Leicestershire’s Business Gateway is offering small businesses support with a difference from 22 February with a programme of four webinars.
Designed to give business leaders the skills they need to encourage new ideas from their teams, the four free webinars will be delivered by Loughborough-based Qinesis.
Dr Cham S Kang of Qinesis explains the difference: “The Business Gateway are keen to make their support as relevant as possible to participating businesses so we will be contacting each one of them beforehand, to get some context and understand their specific challenges. It will be very different from some of the generic webinars that people may have attended before and much more valuable we hope.”
The Business Gateway is encouraging small business owners and leaders to attend the whole programme so that they can make sure they introduce a culture of new ideas within their business and sustain it in the longer term.
The first session will focus on the importance of the leader. A good leader will let their team know that new ideas are welcome and encourage suggestions from all staff around reducing costs, improving efficiency and even new products or services. If a business leader does not feel that they have the skills to do this, this programme will solve that issue.
Dr Kang continued: “A lot of small businesses in Leicestershire are already thinking creatively and we saw many examples of that during the pandemic with businesses adapting to the circumstances that no one saw coming. Our programme will help businesses embed these skills as part of their DNA so that they can adapt when the next challenge comes, and do so profitably.”
As with all Business Gateway programmes, places are fully funded and therefore free to participating businesses. The four webinars in the programme are:
Running a small business is a lonely place, who listens to the leader? – 22 February, 8.00am-9.30am
Creative thinking for growth in your non-creative businesses – 9 March, 8.00am-9.30am
Creative thinking to sustain long-term growth – 29 March, 8.00am – 9.30am
Developing an individual action plan for growth – 14 April, 8.00am – 9.30am
At the end of the programme participating companies will have the ability to develop, implement and lead different thinking in their teams and a plan of action to embed it in the company for the long term.
The programme is aimed at small businesses with ten employees or fewer and more details can be found at https://bit.ly/Qinesis
