Communication, people who have a business mindset are also good at communicating, this helps to clearly put across thoughts, ideas and create a positive environment.

Plan your career goals, think about how you would like to progress in your career and create a career plan to support that. This will help you clearly understand what steps you need to take and when, along with keeping yourself accountable.

A positive mindset, this doesn't mean ignoring when things go wrong but learning how to reframe your response. It's about being aware of a situation and asking yourself how can I correct this? You can practice this in your daily life, focusing on all the good areas and thinking about how you can overcome challenges.

Being creative, doing something fun, trying a new hobby, reading, writing, taking photos are just a few examples of using your creative mind. Coming up with new ideas supports being business minded and being creative helps with this.

Seek out opportunities, one way you an do this is to find out an industry placement which will help you on your career journey. You will develop key insight into the world of work and the career you would like to go into. Work placements are unpaid but they bring you so much value and you will develop vital skills and stand out to employers when you leave college.

Self motivation is a big aspect of the business mindset. Being motivated to hold yourself accountable to complete your work and drive ideas forward. examples of this at college could being motivated to show up to your lessons, completing assignments and finding opportunities to help support your career journey such as an industry placement.