Every season starts with testing. Before the first training block, you find out what is strong and what needs work. The ENTREMIND assessment tool does the same for the step into business. It takes fifteen to twenty minutes, it is written in the language of sport, and it is free to download.
What it looks at
The questions cover five areas:
- how much of who you are is tied to your sport;
- 10 parts of an entrepreneurial mindset, in three groups: how you think, what keeps you going, and how you act and connect;
- your confidence in six business skills;
- what is holding you back;
- whether you believe you could start something of your own.
How your results work
Each of the 10 mindset parts comes back green, amber or red. Green, a score from 4.0 to 5.0, means a strong foundation. Amber, from 2.5 to 3.9, means targeted work will move you up. Red, from 1.0 to 2.4, marks a gap to work on first.
Red is not a fail. The tool puts it the way a coach would: red marks where to start training. Every result points to a next step, and nobody gets a score without one.
You get your results at two levels: an overall profile across the main areas, and a breakdown of the 10 mindset parts, which is where the detail you can act on sits. Start with the parts that come out red, move to amber next, and treat green as strengths you can build on. You can take it again later, the way you would measure progress at the end of a training block.
How to take it
- Print the questionnaire. The PDF is not a form you fill in on screen.
- Answer sections A to F. Section G, a few open questions, is optional but strongly recommended.
- Score your answers with the key.
- Read your results with the athlete guide.
It is not an exam, and there is no pass or fail. Your answers stay with you unless you choose to share them.
For coaches and career advisers
The tool ends with a guide for coaches and career advisers who want to run it one to one or with a group. In a group, athletes fill it in at the same time, but individual results are never discussed in front of others. One to one, the guide suggests starting with what scored well, then walking through all 10 mindset parts with specific feedback, the way a coach would: your resilience is a real asset, your resource consciousness could use some work.
Common questions
I am still competing. Is this for me? Yes. The tool’s own answer is that the best time to start thinking about life after sport is while you are still active.
I already have something on the side. Should I take it? Yes. It will show which parts of the mindset you have already built and which still need work.
What if most of my results are red? Then you know where to start. In the tool’s words, red is a starting point, not a verdict.
How it was made
The questions were written around the 10 parts of the mindset, with input from athlete career advisers, sport psychologists and former athlete entrepreneurs in all four partner countries. A panel of eight experts from the four countries then reviewed them: two each in sports psychology, entrepreneurship education and dual career policy, and two former athletes who went on to start businesses. The tool was then piloted with 30 athletes in Poland, Türkiye, Belgium and Norway.
It is a development tool, not a clinical test. The document asks that its results are never used to label, diagnose or select anyone.
Where to get it
The assessment tool is a 25-page PDF, free to download. See the assessment tool.
ENTREMIND is an Erasmus+ Sport partnership co-funded by the European Union (project 101229842).
