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Government funded national peer network programme
Are you an ambitious business who would benefit from building relationships with like-minded business leaders in your sector? Together you could tackle the challenges that you have in common.
Peer Networks is a programme designed for SME business leaders who want to grow and develop their organisation for future success. Guided by a leader who is an expert in your sector or in businesses at your stage of growth, you’ll work with a small group of businesses similar to yours, to share ideas and create solutions to the challenges you all face.
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Through interactive action learning, we enable you to discuss your own challenges, gain and reflect on valuable feedback and implement practical solutions to overcome them.
We are creating diverse cohort groups of individuals to collaboratively work through common business issues.
By completing Peer Networks, you will:
Peer Networks is delivered through a series of virtual high impact group sessions, with a trained facilitator. The programme is available to any SME business that meets the criteria below.
The programme is available to any SME business that has:
The UK’s overall future productivity growth will, in large part, be determined by the performance of individual businesses. While the UK has some of the most productive businesses in the world, we also have many low productivity businesses.
Research shows that those businesses adopting formal management practices are more likely to achieve higher turnover, employment levels and productivity growth. There is a broad base of evidence that suggests that businesses that seek external advice or undertake formal training are more likely to improve their overall business performance.
Businesses often prefer to take advice from trusted sources, and they look to their existing networks, such as their peers or their accountants, when taking advice. Businesses also usually take advice at trigger points, such as when faced with challenges requiring change, including both competitive pressures and opportunities.
From finance and HR to sales, marketing and more, expert facilitators give you the flexibility to create a trusted support network that works for you, helping you to build and strengthen your business and improve its overall performance.
Here are some of the highly-skilled facilitators who worked with us on the first Peer Networks programme.
