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General Measure of Enterprising Tendency v2 - GET2
General Measure of Enterprising Tendency v2 - GET2
The GET2 test de nes an enterprising tendency as the tendency to start up and manage projects - highly enterprising people
do this more often and are more innovative in their approach. This self assessment test aims to give you an idea of your
enterprising potential, although it is important to note that there is much academic debate about the most important
characteristics of enterprising people, and there is a role for education and training in helping people develop their potential.
Your responses to the test suggest the following results:
Ocassionally enterprising
The overall GET2 test score of 56% suggests that you are likely to have strengths in some of the enterprising
characteristics and may be enterprising in some contexts. At this time in your life you may nd that you are
content to work on a limited number of projects and may be happy to be enterprising either within employment as
an intrapreneur, or in your leisure time through voluntary community projects. However, if you have ambitions to
have an innovative growth business, there is much you can do. Several universities, such as the Open University
offer free courses online which may help you to build up your business knowledge and skills (see
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk (http://openlearn.open.ac.uk)). There are also many MOOCs (Massive Online Open
Courses) freely available on the FutureLearn platform (https://www.futurelearn.com
(https://www.futurelearn.com)) to help you to learn about technology, business and the economy, learn languages
and so on. If you have never set up an enterprise before you might consider starting a small project in your
community that represents a minimal risk to your time and money, to build up your experience and expertise.
Having a medium score, you may recognise yourself being somewhat independent, individualistic and determined,
although you may be happy to work as an intrapraneur or as a valuable member of an organisational team. If you
start your own enterprise, you may need to cultivate stronger independent leadership qualities. Starting a business
is only one option for you, and you would probably be equally happy to work as an employee as part of an
organisational team or on your own projects.
Creative Tendency
Having a medium score, you may recognise yourself as being somewhat creative, although you are less likely to
have radical, disruptive innovative ideas with game-changing impacts. However, you may be very good at nding
and applying new technologies in a skillful way to your work, and may be practically productive in the way you
develop and apply your skills. If you wished to develop a more innovative approach then you might like to consider
developing your own latent creative skills.
The best conditions for creativity are in a relaxed space where you avoid critical thinking or thinking too xedly on
a problem, and then use techniques, such as brainstorming or mindmapping to generate lots of ideas. Part of the
creativity process involves some idleness to allow the subconsious to work on ideas during an incubation phase.
This may lead to sudden insights or Eureka moments, although creative ideas may be typically the result of an
iterative process of thinking, using creative techniques, and relaxation to come up with good ideas.
Calculated Risk-Taking
Having a medium score, you may recognise yourself as being somewhat decisive and able to calculate whether
your decisions and actions are likely to be successful. However, you may be happiest with tried and tested, less
risky enterprising ideas, or business ideas where a partner takes the risks even if that might include sacri cing
some of the potential rewards.
Locus of Control
Having a medium score, you may recognise yourself as being somewhat opportunistic, self-con dent, proactive
and determined, although if you wish to start a business you may need to develop your self-con dence and
enterprising skills to make a success of the venture. In particular, you may need to learn to exert greater control
over the development of your ideas. Your self-con dence could be strengthened by developing speci c business
or project management skills in areas that you feel need to be improved. Without greater self-con dence you may
over-rely on others, such as partners or clients, and this could create greater risks for an enterprise.
The radar plot and chart show the characteristics of your GET2 test scores graphically. You can print the report off so
that you can compare your chart with somene else‘s chart, or you can compare your own chart with a new chart if you
decide to re-take the test on a future date.
Ach = Need for Achievement | Aut = Need for Autonomy | Cre = Creative Tendency
Ris = Calculated Risk-taking | LoC = Locus of control
GET Score 56%
Achieve 33%
Autonomy 50%
Creative 58%
Control 58%
We hope this report helps you understand the nature of your tendencies for general enterprise and that you recognise in
the report some of your own traits. However, the author cannot accept any liability for the report or for these
interpretations, which are offered in good faith. If you would like to know more about this test and how to improve your
score, see the FAQ (index.html#faq). If you would like further information on the test, please consult the GET2
bibliographic references (index.html#academic). Please don‘t forget to leave us your feedback (get2feedback.html).
The report can be printed if required.