Into action

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A great idea without execution has no value! Entrepreneurship is when you act upon opportunities and ideas and transform them into value for others. To transform ideas into value requires concrete action. This means you have to move, go for it and take action to make things happen, to realize your dream, to feel success, to create value for yourself, your surroundings, your community or even for the world. 
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This Into Action Playlist is one of the 3 learning playlist we developed to help you create awareness, activate, train and develop a entrepreneurial mind, attitude and skills. 
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This playlist includes activities to support you to understand what it takes to go into action or realize things and the skills/steps you need to know about and go through to make sure you succeed. 
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The activities on this playlist are based on Entrecomp (The Entrepreneurship Competence Framework) The  Entrecomp framework identifies entrepreneurial competences which are seen as transversal competence. Transversal competences are competences that applies to all spheres of life: from nurturing personal development, to actively participating in society, to (re)entering the job market as an employee or as a self-employed person, and also to starting up ventures (cultural, social or commercial). This competence model is used to define the Open Badges that you can earn during this learning playlist.
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Why should you do this playlist
To understand how you can recognize and strengthen entrepreneurial traits and skills in yourself. And to be aware about how to take advantage of them. ﻿Within this playlist you will be aware and work on the all necessary steps to assess your ability to get  “into action”   
Activity 1.Taking the initiative: You will practice how to get started and Go for it 
Activity 2. Planning  & Management: You will practice how to Prioritize, organize and follow up 
Activity 3. Coping with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk, You will practice decision making and  dealing with uncertainty, ambiguity and risk
Activity 4. Working with others: you will practice how to Team-up, collaborate and network
Activity 5. Learning through experience: you will Learn by doing 
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For each completed activity you can earn a micro-credential badge. When all steps are fulfilled you will earn the Playlist Into Action Badge. Within this playlist you will be aware and work on the all necessary steps to assess your ability to get  “into action”   
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Good luck and have fun!
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There are two other playlist where you can learn and show how to be entrepreneurial: 
Learning Playlist Ideas and Oportunities
Learning Playlist The Entrepreneurial Resources Box

Activities to complete

Complete the following activities, earn badges and you will see your playlist progress updated

Taking the initiative

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Take up the challenge

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Stick to intentions and carry out planned tasks

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Content

What is the biggest source of failed goals, dreams and ambitions?
Accumulated evidence indicates that there is a substantial gap between even strong intentions and subsequent action. Scott H. Young, among others argue that the great majority of our struggles in life come down to one simple problem: our actions don’t match our intentions. It’s called “The action-intention gap” which is the difference between how we would intend to do things and what actually happens. It’s the difference between a great idea and great execution. This is where most of our struggles, failures and frustrations originate.
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One effective strategy to reduce this intention–behavior gap is the formation of implementation intentions that specify when, where, and how to act on a given goal in an if-then format (“If I encounter situation Y, then I will initiate action Z!”). “If situation A occurs, then I will do X behavior.” The situation then becomes a trigger for the behavior when it comes up in real life.It has been proposed that implementation intentions render the mental representation of the situation highly accessible and establish a strong associative link between the mental representations of the situation and the action.
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Finish things Get this badge

The owner of this badge has shown an actionplan to close the The Action-Intention Gap
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The holder of this badge has worked independently and in collaboration with peers at the skill to stick to intentions and carry out planned tasks , which connects with Taking the initiatieve in the area Into action (foundation level) of Entrecomp, the European Entrepreneurial Competence framework to improve the entrepreneurial capacity of European citizens and organisations.
Following the learning activities which target the above skills will lead to your gaining of the “Finish things” Badge
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How the holder of this badge worked on these skills can be seen in the evidence in the badge tasks.
Adult educators have assessed the completed tasks.

Tasks

Task no.1

Evidence verified by: one activity organiser

Read this article about tips on how to meet deadlines and finish tasks on time;
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1. Which tips are the most power- and helpful to you?
2. Which tips are you already implementing?
3. Which of the most power- and helpful tips are you going to implement immediately and how?

Skills

EntreComp

#Take actions

Activities: 3

Started: 3

Completed playlist: 0

Organisers

Curacao Island of Learning

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