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Small Business, Big Dreams: How Business Mentoring Ignites Growth As a SME business owner, you know that growing your business is no easy task. It takes hard work, dedication, and a lot of sweat and tears. But what if there was a way to make the process a little bit easier? Working with a Business Mentor will significantly ease the challenges of growing your SME business and increase the value of your business, quicker. Here are five ways business mentoring accelerates your business growth: 1. Develop your business and leadership skills: A mentor imparts essential skills - like strategy, marketing, sales, and finance – from their extensive business experience. They will develop your capability to better equip you for leading your team through the constant changes that you will encounter. 2. Provide guidance and emotional support: As a business owner, having someone who understands your
challenges is invaluable. A mentor – your “challenging friend” - provides guidance, support, and motivation to keep you focused on your goals, through the highs and the lows. 3. Identify and overcome obstacles: Everyone faces obstacles in business, and they can come in from any angle, at any time. A good mentor helps you to identify these obstacles in the road ahead and craft strategies to navigate or overcome them. 4. Network Expansion: A mentor facilitates connections with industry peers, enabling you to expand your network, acquire new customers, and gain insights from others. 5. Be your accountability partner: Staying on your course in business can be very challenging. Through regular reviews, a mentor helps you remain accountable and ensures you stick to your goals.
When you put this all together, a sustained mentorship relationship becomes a real game-changer for SME business owners. In fact, it’s one of the smartest moves that you can make if you are serious about growing your business. Contact me directly for a complimentary discussion to explore further how UKBM can help you drive your SME business forward. www.ukbusinessmentoring.co.uk/ business-mentors/steve-drake
Steve Drake
£1M Digital Skills Bootcamps to help transform job prospects across greater Brighton Adults aged 19 and over in Greater Brighton and the surrounding area can now access a new range of free Digital Skills Bootcamps. This flagship government scheme is aimed at giving people the opportunity to build indemand, sector specific skills to fasttrack them into new or higher skilled job roles with local employers. Creative Process, the leading digital skills training agency for Greater Brighton,
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has announced that the first phase of its Digital Skills Bootcamps, developed in collaboration with local employers, are now open for applications. The flexible, fully funded, classroombased training covers a range of essential digital marketing, analytics and content software skills which are in most demand by local businesses. These include the new Google Analytics 4 and Digital Marketing Fundamentals certification as well as providing training in industry standard Adobe Creative Cloud software Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator. The Digital Skills Bootcamps have been employer designed to fast-track people into new careers or help them to get ahead in their current career. The bootcamps are being delivered with funding secured from the Department for Education as part of the Government’s Lifetime Skills Guarantee, helping
everyone gain skills for life. They are open to all adults over 19, whether they are in full time employment, self-employed, recently unemployed or returning to work after a break. Employers can also put forward employees to attend a Digital Skills Bootcamp to gain skills needed by the business. Digital Bootcamps Employer Partner Quote: ‘We're committed to giving residents in Brighton better employment prospects. One of the ways we can achieve this is to help potential candidates into new training opportunities. The programme will also ensure that the businesses have access to a skilled workforce. We're delighted to be a Digital Skills Bootcamps partner’ Brighton and Hove City Council To find out more visit: Digital Skills Bootcamps info@creativeprocessdigital.com
