are those with the skills and capabilities to
see and evaluate business opportunities. They
are individuals who can strategically identify
products or services needed by the
community, and have the capacity to deliver
them at the right time and at the right place.
Entrepreneurs
a strategic process of innovation and new
product creation. It is both an art and
science of converting business ideas into
marketable products or services to improve
the quality of living.
Entrepreneurship
Self-Assessment
Directions: From the following 10 pairs
of sentences, choose either A or B,
depending on which statement most
reflects your personal views. Kindly mark
your response (A or B) for each pair of
sentences on a separate sheet of paper.
A) I do my work by myself.
B) I do my work in the company of
friends so that I can get their opinion on
what I should do.
Options 1
A) I do not care if I succeed in life or
not, as long as others think I’m
successful.
B) I care about what happens to me and I
plan how I could succeed in my life, no
matter what others think.
Options 2
A) I go with a good idea if others go with
it.
B) I test an idea, whether good or bad,
before I decide that it is correct.
Options 3
A) I am uncomfortable when I am with
my friends because I think I am not as
good as them.
B) I like being with my friends because I
feel I am equal to them.
Options 4
A) I worry about how I look externally.
B) I do not worry about how I look like
because what’s important is my inner
self.
Options 5
A) If I fail, I am sure it’s somebody else’s
fault and not mine.
B) If I fail, I shall analyze why I failed
and take responsibility for my failure.
Options 6
A) I am proud of my parents because of
what they stand for, even though they
are not rich.
B) I am proud of my parents because
they are rich and powerful. .
Options 7
A) I wish that I could inherit a
comfortable house to live in, without
working for it.
B) If I get to have a comfortable house to
live in, it is because I worked hard for it.
Options 8
A) I think I can learn from all
experiences, whether big or small, in my
day-to-day life.
B) I think there is nothing to learn from
day-to-day experiences, except for the
extraordinary ones that hit me.
Options 9
A) I’d like to spend my days relaxing with
my friends and without any worries.
B) I’d like to spend my days doing work
that I feel is important and I think about
how I will succeed someday.
Options 10
Scoring for internal strength.
OPTIONS POINTS OPTIONS POINTS
1. 6.
A. 2 A. 1
B. 1 B. 2
2. 7.
A. 1 A. 2
B. 2 B. 1
3. 8.
A. 1 A. 1
B. 2 B. 2
4. 9.
A. 1 A. 2
B. 2 B. 1
5. 10.
A. 1 A. 1
B. 2 B. 2
20 – 16 points:
Your inner self is very strong; you depend upon your internal self for
strength.
15 – 11 points:
Your inner self is strong enough.
10 – 6 points:
Your inner self is somewhat strong, but you have to start checking the
statements that you chose and see if you can start to strengthen your inner
self.
5 – 1 points:
You depend on others and on your external features to feel good
about yourself. You need very much to develop your inner self and inner
strength.
Self-Assessment:
Q
Directions: From the following 10 pairs
of sentences, choose either A or B,
depending on which statement most
reflects your personal views. Kindly mark
your response (A or B) for each pair of
sentences on a separate sheet of paper.
Important Entrepreneurial Traits
Hardworking
Self- Confidence
Future-Oriented
Profit-Oriented
Goal-Oriented
Persistence
Copes with Failure
Responds to Feedback or Open to
Feedback
Take the Initiative
Willing to Listen
Set your Own Standards
Copes with Uncertainty
Committed
Builds on Strengths
Reliable and has Integrity
Risk-Taker
If you are determined to run your own
business, you must concentrate on your
work either as a producer or a seller. The
success of your business depends on how
much time and effort you will spend on it.
Hardworking
You must have a strong faith in your ability
despite the problems that you will
encounter along the way.
Self- Confidence
Once a person enters in a line of business, you
must understand that you are in a non-stop
contract that an entrepreneur should
understand. It may take several years to build
up a business to a reasonable standard. The
goal for most successful business people is to
build a secure job and stable income for
themselves based on their own ability.
Future-Oriented
When you enter into the world of business,
obviously, you are looking for income because
you know that this will be your bread and
butter not only for you but also for your
family. Therefore, you must see to it the
business can generate income. Another plan
of action is to expand your own business
through the use of your generated income.
Profit-Oriented
An entrepreneur is forward looking. You have an
advanced preparation for your business. You set a
long-term goal for the activities that are needed, an
extensive preparation for the production process and
procedures that you need to go through to acquire,
human and non-human resources. Everything in your
business will have to be set clearly, organized, and
planned depending on the goal you want to achieve.
Goal-Oriented
Differences in opinion and judgment. Your
opponent can be a part of the rejection on
what you intend to do for your endeavor. As
an entrepreneur, you must be firm, strong-
willed, and stick or follow your own belief.
Persistence
“Learn from your mistakes”. As an
entrepreneur, you must learn how to deal
with the frustrations and failures instead,
turn these into productive learning
experiences.
Copes with Failure
You must be concerned to know how well you
are doing and keep track of your
performance. You must obtain useful
feedback and advice from others.
Responds to Feedback or Open to Feedback
A successful entrepreneur takes the initiative.
You must put yourself in a position where
you personally are responsible for the
failure or success of your business.
Take the Initiative
Take time to listen to the advice, suggestions,
and recommendations of fellow
entrepreneurs. It will help your business
grow.
Willing to Listen
This involves developing and using logical,
step-by-step plans to reach the goals, or
offering evaluation alternatives, monitoring
progress, and switching to successful
strategies for the goal you want to achieve.
To be a successful entrepreneur you must
take into consideration that sales and
production depend on your own standards.
Set your Own Standards
Pursue your vision to be a successful
entrepreneur, you should know how to handle
unusual events that may happen in the
business which include problems in managing
the workers, problems on the delivery of
goods and services, and the problems on
demand and production. You must be patient
in dealing with these uncertainties.
Copes with Uncertainty
You should know that in your business,
personal needs, attachment to your friends,
families and relatives are set aside. You must
separate the money for your business from
the amount that you need to spend for
personal obligations and lifestyles.
Committed
Successful business people base their work on
strengths. Use your manual skills,
knowledge in creating products or services,
knowledge in trade and industry, ability to
make and use of a wide network of contacts
to build your business.
Builds on Strengths
An entrepreneur must build a good
reputation, possess the courage to do the
right thing, do what you say, walk your talk,
be loyal, and be fair in dealing with the
subordinates and costumers.
Reliable and has Integrity
Risk sometimes cannot be anticipated. When
misfortunes happen, consider these as
challenges and work them out and set good
alternatives. Risks may result to loss of your
business or even bankruptcy.
Risk-Taker
“Successful entrepreneurs
continuously develop and
improve their PECs”.
Department of Education
Review
Entrepreneurs are those with the skills and capabilities to see and evaluate
business opportunities. They are individuals who can strategically identify products
or services needed by the community, and have the capacity to deliver them at the
right time and at the right place.
Entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is not just a simple business activity but a
strategic process of innovation and new product creation. Basically,
entrepreneurship is both an art and science of converting business ideas into
marketable products or services to improve the quality of living.
PECS
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
2. Self-confident
3. Profit-Oriented
4. Goal-Oriented
5. Persistent
6. Responds to feedback
7. Willing to listen
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
3. Profit-Oriented
4. Goal-Oriented
5. Persistent
6. Responds to feedback
7. Willing to listen
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
4. Goal-Oriented
5. Persistent
6. Responds to feedback
7. Willing to listen
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
5. Persistent
6. Responds to feedback
7. Willing to listen
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
A.
5. Persistent
6. Responds to feedback
7. Willing to listen
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
A.
5. Persistent
G.
6. Responds to feedback
7. Willing to listen
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
A.
5. Persistent
G.
6. Responds to feedback
F.
7. Willing to listen
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
A.
5. Persistent
G.
6. Responds to feedback
F.
7. Willing to listen
E.
8. Committed
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
A.
5. Persistent
G.
6. Responds to feedback
F.
7. Willing to listen
E.
8. Committed
J.
9. Reliable and has integrity
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
A.
5. Persistent
G.
6. Responds to feedback
F.
7. Willing to listen
E.
8. Committed
J.
9. Reliable and has integrity I.
10. Risk-taker
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.
Matching Type
Column A
1. Hardworking
D.
2. Self-confident
C.
3. Profit-Oriented
B.
4. Goal-Oriented
A.
5. Persistent
G.
6. Responds to feedback
F.
7. Willing to listen
E.
8. Committed
J.
9. Reliable and has integrity I.
10. Risk-taker
H.
Column B
a. Ability to set realistic targets.
b. Interest in money generation.
c. To succeed, one must believe in one’s self.
d. Working diligently and industriously.
e. Being able to listen to the advice of others.
f. Obtaining useful feedback and advice from others.
g. Being patient and strives to achieve the goal.
h. Ability to take measured or calculated risks.
i. Being honest, fair and trustworthy.
j. A major priority in the entrepreneur’s life.