Online event
Why your role as leader is critical to business growth
Wednesday 26 November at 12:00PM
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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.
What you’ll learn
- What is distinctive about an entrepreneurial leader?
- Top 3 ‘growth-oriented’ business practices that are key to realising growth
- Understanding the role of soft skills such as creativity, adaptability, and trust in creating more agile, innovative, and resilient organisations
Description
Entrepreneurial leadership is a key quality that differentiates companies that succeed in scaling from those that struggle to grow.
While few businesses enjoy a consistent, upwards growth journey, being an entrepreneurial leader is critical to future success. It is about influencing others to innovate, take initiative, and drive change in fast-moving or uncertain environments. It blends opportunity-seeking behaviours with people-centred, adaptive leadership.
Against a backdrop of rising costs, shifting trade barriers and rapidly evolving digital technologies, taking time out to think about your leadership skills should not be dismissed as a luxury. Instead, reflecting on the nature of the entrepreneurial leader should be seen as critical to realising growth.
But what does that mean for you? And how do you transition from focusing on the day-to-day challenges to a position of and effective entrepreneurial leader?
Drawing on his experience of developing and delivering SME leadership programmes, Mark will explain how understanding and developing skills such as adaptability, resilience, and innovation are critical to successfully navigating the journey from start-up to a high performing, growing business.
Speakers
Professor Mark Hart
Professor of Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Policy, Warwick Business School and Emeritus Professor at Aston Business School
Mark has played a fundamental role in developing and delivering the 90% government-funded Help to Grow: Management Course for SMEs and the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Programme UK.
He has worked and published extensively in the areas of entrepreneurship, enterprise and small business development and policy. He is the Deputy Director of the national Enterprise Research Centre at Warwick Business School. His work on High-Growth Firms (HGFs) has been influential in shaping policy discussions and actions in the UK and he has undertaken numerous evaluation studies of business support products and services in the UK and Ireland.
In April 2021 he was appointed by the Chancellor Rishi Sunak to the Expert Advisory Council for the UK Government's Help to Grow: Management Programme as a result of his work on the development and delivery of small business leadership and management programmes over the last decade.