{"id":920484,"date":"2021-03-31T14:53:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T14:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=920484"},"modified":"2021-06-06T11:46:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T11:46:55","slug":"the-social-entrepreneur-skill-landscape-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=920484","title":{"rendered":"The social entrepreneur skill landscape ahead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The future, post-Covid and all the economic and social change that lies ahead, will need to bring with it a commitment to both training and re-skill for many, but also a distinct, hardy and tenacious set of practical and soft skills for the enduring entrepreneur.<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_920485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-920485\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-920485\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/futurelookingImage.png?resize=600%2C345\" alt=\"Image, looking to the future\" width=\"600\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/futurelookingImage.png?resize=300%2C172 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/futurelookingImage.png?w=734 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-920485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking to the future: Image by Benjamin Davies, Creative Commons, Unsplash<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>This is the message contained in a useful and perceptive series of articles to come from Pioneers Post. It is a landscape of compassion, certainly, given the context of the work, but also a landscape of uncertainty that will be managed through endurance, creativity and a survival ethos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>List of skills updated<\/strong>: 6th June 2021 &#8211; see below&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A heady cocktail of needs for the social entrepreneur looking to the future.<\/p>\n<p>See the original article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210331\/how-no-regrets-skillset-can-arm-social-entrepreneurs-uncertain-future\">https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210331\/how-no-regrets-skillset-can-arm-social-entrepreneurs-uncertain-future<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8216;Experts have warned that half the world\u2019s employees will need to be reskilled by 2025. But with which skills? In our new series, Emerald Works\u2019 Kevin Dunne and Social Enterprise Academy\u2019s Claire Wilson set out seven critical, \u201cno regrets\u201d skills that social enterprise leaders will need to flourish in the post-Covid-19 landscape.&#8217;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The seven key skills, promoted by the authors of this thinking are sound and relevant\u00a0 &#8211; especially if you are on the brink of leading your new SocEnt project up the enterprise foothills to sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>We were worried, diving into the article, that this was a promotional pivot for a hardened, corporatist lean-into enterprise for good. We should not have worried. Vigorous commitment to the seven principles espoused can, we see, develop individuals with strong technical skills.<\/p>\n<p>Skills that allied with the compassion that got them into the sector in the first place, may well be the key to all our survival.<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210331\/how-no-regrets-skillset-can-arm-social-entrepreneurs-uncertain-future\">the Pioneers Post article<\/a> and see if you agree with the position? We do!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Update: 06.06.2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Resilience<\/strong>, the first skill in the survival argument &#8211; see more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210331\/survival-skill-no-1-resilience\">https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210331\/survival-skill-no-1-resilience<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Adaptability<\/strong> &#8211; the second skill for survival &#8211; see more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210512\/survival-skill-no-2-adaptability\">https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210512\/survival-skill-no-2-adaptability<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Creativity<\/strong> &#8211; the third skill for survival\u00a0 &#8211; see more<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210604\/survival-skill-no-3-creativity\">https:\/\/www.pioneerspost.com\/business-school\/20210604\/survival-skill-no-3-creativity<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-822\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/SocEntEastMIdslogoButton.jpeg?resize=231%2C278\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future, post-Covid and all the economic and social change that lies ahead, will need to bring with it a commitment to both training and re-skill for many, but also a distinct, hardy and tenacious set of practical and soft skills for the enduring entrepreneur. This is the message contained in a useful and perceptive &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/?p=920484\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The social entrepreneur skill landscape ahead?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,60,225,288,231],"tags":[59,7,289,5,103],"class_list":["post-920484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-economics-2","category-economic-thought","category-innovation","category-socenteastmids","category-social-enterprise","tag-community-economics","tag-news","tag-socenteastmids","tag-social-enterprise","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.miningtheseem.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}