.’ B J Gallagher et al

'In short, people will need to be creative, rather than passive; capable of self-initiated action rather than dependent; they will need to know how to learn rather than expect to be taught; they will need to be enterprising in their outlook and not think and act like an "employee" or a "client". The organisations in which they work, communities in which they live, and societies in which they belong, will, in turn, also need to possess all these qualities.'

Towards an Enterprising Culture, OECD, Paris, 1988.

Holistic View?

To be enterprising is to demonstrate is a set of qualities and competences that enable individuals,

organisations, communities, societies and cultures to be flexible, creative and adaptable in the face of change

and challenge.

To be Entrepreneurial is when someone successfully takes an idea to implementation to benefit the local

economy. This can include taking up self employment for the first time. An entrepreneur looks for opportunities and actually makes it all work for social and/or financial

profit.

More opportunities

Visualise a new enterprising culture

Identify opportunities

Deliver new private & social enterprise

Confidence increases

More inward investment

More enterprise generated

More confidence

More private /social enterprise

Ongoing Stimulation of enterprise

Self

Fulfilling

Failure?

SelfFulfillingSuccess?

The prevailing culture in any community (or part of a community!) or local economy is an aggregate of all the beliefs, assumptions, identities and values held. This can sometimes however act as an ‘immune system’ which rejects different views and neither entertains nor sustains new ideas. It may for example either be a can do culture or a cannot & should not do culture. The culture of any particular group or part of the community will also facilitate individual behaviours and attitudes. When this is a constraining culture allied to personal mindsets of individuals which are also limiting it can and will crush enterprise and enterprising behaviours.

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Need good signposting and ongoing support

Hard to reach and difficult to persuade

culture/environment

generic mindsets

mind barriers

Perceptual

EmotionalCultural

Environmental

IntellectualExpressive

community barriers - examples

communityorganisation

silos & policy gaps?

style &

intelligence?change

orientation?

inappropriate climate &

processes?logical &

convergent thinking?

learning and communications

barriers?

community

no support

we can’t…

what does it all mean

we tried it before

belief

personal barriers - examples

Personalstereotyping/

labelling?

fear of making a mistake?

habits and traditions?

lack of support

for ideas?

use of the wrong

language?

non computer literate?

Group and Pairs Syndicate Exercise

Using mind maps for reference

“Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump on the back of Christopher Robin. It is as far as he knows the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there must be another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and start thinking….”

AA Milne

Relevance?

Thank you…………………