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Cooperative is a business entity consisting of persons or legal entities with the bases of cooperative activities based on the principle of cooperation as well as a popular economic movement based on the principle of the family. Cooperative aims to improve the life of its members.

Based on such understanding, which can become cooperative members, namely:

  • Individuals, that is, those who voluntarily became a member of the cooperative;
  • Cooperative legal entity, which is a cooperative that are members of cooperatives who have a broader scope.

In the Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) No.. 27 (Revised 1998), stated that the main characteristics that distinguish cooperative with other business entities, namely the cooperative members have a dual identity. Dual identity mean the owner and members of the cooperative is a cooperative service users.

Generally, cooperatives are controlled jointly by all its members, where each member has equal voting rights in every decision of the cooperative. Profit sharing co-operatives (commonly called the Business Profits or SHU) are usually calculated based on the member’s share in the cooperative, for example by doing a big dividend based on purchases or sales made by the member….

As a relatively new field develops, there are a number of opinions are not uniform regarding the intent of social entrepreneurship and anyone who might be called social entrepreneurship. Various opinions or existing formulas tend to describe a type of social entrepreneurs and their superior characteristics of the role and activities. Based on the analysis of various types of entrepreneurial businesses, and there are a number of types of social entrepreneurship. Formulation of a number of social entrepreneurship has been defined by organizations and experts who has this field. For example, Ashoka Fellows, which was founded by Bill Drayton in 1980, mentions the characteristics of social entrepreneurship activities as follows:

  • The task of social entrepreneurship is to identify any bottlenecks or stagnation in people’s lives and provide a way out of congestion or stagnation that. He found what was not working, solving problems by changing the system, spreading the solution, and convince the whole society to dare to make changes.
  • Social entrepreneurs are not content just to give “fish” or taught how to “fishing”. He will not rest until the “fishing industry” is changing.

With these characteristics it is highly relevant that the principal of Muhammadiyah is a true social entrepreneur. The school principal should be able to identify bottlenecks or stagnation schools they lead and how to find a way out of congestion or stagnation it. The school principal should be able to find what is not working and breaking various issues facing the school. The school principal should be able to convince teachers and learners to dare to make change for the better. At higher achievement principals should be able to build a chain of schools to be a balanced system (link and match) between the guardians of students, teachers. Learners, users graduates

To encourage the development of entrepreneurial spirit, then the principal must have the competence. Competence is the main requirement for principals who want to make the process of creative thinking and innovation journey of desire that he hoped for progress of the school. Competence is a person who has the knowledge, skills and individual qualities that include attitude, motivation, values ??and behaviors needed to carry out the work / activities. In his book, Geoffrey G. Meredith (Entrepreneurship: Theory and Practice) and Prof. Dr. Mas’ud Machfoedz, MBA (Entrepreneurship: A Contemporary Approach), he provides an understanding of entrepreneurship requires not only knowledge but also skills. These skills include managerial skills (managerial skills), conceptual skills (conceptual skill) and skill to understand, understand, communicate and relate to (human skills) and skills to formulate problems and make decisions (decision making skills), skill set and use the time ( time management skills) and other specific technical skills.

The idea of ??entrepreneurship will be an opportunity if the principals are willing to do an evaluation of opportunities continuously through the process of creating something new and different, watching the door of opportunity, to analyze in depth the process and take into account the risks that may occur. Hence the principal must have the traits in him, namely self-confidence (self confidence), task-oriented and results, the courage to take risks, future-oriented and original. These features should be developed in more detail and detailed for school progress. That success led the school principal based on the attitude and perception about what he did. If positive attitudes and perceptions about what it does, then its own motivation and creativity and innovation will emerge along with the hope to achieve the desired goal.

Building a Life entrepreneurship Principal

Many references and literature on the understanding of entrepreneurship. According Dr.Suyana, Msi, through his book “entrepreneurial, practical guidelines, tips and the process to success”. entrepreneurship is the ability to be creative and innovative basic, tips and resources to find opportunities for success. The essence of entrepreneurship is the ability to create something new and different (creatife new and different) through creative thinking and innovative action to create opportunities. How to build a spirit of entrepreneurship  can be described that understands the entrepreneurial principals must understand first how the charge is the concept of entrepreneurship in a practical and technically apply. Building the entrepreneurial spirit begins with a willingness to be creative and innovative principals to achieve a goal at the schools they lead. Many people who work and succeed because it has the ability to think creative and innovative. It is important to remember during this understood in everyday life, there are still many people who interpret and view that entrepreneurship is identical to what is owned and carried by a “businessman” or “entrepreneur”. Though entrepreneurship not only owned by businessmen but can be owned by every person who thinks well of creative and innovative action among government, students, lecturers, teachers including the headmaster.

Creativity is the ability to develop new ideas and new ways of solving problems and finding opportunities (new thinking thing). While innovation is the ability to apply creativity in the framework of solving problems and finding opportunities (doing new thing). Thus creativity is the ability to think of something new and different. Something new and different may be in the form of school achievement, teacher performance prior achievement of students, and can be in the form of the learning process such as ideas, methods and ways. Something new and different that was created through a process of creative thinking and innovative action is a value-added (value added) and the advantages of the school he leads. Value added is a source of valuable opportunities for principals. Creative ideas will emerge when the headmaster “look at old and think something new or different”.

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entrepreneurial attitude

  • Discipline: the accuracy of the entrepreneur’s commitment to duty and work.
  • High Commitment: an agreement on something that is made ??by someone, either to himself or others.
  • Honest: honest in behavior is complex, to be honest about the product characteristics, to be honest about the promotion is done, be honest about the promised post-sale service, and honest about all the activities associated with the sale of products made ??by entrepreneurs.
  • Creative and Innovative: the ability to be possessed of an entrepreneur with a high creative power.
  • Independent: the desire by both parties without any dependence on others in take  decision or act.
  • Realistic: one of the decisions / actions that use facts / reality as the foundation of rational thinking.
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Easy Tips to Being a Good Boss

Here are some 5 easy tips that you can do in maintaining a good working relationship with your staff to deliver the best results in the work, as you would expect:

  • First. Choose the sentences are smooth and polite, while giving a duty on your staff. Selection of the sentence will make a difference to the outcome of a task
  • Second. Convey sentence of tasks with a calm tone. Because in this way a task that you give will be resolved efficiently. Assign staff by shouting – though the staff is indeed annoying – is not an effective way
  • Third. Give precise and clear instructions for each task. The instructions are vague and ambiguous to create doubt and stress the receiving party
  • Fourth. To submit a correction to the staff, should be presented in talks emapt eye, politely and stay focused on the subject
  • Fifth. Use the term “Now what’s the solution?”, To end the irregularities pembahasaan a job. This can be a double benefit, in addition to limiting the ‘discourses’ that you might convey to men, is also impressive manhood, fatherhood and your wisdom. Because for you may not repeat time to correct errors that have occurred, it is better if the problem had happened, and then did not repeat in the future

Soft skills is a sociological term relating to a person’s “EQ” (Emotional Intelligence Quotient), the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, language, personal habits, friendliness, and optimism that characterize Entrepreneurial Skillsrelationships with other people. Soft skills complement hard skills (part of a person’s IQ), which are the occupational requirements of a job and many other activities.

A person’s soft skill EQ is an important part of their individual contribution to the success of an organization. Particularly those organizations dealing with customers face-to-face are generally more successful, if they train their staff to use these skills. Screening or training for personal habits or traits such as dependability and conscientiousness can yield significant return on investment for an organization. For this reason, soft skills are increasingly sought out by employers in addition to standard qualifications.

It has been suggested that in a number of professions soft skills may be more important over the long term than occupational skills. The legal profession is one example where the ability to deal with people effectively and politely, more than their mere occupational skills, can determine the professional success of a lawyer.

Increasingly, over the last two decades, it has been recognized that when IT Professionals acquire soft skills, better relationships are built between IT and the other business units within the enterprise, fostering alignment.

Soft Skills are behavioral competencies. Also known as Interpersonal Skills, or people skills, they include proficiencies such as communication skills, conflict resolution and negotiation, personal effectiveness, creative problem solving, strategic thinking, team building, influencing skills and selling skills, to name a few.

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Application of soft skills in everyday life can be done in many ways, one of which is in employment. Its application in the work consists of two essential skills of managing human skills and the skills to manage a task or job. Skills to manage a task or work more on a multi-dimensional human intelligence to complete the task because humans have to combine some of his expertise. While the skills to manage people more psychological dimension, where one must be able to manage themselves (self management) before they can manage other people.

Research conducted by Daniel Golleman states that most CEOs in the world have a high Emotional Intelligence. Their ability to manage work and someone else becomes a unique combination of extraordinary. Their emotional ability to take a role more success than intellectual ability. Well, like their abilities that can be obtained through the grinding of soft skills early on. That said, reportedly George W. Bush Jr.. (president of the United States) have great soft skills so that even though SAT scores when entering the university at 150 (requirement of graduation to enter university in the U.S. amounted to 200) and ridiculed as a silly boy but turned out to ridicule of his friends were wrong.

Entrepreneurial Skills

One way to hone soft skills in students is through character-building lessons in school. Formation of characters into a path that can be used to establish a prima beings so it is expected to have excellent soft skills as well. Education dimensional character building has six pillars in its application. The six pillars are Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship.

Implementation of character building in the world of education provide another nuance in education because not only the evaluation indicators based on cognitive value but also in terms of affective and psychomotor even students. The process of learning through character building first was the introduction of good character in public life. later, after students know and understand that the students of good character mengkorelasikannya with everyday life both at school and at home or outside the school environment.

The process of character formation that slowly was not immediately able to provide stimulus to the grinding of soft skills of students. Thus, students are expected to have excellent soft skills capabilities and led to the formation of a stable individual mentally for the challenges of life ahead.

The next question is how do we apply the education process based on soft skills without having to counter the government’s policy on a more cognitive orientation? someday we will surely discuss here ….

Soft Skill is part of one’s skills to those more in the “fineness” or sensitivity to one’s feelings on the environment around them. Due to the soft skills is more directed to the psychological skills of the impact caused more invisible but can still be felt. Consequences can be felt is polite behavior, discipline, perseverance, cooperation skills, help others, etc.. Immateriality conditions resulted in soft skills can not be evaluated because of textual indicators of soft skills is more directed to the existence of a person in his life. Development of soft skills possessed by any person resulting levels are not the same soft skills possessed by each person is also not the same. This is because the process of developing soft skills by running a linear process of one’s life. The process of developing soft skills make it a more abstract dimension can not be learned in formal institutions. The existence of formal institutions such as schools are more likely to simply as media that is most conducive to hone one’s skills soft skills. This is because soft skills are learned through interaction with others and how people deal with problems in his life. Learning soft skills can be started when someone was a child. This is because childhood is the easiest period in shaping the blue print for a person’s psychological development. Although, the character of a person can change the self-taught. However, the person must have full awareness to change, willingness and effort of all.