Entrepreneurial Style & Success Indicator

The Entrepreneurial Style & Success Indicator determine one’s inherent entrepreneurial tendencies, motivations, and propensities.

The Entrepreneurial Style and Success Indicator is an invaluable communication and learning tool for anyone involved in an entrepreneurial or intrapreneurial venture or activity. This 32-page scientifically developed self-administered and self-scored assessment helps you determine your inherent entrepreneurial tendencies, motivations, and propensities.

What It’s Best Used For

• Identifying Behavioral Strengths: Mapping specific operating style patterns to instantly uncover an individual’s unique professional advantages and workplace liabilities.
• Structuring Sustainable Ventures: Guiding founders and business partners to engineer commercial models around their natural strengths rather than their weaknesses.
• Optimizing Strategic Roles: Helping individuals intentionally choose the ideal business type, corporate titles, and everyday operational responsibilities to match their profile.
• Benchmarking Success Metrics: Measuring an applicant’s background and mindset against data-driven indicators to clearly identify critical personal development gaps.
• Building Cohesive Teams: Enhancing group communication and partner selection by creating a clear, mutual understanding of each member’s entrepreneurial style.
• Facilitating Corporate Workshops: Supplying business coaches and corporate trainers with a comprehensive, 48-page interpretive guide to anchor interactive development seminars.

In Part 1, participants identify their specific ESSI style pattern(s), which assists them to instantly understand their strengths and potential challenges so they can be more effective business owners, partners, and entrepreneurial professionals.

In Part 2 of the ESSI, you will rank yourself against the 28 top entrepreneurial success factors, based on CRG proprietary research conducted on 4000 successful entrepreneurs. Does your background and mindset reflect that of other successful entrepreneurs? The Foundations of Entrepreneurial Assessment will identify the extent to which you possess those success factors.

Use the ESSI to

• Determine your entrepreneurial strengths and preferences.
• Create a sustainable business model by playing to your entrepreneurial strengths, not your weaknesses.
• Intentionally select the best entrepreneurial venture, role, and responsibilities for you.
• Recognize the potential consequences of gaps in your entrepreneurial success factors.
• Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of your operations.
• Build the right team and select the right partners.

Increase your chances of entrepreneurial success by using the ESSI.

Online Entrepreneurial Style and Success Indicator

The Online version can be completed 24/7, if you or your client have an Internet connection. The Online version automatically calculates your scores and determines which of the 21 ESSI style patterns apply to you, plus it totals your responses to the success factors section.

The Online ESSI includes all the content of the print-based assessment, plus the ESSI In-Depth Interpretations that reflect your specific results. The Online ESSI is a powerful option that enhances any virtual support, business coaching, career, entrepreneurial training, and/or educational processes.

The ESSI In-Depth Interpretations is the essential companion to the Entrepreneurial Style and Success Indicator.

Facilitate strong communication and growth among your team members through a complete understanding of the different styles of each member.

The information provided in the ESSI In-Depth Interpretations should be available to all members of a team. Create a solid understanding of each person’s entrepreneurial style and promote acceptance and a willingness to work together.

The 48-page ESSI In-Depth Interpretations offers expanded 2-page descriptions of each of the 21 ESSI proprietary style patterns, with focus on the following.

• Entrepreneurial Tendencies
• Entrepreneurial Strengths
• Typical Difficulties
• Response to Stress
• Management and Leadership Implications
• Recommendations for Enhancing Entrepreneurial Success

It also includes a section on “Developing Your Plan to Increase Your Entrepreneurial/Business Effectiveness.”

The added benefit of the ESSI In-Depth Interpretations is that you have all 21 style patterns in one booklet, providing instant access in a seminar or workshop format.