MpowerU
Building the leadership capacity of women entrepreneurs
Running a small business or professional practice is not only highly demanding it can also be a stressful and extremely lonely experience with no-one to discuss the challenges with.
MPowerU is a six-step, high impact leadership improvement programme for women entrepreneurs who want to improve their business performance, experience the supportive and confidence building environment of action learning sets, and get motivated and fired up to do great business.
MpowerU provides an opportunity for businesswomen to discover their strengths, develop skills, increase their knowledge and wisdom to accomplish key business objectives, and enhance their strategic problem solving skills by discussing difficult work/business issues with a peer group, in a confidential and safe setting.
Who would benefit from attending?
From planned start-ups to embryonic business and underdeveloped firms MPowerU can make a significant difference.
- Managing Directors
- Managers of privately owned businesses
- Entrepreneurs at the start up phase
Typically firms will be less than three years old with annual turnovers not greater than £2m pa.
Participation in the MpowerU programme will equip women entrepreneurs with a legacy of skills to confidently plan the future growth and sustainability of their businesses, armed with the best real world advice and know-how so that they are fully prepared to meet the new challenges.
Meeting one day a month, the emphasis is on practical, experiential learning around live business issues and generating action plans that can be implemented immediately.
These practical learning sesions, facilitated by a professional LeaderGen approved coach/mentor, will benefit women entrepreneurs looking to :-
- Build their self-confidence and commercial acumen.
- Get support, encouragement, and inspiration.
- Get fresh ideas/ thinking/solutions around difficult work/business issues from a peer group of non-competing businesses/organisations.
- Learn from the collective experiences and approaches of peers from different sectors and share best practice.
- Develop a strategic approach to problem solving.
- Build a new network of strategic alliances with other businesswomen.
- Get high level constructive feedback.
- Access best thinking on business issues.
Content
The programme is a constructed on a modular basis with more that one module on most days.
Modules are:
- Personal Critical Review (PCR) – Fitness and readiness for the role
- Financial Management -understanding Key Performance Indicators (KPI)
- Quality & operations strategy
- Strategic planning and implementation
- Sales and Marketing fundamentals
- Fostering highly motivated teams
- Accelerating growth – foundations to full throttle
- Review
Within these modules the following subjects will be explored:
- The attributes of High Performing Leaders
- Exploring your own leadership abilities and style
- Personal branding – Image & presentation skills
- Communicating Your Vision
- Leadership, motivation and inspiring others
- Managing people effectively
- Recruiting, selecting & rewarding key staff
- Strategic planning for growth
- Tracking & evaluating performance
- Barriers to growth and how to overcome them
- Competitive strategy review & analysis
- Managing performance through change
- Budgeting & forecasting
- Raising finance for growth
- Improving sales & marketing for business growth
The whole process can be supplemented with one-to-one executive coaching or business mentoring to embed learning and support the implementation of the required changes.
When and how much?
Duration: 6 days (non-residential) spread over a six month period (customised courses - dates by arrangement)
Dates:
Forthcoming dates (public courses)
Fees:
Available on request .
Also available as customised course for Associations and groups
Inclusions:
MpowerU fees include:
- Tuition Fees
- Course materials
- 30 minutes follow-up telephone helpline support
- 1 years free access to Leadergen Key, a privileged members area for each participant.
How to take advantage
Please contact us on 0845 331 3405 or at info@leadergen.com