You will be introduced to the 9 essential skills for Knowledge Entrepreneurs and the relationship between them.

You will learn:

– The 9 essential skills for Knowledge Entrepreneurs.
– Why it is more imperative than ever to engage in Knowledge Entrepreneurship,
– A development framework for capturing, packaging and delivering expertise.

Uniqueness – How to discover your unique perspective

Your unique perspective, also known as your genius (UQ),drives your personal brand and your signature style which in turn increases the value people attribute to you for your ideas.

You will learn:

– How to identify your unique perspective (UQ)
– How your UQ drives your personal brand and signature Thought Leadership style, and
– Why your UQ increases the value people attribute to you for your ideas.

This session will teach you how to elevate yourself in your organisation and become regarded as a Knowledge Entrepreneur.

You will learn:

– How to develop your expertise or nurture the talent within your organisation

– How to craft your ideas into a format that achieves three crucial outcomes

• Clarity - a clear message that is accessible to most people most of the time
• Flexibility - to be used repeatedly in different formats
• Integrity - received by others in a way that retains the original meaning

Developing your own perspective requires you to look beyond the prevailing worldview and think like a futurist.

It’s about being relevant and positioning yourself on the leading edge of change.

You will learn:
– Six key abilities that will assist you to develop your perspective as a Knowledge Entrepreneur.

So what do you do? This is one of the most common questions asked when someone meets another person for the first time.

For most people, a simple job title is the common response, which unfortunately doesn’t tell the recipient much about who they are and what they do at all.

Knowledge Entrepreneurs, on the other hand, respond to this question with a gleam in their eye and an inspiring and memorable response.

This session will teach you how to achieve this outcome.

You will learn:

– The 9 steps within the Positioning Matrix, which will enable you to:

• Consistently answer the question, “What do you do?” with an appropriate level of detail and clarity, and

• Create a flexible positioning statement that can be creatively applied to any introductory situation.

Communication is measured less by what you say and more by what is heard.

That’s why it is vital to achieve absolute integrity in your messages.

Knowledge Entrepreneurs need to be world – class communicators.

This requires an equal dose of flexibility and capability.

You need to develop a broad ability to communicate in any situation.

In other words, you must have the ability to access those skills, adjust your delivery style as required and select the right channel through which to deliver them.

You will learn:
– How to use the 3 broad personal communication modes; TELL, SHOW and ASK, and

– Which communication mode to use to communicate different ideas

Having created great and useful ideas, the obvious next step is to ensure you deliver them in a way that can be understood and, more importantly, embraced and acted upon.

You will learn:

– How people learn.
– The different learning frames to apply, and
– How to adapt each learning frame to cater to different learning styles.

The business of Authentic Leadership requires a high level of personal commitment.

It has to be more than just talk and ideas. You have to develop a bias for action.

You will learn:

– A series of productivity strategies, and
– How to use them to help you get more done.

Knowledge entrepreneurs don’t sell, they understand.

Without integrity, others will not buy your ideas, your approach, or you.

As a consequence, knowledge entrepreneurs embrace this approach, because it allows them to evolve from ‘selling to people’ to ‘clicking with people’.

You will learn:

– A simple 3-step approach to placing your ideas in the minds of others,
– How to understand the people you are communicating with, and
– Why understanding the person you are communicating with earns you the right to pitch your  ideas and approach to them.

Great thinkers are often conditioned to work alone.

For your great ideas to be commercially smart, however, they need to involve others who are prepared to buy/buy into them.

Smart people often struggle with collaboration, and with good reason.

To lead a team of knowledge entrepreneurs, you need to create and enter a shared reality.

You will learn:

– How to harness the power of others,
– Why it is so important to spend time appreciating and developing greatness in others, and
– Why should you allow others to take ownership of your great ideas and encourage them to take those ideas out into the world?