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Fuel your Business Growth: Business Skills

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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

Join our live events and learn from leading business growth experts

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

  • Get inspired by our range of speakers

  • Can’t attend live? Don’t worry, you’ll have access to a recording!

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. Global Supply Chains and Trade Agreements: What you need to know to grow

Discover how global trade agreements shape supply chains and unlock cost-saving, compliance-smart strategies for UK businesses.

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2. Hiring and Developing the Right People

Learn how to recruit the right talent at the right time to fuel business growth.

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3. Create a Successful Exit Strategy That Works for You

Join this dynamic session led by seasoned business professionals who have successfully exited their own ventures and guided others through the process.

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

Learn about the value of IP, covering key types and protection methods, with a Q&A and access to helpful resources.

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5. Why your role as leader is critical to business growth

Mark will share insights from his experience with SME leadership programmes, highlighting how developing adaptability, resilience, and innovation is key to growing from a start-up to a high-performing business.

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6. Coaching and Developing Your People for Business Growth

Unlocking business growth begins with investing in people through coaching, development, and strategic learning to drive measurable success.

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7. IP in the Real World: Practical Know-How for Start Ups and SMEs

Top IP experts share practical advice and real-life examples to help startups and SMEs protect and leverage their intellectual property for commercial success.

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8. Strategic Growth for SMES - Understanding the importance of Market Research

This masterclass guides businesses in setting up effective market research programmes to inform strategic decisions and drive market growth.

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9. Practical Business Storytelling: How to sell without selling out

Learn practical storytelling habits to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively, turning blank stares into engaged responses without sounding sales-y.

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