There are several different types of entrepreneurs. The types of entrepreneurs vary depending on the country, background, etc. The five most common types are:
Innovators
Hustlers
Imitators
Researchers
Buyers
The most successful entrepreneurs like Steve Jobs, Tony Robbins, Oprah, and more have defining skills and attributes that have helped them achieve phenomenal success. One of them is the ability to deal with failure, focus on the right customers, increase productivity, and hire effective people to delegate and manage money. These skills are extremely valuable to your business. Below we list the 5 best ways to learn and improve these skills.
1. Join An Entrepreneur Community
The best place to learn new skills or gain insight into how to apply your existing skills is through an entrepreneur training community. Google for the ones in your area or join international FB groups. Introduce yourself to the group, tell them about your needs, and what you need for your business to grow, share the link to your website and soon your magical connections will happen. There are so many communities to choose from depending on your interest area. I strongly recommend Mindvalley and its community which enables entrepreneurs to grow in so many different spectrums of their private and business life. You can interact with entrepreneurs who have already been through all the hardships and gain new knowledge that you can apply to your business.
2. Find A Business Mentor
You can find a mentor in the various communities you join. Let the members know that you are looking for a mentor and before you know you will be in a position in choosing the ones that you manifest with. Another way is to contact a local businessman& woman or successful family members. There are valuable lessons you can learn from a mentor that you probably can’t learn from other people. You can save time by learning from someone who has already been there and done that and already has a perspective on what you may be considering doing within your business. Business mentors can give you very specific advice about your business and can help you improve your entrepreneurial skills. Just make sure to be open to perspectives other than your own.
3. Increase Your Reading
There are som many influential entrepreneurs, and mentors in their fields of entrepreneurship who have published books that enable many others to grow and create their dream lives. There is an abundance of great books that can help you to for instance improve your entrepreneurial skills, networking skills, money management skills, your psyche, personal growth, sales, marketing, concentration, etc. Reading helps to expand your horizons and your knowledge and gives you new insights into business and life management. after all, having a good balance between business, your health, and your private life create a longevity symbiosis for success in life.
You can also read small business blogs to learn and improve your skills. You can also listen to audiobooks while commuting, driving your car, cooking or washing dishes ;-)
4. Listen To Business Podcasts
One of the best ways to acquire information without having to create extra free time is to listen to business podcasts. Podcasts will give you a detailed insight into many different topics such as entrepreneurship, marketing, how entrepreneurs are using the internet to grow their businesses, success life stories of entrepreneurs that can inspire you, Stories of less successful endeavors, and how people turned around their own mishaps, motivation, personal growth, psychology, economy and accounting, leadership, business strategies, new trends, meditation, visualization, motivation, fitness and many more at a fraction of the time that it would take you to read a book or attend a class. As a bonus, many podcasts at for free. Make listening to podcasts a positive habit while you do your daily chores, take your powerwalk, commute to work, jog or take a shower, etc. Quite often when I feel like having company instead I take time for myself listening to podcasts. Soon the podcast presenters will feel like your friends :-)
Look for podcasts of influential people who have inspired you on for instance Spotify. Some of my favorite ones are The Mindvalley, Tony Robbins, Eckhart Tolle, Oprah´s Super Soul, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Michelle Obama Podcast, Ted Talk Daily, and many more.
5. Reflect And Learn From Your "Sucess" and "Mistakes"
What can you learn from your past successes and mistakes? Keep an open mind and revise. After all, success and mistakes are possibilities to learn.
There are a thousand things to learn from your own successes and failures. Write down your previous accomplishments and things that did not work out how you expected them to. Having the list in front of you will make it visible and more approachable. Do it alone, in a group, or with somebody you feel comfortable with who can give you good feedback.
Be thankful for both. Look at the lists or diagrams of your success. What made it work?
Write it down.
Look at the list of your "mistakes" or less at first glance favorable outcomes. What led to the listed things being less successful? Was it really less successful?
Reflect and ask yourself;
What did I/ we do to make things work?
How could I have done that better?
Is it how you approached a new product launch, your time management, your past hiring strategy, routines, time management, your unwillingness/ willingness to delegate, your behavior towards employees, the effectiveness of the team, or even failing or succeeding in/building a good company culture which can reflect on individual or team performance.
Learning new skills is essential to all human beings and even more so to entrepreneurs. Our dreams and our/ our employee's future rest on your shoulders. By constantly learning and improving your skills, and investing in yourself and your employee you give yourself, your staff and your business the best chance for success.