Elevator speech About Entrepreneurship

Elevator speech
An entrepreneur should always be curious and a creative thinker. Therefore, on this note, I
always keep on asking myself questions concerning what can be done if I wasn’t doing what am
doing today. This keeps me awake and on toes thus always come with new ways of doing my
things in my business. For example, if a particular product or activity is giving me losses even
after trying several ways of making it better, I will always do away with it and bring something
new which is more profitable. Besides, admitting mistakes is my style of living. As a creative
thinker and an innovative entrepreneur, I am always ready to admit whenever I do things wrong.
Most entrepreneurs fail because they find it difficult to admit that they went wrong thus looking
for excuses. This is because they don't like losing an argument or been seen as incorrect. But for
my case, I learned to accept corrections and this has helped me learn a lot from others.
On the other hand, there are many businesses globally that are run by individuals but most of
them are men. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. & Organisation,
E. C.-D. (2008), reports that most women find it difficult to concentrate on entrepreneurship
activities. This is mainly because of the challenges such as fundraising, identification of
opportunities, family policies and educational background among others which are faced in the
entrepreneurship sectors. All these make the women have to have fear and low esteem of
becoming entrepreneurs despite there been many opportunities and market gaps. To merge the
gap between the female and male entrepreneurs, I have started a consultancy firm that aims at
promoting as well as encouraging entrepreneurship among women. This will be achieved by
creating training programs that will promote confidence and growth among the women. During
this training, I will demonstrate, and explain the real-life skills, entrepreneurial practical and
financial skills which one should posse as key skills when starting a business.

Shalley, C. E., Et.al. (2015), thinking depends on one's knowledge to make a judgment on how
useful or effective a new idea is. He points out that people should not only engage in cognitive
variation when creating new ideas but they should also consider eliminating the ineffective and
retain the useful ideas. I, therefore, feel empowered to be creative and innovative because my
skills have taken positively and embarked on by my audience as well as Shelly’s findings.
Moreover, Runco, M. A., & Pritzker, S. R. (2011), support my traits by providing that innovation
is linked to cognitive thinking thus people who think cognitively are very creative. In addition to
this, he argues that an innovative individual is characterized by openness to new ideas, tolerance,
and self-confidence. Moreover, he states that leadership and guidance support is very crucial in
individual innovation and creativity because the leader bridged the gap between the individual
and the team level. This also applies to my case because I have already started a consultancy firm
that will be bridging the gap between the non-innovative and entrepreneurial women and make
the members of the great entrepreneur's team.
My audience asked several questions on creativity and innovation. For instance, one person
asked how she can improve creativity and innovation in an organization and the response was; as
an organization, creativity can be promoted by increasing external communication, increasing
specialization and division of work and providing technical knowledge resources (Runco, M. A.,
& Pritzker, S. R, 2011). Another question was raised on how to cab the challenges facing the
female entrepreneurs and it was clearly stated that support social, psychological and
entrepreneurial skills constraints that face the women needed to be addressed where training,
gender intervention and promising women entrepreneur support was recommended. Concerning
the firm, a question was asked on whether it will only cater to the women issues alone. The