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Encouraging Entrepreneurship in Teenagers
Through engaging, interactive and hands-on workshops
I was fortunate to have an amazing Business Studies teacher at secondary school. She inspired me to explore the world of business as I do today. She had the right approach with us, spoke with enthusiasm and energy and made her own clothes. She stood out from the rest for a number of other reasons too.
This was despite the fact that the majority of our work was paper or case study based.
We never set up a lemonade stand.
We never sold cookies door to door.
We only once had to come up with business ideas.
[Mine were a penbrella and bodybrella, I don’t think I need to elaborate further. Perhaps both more revealing of where I grew up rather than my business acumen at that age.]
Fast forward 18 years, and I find myself teaching teenagers very similar things albeit with the modern jargon, theories and tools. What I did decide though, was things would be more teenager proof, and to do this I shook things up.
Make it relevant
‘Sir, I’m never gonna use this in the future.’
We’ve all heard it, and some of you may have said it, but when you’re doing…
