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Business Skills

Growing a successful business takes a wide range of skills and great entrepreneurs are always learning. This series covers a wide range of topics aimed at helping your business to grow whatever market or sector you are in.

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This series is right for you, if:

  • You want to learn key business skills

  • Need to brush up on specific topics

  • You want to grow a successful business

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  • Learn how to be a great leader (and much more!)

  • Get inspired by our range of speakers

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Events in this series

This series will provide budding entrepreneurs with the knowledge around some key business skills including everything from IP to how to hire the best.

1. Mess to message: How to create impactful presentations

Learn how to build a strong narrative, so that people are compelled to listen to you, and each idea builds on the last one.

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2. Is Your Supplier Fit for Purpose?

Most business owners would never hire an employee without a job description, several interviews, references and a probation period. Yet those same owners will appoint an accountant, a solicitor, an IT provider or a web developer on the strength of a recom

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3. How to overcome imposter syndrome in the workplace

Laura Buckley felt undeserving of her success when she took her role as Director at SCC, and wants to share how she developed self-confidence, embraced the challenge of being a woman in engineering and flourished in the role that she deserved all along.

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4. Making the most of your Board

Most businesses fail to fulfil their full potential because of leadership. A Board is there to help leaders deliver.

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5. The governance side of preparing for investment

Ready for growth? Learn how effective governance can boost investor confidence, support funding ambitions, and help your business achieve its growth goals.

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6. How to protect your Intellectual Property (IP) in the UK and abroad

Understand what IP is, how valuable it is and how it can be protected.

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7. Solving the wrong wroblem: why good leaders misdiagnose change

Are you fixing the problem, or solving the wrong one? Learn how to diagnose complex business challenges before taking action.

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8. Ideas to Action: Building your strategic plan

Turn your expertise into action. Discover practical tools to turn your business goals into a clear, focused plan, helping you prioritise what matters most and stay accountable for success.

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9. The cost of hesitation: the psychology of leading through change

A webinar for CEOs and senior leaders on making confident decisions, building trust and leading effectively when certainty isn't an option.

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