Business Support for SME's video transcript

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Hi, I'm Professor Mark Gilman, and most of my work is working with small and medium-sized enterprises.
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So, in the work that I do, it's a combination of research, so finding good information, finding out
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What is important to SME's, about how they grow, what their needs are etc. But then, turning that research
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Into workshops, tools, techniques and anything that will help small businesses.
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So my business is all about helping your businesses. As you are building, going through your transitions,
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It doesn't matter what kind of size business you are.
Why
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The reason I like to do this is over the years when I've been researching businesses, over 90 percent of businesses tell me that every year.
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When they're reflecting back, they don't feel as though they've reached their aspirations, so we're
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All about helping you transition from one stage to another stage and we'll have all kinds of programs
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That can help you to do that. One of the things that we do have that can help you is a diagnostic
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Tool and that diagnostic tool is about helping you to see different parts of your business
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And understand how they fit together, so you can better start to plan where you need to approve, planning
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What you need to achieve. We don't tell you what you have to do as a business, we're not
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In the business of doing that, we can talk to you about what our results are telling you
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And we can then work with you on how you would best start working with those issues and providing
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You with a road map that you can design yourself, to see how you can make those improvements.
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One of the key things that we're finding that many businesses struggle from
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Is leadership and what kind of leader do you want to be in your business? Here at the University of
Grow Management
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Derby, we're running a program called Help to Grow Management, it's funded by the government
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and that can help you to learn lots of these kind of leadership issues, so it goes through 12 weeks
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Of looking intensely at the kind of things you may need to learn as a as a leader. And again, it's not
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About telling you what to do. You will be working with other owner managers of their businesses and
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You will be discussing these key skills that we'll be imparting to you and working out how this works
Summary
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For your business. So it's very hands-on, it's very practical, it's very much in the style of group
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Working, working with other businesses and working with the academics within the university.

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