7 Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs

One of the qualities of an entrepreneur is often that they are innovative. Steve Jobs was innovative and today we have Apple Computers.

7 Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs

How to take the minutes at a meeting

6th Year LCVP class have been planning a meeting to practice their skills. Emma found this video and shares it with us. Thanks Emma.

How to Take Minutes at a Business Meeting

No Jobs? These Mexican Immigrants Made Their Own

Meet the women of the Apple Eco-friendly Cleaning Cooperative.

Apple is a collective of five Mexican women living in New York City who got tired of working odd jobs and wanted more control of their careers. After meeting at a Brooklyn day laborer hiring site, where they would compete for cleaning jobs with dozens of other women, the quintet decided go into business for themselves, and formed an Limited Liability Company. 

They also began making their own cleaning products at home out of natural ingredients. The result is a less toxic home for their growing roster of clients and a safer cleaning day for the women themselves, who would sometimes get headaches from working for hours amid traditional chemical cleansers.

Source _ www.good.is

What were the reasons for these women setting up their own business?

What skills did / do these women have to become entrepreneurs?

What qualities of an entrepreneur did / do they have?

What steps are the women taking to ensure their business is a success?

Skills

Did you use any of these skills in your LCVP projects?

Organisational Skills

• Deciding on who does what
• Organising meetings
• How to come to making decisions
• Contacting people and organisations
• Setting up rooms for meetings
• Obtaining permissions etc
• Following up activities or events
• Preparing materials
• Making appointments

Research Skills

• Selecting topics and key issues
• Identifying sources of information and accessing them
• Reading and summarising information
• Organising material

Debating Skills

• Speaking
• Arranging your materials
• Identifying key arguments and points
• Being able to back up an argument
• Seeing many sides to an argument
• Being skilful with language

Communication Skills

• Oral communication
• Contacting and making arrangements with speakers and organisations
• Introducing and chairing meetings
• Summarising discussions
• Meeting and greeting people
• Briefing speakers
• Preparing and sending letters
• Presentation Skills for small and large groups

Team-working Skills

• Working in groups
• Allocating and agreeing tasks
• Group discussion skills
• Listening to and talking with others
• Dealing with debate and even disagreement
• Accountability to the group
• Taking responsibility and getting things done

Skills of Analysis

• Reading and understanding materials and arguments
• Thinking about arguments and viewpoints
• Identifying other views and judging them
• Finding and gathering as well as presenting facts and figures
• Preparing graphs and diagrams

Presentation Skills

• Public speaking to large or small groups
• Deciding on what to present and which arguments to use
• Structuring what you want to say
• Using visual materials to present your facts or arguments or those of others

Administrative Skills

• Writing
• Typing
• Filing
• Telephoning
• Making bookings
• Accounting for funds
• Keeping records

Practice job interview

Practice Example Tips On How to Ace Your Job Interview This year we will be doing a recorded interview for our LCVP Portfolio. I found this short video and think it might help us prepare for it.
Becky


Thanks to Becky for finding this video. Well done. Mrs L :)

Interactive lesson on communication and meetings

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Follow the interactive lesson from Skoool.ie below to learn all about the different forms of communication; verbal, written and visual.

Click below to go to the lesson.
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